Elizabeth N. Sent us a post from InGameNow, a networking/chat site for sports fans. The post shows women posed in “meat bikinis”–that is, with raw meat covering women’s nipples and genitals. The images don’t show totally nude women–the are, after all, dressed in raw meat–but they’re probably not safe for work.
Elizabeth says,
It depicts traditionally attractive women being covered with different types of meat, including bacon and sushi, and being used as human platters. So we’ve got sexism, objectification, commodification, heavy male gaze, and of course the association between red meat and masculinity.
Yep. The trifecta: sports, meat, and naked women. And also the possibility of hot girl-on-girl action!
Seriously, the idea of being naked and then partially covered in bacon is absolutely disgusting.
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Lauren — February 14, 2009
I can't help but notice how happy the women look.
Sagadarvulia — February 14, 2009
I guess it's better to dress up in edible dead animals than inedible dead animals, but yeah. This is still icky on many levels.
Cara — February 14, 2009
Why do I feel like there just has to be something unsanitary about having raw meat all over your vag? I mean, isn't raw meat covered in bacteria? And isn't the vagina/vulva area very carefully controlled with regards to levels of bacteria, and sensitive either to a lot of bacteria being wiped out or a lot introduced?
Maybe I'm totally wrong on this. But I just have a gut indication that it's a good way to end up with a nastily uncomfortable infection.
Tyrone — February 14, 2009
I'm with Lauren, those women are clearly delighted.
Joy — February 14, 2009
I really hope those poor women at least got to eat some bacon.
Tinose — February 14, 2009
What disturbed me most viscerally is that those women look starved. I can't say whether that's their natural body type or if they've dieted down that way, but there's something that seriously just grosses me out about putting seriously fatty meat on a woman with protruding hip bones and visible ribs. It feels taunting.
Elena — February 14, 2009
Naked sushi at Wikipedia.
Sushi isn't meant to be warmed up to body temperature, so it tends to be not-so-good sushi. Unsurprisingly, it's a lot more of a hit outside Japan, so it might count as a fetishization of the East rather than as female exploitation (there is a version in which food is served on a man, nantaimori).
Also, ew. How unhygienic.
Clayton — February 14, 2009
I know several women, feminists none the less, who would love nothing more than to have their naked bodies covered with meat, especially if the meat was bacon. I see the problem with the context in the above post, though. But you know, to each their own.
Liyana — February 16, 2009
As a Southeast Asian who is rigorously taught not to waste food (Japanese culture also berates superstition over children who do not finish their rice, they will be turned into bulls). You'll find many 'pantang larang' (theres no direct translation of this word, it basically means superstition, things you should not do) regarding food especially staples such as rice. If my grandmother saw this she'd be cursing to the high heavens, lol.
Elaina — February 18, 2009
As a a vegan, feminist sociology grad, this is just nauseating! It reminds me of Carol Adams' discussions of the gradual desensitization (cognitive dissonance?) we are taught towards animals as as part of themselves (cow goes from beef to burger, pig is called pork and then bacon, etc.) and then women can be an extension of that concept- objects to be used, they are passive, not active... so why shouldn't we be violated sexually and domestically?
And the PETA commercial was banned because it celebrated women's sexuality without the presence of men?!
Grrrr.
VeganButterfly — February 18, 2009
Sick!
I don't see the appeal of having someone's dead flesh all over your body....*gag*
Irony — March 4, 2009
I found it notable that in the one photo in which a woman is actually eating the meat, she's eating sushi rather than bacon. You don't often see images of women eating meaty foods like bacon; they're considered manly, messy, and of course, high in fat.
Alice — May 5, 2010
That photo third from the top kind of looks like those STD "shock" photos from sex-ed class. It's probably the fact that the browny-orange bacon rinds look like pus.
Who's aroused? Mm-mm.