RE: Why The "Steemygames" Money Grab by @steemsports / @steemgames Should F*ck Off (Revised)
Could not agree with you more. Especially as a woman, I prefer to be judged by my quality content rather than my appearance. However, we see on the internet that many women have had Instagram success by engaging in this very kind of behavior...and subsequently their photos are used by others to objectify them. Is this just a side effect of the internet? Does every beautiful woman who posts a photo of herself automatically sign off on those posts being used for or against her? Most would argue yes, but I think it's a much larger ethical issue that we will see debated heavily on upcoming years.
Also, I did see it as free promotion for those accounts picked to be involved. I'm sure those accounts gained followers and perhaps even larger dividends as a result of the viral nature of the posts...and while I am inherently opposed to the concept and idea...I have to be totally and hypocritically honest when I say that I wondered what the criteria was to get the attention.
The "Instagram model" pull can be very real for a lot of women who are seeking recognition and monetary rewards in traditionally male-dominated areas, and sexy selfies sell. I've often wondered when/if that objectification was going to penetrate this platform. It's happening with the porn...it's happening with steemygames.
I'm not trying to justify anything here, but unfortunately that's the way men are built. To objectify not just women, but also other men.
Who do you think buys bodybuilder magazines? It's men. When they make a movie and have the hero (or heroine) all dressed up with close fitting armour and visible muscles everywhere, who do you think that's for? That's right, it's for the guys watching the movie.
There are some women (and men) out there who have the bodies to be able to play on this, and while it's mildly offensive to me, it's probably not for the same reason as it is for you and other women.
I find it offensive because I prefer substance, over form, and if I'm honest probably a small extent because I like to think I'm above such superficialness. It's not because I don't find them attractive, or can't see why they would be attractive to other males. I see the gloss as an act of subterfuge, and I don't like being manipulated. I really don't like the fact that I can't help being manipulated, regardless of my awareness of it.
It's not going to make an ounce of difference however. Sexuality sells, and most guys don't care, just so long as they can see the outline of a boob and a good set of curves and imagine themselves with them, or triceps, biceps and good set of abs and imagine themselves having them.
At the end of the day you're fighting against the nature of males and while I and many others are doing our best to take a stand and stand up against it and other injustice. To teach our sons the wrongness of it, and teach our daughters to be aware and wary of it (and self-defence classes for when that doesn't work), there's the opposite proponent out there that are doing exactly the opposite, and while I like to think the world is becoming an incrementally better place for my daughter to grow up in, I'm afraid at times that I'm simply delusional.
This.
Thank you for the reply and sharing your thoughts and feelings on the matter.
I'm very much against the objectification of women and pitting people against eachother in popularity contests.
Our entire planet is difficult enough to live on let alone some dickheads ripping our pics of the net and then having our peers judge us. We've already got enough judgement in the world going on.. Let's try and keep it off the front page of steemit.com ffs.
When a woman posts a "sexy" picture of herself in my classical psychology sense she'd be looking for adoration or attention.. Some re-affirmation that she is beautiful.. However once you have someone take that picture and use it without her permission for monetary gain.. Then that's a legal issue.
I do see the promotion point of things for sure as well now! Thanks for mentioning an angle I had not considered. Most humans have a streak of hypocrisy in them.. I've personally never met anyone who doesn't.
Perhaps it's just my age showing.. But I've never understood the whole instagram thing nor e-celebrities. It's sort of like me wondering to myself how the hell the kardashians are even known..
Our western society breeds stupidity and docile individuals while glorifying shitty behavior and people.. And while I may not be able to change the society I live in physcially I can certainly try and change our digital society starting up here on Steemit.
Thanks again for your share of thoughts and feels. This is what the platform was intended to house in my opinion... Not childish high school beauty pageants.
*edit: missed a word.
Hi, please have a look at the official @steemgames @steemsports response:
https://steemit.com/steemsports/@steemgames/proof-of-consent-of-participants-and-the-danger-click-bait-f-u-posts