Comments on: I Guess Human Rights Abuses are no Match for Cleavage

By: YourName

YourName — Sat, 12 May 2012 08:02:00 +0000

Sorry for commenting so late, but bisexuality among women is considered to be sexy, as you Lisa have pointed. Maybe though the sexualization of Tila, they didn’t want to make it to much, just because lesbianism isn’t considered normal, but pornographical. Also as it is mentioned on some of the comments, the girls as allowed to gaze and they want to take part in Tila’s striptease as much as the boys, so I definitely think that there is a suggestion of female bisexuality/lesbianism here.

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Using Sex To Sell The Most Unlikely Things » Sociological Images — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:38:56 +0000

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By: G. Smith

G. Smith — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:42:52 +0000

I’m not saying what was done here was right, but how do you get people’s attention in a society that has for the past fifty years been focused on self? We live in a consumer society in which the needs and desires of the individual have superseded all else, which has lead to a hardening of the individual conscious as well as a desensitizing of violence committed toward humans. In this environment how do you capture the minds and wills of a collective, there is two ways – You some how shock the audience (perhaps airing the rape of a real child by a dozen men of t.v), further desensitizing society to violence, or you use sex and appeal to the consumer side of society, further exacerbating the self centered obsession. I understand the conflict represented here and quite frankly I think they chose the more tasteful approach. Children being hurt, while a fact in conflict zones, should never be exploited for any reason. Although that might be needed to get people to do something.

By: dominika

dominika — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:19:52 +0000

this is awful, and trivializing Burma

By: Le

Le — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:04:49 +0000

Yeah I thought girl-on-girl action is usually portrayed as sexually favorable. But either way of course this doesn’t help the cause!!! As the first replier said, just plain laughable!

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The bisexuality of Tila Tequila « Café Americano — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:32:16 +0000

[...] a side note: I sent in a PSA for human rights in Burma (starring Tila Tequila) to Sociological Images, a blog whose insistent media watch I appreciate. [...]

By: Adriana

Adriana — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:50:30 +0000

To clarify, a student showed this ad as part of a presentation on Tila Tequila and the media representation of bisexuality. I found this ad appalling for the reasons that everyone mentions. Fifa puts it well: we’re rewarding idealism and world knowledge with porn?!?

Focusing on the bisexuality, I found it oddly skewed. Tila Tequila *touches* the men but only allows the women to *gaze*. So, yes, there is a shift in that Tila is the focus of the male *and* female gaze, but I wonder how different that is than Laura Mulvey’s description of the way film spectatorship elicits a male gaze that women are asked/forced to inhabit?

By: Darin

Darin — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:46:58 +0000

This is such a strange ad. Trying to use sex appeal to raise awareness of rape.

And when the 2 girls talk together about thousands of people getting killed they are smiliing because she is going to strip.

By: Fifa

Fifa — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:17:04 +0000

It seems to me that the girls *are* drooling over her as well in the video (- a striking change from the usual ‘girl-sees-hotter-girl-and-so-must-automatically-want-to-make-her-life-miserable Hollywood formula’, but revolting either way.) Now we’re rewarding intellectualism/idealism with porn? Overthrow Mugabe and the pornstars will love you? My brain is bleeding.

By: Barbar

Barbar — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:08:20 +0000

Laughably ineffective of course.

A bit of a tangent, but this comment:

“I guess hypersexualizing a woman is all fine and good, but bisexuality would be a real turn off.”

seems way off base to me. Her bisexuality fits in perfectly well with the hypersexualizing. Trust me, this video would not be any “better” if the girls were drooling over her as well.