Totally normal culture where we all get together and fantasize about ads that would validate our lived experience
np.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/d2hb...Posted Sep 11, 2019, 6:40 AM UTC
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I kinda want to go in there and ask them to imagine a world where that ad isn't necessary because both abortion and childcare are free public services
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Revolution (which needs time, collective action and does not seem to be around the corner) and improving our current broken system (which might perpetuate it for longer) are not exclusive policies etc etc
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can’t wait for the system advertising commodities that haven’t changed in decades tells me what I want to hear so I can clap my hands at the tv like a drooling imbecile
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It’s a very liberal way to express it, but I get the general feeling. There should be a question and it should be why that commercial doesn’t exist, but a longing for the commercial to exist should be expected. Combatted, but expected.
That the most immediate artistic vehicle for that (valid, important) sentiment is an advertisement is the part that's so upsetting. How do we radicalize a population so deeply acculturated to capitalism?
Gotta present an alternative. I’m not well versed in women’s rights actions, but maybe an abortion escort or targeting bad politicians and fucking up their lives with well-timed, targeted demonstrations, particularly ones which disrupt funding or chances of moving up, being re-elected, etc. Fighting for better ways of reporting police is a good idea too, given how dangerous they can be for women.
Once you’ve done that, you enter that conversation and begin saying that representation matters, but the obsession with advertisements isn’t particularly constructive. That way when you are faced with the (reasonable) question “oh yeah, well what do you suggest we do instead?” you have something concrete to point to.