http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW2islTrIZ0

I’m not really sure how I feel about this whole story.

This past weekend a video surfaced on Youtube of a woman in a scant bikini getting tased in order to raise money for charity. Allegedly, the woman charged people (almost all men I’m assuming by the looks of the crowd) $100 to watch her get tased.  In the 39 second video she lets out a shriek of pain and quickly regains her composure, turning around to smile brightly at her audience and the cameras.  I can’t help but suspect that she over-reacted to the taser, screaming louder than necessary, and as a result, the whole thing is just very…sexual.

Now this is definitely an interesting idea, utilizing something inappropriate and perhaps misogynistic and turning it around into something kind and helpful. The caption on the Youtube video read, “Raising money for charity all the horn dogs within 20 ft each watch her get tasered for charity.”  These “horn dogs” end up contributing to a good cause by engaging in their inappropriate fixation.  Maybe it is smart to take advantage of the bad in the world and turning it into something good.

But doesn’t this end up encouraging their behavior, and ultimately, perpetuating it? Not to say that guys aren’t allowed to enjoy looking at women in bikinis, but there comes a point when they start looking at women like a piece of meat and not a person anymore. That’s the issue I have with it.

Certainly there are always going to be people out there who continue to objectify women and go to great lengths to look at them in bikinis (or less of course) but should this be celebrated or at least normalized in the way this video has implied? The horn dogs who paid to watch her get tased end up being validated for their horn-dogginess, and that just does not sit well with me.

Source: http://globalgrind.com/2014/04/05/bikini-clad-woman-tased-for-charity-video/