I need to start this blog with a correction to the previous one. The Bravo 'Bodycheck' includes usually the boyfriends of the girls. The above is an exception to this rule.

And now: back to the quote:

 'But they (women) are similarly humiliated by being fed the message that it doesn't matter how succesful, powerful or smart you are - all that matters is how sexually available you are willing to make yourself look.'

 I already wrote about how Freeman makes an absolutism ('ALL that matters') and how women are not necesarily humiliated by making themselves look as sexually available.

Let me continue with point 3.

3. Of course it matters how succesful, powerful or smart you are.  Take Virgina Sun from Met Art for example:

Does she show herself as 'sexual available'? Yes of course she does. And to me it matters that Virginia knows this as well. I'll have to admit that comparing Olivia Wilde posing sexy with Virginia Sun posing pornographical isn't the same.

But the thing is: most women know that by showing (parts of) their bodies, their power over people grow. Why? Because we know that they are intelligent enough to know they look good naked. I think Virginia is sexy, a real turn on, but I also think she's quite smart by making money this way.

Yet there is another factor. Read the short Bio MetArt provides: 'I work in public relations. I really wanted to turn into a white swan, and love myself. I got this by filming in erotica as a way to show myself to be a little more confident. My hobbies are rollerskating, dancing and collecting magnets depicting different cities. Our life is so short and you need to try yourself in different spheres of activity, especially if you can do it right way.' 

There's a reason why MetArt provides this info. They want you to know that the girl you're looking at does not feel bad about herself. She wants to be a 'little more confident'. Is this true? Maybe. But it's not necessary a lie. I used to think that any girl who poses nude for other's sexual arrousal had no self respect. But let's face it: why wouldn't you feel more confident by showing your body in a controlled environment? It makes sense doesn't it?

Another thing I read (in an article in a Belgian newspaper) is that men only like women looking confident when women take their clothes off. Again this absolutism. 

If Virginia Sun gets more confident by finding a cure for cancer: fine by me. If Virginia Sun gets more confident by posing pornographically: also fine by me. Women may and can be confident for the same reasons as men are and they may or can be for totally diferent reasons. Women have the advantage of looking good naked, men have the advantage of getting arroused by looking at naked women (and some women do too btw).

This brings me to point 4.

4. Freeman looks down on women who use their sexuality, their bodies, to climb up the social latter. She writes this in her comment: 'It's one thing to submit to this attention-seeking nonsense (posing (almost) nude) if you're a C-list reality TV desperado trying to get on the cover of Nuts; it's another if you are professedly one of the most powerful women in the entertainment business who has no need of such tactics.'

By stating it like this Freeman shows absolutely no respect for Beyonce (the subject of the article) to express herself as a sex-symbol as well. 

So if you're trash Freeman hasn't got a big problem if you do porn. She won't support you, she just pretends you don't exist. But just imagine Beyonce doing a porn shoot (I don't think she will), she sends women back to the middle ages.

One of the issues the feminism movement correctly fought against, was the idea of a woman being less than a man and the acceptance that a wife should obbey her husband. Freeman believes her fight against the sexualization of women, is a continuation of this fight. In her view women are back to obeying men by showing their bodies because men found this to be sexual arrousing.

In a way she is right. Most people who are in power in porn are men. But there's also Abby Winters and other women making porn.

I hope that in the next ten/twenty years more and more (young) women will have the guts to pose nude. I hope they will be photographed by other women who posed before them. I hope they'll feel confident and happy about their nude adventures.

I hope that in twenty years time a girl can pose nude and do porn while she's studying application development. When she graduates she goes looking for a job as Junior Developer. When they interview her she's not hiding from her future employers that she did porn to finance her studies. Au contraire: she's proud of what she did. She feels confident, smart and independent. She's hired and asks if it would be a problem if she continued doing porn from time to time during weekends. Not only because of the money, but she has friends in porn and loves to make honry movies with them. Her future employer tells her that there are other men and women in his (or her) company who do porn during weekends and that it's not a problem as long as the work gets done.

If it were up to Freeman such a society will never exist.