Suicide Girls?

[Deeann M.M. Mikula]

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Jeremy David wrote:


> had planned. However, I think that the impulse to label SG models as victims
> of some "male domination" system of oppression is the product of
> paternalistic and patriarchal thinking. It's far more demeaning to act if
> women are children who always need protection and can't make rational
> choices on their own, instead of just saying that women, like any willful
> being, can make a bad decision and move on.

I agree whole-heartedly with you on this point, and I certainly didn't
mean to paint the SG (or any models) as total victims, I think the
victim pathos is very damaging for women, or anyone, really!  (See a
crappy essay I wrote a thousand years ago for a feminist zine titled
"The Capitalization of Victimization":
http://www.d33ann.com/writing/victim.html).

I don't support SGs for the same reasons I don't support strip clubs
(male or female, actually) and am bothered by the fashion industry,
etc., etc.  I just don't think women can be viewed as total equals
when so much energy is being spent oogling them like pieces of meat.


Deeann M.M Mikula

"Well behaved women rarely make history."
                 -Laurel Thatcher Ulrich