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Why do you think the net was born?
Porn! Porn! Porn!
In other words, society hasn’t grown a conscience, it just got a smart phone.
The narrative that a more enlightened society has led to a change in viewing interests may feel good but I would suggest that the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show cancellation came about because Instagram models are more readily accessible than runway models (Instagram, by the way is just behind Pornhub on SimilarWeb’s ranking). After all, record stores are all but deceased but we didn’t stop listening to music. Travel agencies are essentially a thing of the past but we’re still traveling. Telephone booths are gone but phone calls remain.
Technology, not morality, led to the fashion show’s demise. Don’t believe for one second that the reptilian brain’s desire to glance at a woman’s backside has been reasoned away by a well-written thought piece posted on someone’s Facebook page. No, what likely happened is someone logged off of Facebook halfway through reading said post to look at porn.
Besides, Victoria’s Secret’s strict definition of female beauty—thin, bosomy, unattainable–is not only outdated, it was never accurate to begin with. Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder. Just because diverse voices have progressively become stronger over the decades and now challenge the Eurocentric image long held as the beauty standard doesn’t mean that standard was ever accepted as fact among real people.
So yeah, viewership for the fashion show is down and we can debate ad nauseam why that is. But there’s good reason to believe enlightenment isn’t the driver.
Too many still want to objectify women, they just want to do it their own convenience.
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