697. Desensitization: Abuse As A Christmas Gift
I just came across another scary example of how far the desensitization to the objectification of women has gone, not only by those men, who profit themselves from the abuse.
One dating-site has sent me the link to a short video.
I just came across another scary example of how far the desensitization to the objectification of women has gone, not only by those men, who profit themselves from the abuse.
One dating-site has sent me the link to a short video.
First scene: A man, obviously lonely on Christmas.
Second scene: The door bell rings and from a delivered box emerges a woman, provocatively dressed in not much more than a reduced Santa costume. The woman immediately makes physical advances to the man.
Third scene: The door bell rings again, and a second women is delivered, the man is now handled by one woman on each side.
Forth scene: The door bell rings again....
At that moment I was too disgusted to watch the rest.
Sending a bunch of prostitutes to be abused is suggested as a Christmas gift.
As an atheist, Christmas means nothing to me, I have no reason to celebrate the birthday of someone, who either never existed or if he existed was an insignificant person. To me personally, abuse of women as mere toilets for men's body waste is not any more objectionable on Christmas than it is at any other time.
But for the Christians, for whom Christmas does have a meaning, people are supposed to form emotionally attached monogamous couple and abuse in any form is considered a sin.
According to the Christian myth, a child was born by an alleged virgin. The video suggests to celebrate this event by abusing a bunch of prostitutes.
The message of the video is the culmination of how far abuse has become socially accepted by some part of the population. The sender of the link has an unequivocally female name.
This is really disheartening. Not only men are desensitized to what abuse does to women. Even many women are desensitized to the long-term detrimental effects of the self-abuse of women.
The video is meant to be humorous. Humor trivializes its topics. Therefore most decent people limit jokes to topics, which do not trivialize outrageous and shocking events like the holocaust or shooting at schools. Yet people are so desensitized, that the abuse of women is not perceived as a serious outrage, but as something suitable to be trivialized by jokes. This trivialization reinforces the desensitization.
As an atheist, Christmas means nothing to me, I have no reason to celebrate the birthday of someone, who either never existed or if he existed was an insignificant person. To me personally, abuse of women as mere toilets for men's body waste is not any more objectionable on Christmas than it is at any other time.
But for the Christians, for whom Christmas does have a meaning, people are supposed to form emotionally attached monogamous couple and abuse in any form is considered a sin.
According to the Christian myth, a child was born by an alleged virgin. The video suggests to celebrate this event by abusing a bunch of prostitutes.
The message of the video is the culmination of how far abuse has become socially accepted by some part of the population. The sender of the link has an unequivocally female name.
This is really disheartening. Not only men are desensitized to what abuse does to women. Even many women are desensitized to the long-term detrimental effects of the self-abuse of women.
The video is meant to be humorous. Humor trivializes its topics. Therefore most decent people limit jokes to topics, which do not trivialize outrageous and shocking events like the holocaust or shooting at schools. Yet people are so desensitized, that the abuse of women is not perceived as a serious outrage, but as something suitable to be trivialized by jokes. This trivialization reinforces the desensitization.
