Lorella Zanardo - Il corpo delle donne (2009) - English subtitles

This project took off as a matter of urgency. It all started with the observation that women--real women--are an endangered species on television, one that is being replaced by a grotesque, vulgar and humiliating representation.
We sensed the enormity of this loss: the erasure of women's identity is happening right before our eyes, but without a proper reaction, not even from women themselves.
This led us to select television images that share a common manipulative exploitation of the woman's body, to let people know what is happening--not only people who never watch television, but especially those who watch it but "don't see."
Our aim is to ask ourselves questions, and to pose questions about the reason behind this erasure, a real "pogrom" of which all of us are silent spectators.Our project grants special attention to the erasure of adult faces on television, to the use of plastic surgery to erase any sign of the passage of time, and to the social consequences of this erasure.
www.ilcorpodelledonne.it

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• Italy

[stereotypedindivdual]

The man at 21:17 deserves a good smack, and I'll be first in line to give him one. This is absolutely disgusting, these people seem to forget that we are living in a time of female emancipation.

[SchlangeKa]

makes me wonder about both sides- men and women...shocking and emberissing....escpecially the last scene....

[ucjackle]

I'm amazed by the television they have, let alone what it's doing to women... It all just seems strange and creepy. And can anyone explain what's going on around 16:17? With the necklace?

[MissGothicGirlie]

This is disgusting :( Those poor women.

[britainmalbangkok]

Beh, avete la colpa le donne perché vogliono essere oggetti sessuali a cremagliera in grandi quantità di denaro.

[britainmalbangkok]

Well, you have to blame the women because they want to be sex objects in order to rack in large amounts of money.

[Pietrificaluci]

Shocking truth. Sad Italy... not a country nor a culture: a circus.

[lemmingrrr]

@mepi123 my friend in the television the men are treated in an even worse way.the television is not sexist is only stupid,and used to divide the people

using them religion,sex,football team ecc ecc

there are programs like"donne" in the rai channels who are clearly against the male gender but nobody denunce it.and as well a lot of male nudity in the programs for woman and in the realities

[mepi123]

this makes me puke. and especially that this shit is produced in a countrey next to mine. i know italy has a sexist tv culture but this is really disgusting.

of course they can show sexy women if it makes sense for the tv show, but they should be shown as the intelligent individuals they are.

sex sells and we like to look at pretty things, it's human, but this imagery also changes the picture of the how women have or how they seem to be for men.

[kimchidreams]

@stereotypedindivdual

With the way he was talking, I would have shoved either one of those bananas or the microphone itself into one of his orifices. Douche.

[grahambigvan]

No Stereotyped individual, violence is not the solution.

[BabyScarecrow]

half of the telivision scenes felt like the intruduction to a porno movie, and nobody reacted?! Why are there so many people playing along with this!