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Linden women slam radio, TV ads which degrade females
Concerned women and young girls representing various organizations in and around the mining town, on Wednesday met at the Linden Enterprise Network to air their concerns about the present lewd advertisements aired on the National Communications Network Linden branch, and the playing of songs of equally vulgar content on the 104.3 radio.
The meeting, which was called by Pastor Valerie Adams-Patterson, saw women vehemently condemning ‘the lawlessness that passes for advertisements’, which portrays young women, ‘in a very negative light.’
Adams-Patterson said that she felt morally bound to address the issue, which is rapidly infiltrating the psyche of even the most young and impressionable girls.
Pastor Valerie Adams-Patterson
“These children learn so fast, that when the look at all the ‘wining down’ and vulgarity on television, they start doing it too, feeling that it is the right thing to do. So we have to stop the lawlessness. We will be speaking to the promoters, the deejays and the people who make these ads that we are no longer going to sit by and watch this kind of vulgarity on television. We will involve everyone in this, because it affects all of us, and more importantly it is very demeaning to us as women, so we will be demanding that we be treated with respect.”
Adams-Patterson also alluded to what she called the “throat song’, which is very popular with the deejays and is played regularly on radio.
To underscore her point she read excerpts from an article entitled Exposing Deep Throat in Dancehall with the subheading:
‘Freakish Women Taking Slackness to the Next Level with Down Inna You Throat Move.’
“Unless you’re auditioning to play the role of deep throat diva, no woman has any business simulating oral sex on a bottle in public. Yet for a few misguided women, this trend of sucking bottles seductively has become their new party trick.
In the last few months, the dancehall scene has been inundated with beyond slack behaviour which is stigmatizing the scene. Rather than blaming music, this behaviour seems symptomatic to the social, economic breakdown of society, which is yet again becoming one and the same with dancehall.
As a woman, it hasn’t gone unnoticed that the only people who seem to degrade themselves are in fact female. Even worse, there is now a video circulating of a woman proudly giving real oral sex to a man in front of people.
With the changing attitudes towards certain sexual behaviors, which were once considered taboo in dancehall, some women are now exercising their inhibitions, in a way, which I consider to be demoralizing.”
Those sentiments were reiterated by many of the women, who lamented the ‘total lack of dignity’ with which too many young women are conducting themselves.
They were also equally vocal in condemning both the showing of lewd ads and playing of lewd songs on the radio station.
Several teens at the meeting also expressed their concern and dismay at the present trend of portraying young women purely as sex objects.
“I think it is very disrespectful, and our young women need to act with more dignity, because right now, the behavior pattern of many of them is very embarrassing”, one teen declared.
CEO of the Linden Radio Station, Haslyn Graham, was also later invited to sit at the meeting. Arriving a bit late, Graham listened carefully to all the concerns raised, and promised to correct any discrepancies as regards the musical content of programmes that are aired on the radio.
Adams –Patterson promised to call another meeting next Wednesday to further address these issues, and to seek strategies to help to eradicate the ‘trend of decadence’ that is taking hold of the community. (Enid Joaquin)
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