Whilst watching the most viewed videos of today on youtube, I came across this little gem:
Apparently the fourth most viewed video today ( a response to a Sarah Palin video I might add ) was this video. Possibly a parody of the stock market, and possibly a way to get hits to a video by using breasts.
I find it interesting that when faced with an economic crisis like we are in, a video like this comes along and gets almost as many views as the second presidential debate. The video starts off as a man in a bear suit parodying the bear state of the markets walking along wall street making jokes. He holds up copies of the wall street journal and starts laughing, all while people are filming him. Seemingly randomly, that same bear is standing by a water fountain grinding up with two attractive women in bikinis.
Because of feminism, women are supposed to have risen above being objectified. Women have worked to become neutral with men, and become more than just objects of male lust. However, we have two women dancing in bikinis, and an entire crowd (not just only men) gathers around and starts to film it. Most of the women seem to be laughing at first, but by the end of the video there is mostly men, all sneering at and filming these two women, and they are loving every second of it.
This video raises a few questions. One of which is if the gender neutrality that has been spawned since the feminist movement is really only a cover. Especially in the corporate world, where women are sexed as women, but are gendered neutral. However, the average corporate male is seen in a youtube video taping two girls dancing in bikinis. All of the laws of the corporate world seemed to be thrown out of the window pretty easily.
I'm sure that most men would like to say that they don't objectify women and they see women as their equals, and most women would like to say that they are seen as equals. But it seems that the average guy is still hypnotized by a set of bouncing boobs. Does that mean that things haven't changed? No I don't think so, but no matter what people say or do about gender and stereotyping, the instincts and hormones are still there.
One woman at the end of the video said "I dont get it. I don't see what it's for" (in regard to the women dancing.) I don't really get it either, but I watched the video twice.
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DS, I wonder if you have any thoughts on the use of the image of "the bear" as well as any possible play on the words "bear"/"bare".
First off, I think that the woman at the end of the video was just clueless as to what the bear represented(a bear market-economic recession),and not the women dancing. I also, think that the women were there dancing not to be objectified, but to symbolize that the bear market has taken over and is having a great time.
Basically, I believe that if the bear had taken on a female personna(in the same scenerio), then it would have men with their shirts off dancing around. You could compare this economic market parody to any current music video. If a guy is singing he has half-naked females dancing around him... if a girl is singing, she'll have half-naked guys dancing around her. Its a vice vera situation. But thats just my outlook.
I think the women in this video were meant to be objectified, why else would they be wearing almost nothing? The bear is obviously a symbolization of the bear market and I guess the great time its having, but it was absolutely unnecessary for women in bikinis to be dancing around it, except for the purpose of drawing more views. I don't think this video would have been nearly as popular had it been two almost naked men dancing around a bear.
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