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I can't figure out what the fark I'm looking at. I s this sposed to be gang rape??? see, I don't know. What if the woman just wants to do it with 3 guys? Guys always wanna do it with a herd of women. Maybe she just wants to b a denim sandwich...
I guess, for monogamous heterosexuals, it would look that way: like it's ambiguous. Since I'm neither, since I've been in the Queer and sex-positive communities for many decades, a scene like this isn't at all threatening, shocking or ominous to me. Even if it were a bondage scene, I wouldn't automatically interpret it as soft core rape porn. It appears consensual; it looks like it's very pleasurable. Maybe it's freaking people out because of the spray paint and the chain link? Maybe it looks "too ghetto?" Maybe because it's daylight, outdoors? Shoot, I've done all that, and then some. My objections, as always, are about how exclusive it is: white, probably heterosexual, young, thin, able-bodied.
A lot of younger people have sex-positive experiences of sexuality. Many are non-monogamous, pansexual, kink, Gender Queer, etc. I don't think this ad would raise an eyebrow on most college campuses, and I'll bet five bucks that's who the ad is targeting. I don't think we need to protect people from images like this; I think we need more, and more diverse, images like this.
Now, the REAL, underlying message is: "you're an ugly nerd. Nobody wants to fuck you into total, blissful abandon. So, buy our jeans, and maybe you'll get lucky, loser, cuz they'll see how much $ you've pissed away on cotton, sewn by exhausted women of color for a subsistence wage. Then, before you even have time to find out how poorly constructed they are and that they'll start disintegrating in under a year, we'll bring out a NEW style, so all your friends will know what a LOSER you are, if you keep wearing THIS pair. After all, you're a worthless piece of meat, bitch, and we own your mind. So, surrender to the shopping addiction we've been shoving down your throat -- and are now shoving up your vulva -- and buy this junk, bitch. Because, without us, you're nothing but a quivering, prudish, ugly slob. And we'll make damn sure you always think so!"
I guess, for monogamous heterosexuals, it would look that way: like it's ambiguous. Since I'm neither, since I've been in the Queer and sex-positive communities for many decades, a scene like this isn't at all threatening, shocking or ominous to me. Even if it were a bondage scene, I wouldn't automatically interpret it as soft core rape porn. It appears consensual; it looks like it's very pleasurable. Maybe it's freaking people out because of the spray paint and the chain link? Maybe it looks "too ghetto?" Maybe because it's daylight, outdoors? Shoot, I've done all that, and then some. My objections, as always, are about how exclusive it is: white, probably heterosexual, young, thin, able-bodied.
A lot of younger people have sex-positive experiences of sexuality. Many are non-monogamous, pansexual, kink, Gender Queer, etc. I don't think this ad would raise an eyebrow on most college campuses, and I'll bet five bucks that's who the ad is targeting. I don't think we need to protect people from images like this; I think we need more, and more diverse, images like this.
Now, the REAL, underlying message is: "you're an ugly nerd. Nobody wants to fuck you into total, blissful abandon. So, buy our jeans, and maybe you'll get lucky, loser, cuz they'll see how much $ you've pissed away on cotton, sewn by exhausted women of color for a subsistence wage. Then, before you even have time to find out how poorly constructed they are and that they'll start disintegrating in under a year, we'll bring out a NEW style, so all your friends will know what a LOSER you are, if you keep wearing THIS pair. After all, you're a worthless piece of meat, bitch, and we own your mind. So, surrender to the shopping addiction we've been shoving down your throat -- and are now shoving up your vulva -- and buy this junk, bitch. Because, without us, you're nothing but a quivering, prudish, ugly slob. And we'll make damn sure you always think so!"
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