“So, she [Paris Hilton] was a very wealthy woman, [initially] not that well known and then she gets to mega-stardom. How? The sex tape. Which was made by her boyfriend at the time, who was married, and thirteen years her senior. She sued to try and stop it [the tape’s circulation] and she couldn’t an…”— Gail Dines, youtube.comTagged: Porn Culture, Slut Shaming, celebrity, sex tape
“You can not fight corporations individual to individual, you do it as a collective movement.”— Gail Dines, youtube.comTagged: Capitalism, Activism, Resist
“Explain to me how you can live in a culture saturated with pornography and how people ignore these messages.”— Gail Dines, youtube.comTagged: Porn Culture, toxic masculinity
“You cannot bring up boys on (porn) and not have that play out in the real world. How it will play out? Some will rape and become sexual sadists, some will just rape and not become sadists, some will nag their girlfriends. But mostly what you're doing is destroying the capacity for intimacy in men.”— Gail Dines, youtube.comTagged: Porn Culture, toxic masculinity
“Feminists are your best friends. We are the only one rooting for your humanity, we are the only ones who say you are better than this. Because if my son is worth better than this, your sons are worth better than this. Because how dare you define my son as a predator who doesn't give a shit about wom…”— Gail Dines, youtube.comTagged: Porn Culture, toxic masculinity
“In our society women have two choices: you're either fuckable or you're invisible.”— Gail Dines, youtube.comTagged: Porn Culture, Media Against Us, Sexism
“Put the slut label on a working class girl, put in on a girl of color and what studies show is that girls who get defined as sluts in high school have similar PTSD symptoms to rape victims.”— Gail Dines, youtube.comTagged: Slut Shaming, Rape Culture, PTSD
“If tomorrow women in the west woke up and decided they really like their bodies just think how many industries would go out of business - the cosmetic industry, the clothing industry, the diet industry, the gym industry - and then think of all the allied industries that support those industries. So…”— Gail Dines, youtube.comTagged: Capitalism, Beauty Industry, Body Positive, Media Against Us
“Imagine if you had never in your life ever seen an image of a woman in a magazine. Imagine how differently you would feel about your body. My assumption is you would feel very different. So think about what has been ripped away from us now this is what surrounds us, this image of a body that none of…”— Gail Dines, youtube.comTagged: Capitalism, Beauty Industry, Body Positive, Media Against Us
“Let's be honest, when we put down Cosmopolitan or Vogue or Vanity Fair, how do we feel? Like (do we) feel 'Oh I feel really slim and toned today. I feel really good about myself.'? How do you really feel? Like a fat pig would that be about right? That's crucial because the more women hate themselves…”— Gail Dines, youtube.comTagged: Capitalism, Beauty Industry, Exploitation