Festival de Viña del Mar: This body is not mine! Since any edge you look at it, the local media do nothing but objectify the image of women and render under a concept of "gender" pre-conceived within Chilensis macho society. Proof of this: the Festival of Viña del Mar. The event is shaping up as the "pick" in terms of sexism and exploitation of the image of women as a prelude to taking almost all of the mass mean "local.
I wonder if all those who enjoy the conference "festival-goers" do realize that what is passed there is the most decadent, vulgar and pernicious of all Chilean television unidimensionality. The objection that "despite the vulgarity" the festival actually has quality shows like the British show of Sting, is insufficient to make us believe that this festival is not an absolute intellectual turpitude television. It seems really impossible to "talk" about the quality of a festival you choose to "beauty queens" under the circumference of their breasts and the profusion of cles, and presenting artists whose performances are based almost entirely on the ruthless exploitation of women.
The question of the objectification of women has been a central issue for feminism philosophy since the mid 80's to today. Theoretical and Teresa de Lauretis, Laura and Susan Bordo Mulvez been discussed in depth how the media, particularly film, has built the women's subjectivity, subjectivity is almost always linked to lower secondary role and its part in Western society dominated by men and boys. That is why the movies have been called a "technology of gender "because they almost always conceived and correcting what is a woman and man (de Lauretis, 1987), or a machine builder of subjects possessing certain characteristics of the genre under which they are entitled (Clover, 1995). In this way, the woman who played both the media and cinema should, given their intrinsic nature, displaying breasts and legs, should behave subservient to the wishes and desires of man and usually must assume social roles and psychological characteristics "of its own "and" character "of its kind (the teacher or nurse maid stupid, good mother or bad mother, the Virgin or prostitute and a host of other clichés).
Given that criticism of the media in Chile is muted given the information monopoly run by companies such as Mercury and Copesa, it is virtually impossible to find in local TV news and in-depth analysis and comprehensive as to how the image of prostitute women in the country. By contrast, both the television sets as the national newspapers devoted much of their space to debate and discuss what is the sexiest diva festival, or which of them has the best attributes. Why no one calls attention Comments skewered by people like Patricia Maldonado unbearable falls on the teats or hair lunar beauty queens (is it possible?): at most, discontent at such statement is given by the admiration of the tits "paraditas" of their Highnesses. On that the media devote full days to analyze "the judge candidate for queen" whose suffering is supposed to-in incentive-criticism of his flabby flesh and the inelasticity of the tissues, forgetting that bulimia and anorexia are terrible diseases have hundreds of young people in this country.
seen Feminism concern how the media treat these issues and the way the woman becomes a victim of constant ridicule and uncontrolled exploitation of what it is, is or may become. Simply everyone has something to say about the woman in the media. Hence, both journalists and philologists, as well as political and exegetes of the califragilística have the right to say "how to be women, and in that jungle beast that is television, the Festival de Viña as the presidential palace There is plenty of material: every woman can see reflected their subjectivity. No intention of establishing a misplaced moralizing, I believe that between pornography and what is shown at the festival in Viña virtually no difference. In this sense, feminist theorists such as Jensen (1998) and Dines (1998) see the genre as the ideal channel through which you can "master" or "reduce" and "down" to women without any limits. The heroine of a pornographic film can be "penetrated with bottles, bearings and dogs, can be ejaculated and urinated" (Dines, p. 62), and always by a male whose sexuality is relegated to the background while the camera freezes in endless close ups compared to female genitalia, constantly penetrated by a large and vigorous phallus. Added to this are some stereotypes like the black savage and demanding, possessed by a "big black, African hope," or the oriental submissive, supple, always ready to meet the demands of the male of the West (Dines, 1998). Of course, the Chilean media do not exhibit any of this, but is it not the ruthless exploitation of female sexuality solely for the festival pageant and this event also one of the most eagerly awaited by lovers and "great" and "very masculine" Marco Antonio Solis, Chayanne Américo or? Media spent whole days to praise or denigrate the circumference of the nipple of the singer, or "philosophy" for the Amazons to be displayed as show animals on camera, they share the same desire for pornography: women to reduce an object that can not only be measurable and quantifiable, but exploited, destroyed, elevated to the heights or destroyed in all its dimensions.
Hence, the Festival of Viña event I look like a bad taste and worse bill. And most incredible is that talks Chile half "of what happened last night, devoting many hours to gossip and due diligence not just the jumps, jiggings and bellowing of the "singers" but also of women there are displayed as trophies of war for males with all their "stuff" well placed. I recently read a statement criticizing Movilh gay humor on display at the festival, which was nothing but endless clichés and stereotypes about what it means to be homosexual in Chile. I think and not only feminists, but the entire community should open a debate about how such events the woman cut up the pathos. Maybe we need a new Plato, in his Republic proposed a censure of the poets who are not educated but even more idiotic future citizens of the Polis.
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N. A. Part of this article was submitted by the author on a paper for the University of Edinburgh, UK.
References:
Clover, C. (1995). "Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film." In Gail Dines and Jean M. Humez (Eds.) Gender, Race and Class in Media, Text Reader. Sage Publications.
De Lauretis, T. (1987). “Technologies of Gender, Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction”. The Macmillan Press.
Dines, G. (1998). “Dirty Business”. In Gail Dines, Robert Jensen and Ann Russo (Eds.) Pornography, The Production and Consumption of Inequality. Routledge.
Jensen, R. (1998). “Introduction”. In Gail Dines, Robert Jensen and Ann Russo (Eds.) Pornography, The Production and Consumption of Inequality. Routledge.
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