Today I was thinking about sex in the media and what it does to our brains, our self-esteem and our beliefs. I started reading about the Carls Jr. campaigns and what people are doing to combat their effects. There are two sisters who started the campaign to #CuttheCarls because women are #MoreThanMeat. One of the sister's husband added this to their blog post:
“They [Carl’s Jr.] took what all the other advertisers had done, then they went a little further, and then they deep fried it,” Travis says in the post. “And it makes me sick. And if it doesn’t make you sick, then you should probably turn off your internet machine, think really hard about how numb you are to stuff that is doing a lot of harm, and just have a conversation with a real woman. And just maybe think for one second about what it means for women to turn on the TV and see basically every woman stripped down to sell you things.”
I love that people are out there trying to educate the world on the sad effects of pornography and the sexualization of women. Women deserve to be treated as real humans and not as things to look at. And, like the sisters mention on their site, "Viewing someone as an object is almost always the first step toward justifying violence against that person." I hope that more people will begin to believe the truth about the evils of pornography and how destructive it is. Thank goodness for social science research, for good people and for the ability of social media to share the truth.
http://www.beautyredefined.net/cut-the-carls/
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