| The next question I had, referring to my original outline in the introductory paragraph, has to do with the so-called objectification of women. When someone holds up a picture of a women being “objectified,” I most often view it as art. Things like Playboy, Hustler, and pornography in general seem to me no different than ancient Greek and Roman statues portraying the female form. How are these things any different? The Greeks and Romans painted pictures of nude females; the only shift is that we now have cameras to do the work for us. Why do some women feel objectified by the camera while others glory in its flashbulbs? Certainly the thousands of girls who try out for Playboy every year do not have objectification on their minds. If a woman was sculpted out of stone for the benefit of the ancient Greeks, the sculpture literally is an object, but the woman who modeled for it is still flesh. She has not been transformed, merely replicated. And is this not honorable? The desire to have multiples of this woman should show her value. If men want to see pictures of women in magazines or on television or in music videos, does this not show that men value them? It shows the woman’s worth if she is desired.
Many feminists heartily disagree with this. They say it instead devalues women, that men put them in these base situations and turn them into so-called objects that men can defile. But what if a woman is creating the art or doing the “objectifying?”
In 2003, The White Stripes were a musical band on the come. They had released their fourth album and it was a hit. They had made a video for the first single the for album, but when it came time to make a second video for the new single, “I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself,” the singer, Jack White, was unable to film as he had severely broken his finger in a car accident in Europe. The video was up for grabs, and it was decided that Sofia Coppola would direct it however she saw fit in whatever manner. She chose to create a video in which supermodel Kate Moss would pole dance for the entirety of the song. It was filmed in black and white.
Is this pole dancing objectifying Kate Moss? Moss chose to be a part of the project so there is no force involved, and it was Sofia Coppola’s choice to film a woman in such a way. If this is objectification, why would two women take part in it? Why do other women see it as so horrible? Not to mention, upon seeing the video Jack White was utterly disgusted and refused to let the video be seen in America. I like the video; I think it’s classy. But Jack White, as a man, had a problem with it. Perhaps this is because he is a devout Catholic and not because it is “objectification” but isn’t it odd that people would take offense at a video created by two women? That something women created would be deemed demeaning to their own gender? To me, this is a prime example of the absurdity of feminism and its claims that women are objectified. They call it objectification; I call it art. The fact that Jack White is Catholic has more to do with the “inappropriateness” of the video than the fact that its subject is being objectified.
I agree with this bit - but I didn't know Jack White didn't like the video. I've never heard that before. Anyone got a link to an interview with him or something, where he talks about not liking it?
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