From Smack Style to Snuff Style
October 31st, 2007
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If the acceptable face of mass media misogyny, as represented in Britain by magazines such as Nuts and Zoo, has always been about pictorially establishing women as eternally worthy of becoming a target of sexual violence (’I'd give that one’), then the misogyny of the glossy end of fashion has increasingly tended towards the affectless, hi-gloss imaginings of women as debilitated corpses, often broken in the aftermath of some act of degradation, or hollowed-out by addiction.
Ballardian shows us how this trend hit some sort of zenith recently within the arena of reality television, where the audiences have long since become acclimatised to participating in and enjoying casual long-range hate-fests occasioned by shows such as Wife Swap and Big Brother. America’s Next Top Model develops the tediously trangressive logic of the format in an original way: the opportunity to indulge the ol’ lust of the eyes with faked pictures of murdered women.
Hey, they forgot ‘Beaten to death with a huge porcelain phallus by a Model’.
It’s all over, isn’t it? I give us ten years at the outside.
It’s a grazhny business, young droog.