Previously published at NTDaily.com

Cross-posted on our MySpace Blog.

We could have done anything with our time that evening. So why did we protest? The answer is simple: “Girls Gone Wild,” Mantra Films and founder Joe Francis promote the exploitation and objectification of young women.

Francis claims that he is giving women the chance to empower themselves. They contend that they are doing young women a favor. This couldn’t be further from the truth. How does GGW operate? First of all, many club owners actually pay GGW to come to their club. Mantra producers and cameramen often follow girls around clubs, handing them free drinks and cash in an effort to ‘persuade’ them into their bus to perform sexual acts. If the girls say ‘no,’ they follow them around until they are drunk enough to say ‘yes’ and they film these intoxicated girls signing consent. [Read more →]

“Let Your Man Out” by Jaron Benjamin

Cross-posted on our MySpace Blog.

I recently saw a television advertisement for Coca Cola’s Full Throttle energy drink that featured different sorts of men chasing after a Full Throttle big rig. And by doing so, each individual mob member reclaimed something that they, apparently, did not have before—the right to be a real man. [Read more →]

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