Toban B. (a prolific SocImages contributor, by the way) sent us a set of photographs illustrating resistance to the objectification of women. They show how little things, like adding commentary to the ubiquitous images that surround could potentially cause us to notice, even if just temporarily, that our environment is toxic to our ability to think of all people as full and complete humans.
These were snapped in Seattle, Washington by Jonathan McIntosh:
This one was written on by a teenage girl in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It reads: “I’m sick of sexually tinted images.”
NEW! Tricia V. sent us an example of this kind of resistance in Haiti. The billboard below is in for a brand of beer called Prestige. Tricia writes: “The writing [along the bottom of] the billboard says “Ko O+ pa machandiz” which translates as ‘Women’s bodies are not merchandise.’” She was impressed at the effort exerted to climb up and write across a full-sized billboard.
For a classic example of a similar kind of public resistance, see this post. For an example of backlash to public anti-sexist messages, see here.
(The pictures are from here, here, and here.)
