Comments on: Woman Embodies The HIV Virus In Italian Ad (NSFW)

By: Erwin Alber

Erwin Alber — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 03:35:06 +0000

This is IMO so evil, because it reinforces the stereotype that women are dirty and harbour diseases. Where are similar images showing males?

HIV in any case appears to be a myth. Fraudulent HIV tests are used to diagnose a fictitious “HIV virus” in order to prescribe Toxic drugs which along with the shock of the diagnosis destroy and kill the patient.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vaccination-Information-Network-VINE/69667273997?ref=ts#!/album.php?aid=261825&id=69667273997

AIDS has nothing to do with sexual relations. The HIV/AIDS is a sexually-transmitted disease myth appears to be designed to sow discord and disrupt normal relations between sexes, as part of a population control agenda.

There is a real AIDS (which has nothing to do with HIV) which was used to infect and kill 2000 American gays via an experimental hepatitis B vaccine. Similarly, Africans were infected with smallpox and polio vaccines as part of a depopulation agenda.

Quest for the Origin of AIDS
Controversial book spurs search for how the worldwide scourge of HIV began
William Carlsen, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sunday, January 14, 2001
©2001 San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.stanford.edu/class/stat30/web1/aids1.html

THE ORIGIN OF AIDS
By Tom Curtis
Rolling Stone Magazine, March 19th, 1992
http://www.whale.to/vaccines/curtis.htm

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By: thewhatifgirl

thewhatifgirl — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:43:38 +0000

Actually, you could put that ad under the “Which gender is this?” heading too. Men’s pubic areas do sometimes look like that, but since the breasts in the picture are very strongly coded as female in our society, we assume it is a woman. It could also be a trans person or a male with “female-like” breasts, but very few people will allow that possibility at first glance.

By: lisa

lisa — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:07:05 +0000

Done.

By: MeToo

MeToo — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:49:06 +0000

Would it be possible to put these images behind the cut, with a NSFW tag? (*Looks over her shoulder to see who’s watching her websurf.*)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:34:44 +0000

It has already been mentioned but the fact that she is hairless and completely airbrushed ( no bumps or folicles) gives me the heebie jeebies. That is the norm? NO hair? And the lack of labia is plain wierd. Is she a Barbie Doll? She has been transformed from a female person to flawless sex object. Oh wait, the ‘flaw’ is having HIV, which she probable caught from some man. Opps, anger spilled out Sorry.

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:38:11 +0000

Yeah, the way they’ve made it look not like a woman’s body at all, in fact, not like a HUMAN body, and taken out the labia is totally creeping me out. I mean… ew. And also, ew. And also, there’s something deeper about what makes women proper women, suitable to look at and comsume, and sexual availabilty, to be said there but I’m still stuck on EW!!

By: abby

abby — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:28:23 +0000

Without the context of seeing this poster under Lisa’s heading, I would have had no idea what it was. It looks like it’s saying HI. And agreed, the airbrushing is weird.

By: imnotemily

imnotemily — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:17:47 +0000

and you know what? the first thing I noticed was the distinct absence of labia. I would say this is pretty good evidence this ad was thought up and executed by a group of men, who assumed the average viewer wouldn’t notice the egregious airbrushing of her mons. Me, a woman, saw that airbrushing and found it incredibly unsettling, but for a man who perhaps doesn’t instinctively know where the mons splits into the labia, this wouldn’t be an issue.
This is so symptomatic of the male gaze- “it doesn’t matter if her anatomy is correct, because look! boobies!”

By: imnotemily

imnotemily — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:11:31 +0000

yeah, I wasn’t aware that models have no labia.

By: Annoyed

Annoyed — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:58:10 +0000

Does anyone else find the airbrushing odd? I mean, the woman is still naked even if you airbrush the details of the vagina. I guess those must be the really dirty parts.

By: Reanimated Horse

Reanimated Horse — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:46:10 +0000

The whole shape in that area of the photo is odd, to me. Interesting point, Katherine.

I hesitate to add this, probably because I’m exhausted from noticing sexism and the male gaze around every corner these days. The image makes two arguments outright: She is attractive, and she has HIV. But the ad doesn’t seem to say, “Women, you may carry HIV” as much it says, “Thin, sexy women carry HIV. Men, the women you want to sleep with might have HIV.” I also feel that because of the underlying sexuality of the image, on some level it causes the viewer to think “Women who are having sex might catch diseases that would harm men.”

Maybe I’m hypersensitive and need a time out from sociology. But I do sincerely see the things I mentioned.