Women have played a large role in Leftist revolutionary movements. According to Mao, they hold up half the sky. After yet after reading this report and viewing the media content pulled from Facebook you’ll learn that while TeleSUR’s officially stated position is for women’s liberation, their full network behavior shows that they replicate the same patterns of objectification and sexualization of women that they claim is cause for their moral superiority.
Going beyond sharing photos of attractive socialist women, their own channel and those of their partners share soft-core pornography; photos stylized like those of prostitutes (prepagos) as well as sharing imagines that would appeal to pedophiles. Given these facts, a more appropriate slogan for TeleSUR than “Our North is The South”, at least for its female audience, might be ‘Liberation up Front; Commodification in the Back’. An especially appropriate analogy, given that the mullet is also an animal and what follows is fishy.
“Sex sells”, those in the room deciding TeleSUR’s media strategy say amongst themselves, “so if the photo of a pretty girl is what gets someone to become interested in getting involved or expressing solidarity with their struggles then so be it!”
The right image hints that it was the power of camiseta-liberated women that was the sole cause for the passage of the bill. If you want to help The Cause, whatever that is, you need to take off your shirt.
If “Telesur’s new Lifestyle section” seems odd in it’s clear appeal to a female teenage audience it’s important to remember that this tactic was similarly documented in the form of FaceMusic byDigital Forensic Research Labs’ analysis of Russian media influence tactics.
There are whole websites devoted to hosting photos of Conservative American girls with guns. Kaitlin Bennett, a pro-Second Amendment supporter and Grassroots Director for Liberty Hangout made the newsfor a photo shoot at Kent State.
According to the Handbook of Clinical Sexuality for Mental Health Professionals the technical name for high levels of sexual arousal for seeing one’s preferred gender with a gun is called Hoplophilia.
The first photo, Che’s Revolutionary Devotees, with the head coverage of the women and the eyes focal point being off in the distance seem to indicate that the women had a religious devotions to the thought and life of Che Guevara. Like modern apostles, the photo suggests, the FARC is the true heir of Che just like that Catholic Church first claimed of Jesus.
Guns out Fun Bags Out is of a style that was very popular amongst the CPI(M) accounts. Other variations of it had similar images but with bright pastels.
The Widows of Gaucho refers to the dissident FARC commander that was killed 21 de Diciembre de 2018, en Tumaco. The account which shared it, which for a profile photo has a picture of Correa, not so subtly hints that though dying young he had a sexually prolific life.
Before moving to Colombia I was not familiar with post-social media prepago culture in Latin America. Young women that want to sell their sexual services no longer have to congregate in Zonas Rosa (Red districts) or Zonas de Tolerencia (Tolerance Zones) in order to find patrons.
Given that a number of the mobile phone plans operators in Latin America, such as Tigo, Claro, etc. don’t include use of Facebook as part of their data plans — thus making it free — this sort of dissemination of semi-nude photos is a manner for such girls to showcase their wares.
Apparently it has also become a manner to keep Chavistas interested in checking the media sent by the accounts that spread TeleSUR’s content and that of their partners.
“By any means necessary” is common revolutionary slogan indicating that the successful results of a revolutionary movement matters more than the manner in which it is achieved. Revolutionaries following this principle can thus excuse all sorts of behaviors that, were their enemy doing it to them, would be considered yet another justification for The Cause.
In promoting these kind of images, like those above, TeleSUR and their coordinated inauthentic behavior network are sexualizing young girls. Any sort of excuse that it is about “showing that children are keen to save the future” is a lie as (1) there were no similar images posted of young boys; (2) there was no similarly posted photos of groups of children engaging in some sort of collective activity — as was typical of Soviet propaganda employing children; and (3) the very notion of a child endorsing a political party or movement is absurd as they be definition are wholly ignorant of the world.
Furthermore, let me contextualize the images according to it’s culture and country of origin.
In India a child under the age of 16 is raped every 15 minutes.
In Gaza, according to a trauma therapist working for Physicians for Human Rights “more than one-third of the children I saw in the Jabalya [refugee] camp reported being sexually abused. Children from ages 5 to 13.”
In Russia and Ukraine, laws and cultural norms against reporting make statistics like the above difficult to find. Worth nothing, however, is that after Ukrainian journalist Nastya Melnychenko, recounted a number of incidents of sexual harassment and violence that started when she was six years old and continuing into adulthood on social media with the hashtag #Iamnotscaredtospeak — many thousands of others expressed similar stories.
The images of pre-pubescent girls which appeal to pedophiles are all the more disturbing considering other aspects of TeleSUR’s coordinated inauthentic behavior network. Specifically that they occur at the same time that articles in Teen Vogue addressing the finer points of modern Socialist thought features frequent PSUV-spokesperson George Ciccariello-Maher.
Given the clear message illustrated in the images of the socialist women that are of age that there is imperative to submit to the needs of The Revolution and the men that run it — it begs the question if there is a concerted effort by TeleSUR/Venezuela to groom pre-teen young American girls to find Socialist men appealing and imbue the notion that they should sacrifice themselves in any way needed.
This is a classic characteristic of sex cults that exploit children — equating touching with love and devotion to the leaders of the group.
If we are to believe, as Rosa Luxemburg did, that “the most revolutionary thing one can do is always proclaim loudly what is happen” then TeleSUR claims it has to offer is either to be sex objects or warriors — nothing more.