Heartbreaking, but a Must Watch

This is a powerful clip of a documentary by Thomas Keith, Ph.D. It is in line with one of my most persistent arguments about everyday cultural sexism. It's not that a single hyper-sexualized image of a woman in pop culture or pornography is inherently bad or the casual use of sexist language here and there is solely responsible for women's real life problems--it is the use of these images and language against the backdrop of a very real human rights epidemic--rampant violence against women, which touches almost every American family. Sexist cultural norms don't do the victims any favors and don't exactly discourage perpetrators. Until the violence stops and the epidemic is at least somewhat under control, sexist language and sexism in pop culture must take a good, long vacation.

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