Humour Think you're funny? Contact us at humour@theotherpress.ca & Feminists, anthropologists oppose exploitative ‘Girls Gone Feral’ video series Series decried for sexism and poor research methodology By Liam Britten, Chief Pre-Contacted Babes Editor dvocates for women’s rights A= indigenous persons are furious with a new video series called Girls Gone Feral that manipulatively films women from the heart of the Amazon Jungle among other locations in compromising positions for the gratification of male viewers. The so-called Girls Gone Feral series, often seen on late-night infomercials, advertises “the most raw, extreme video of tribal activities from the least civilized girls on the planet.” The videos show women who have never seen civilization performing tasks like picking berries, rearing children, and performing ancient ritual dances in exchange for baseball caps and T-shirts with the company’s logos on them. Needless to say, opposition to the controversial series has been fierce. “This is typical behaviour from the patriarchal pigs running western society,” said Jessica Hamilton, a spokesperson for the socialist feminist group Solidarity. My Prospective Perspective » _ a “ - 4 a “T mean, they wouldn’t release a “Men Gone Feral’ video, would they? They wouldn’t film a man wearing a loincloth, going through the jungle and hunting a tree sloth for his village to eat, would they? Of course not!” Feminists aren’t the only ones who despise the series. Dr. Julie Archambault, cultural anthropologist with the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford told The Other Press during a phone interview that she has serious reservations about the videos. “You can’t just get a camera crew, traipse through the jungles of Rio Bata, give away some goodies and start filming the elusive Mayoruna people like these cretins are doing,” she said. “It’s ridiculous. These people have never seen westerners, they only speak a dialect of Pano, and worst of all, filming the Mayoruna is my racket, dammit!” She continued: “I was supposed to get the documentary deal with BBC Films, and then these assholes just swoop in and take it from me because they got there first and had some baby doll T-shirts to give away. Sod off! I hope a war chief shoots their asses with a blowgun.” While the opposition to these videos is strong, the demand is equally so. We were able to track I’m not trying to sound racist, but I just plain hate French people By John Holtman r. Martin Luther King Jr. D spoke and dreamed of a better world. A place where black and white people could be friends. Where discrimination would not exist. Where, as he put so eloquently, people “will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” That’s the world I dream of: a world of equality, acceptance, and tolerance for all peoples, cultures, and races of the world. Except the French. Because of all the peoples of the world, I think we can all agree that the French are the worst. It’s not like they didn’t bring it on themselves. Frogs’ legs? That’s a delicacy to those freaks. Shitty movies where everyone just talks the whole time? Yup, the French put those out every year. Napoleon? Believe it or not, he was French too. T hope you don’t think that I’m some kind of biased monster for articulating these views. Far from 22 it. I don’t have a racist bone in my body. Actually, I guess my femur is a little bigoted, and “Fuck you, France” is written in big, black letters on it. I don’t believe in discrimination. It’s just that I think anyone with more vowels than consonants in their name should leave the country. Come on, you know how those frogs love to clutter up their already too-long last people to say I wear wooden shoes or live in a windmill because I have Dutch ancestry. Those things are just untrue generalizations about Dutch people and are unfair. However, every generalization about French people ever made is 100 per cent absolutely positively true. That’s why it’s okay to hate them. The smell? True! The snobbiness? True! The way they wear those stupid berets? Well, I “Every person is an individual, and should be judged on their own merits. I mean, | wouldn't want people to say | wear wooden shoes or live ina windmill because | have Dutch ancestry. Those things are just untrue generalizations about Dutch people and are unfair.’ names with the things. Add to that the way they give themselves a half dozen middle names, and you’ve got a culture that needs to print their driver’s licenses on eight- by-11 sheets of paper. If they could drive at all, am I right? Every person is an individual, and should be judged on their own merits. I mean, I wouldn’t want haven't seen it myself, but it’s in the movies, so it checks out. I can’t state strongly enough that I am in no way advocating making sweeping generalizations about all people of a certain ancestry. If my opinions upset someone, I am willing to revisit my beliefs. In fact, just the other day someone told me that I might down one man who admits to regularly watching the videos for this piece. For the sake of anonymity we'll call him “Joe,” as he doesn’t want his wife Susie Neal or his children Alex and Jessica Neal who live at 23602 116 Avenue in Maple Ridge to find out about his habits. We met him at his workplace, the accounting firm of HB Tax Services in Surrey, where we observed him watching one of the videos. “Damn, this shit is hot,” Joe said. “Look at the way she’s using a stone scraper to remove the sinew off that antelope’s bones to make bow strings. Way hotter than National Geographic. This is my favourite video; you should see it later when they start digging post holes for a traditional longhouse that will sleep three or four related families during their sedentary months when foraging is plentiful. Makes me crazy.” The company behind the videos, Manta Ray Films, declined comment on their products, but did offer the writer of this piece a hat if he crafted an atlatl out of wood from a Brazil nut tree. The offer was accepted. hold discriminatory opinions. So, carefully, I looked deep inside myself. And I didn’t like what I saw. I was too harsh on French people. How could I be so disgraceful with my thoughts and words? So, I thought to myself; there must be some French people who could convince me not to be so hateful. I spent a whole weekend thinking of every French person I knew, and I came up with a list of the ones I didn’t hate; to do otherwise is nothing but racism at its worst. In the end, my name had a grand total of one name: Alex Burrows of the Vancouver Canucks. He scores goals, and I’m pretty sure he’s not actually French, and just has a speech impediment. So, in closing, I’m no bigot. Just because I tell it like it is doesn’t mean I’m a racist, does it? Okay, maybe I ama little bit racist. With files from Liam Britten.