We're in Lisbon. We spent a few beautiful days in Barcelona last week, then we flew here on Saturday. I spend the mornings and early afternoons at the National Library, walk around the city with Elizabeth until the evening and watch old tv shows and music videos on MTV Austria before we go to bed.
More coming soon...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Friday, December 5, 2008
APAV like PETA?
Some new ads, including a video ad, from the Portuguese Victim Support Association (Associação Portuguesa de Apoio à Vítima - APAV) have left me a little puzzled. These ads depict models with bruises; victims of some kind of violence. I'm very supportive of campaigns to promote public awareness of any number of issues, but I wonder if this series of ads reinforces the objectification of females and the rape culture that makes this world unsafe for women and children.
I don't think APAV's ads are nearly as distasteful as some of PETA's, but I think there may be a problematic similarity. Can we really remedy one injustice if we are entrenching another?
I realize that for the APAV ads to be negative I must assert that fashion/modeling reinforces rape culture and that the APAV ads are in fact promoting modeling without satirizing or criticizing. That's why I'm still puzzled. Perhaps the ads are a net positive. What do you think?
I don't think APAV's ads are nearly as distasteful as some of PETA's, but I think there may be a problematic similarity. Can we really remedy one injustice if we are entrenching another?
I realize that for the APAV ads to be negative I must assert that fashion/modeling reinforces rape culture and that the APAV ads are in fact promoting modeling without satirizing or criticizing. That's why I'm still puzzled. Perhaps the ads are a net positive. What do you think?
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Saturday, November 22, 2008
From Pedagogy of the Oppressed
I don't necessarily mean for this to be related to my last post. It's just a quote I liked, among many others, while reading Paulo Freire.
"The oppressor is solidary with the oppressed only when he stops regarding the oppressed as an abstract category and sees them as persons who have been unjustly dealt with, deprived of their voice, cheated in the sale of their labor--when he stops making pious, sentimental, and individualistic gestures and risks an act of love. True solidarity is found only in the plenitude of this act of love, in its existentiality, in its praxis. To affirm that men are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce."
"The oppressor is solidary with the oppressed only when he stops regarding the oppressed as an abstract category and sees them as persons who have been unjustly dealt with, deprived of their voice, cheated in the sale of their labor--when he stops making pious, sentimental, and individualistic gestures and risks an act of love. True solidarity is found only in the plenitude of this act of love, in its existentiality, in its praxis. To affirm that men are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce."
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