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In Danger, But Still Sexy
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17-12-2018 5:14pm#1Look at this before they delete/withdraw it. The people responsible for this must time-share brain cells, (and I say that as someone who used to write letters for Amnesty Intl.)
Amnesty Intl. Netherlands launched a campaign some days ago to highlight issues including the dangers of sexual assault and violence for women and girls in refugee camps in Greece.Glamoria looks at first glance like a nice, cozy glossy. But anyone who browses it quickly discovers what this magazine really is all about: the inhumane situation in which nearly 16,000 refugees live on the Greek islands. Violence, rape, one toilet for an average of 72 people and four hours in the queue every morning for one and a half liters of drinking water. There are even children in the camps who try to commit suicide.
And they used this image as the front cover of their one-off campaign magazine. Because a lovely lithesome lady who was formerly a refugee sexualising life-jackets is....oh feck, I just don't know what it is. The mixed messages from the goodies are just too confusing these days.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Duc4vkzW4AEg5DQ.jpg0
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Look at this before they delete/withdraw it. The people responsible for this must time-share brain cells, (and I say that as someone who used to write letters for Amnesty Intl.)
Amnesty Intl. Netherlands launched a campaign some days ago to highlight issues including the dangers of sexual assault and violence for women and girls in refugee camps in Greece.
And they used this image as the front cover of their one-off campaign magazine. Because a lovely lithesome lady who was formerly a refugee sexualising life-jackets is....oh feck, I just don't know what it is. The mixed messages from the goodies are just too confusing these days.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Duc4vkzW4AEg5DQ.jpg
They do it to get attention.
People will completely ignored a magazine with a front cover of people in a disgusting situation.0 -
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Seems to me to be a perfectly good attention-grabber along the exact themes that you've outlined.
Sexualising a woman in lifejackets should make you feel really uncomfortable.
That's the point.
You think it makes people feel uncomfortable?
It makes me feel uncomfortable, but not in the way you imagine.
No, sorry Seamus, I do not see it as a clever reverse-psychology media triumph. Should other rape awareness campaigns adopt this angle maybe? Sexy children? Sexy girls in taxis? Sexy office workers writhing on their desks?
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That would be exploitation in a way, since the woman on this cover can make the decision to pose herself.Sexy children?
Nevertheless, I do believe similar attention-grabbing portrayals have been used to shine a spotlight on child prostitution and child beauty pageants.
You see, these would be neither unique nor uncomfortable. In fact, putting either on the cover, you would simply get a lot of pissed-off men who were expecting some soft-core porn.Sexy girls in taxis? Sexy office workers writhing on their desks?0 -
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