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Why do articles like this never mention that the customers who sexually harass these retail workers are men?

Maybe bc it’s so obvious that it doesn’t need saying.

Focusing instead on the experiences of female staff who are targeted for abuse, & the policies of the stores where this happens, continues a familiar practice of accepting some men’s predatory behaviour as normal (boys will be boys, he was drunk, he’s a good bloke) & expecting women to be responsible for managing the consequences of that behaviour (can’t you take a joke?).

Surely we’re past this by now?

Yet still this framing passes as normal. As does too many men’s predatory objectification of women.

See it? Name it. Silence is complicity. #misogyny #harassment #objectification #complicity #LazyJournalism 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

abc.net.au/news/2025-05-19/sex

ABC News · Sexyland under investigation over allegations of 'disgusting and traumatic' harassment and salesBy Stephanie Richards

I'm disappointed that #ReservationDogs didn't win any #Emmys -- but kudos to D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai for making a statement about #MMIW!

Reservation Dogs star covers face in 'blood' at the #EmmyAwards in bold political statement

Story by Caroline Gaspich
9/15/2024

"Reservation Dogs star D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai made powerful political statement at the 2024 Emmy Awards as he walked the red carpet with a red handprint painted over his face.

"The 22-year-old actor was one of the few celebrities at the major award ceremony to make a bold political statement on the red carpet. The young Canadian star was photographed in a classic black suit with a bright red bloody handprint painted over his mouth which is a symbol of solidarity with the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) movement in North America.

"This handprint is in recognition of all of the thousands of women that have been silenced and the harrowing fact that #NativeAmerican women are up to 10 times more likely to be murdered or sexually assaulted. The root cause of this injustice stems from a number of factors including #colonization and #HistoricalTrauma, #racism, and sexual #objectification of #IndigenousWomen.

"The bold statement comes as Woon-A-Tai was nominated for Best Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for his iconic role in FX's 'Reservation Dogs' as the character Bear Smallhill. Woon-A-Tai is competing in the category against Larry David from Curb Your Enthusiasm, Martin Short from Only Murders in the Building, and Matt Berry from What We Do in the Shadows.

"Woon-A-Tai's political statement advocating for Indigenous women comes as he was an all-indigenous cast and crew on set of Reservation Dogs. Reservation Dogs is comedy-drama television series that follows the everyday lives of four Indigenous teens in rural Oklahoma, as they spend their days committing crimes to save money to escape their reservation community."

msn.com/en-us/entertainment/ne

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In her paper “White Sexual Imperalism: A Theory of Asian Feminist Jurisprudence,” Sunny Woan, graduate of #SantaClaraLawSchool, delineates how #imperalism, #media & #sexism have resulted in #AsianWomen functioning as “objects for western consumption and the satisfaction of western desires.” Subsequent to their #objectification is the overarching conception of Asian women as submissive, subservient & inherently hypersexual

harvardpolitics.com/asian-feti

A great graphic from the 2022 lecture & documentary film by Nina Menkes, BRAINWASHED: CAMERA—SEX—POWER, showing the basic relationship between the assumed male viewer, the (typically male) director, the (typically male) director of photography, the male subject (character) and, finally, the female object. This is one way how pervasive cinematic shot design supports and enforces the objectification of women without us even realizing it's happening.