Objectification of women is wrong but what about objectification of men? How is it right? A popular US clothes company, Suistudio, featured naked men as props to send out a ‘strong message’ against all those sexist ads, which have objectified women. But an eye for an eye has never worked and we feel that there’s nothing brave about such ads. In fact, it’s equally shameful, disgusting and highly ironic to use someone’s (man, woman, trans, lesbian, gay, queer) body to make a point about adverts in general. Suistudio did to men what most ads do to women and were praised for their ‘bold’ move. Irony just rolled in its grave.
The clothing brand posted some of the photographs from its Fall Ad campaign on its Twitter page and we leave for you to decide if what you see is in, anyway, justifiable. The models may have agreed to posing nude and that’s definitely not the point. If there was a woman in place of a naked man, many would have raised a hell but with a man lying naked at the feet of a woman is an imagery that doesn’t hurt many, it seems. And, that’s something disturbing. On the contrary, people seem to be enjoying it.
Enjoy this power suit ladies. After all, we’re not dressing men. #SUISTUDIO #NOTDRESSINGMEN #womensstyle #officewear https://t.co/HzAes3NQK0 pic.twitter.com/K5GC65EE2v
— SUISTUDIO (@SUISTUDIO_) October 9, 2017
In the Buff. It’s time to go nude. #SUISTUDIO #NOTDRESSINGMEN #womeninbusiness #officewear https://t.co/ctBVEV7Uuq pic.twitter.com/KyTRnhiMgv
— SUISTUDIO (@SUISTUDIO_) September 18, 2017
Discover Suistudio’s first campaign. We specialise in suits, but we’re not dressing men.#SUISTUDIO #NOTDRESSINGMEN https://t.co/B0S71Owo8Z pic.twitter.com/ACLbui4S2D
— SUISTUDIO (@SUISTUDIO_) August 25, 2017
Sold.
— Lynn Swayze (@lynnswayze) September 14, 2017
brilliant. LOVE this.
— no_detective (@no_detective) September 14, 2017
Having power suiting at its core, our latest collection is a paradox of powerful and playful. #NOTDRESSINGMEN https://t.co/mDoEhaDBQ8 pic.twitter.com/0U5Ms0tkmJ
— SUISTUDIO (@SUISTUDIO_) August 23, 2017
Love it
— 세온 (@oyster_opal) September 15, 2017
Browse our latest collection online now. We specialise in suits, but we’re not dressing men. #NOTDRESSINGMEN https://t.co/gWr8S0UbKW pic.twitter.com/PVfAqLCzdk
— SUISTUDIO (@SUISTUDIO_) August 23, 2017
One of the YouTube channels of Canada that goes by the name of Hornet have posted a video praising how Suistudio has ‘flipped the switch on gender’ and it is not just by ‘not dressing men’ in their impeccable suits, but by objectifying men and featuring them naked.
(Also read: 5 unrealistic and totally unrelatable things shown in every sanitary pad advert ever)
Hypocrisy, much?