I noticed that living in American culture is quite strange. Almost everything is about sex and “love.” Everything is sexualized including the LGBTQ+. Thoughts on this?

Also as someone who was raised in America, I’m still trying to shake off the rest of the side effects from this culture, such as porn addiction and feeling lost for not having a partner. I learned to listen to music that doesn’t include sexual stuff (my favorite is jazz lol.) However everywhere else no matter where I go there is sexual stuff, even included in ads lol.

  • Rania 🇩🇿
    23·
    2 years ago

    I’ve always noticed that as an outsider, it’s extremely weird and normalized like wtf is a cheerleader, why tf is there a half naked women laying on the car ad and wtf is a bikini carwash

    • SunshinerOPM
      11·
      2 years ago

      It gets even more disgusting. I’ve once spoken to a 14 year old girl who wanted to be a porn star. She doesn’t know the horrors of that industry, yet, thanks to American culture, that sort of life is glorified. Sex workers are workers, however they didn’t choose that life, they were forced into it by this terrible capitalist system.

    • SunshinerOPM
      5·
      2 years ago

      Thank you for giving me insight on how patriarchy spread into the west. I never knew it was something like this. I always thought it had a lot to do with religion. But really the rich and the elite were mostly behind this all along.

      Many countries in Europe went so far as to decriminalise the sexual assault of women, so that women would be terrified of a life unprotected by a man. And this was the early stages of the capitalist hyperexploitation of women’s bodies.

      And this culture is widely put in entertainment from all around the world. Especially in Western entertainment, where the woman is always saved by a man.

      I’ve heard that in some middle eastern countries women couldn’t go out in public without a man by their side. Could you give more info on this? I don’t wanna sound like a liberal talking more about something I know nothing much of. Would love to learn more about this. Correct me if I’m wrong on that speculation.

      Demonising single women (and queer people), labelling contraceptives and abortion practices as child murdering, and otherwise enforcing this new home dynamic on the burgeoning proletarian class led to some of the most violent repressions in women’s history: the Inquisition of the heretics, and later, the witch trials.

      Woah, who knew that such practices a long time ago could lead into modern times. These examples tie things together perfectly.

      What could be done about this culture as a whole and as an individual?

      • Rania 🇩🇿
        5·
        2 years ago

        I’ve heard that in some middle eastern countries women couldn’t go out in public without a man by their side. Could you give more info on this? I don’t wanna sound like a liberal talking more about something I know nothing much of. Would love to learn more about this. Correct me if I’m wrong on that speculation.

        The word your looking for is “mahrem” it’s a man who walks with the woman and can not marry like her dad,brother,son, husband etc… But the “mahrem” is only for hadj, a woman is allowed to leave the house without one just fine, and yes a lot of families in strict middle eastern countries don’t let women go out without a man, but it’s pure misunderstanding of islam and mixing it with idk what, like how women driving wasn’t allowed until 2018 in saudia.

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        Warning shit that I’m not sure about ⚠

        A lot of people Muslim countries didn’t have very good understanding of Islam for a while, only people who went to Islamic schools did, but I think the introduction of westerners through colonialism and missionaries in those countries might’ve had an impact on the culture with Western sexism added in? I am not really sure I’ll try to do some research when I have free time.

  • Shrike502
    15·
    2 years ago

    I don’t think it’s actually specific to USA. Not entirely at least. This kind of absurd oversexualization appears in countries infected with USian capitalism - Japan, South Korea, Russia. Probably Europe as well, we just don’t hear about it. And it didn’t start in the USA from the get go, despite it’s very much capitalist origins.

    • SunshinerOPM
      4·
      2 years ago

      You’re right. I’ve been watching anime recently and I’ve seen blatant sexualization of women. I say this is a product of western culture. You’re right that it didn’t start from the US, in fact the US culture was a result of this patriarchal disgusting culture.

  • Kirbywithwhip1987
    14·
    2 years ago

    You can’t imagine how much I’m sick of this, it’s the worst of the humanity

    • SunshinerOPM
      9·
      2 years ago

      I know right. What could we do to limit this? I’m thinking limiting internet such as blocking porn from our browsers, and avoiding watching sexual stuff, but it seems even the most innocent things include this stuff. Look at channels met for children! Disney is supposed to be for kids, not teaching them about “romance” at three!!

      • Kirbywithwhip1987
        8·
        2 years ago

        Easy, ban it entirely. It’s like propaganda, they can’t leave kids alone with this, they ask 10 year olds when will they marry, just what the fuck?

        • SunshinerOPM
          6·
          2 years ago

          It’s seriously disgusting. They always whine and moan about teaching children about LGBTQ but then they tell kids that “youre gonna be a heartbreaker when you grow up” oh the double standards…