This is an election advertisment for the US Republican party developed for the recent election which they thankfully lost. Fair to say this churns my stomach. Clearly, the assault of this woman and ‘family values’ are discursively tied together. Yet another example of woman’s bodies representing honour, family, virtue etc rather than having meaning themselves. The message is that women assaulted by men are no longer ‘virtuous’ and therfore they are ‘destroyed’ objects. This is incredibly offensive and tiresome. The comments on Alas, a blog (which I know nobody reads after the whole porn fiasco) look like they need a bit of a feminist shake up. Add yours here
I'm going to start posting more of this garbage because I need to get away from my pay-gap Fawcett style feminism and into more feminist cultural representation/image deconstruction.
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