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In reply to the discussion: White Knight [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)While some are indeed judging the models' choices to, well, be models, that isn't the impetus here -and those people deserve criticism for doing so.
Rather the impetus is to examine and discuss the impact that use of a woman's body as an object has on society as a whole.
So yes, the model does choose as she will. I know models, they're not naive and of course have a wide variety of opinions (interestingly I've seen many of their "defenders" characterize them as idle rich bimbos - Opiate did this with Kate Upton, apparently because she's a model she's too dumb to know when she's having a medical issue.)
But what choice does the 14 year old girl make, when the society around here decides to judge her by the standards of photoshopped models?
What choice is made when her brother grows up surrounded by the image of women as sex objects that exist for his whims?
There's nothing wrong with being a model. There's nothing wrong with posing sexually. Nothing wrong with being an exotic dancer or porn actor, either. It's not personal judgement against those appearing on the prints an on the screen.
It's an examination of the context of those media in total and their impact on the society at large.
I'm not going to demonize, say, Kari Byron for her spread in FHM - she's sexy and knows it and I can't blame her for showing it, if that's what she wants to do. But I have no problem with seeing that magazine, as a whole enterprise, as a fairly crude reduction of women into props.