Thursday, March 09, 2006

Blow-up dolls as 'sensitivity training tools'...

The BBC has an article this week about a tv campaign by the Mexican government to discourage sexual harrassment of women. Blow-up dolls were dressed up as secretaries and maids and then harrassed by male co-workers, and then there is a condemning voice over...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4789144.stm

Aside from being amusingly bizarre, the campaign is interesting in that the blow-up dolls are only shown in positions without much authority. Also, the article points out that President Fox recently came under fire for saying that 'women were just "washing machines with two legs".'

This all seems to contrast with last week's readings on Latin American feminism.

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