Comments on: Black Woman Posed As And Among Animals (NSFW)

By: Female Genital Mutilation as Interactive Art: “A Racist Spectacle” « Media Watch

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:20:23 +0000

[...] The perversion of power doesn’t lie so much to cake itself as it does in the way the onlookers are able to laugh at it, which as Lisa Wade says at Sociological Images, indicates their privileged distance from the suggestion of genital cutting and blackface. This may very well have been part of the artist’s intent, to “trap” the white audience into making a mockery of the history of violence and objectification of black female bodies. The history of the hypersexualization of black female bodies is still present in today’s media, where images frequently dehumanize black women by likening them to animals. [...]

By: Soraya Chemaly: Why Some Women Are Sexists | USA Press

Soraya Chemaly: Why Some Women Are Sexists | USA Press — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 01:03:52 +0000

[...] as subhuman: We are constantly faced with women compared to animals or portrayed as bestial, especially women of color. It perpetuates the idea that girls and women aren’t fully human. [...]

By: Soraya Chemaly: Why Some Women Are Sexists

Soraya Chemaly: Why Some Women Are Sexists — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:50:27 +0000

[...] as subhuman: We are constantly faced with women compared to animals or portrayed as bestial, especially women of color. It perpetuates the idea that girls and women aren’t fully human. [...]

By: Icrankidance

Icrankidance — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 22:11:00 +0000

Obama is African. His father is from Kenya.

By: Ariane

Ariane — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:18:09 +0000

Obama is in no way “African”. You call call him a black person, but he is American.

By: CyberBody 3 | adriananevinburch

CyberBody 3 | adriananevinburch — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:22:43 +0000

[...] that proves the point that black women have historically been portrayed as animals, one even caged: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2009/08/19/another-photoshoot-places-a-black-woman-among-animal…. This is disturbing on many levels, but more so because it’s so very obvious that these women [...]

By: Bead

Bead — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:48:39 +0000

Great shots! i don’t understand the fuss.. great shots

By: Baby Shop

Baby Shop — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:46:58 +0000

The African Woman in chains is very disturbing! what are they trying to portray? the world is changing and we now have an African president.. cant they see! what ever the photographer is trying to say is just not funny

By: Tiny Toys

Tiny Toys — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:36:51 +0000

I don’t see any racism here. These women are strong and powerful like most of us ;)

By: MTV worries me… part 3; Putting Women in Cages « Uplift Magazine

MTV worries me… part 3; Putting Women in Cages « Uplift Magazine — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:03:05 +0000

[...] Britney Spears, who performed in and around a cage for her Circus tour and, in the past, I know Grace Jones has been photographed in chains and in cages (which Amber Rose has recently re-posed. Read Black Girl Blogging’s take [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:04:56 +0000

Did anyone not notice the black woman in CHAINS?!?!?

By: Wild Things: Animals, People of Color, and Naked Men (NSFW) » Sociological Images

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:55:28 +0000

[...] we have the association of people of color with animals and human primitivity (here, here, and here)… even as no actual people of color show up in the photo [...]

By: The Puzzle Pieces Begin to Fall in Place… « Rocking it…on mars?

The Puzzle Pieces Begin to Fall in Place… « Rocking it…on mars? — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:50:52 +0000

[...] circus (which is uncomfortable for me to have to say but viewing women as animals is unfortunately, nothing new). They see it like it’s their “gift” to us that they let us think we’re [...]

By: John Yum

John Yum — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:17:16 +0000

I dunno… if they did, then people here might say that it’s some strange little bo peep fetish or something.

By: Martha Clark

Martha Clark — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:13:18 +0000

I’m an irish girl, what I want to know is whether harper’s bazaar would like to perhaps photograph me in a field of sheep?