Trust me when I tell you not to try to satisfy your curiosity by googling the video. You really do not want to see it. It was one of the grossest things I have ever seen in my life, and I think most people who saw the video would agree.
In fact, the best thing to have come out of the video was the video reaction phenomenon that quickly emerged from it. Here, people filmed themselves, or friends or family members, watching 2G1C for the first time, putting the reaction videos on YouTube for others to enjoy.
The reaction videos are priceless (especially those involving people's grandparents); we get to watch the viewer initially not understand what's happening in the video, then, as they begin to understand, watch as disgust registers on their face, and then eventually watch as the viewer gets angry, gets up, or sometimes vomits themselves.
Of the many theories to explain the evolutionary significance and function of disgust, one theory suggests that things that are disgusting to humans are those that make us more like animals--that breach the human animal border. Thus bestiality, public sex, and anything involving human waste would be seen as disgusting to most of us.
...and the elephant in the room...the systematic misogyny that is responsible for this film being made in the first place and for it becoming viral.
ReplyDelete"The reaction videos are priceless..." these flippant types of comments really undermine the violence being inflicted on these women.
You are totally correct; the film itself is horrific, and it's difficult to imagine what the women went through to go through that.
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