I'm not sure which board this sits on today, but this is the one I have bookmarked so I'll go with it.
ITVs Love Island is back and this years participants have been announced across the tabloids and social media.
Leaving aside the wider issue of this type of reality show and it's messaging about young women, I saw something that really made me stop in my tracks when I saw it.
It's an article dedicated to one of the girls, prominently displayed on the newspaper website with the headline ' Love Island's Shannon Singh has sex 8 times a day and 'likes it rough'. Accompanied by two large photos of her posing in underwear.
Am I alone in finding this irresponsible? Shannon is, of course, totally free to do, say and wear whatever she wants. I've no issue with that, or her. My discomfort is the media yet again casually reinforcing careless and dangerous language around women.
Surely when women have lost their lives to men using the 'she wanted it rough' defence, casual normalisation like this is irresponsible?
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Fluffymule · 21/06/2021 16:22
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