Letter to the editor: How far have you come Barbie?
In 2023, teenage boys from (wealthy) Westfield, New Jersey, used A-I to edit and place fake porn photos on the internet of fellow female students and then were heard mocking and ridiculing them. Boy code, social capital.
According to language scholar Amanda Montell, females deal with arbitrary cruelty in the form of semantic vulgar degradation; 90% of slang words, sex insults or comparison to animals are used to degrade and humiliate women.
Pew Research reported 19 million tweets on “Me Too Hash Tag” since Alyssa Milano’s initial tweet.
Extremely dangerous and disturbing is the research on 5,000 students by Debby Herbenick Ph.D. on human sexuality, which reveals the rapid rise in dangerous choking (sexual strangulation), smothering and slapping among female college students.
Porn (always on women) and entertainment media have pushed it to the mainstream. This behavior toward females is a predictor of future violence. MRI scans reveal, repeated episodes of decreased oxygen to the brain can cause permanent damage.
Republicans want power and control, as they continue to think they have a right to the female body.
Many U.S. politicians are completely ignorant of female reproductive health, endangering their life. In most Red states, a female’s life is now expendable.
NPR, “Quiet on the Set,” alleges sexualization of young girls and sexual type props used during the filming of Nickelodeon children’s programs.
Today, TV commercials are in your face as Proctor & Gamble Gillette zooms in on the female pubic area wearing pretty panties to promote their razor.
Their “Always” feminine hygiene commercial displays close up facial expression of fear and shock on a menstruating female with the words “sudden gushes happen, fear no gush.” Intellectually insulting and so unnecessary, which they fail to acknowledge.
I called P&G “Always” 800 # to express my concerns in detail. They were dismissive, said their (prepared statement) disagrees with me. I then asked who (a female?) produces P&G commercials and shouldn’t TV ads be appropriate for everyone in the room? I repeated, females don’t like the commercial.
The Billion dollar power of P&G.
How far have you come “Barbie?”
Debra Becker RN (Ret.)
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