The clothing choice is that of the interviewee, not the interviewer. If you approached the interview subjects on the street, they'd probably be wearing the exact same thing, since you're probably referring to the sex workers he interviews. He's not telling them to dress a certain way to get a reaction, he really just wants the interview subject to show what their lives are like. The way the interviews work is that the interview subjects walk in off the street and they just start talking.
The clothing isn't the issue, since there are lots of other videos on YouTube with women wearing less, that aren't (yet) problematic, so it's not the sexual content itself as much the context surrounding the sexual content. Corporate America prefers a Disneyfied version of reality, and anything that falls outside that they try to banish. They will tolerate sexual content as long as it promotes consumption and aligns with capitalist thinking.
Consider this Jay-Z song Big Pimpin', which glorifies the objectification of sex workers and women in general. Contrast that with Soft White Underbelly which humanizes the same types of people.
Even though this is dealing with very similar subject matter and the women in it are wearing far less clothing, it will probably never be demonitized. Why? It's encouraging consumption and promoting the idea that being wealthy means you get to have lots of happy sex with women that will let you objectify them, because of your money. Also Jay-Z's wealth means he's more important and the rules apply to him differently (if at all).
Whereas Soft White Underbelly is showing a more sad and complicated view of sexuality and the objectification of human beings, one that doesn't promote consumption and glorification of wealth. Someone might watch that and realize that a sex worker selling their body for money isn't really that different than someone destroying their body working in an Amazon warehouse, or other jobs that require physical labor, and an idea like that is threatening to Corporate America.
I'm not singling out hip hop, but rather that's a song that's so misogynistic that even Jay-Z himself has disowned it:
This is a huge loss, SWU is one of the best creators on YouTube and I've been really moved by some of his interviews. Pretty much all the creators I follow on YT are either self-censoring or not posting videos anymore, because of this nonsense. Kudos to him for continuing the work, I didn't know that his proceeds went back to the communities he's portraying so I definitely will be making a GoFundMe donation.
The clothing isn't the issue, since there are lots of other videos on YouTube with women wearing less, that aren't (yet) problematic, so it's not the sexual content itself as much the context surrounding the sexual content. Corporate America prefers a Disneyfied version of reality, and anything that falls outside that they try to banish. They will tolerate sexual content as long as it promotes consumption and aligns with capitalist thinking.
Consider this Jay-Z song Big Pimpin', which glorifies the objectification of sex workers and women in general. Contrast that with Soft White Underbelly which humanizes the same types of people.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Cgoqrgc_0cM
Even though this is dealing with very similar subject matter and the women in it are wearing far less clothing, it will probably never be demonitized. Why? It's encouraging consumption and promoting the idea that being wealthy means you get to have lots of happy sex with women that will let you objectify them, because of your money. Also Jay-Z's wealth means he's more important and the rules apply to him differently (if at all).
Whereas Soft White Underbelly is showing a more sad and complicated view of sexuality and the objectification of human beings, one that doesn't promote consumption and glorification of wealth. Someone might watch that and realize that a sex worker selling their body for money isn't really that different than someone destroying their body working in an Amazon warehouse, or other jobs that require physical labor, and an idea like that is threatening to Corporate America.
I'm not singling out hip hop, but rather that's a song that's so misogynistic that even Jay-Z himself has disowned it:
https://www.republicworld.com/entertainment-news/music/jay-z...
This is a huge loss, SWU is one of the best creators on YouTube and I've been really moved by some of his interviews. Pretty much all the creators I follow on YT are either self-censoring or not posting videos anymore, because of this nonsense. Kudos to him for continuing the work, I didn't know that his proceeds went back to the communities he's portraying so I definitely will be making a GoFundMe donation.