Saturday, January 24, 2015

Instructional Video with Dancing Genitals Draws Fire

Well, the liberal Swedes are at it again. Sweden's  public broadcasting network SVT has created a television series about the human body and, naturally, they got around to the part where men and women do the, er, you know. And they put together a sweet little animated video featuring a dancing representation of the male part with a mustache and a lovely lady-like dancing representation of the female part with long eyelashes. (I seriously doubt if we'll see the show or the promotional video over here on PBS ;-}.)

Guess what? The video is drawing criticism for not being progressive enough. Huh? The show's producers thought that many parents would find it a great way to explain about these private parts to children aged 3-6 or so.  Some Swedes, however, thought portraying the male part with a mustache and the female part with long eyelashes reinforced gender stereotyping. 

The show's producer said the video was designed to be fun and was not intended to be a "statement on gender politics." Meanwhile, it seems the video has been viewed by something in excess of around four million viewers so far on YouTube.