Why, someone asked me - is this video a "big deal." Simple . Because the video and the reactions and response of the men who watched it and did nothing objectified and devalued women.
Objectification and devaluing makes women "objects" that men use - to whatever degree - for their own pleasure, but worse - it allows men to feel comfortable about taking any other action - like violence, out on women. At least one of the men who saw that video has hit his wife in the past. What kind of man hits a woman? When you consider women only as objects of sexual gratification you don't think of them as people. When women work for you or with you - you then tend to consider their contributions and work with less significance.
I can hear the groans, but substitute color or ethnic background (As Don Immus did yet again recently) and suddenly people "get it."
The tendency to devalue women is indicative of a greater problem in society - the primary reason why Media General has failed to take action to discipline those involved. My guess is the lawyers they'll have come after me will be all-white males - or possibly, if they have any female attorneys, women who don't value themselves or value a paycheck more than honor.
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