Philippe doen’t understand that not everyone wants to live in the Bible belt and be reduced to having sex with their relatives

Yea, to media minds all women are tough and all men are gay.

good lord, these are movie characters - NOT REAL LIFE.  Not that I’m a big fan of AOL, but this is Hollywood.  Hollywood only gives us what we want.  They aren’t going to give us something we don’t want because there is no money in it.  This isn’t about making war sexy, it’s about making money.  THAT’s America people! 

side note:  I was in the military ... it would have been nice break to see women like this in uniform, they just aren’t there.  AOL/Hollywood are just selling us our fantasy.  Has NOTHING to do reality.

Don’t be silly.  Of course that wasn’t Gloria Steinem.  The whole post was obviously deliberately facetious trolling.  Probably one of the mindless Republican minions sent to agitate. 

I think the irony of this story is that it will induce a lot of people (like me) to click through and check out the feature who never would have otherwise… thereby increasing the number of hits for the story and encouraging AOL to keep it up.

>Boy did you dummies miss the point. It’s not >about glorifying war, it’s about shattering >stereotypes about what’s ‘feminine’ and ‘sexy’ >and highlighting one of the important roles that >women play in today’s world beyond that of >housewife and mother.

How about the stereotype that the media accurately represents public opinion on appropriate gender roles, and what makes an attractive person. A majority of the population does not think that a short, slim, vulnerable woman is the height of beauty.
The only stereotype that matches the above exists soley in the medias minds.

To quote Golson, “It’s not the sex that’s so incensing: it’s the subtext—that enlisting in the armed forces is a sexy, glamorous thing to do.” 

So there are two issues here, right?  One is the objectification of women to sell war and the second is the issue of selling war like any other product.  I’ve given up criticizing beer ads for years, so I won’t even delve into the objectification of women to sell products.

In order to properly analyze the issue let’s step back, shall we?  Would we all agree that we need a military?  Sure.  Now comes the harder part.  How should the military recruit?  The days when it was considered honorable to fight for one’s country are over. So, options include drafting, paying people high dollar (i.e. mercenaries), using compelling arguments like patriotism (ala Napoleon), and finally using standard marketing techniques.  These techniques include, music, flash, powerful imagery, and sexuality to name a few.  We’ve all seen the super cool commando military ads with distortion, heavy metal music, and buffed guys in military ads.  Those always seemed objectionable. The AOL busty ones have really hit our (Golson’s) threshold. 

Would the government successfully recruit without using standard marketing techniques?  Not likely.  No one is going enter a life of psychotic-flashbacks-and-lost-limbs because of his/her love for Bush or stock in Halliburton.

I’m not suggesting that the ends justify the means.  I still think that it’s downright icky to use standard marketing (including sexuality) to lure people into potentially dying.  The government, for example, would not allow drug companies to advertise by way of sexual imagery in order to recruit patients in highly investigational drug studies, right?  I mean, the purpose of the government is to protect people from doing harm to themselves secondary to emotional/psychological manipulation.  Ha!  Isn’t it ironic?  (Like ra-ain on your wedding day)

What am I saying?  I’m saying I agree with Golson.  Mainly ‘cause I disagree with war in general and this war in particular.  If we were using sexuality to recruit for something noble (like beer?), then it’s not so horrible (egregious ).

Well done.  Look forward to more articles.

Dude, what’s your problem? So there are some hot women in hollywood. Some of them play various roles, including military. What a surprise. Oh, and then entertainment writers write fluffy pieces about hot things that hollywood has done. It’s not a frickin political statement. Anyway, hope you’re enjoying the west coast, ya mother******

Comment by Gloria Steinem on 1/25 at 1:01 pm

Boy did you dummies miss the point. It’s not about glorifying war, it’s about shattering stereotypes about what’s ‘feminine’ and ‘sexy’ and highlighting one of the important roles that women play in today’s world beyond that of housewife and mother.

Yes, strong, tough, smart, brave women that don’t need to cower behind men and are willing to fight for the values they hold dear ARE sexy, and kudos to AOL for highlighting that truth in this feature.

Is there any way to check back and see if this comment really was from Ms Steinem? The women of the real military are already way past the stereotypes already, without any glam. Compare the publicity still above to any picture of say, Gen. Janis Karpinski or former Col. Anne Wright. They aren’t selling “strong, tough, smart, brave”. The sexy “uniforms” et cetera are the same hollywood overlay that’s used to reach the (male) audience that commodifies women generally. I can’t believe she could miss that. Meanwhile the Militaristic aspect gets a free ride? Women and Children are far and away the most often vicitmized by wars. If Gloria S actually wrote this post, something odd has happened to a once brilliant mind.
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Your right Gloria nobody tinks dat babes is sexy. So way to go AOL fer pointin dat ting out here. I also tink its a great ting dat stars like Angelina are fightin for our rights in Irak.

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Isn’t it amazing that all these “revelations” about the war’s winningness is observed from afar, a very afar? How come those with the biggest mouths of support, do so from the furthermost point?
But mostly, how come no one answers questions these days and no one MAKES them?

Boy did you dummies miss the point. It’s not about glorifying war, it’s about shattering stereotypes about what’s ‘feminine’ and ‘sexy’  and highlighting one of the important roles that women play in today’s world beyond that of housewife and mother.

Yes, strong, tough, smart, brave women that don’t need to cower behind men and are willing to fight for the values they hold dear ARE sexy, and kudos to AOL for highlighting that truth in this feature.

Isn’t it disgusting how sex is used to sell war, even as depictions of sex as lovemaking (ie., adult pornography) are being hunted down and criminalized?

Perhaps when this is reduced to looking like this, then Hollywood will start making films like this.

BTW, I hope it never happens.