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So, can I yes-and Rebekah here?
Just as a lot of "modest" clothes can become their own kind of plausibly-deniable fetish gear, emphasizing girlishness and innocence, it's really hard to not feel like anti-trafficking awareness media becomes its own kind of exploitation - I'll
Just as a lot of "modest" clothes can become their own kind of plausibly-deniable fetish gear, emphasizing girlishness and innocence, it's really hard to not feel like anti-trafficking awareness media becomes its own kind of exploitation - I'll
https://twitter.com/MuiRebekah/status/1702375462125617645
show you what I mean.
When you start watching anti-trafficking media from a range of organizations you start to notice pretty fast that a lot of the language sounds... almost like hype. There's a lot of language emphasizing ease and numbers -- you can go to Thailand right now
When you start watching anti-trafficking media from a range of organizations you start to notice pretty fast that a lot of the language sounds... almost like hype. There's a lot of language emphasizing ease and numbers -- you can go to Thailand right now
and buy a woman, it's not even that expensive, the police won't even stop you, etc.
It's hard to not feel like this language that is explicitly intended to inspire shock and horror (so many rapes, so little money, so much apathy) almost sounds like an ad.
It's hard to not feel like this language that is explicitly intended to inspire shock and horror (so many rapes, so little money, so much apathy) almost sounds like an ad.
"You can do this right now, everyone else is, it's easy and safe and you won't get caught." It might hit your ears like horror, but it definitely feels very double-edged -- an easy way to think about violence and sex with a plausible moral deniability.
(And don't tell me Americans don't like thinking about violence and sex, just look at our media landscape).
But doesn't this make more sense as an "awareness line?" "The US government spends tens of millions of dollars every year on antitrafficking and prosecuting sex offenders. Sentences are steep and prison is horrifying. Don't even try it."
The other thing you see a lot is how often images of sexualized women is just standard issue "anti trafficking" marketing -- women under neon lights, women with slinky clothes, women with torn clothes, women in windows, and the coup de grace,
the woman with the giant hand over her mouth or neck.
Why are there never stock photo images of women who aren't really skinny and young in anti trafficking literature? Or disabled people?
Why are there never stock photo images of women who aren't really skinny and young in anti trafficking literature? Or disabled people?
It all feels very eroticized and male gazy - emphasizing male power, the vulnerability of the female body, her sexual availability, your permission to look at her.
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