Wena Naty In Chile High
Something about the Southern Hemisphere and high school sex and cell phone videos, cuz a few weeks after Chile's "Wena Naty" - the blowjob that rocked a nation - Australia has been similarly struck by a national scandal except...for some totally bizarre reason it hasn't become a national scandal in Australia.
Why did Wena Naty? Wait, what was Wena Naty? Basically a 14-year old girl got filmed on a cell phone giving a blowjob and the video got circulating around the schoolyard (and by schoolyard I mean Republic of Chile) and she got embarrassed and expelled from school (although she hasn't yet been deported).
"Wena" is the orthographic shorthand for "Buena" and "Wena Naty" were the words of pleasure exclaimed by the dude - the fact that he got a blowjob is wild enough, but then he goes and says, "Wena Naty" - Ha! Man, I am just ROFLMAO.
Not just me, the entire country was catapulted into a sustained bout of uproarious tittering, media frenzy, over two dozen videos on YouTube. Now I present to you a particularly asinine example of, believe it or not, adults cheering on other adults in a vaudevillian demonstration of fellatio - I'm sorry but the crowd's enthusiasm can only be attributed to the thrill of discovery that the sexual practice exists. (Leo Prieto does provide a link to the definition of the word "fellatio" when writing to his countrymen). A nation of fucking 14-year-olds, for Christ's sake.
Chile, just fucking grow up. If I was 13 Wena Naty would be hella funny too. But okay. Maybe you've got a different sense of humor and maybe I'm being insensitive to the fact that Chile is a pasture of playfulness and innocence - let them have their fun.
Yeah, and keep women under their thumb.
You see, there's a disturbing undercurrent of brutal sexism that's pretty fucking obvious, and all the more disturbing because it's hardly even mentioned - and I did do some scouring of the media online. In fact the first place I saw it mentioned was on a very recent comment on my blog by Cait from Australia. For all Chileans' talk about "We've got a woman president" and "we're progressive" and shit like that, it's events like Wena Naty and the twisted spectacle in the video above which are a much truer revelation of where this country is at: plus or minus a century behind the rest of the world.
IMHO: trying to have real, intelligent discourse about sexism in the context of Wena Naty would be just like getting on that stage and trying to make Cait's following comment:
BTW: Cait, if you were the annoying-ass MF going off about "gauntlet dropping" then you totally redeemed yourself :-)
UPDATE: Upon researching further I find that, of course, Chilean feminists sounding off like Cait did, awareness obviously isn't exclusively a privilege of the first world. That said, a still-cursory search of mine reveals not much else. Or at least that, en el blogosfero, female blogger of Zancada discusses morality while Leo Prieto of FayerWayer who I cited above turned it into an inane discussion of "who-ho-ho, watch out with all this craaazy technology, kids!"
On the networks I was actually pleasantly surprised that "experts" on the subject tried to downplay the severity, saying that these kids weren't being pornographic, it was just the Exhibitionism of Youth. Pleasantly surprised because, in a backwards country who's ruling class is largely made up of extremely rightist catholic cult Opus Dei installed during Pinochet's military dictatorship, you'd expect 13th century rigidity. But while their liberalism was impressive the whole sexism thing seemed to have completely slipped their minds.
So alas, while I could be wrong, it does seem that in much of the media, opinions about the SEXISM involved in Wena Naty the delimited to el rincón femenista no más, those crazy bitches...
UPDATE 2: i think there was a reason I was avoiding posting about this - there's so much material to sift through but tip of the hat to La Nacion for mentioning that "misogyny on the Net" could actually be a possibility and questioning why the boys weren't punished.
Why did Wena Naty? Wait, what was Wena Naty? Basically a 14-year old girl got filmed on a cell phone giving a blowjob and the video got circulating around the schoolyard (and by schoolyard I mean Republic of Chile) and she got embarrassed and expelled from school (although she hasn't yet been deported).
"Wena" is the orthographic shorthand for "Buena" and "Wena Naty" were the words of pleasure exclaimed by the dude - the fact that he got a blowjob is wild enough, but then he goes and says, "Wena Naty" - Ha! Man, I am just ROFLMAO.
Not just me, the entire country was catapulted into a sustained bout of uproarious tittering, media frenzy, over two dozen videos on YouTube. Now I present to you a particularly asinine example of, believe it or not, adults cheering on other adults in a vaudevillian demonstration of fellatio - I'm sorry but the crowd's enthusiasm can only be attributed to the thrill of discovery that the sexual practice exists. (Leo Prieto does provide a link to the definition of the word "fellatio" when writing to his countrymen). A nation of fucking 14-year-olds, for Christ's sake.
Chile, just fucking grow up. If I was 13 Wena Naty would be hella funny too. But okay. Maybe you've got a different sense of humor and maybe I'm being insensitive to the fact that Chile is a pasture of playfulness and innocence - let them have their fun.
Yeah, and keep women under their thumb.
You see, there's a disturbing undercurrent of brutal sexism that's pretty fucking obvious, and all the more disturbing because it's hardly even mentioned - and I did do some scouring of the media online. In fact the first place I saw it mentioned was on a very recent comment on my blog by Cait from Australia. For all Chileans' talk about "We've got a woman president" and "we're progressive" and shit like that, it's events like Wena Naty and the twisted spectacle in the video above which are a much truer revelation of where this country is at: plus or minus a century behind the rest of the world.
IMHO: trying to have real, intelligent discourse about sexism in the context of Wena Naty would be just like getting on that stage and trying to make Cait's following comment:
personally I think it says alot about machismo and a total lack of social and sexual development in Chile, but hey thats me. I find it pretty sick that the whole thing turned into a Youtube phenomenon for a wide variety of demographics, not just horny teenagers, that there are people out there that have a Wena Naty ringtone, and that so far, absolutely nothing has happened to any of the boys involved...What? You mean that Wena Naty could possibly have something to do with women's rights?
rather than demonising the girls as sluts who deserve whatever bad publicity they get because they are obviously willing and immoral 'maracas', someone should bring those boys into line so they dont think that they can continue to do whatever they want to women and get away with it.I sincerely hope the boys involved in the Australian incident get packed off to juvey, which is exactly what should happen to those boys in Chile, if it werent such a mysoginistic,sexually backward society. If I were that girl's parents I would also sue the shit out of the Elantro webmaster for leaving it up there for so long.
BTW: Cait, if you were the annoying-ass MF going off about "gauntlet dropping" then you totally redeemed yourself :-)
UPDATE: Upon researching further I find that, of course, Chilean feminists sounding off like Cait did, awareness obviously isn't exclusively a privilege of the first world. That said, a still-cursory search of mine reveals not much else. Or at least that, en el blogosfero, female blogger of Zancada discusses morality while Leo Prieto of FayerWayer who I cited above turned it into an inane discussion of "who-ho-ho, watch out with all this craaazy technology, kids!"
On the networks I was actually pleasantly surprised that "experts" on the subject tried to downplay the severity, saying that these kids weren't being pornographic, it was just the Exhibitionism of Youth. Pleasantly surprised because, in a backwards country who's ruling class is largely made up of extremely rightist catholic cult Opus Dei installed during Pinochet's military dictatorship, you'd expect 13th century rigidity. But while their liberalism was impressive the whole sexism thing seemed to have completely slipped their minds.
So alas, while I could be wrong, it does seem that in much of the media, opinions about the SEXISM involved in Wena Naty the delimited to el rincón femenista no más, those crazy bitches...
UPDATE 2: i think there was a reason I was avoiding posting about this - there's so much material to sift through but tip of the hat to La Nacion for mentioning that "misogyny on the Net" could actually be a possibility and questioning why the boys weren't punished.
posted by Chileno @ 9:06 PM
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Hadn't heard about Wena Naty until now so please pardon my ignorance-- I don't suppose any sort of administrative action was taken against the recipient of the blowjob similar to the girl? No, nevermind I asked...
Sexism, misogyny, boys vs. girls... Latin America seems renowned for their ill-treatment of women across the board but it always just seems like a more brazen and overt form than what exists everywhere... I'd wager that the relationship between gender in the states has achieved that same level of submerged, deeply rooted fuckedness that the relationship between races enjoys... Everyone's equal and treated as such because there's no laws keeping women or blacks from voting, no laws segregating restaurants, no more lynchings... Yeah, right...
Anyways, I hope that the stigma doesn't haunt the girl's life forever... I know that the kids grow up so fast these days but I don't think it should mean they can ruin themselves before they're out of highschool...
I watched a couple local TV reports uploaded on YouTube and it at the time of broadcast it was the administration's consensus that the boys weren't from their school, but they did what they could do by expelling the girl.
And yes, Keith, as John Lennon said "Woman is the Nigger of the World".
I think in many ways there's a lot more consciousness about race issues than womens'. I read a great essay - unfortunately not online - about the OJ Simpson trial , where they said that, regardless of the color of the jurors' skin, it was a lot more plausible to the jury that a racist court would lynch a black man, than that a man who had openly joked about beating his wife might end up stabbing her to death.
Why?
Because the Lynching is a now-archetypal part of America's historical consciousness, while women simply don't have an analogous image, there's less awareness of the intrinsic chauvinism that degrades them on a daily basis.
Woman is the Nigger of the World.
There is progress being made and despite my harsh words in the post above I think there is a lot of good intention in Chile, Femicide is now an official crime, like a hate crime. Still, the Wena Naty phenomenon shows deep-rooted tendency to bash women in Chile, that Chilean feminists protest as well.
You take pleasure in critizising Chile as a backwards, conservative, third-world country, "a century behind the rest of the world," for creating a national scandal out of a school sex video. Yet, in your own country, the United States, a simple breast exposure during a televised performance at the Super Bowl, was turned into a far bigger scandal, in a country much larger and diverse than Chile.
You should really be a little more thoughtful in your posts, because your continuing belittlement of Chile is growing old.
Wish I understood Spanish to any degree but I think I gleaned a little from the site you've referenced... Glad that somewhere in the pit there's a spark of-- promise seems premature-- hope? Anger? Desperation? Maybe I should afford humanity the benefit of the doubt and stick with hope.
But you make a good point-- there is a historical consciousness for, at least, the treatment of black in America which is lacking when examining women. Rosie the Riveter and Sex and the City just seem like a minstrel show to me...
And I'd say Lennon had it right... Don't apologize for the harsh words-- it's a harsh situation...
Greg, you're the one who referenced the US, not me. When I said "the rest of the world" you assumed I was talking about the US. That's pretty insensitive and US-centric if you ask me.
I think the US is also far behind the rest of the world in terms of its juvenile media, and it's a crying shame. Still, the US is better off than Chile, and that's not saying much.
Yes, if I had a political blog at the time I was watching the congressional hearings with Viacomm, each congress person out-hypocriting the next about "family values" to satisfy a rigidly conservative base over 50% of whom haven't read a book since graduating high school - sure, but this blog ain't about that, it's about Chile and the distinctly Chilean infantility to the way Wena Naty stemmed from a schoolyard and became a national scandal (Janet Jackson's boob was displayed before the entire nation of adults. In the case of Wena Naty, high school tittering became the vanguard for a national giggle-fest. See the difference?)
Both US and Chile's major media were/are overly moralistic and sexist. Benefit to the US is that feminism is a lot more established and vocal, IMHO. If you read my post in its entirety you'll see that I go to -- if not great pains, some effort -- to give a sampling of the media that I can find online. I found only one feminist directly critiquing the sexism, and a tepid-at-best mention in La Nacion of the "misogynist Web" or something totally unindicting like that.
Greg, if you wanna really contribute to the discussion rather than just bitch, why don't you go out and find evidence of the strong current of feminist outcry in Chile stemming from Wena Naty, and prove that it was equally strong to the feminist outcry over Janet Jackson, because until you can do that you can't prove the basic thrust of my post wrong: that Chile is less advanced than the "rest of the world" (which to you is the US), in terms of womens' rights.
Well...I don't think Chile is "less advanced than the rest of the world" beacause it realy IS NOT like that, but what is true is that here in Chile society really needs to "overcome" this lack of respect to women in sex themes like this. I've seen a few days ago in TV that the boy who filmed this video was condemned (I mean in court) because of distributing child pornographic material (notice that there was just a 14 year-old girl), don't know what was the sentense but sounds like a progress. It was very critiziced, before that, the inmunity given to those boys among the public opinion and the mass media. I don't think anyway that this occurs just in Chile but all over the world, this is not a "third world" problem, the "object view" of women happend in Chile as in the US as in Japan... just think (if your'e men) in your fantacies, I don't really think is a love-and-tender-based scene. This is a men-written history! Just in this century we are watching diferences on that. THE WHOLE WORLD has to grow up in this sense, not only Chile.
Anyhow, regards from Chile ;)
Thanks for your thoughtful comment and you're right. As I said, Woman is the Nigger of the World - not just Chile.
In terms of "less advanced than the rest of the world" - I had actually meant to post another comment to Greg and clarify that I'm generally talking about the first world, when saying Chile is behind. That's been a pretty consistent narrative of mine on this blog: while Chile aspires to be like Europeans and North Americans, or claim that is is developed in a first world kinda way, I point out where it's not.
If Clare comes on and berates me for calling Chile "third world", and points out that Chile's HDI is good, I respond by saying, yeah, sure - it's got the planet's worst inequality, according to the World Bank's GINI coefficient.
In the spirit of constructive criticism I would love it if Chile were more first world - for the sake of its workers and its poor. But it's not and I'll continue pointing that out, especially because there's such a strong and insidious tendency in major media to gloss-over the truth.
I think it's great that those boys finally got punished, thanks for the update. That is good, obviously.
But if Chile really wants to consider itself advanced, it's gotta walk the walk. Don't whore out your media culture to the puerility of the US. The USA was the laughing stock of Europe during the Monica Lewinski trials. But at least the US has many areas of plurality and prestige to counteract its juvenile mainstream media. IMHO, Chile simply doesn't have that cultural counterweight to pull it through.
Perhaps Chile is a metaphor for Woman (US being Man). Chile has to work 10 times as hard to get half the recognition. Honestly, though, how could that hurt this country? Labor laws, human rights, anti-discrimination measures, self-criticism - personally, I'd like to see Chile start working as hard as the US.
Nice bit of disinformation there, graphic_hunter. The guy who got punished was the one who uploaded the video to a very popular Chilean website, and he was not even from Santiago. We haven't yet heard from the guys who filmed it or even from the guy receiving the BJ.
Can you please provide a link to this World Bank Gini coefficient list you keep mentioning again and again? I find it hard to believe Chile is worst off than Brazil or Bolivia, as you have claimed on numerous occasions.
Here you go:
De acuerdo con los Indicadores de Desarrollo Mundial 2005 del Banco Mundial, entre 124 naciones, Chile ocupaba el lugar decimosegundo entre los países más desiguales del mundo, compartiendo posiciones con Namibia y por debajo de países más pobres como Zimbabwe, Bolivia, Zambia, Nigeria y Malawi.
Look at what I found...
Gini Index, World Development Indicators 2005 (correctly cited by Claude and you):
1. Namibia 70.7 (1993)
2. Lesotho 63.2 (1995)
3. Botswana 63.0 (1993)
4. Sierra Leone 62.9 (1989)
5. Central African Republic 61.3 (1993)
6. Swaziland 60.9 (1994)
7. Guatemala 59.9 (2000)
8. Brazil 59.3 (2001)
9. Paraguay 57.8 (2002)
10. South Africa 57.8 (2000)
11. Colombia 57.6 (1999)
12. Chile 57.1 (2000)
...
35. Bolivia 44.7 (1999)
But look at what happens with Bolivia in the 2006 report:
1. Namibia 74.3 (1993)
2. Lesotho 63.2 (1995)
3. Botswana 63.0 (1993)
4. Sierra Leone 62.9 (1989)
5. Central African Republic 61.3 (1993)
6. Swaziland 60.9 (1994)
7. Bolivia 60.1 (2002)
8. Haiti 59.2 (2001)
9. Colombia 58.6 (2003)
10. Brazil 58.0 (2003)
11. Paraguay 57.8 (2002)
12. South Africa 57.8 (2000)
13. Chile 57.1 (2000)
Now Chile's Gini index for 2006 is 54, so it should come down to around #17 on the list now. Still awesomely bad, but definitely not above Bolivia or Brazil.
I voted for you...and wrote a review.
This post and commentary was an example.
peace.
There has always been a fair share of nubile 13-year-old Chilenitas engaging in that sort of behaviour. Back in the pre-historic era (of the early 1990's) of no cellphones with built in cameras; many of these promiscous girls would just be labeled "las hermanitas sexo". Aptly translated to "the sex sisters" which probably stigmatized them and boxed them in for a long time, until people eventually dropped it. The only crime here is that this girl was caught on "tape". The current international cultural climate, like Chile at large, is obviously fascinated with the delinquent and slutty sorority sisters. The mainstream press is using someone'$ misfortune and to tap into the pedophilic tendencie$ of Chilean men.
I apologize for the belated comment, but it's so nice to know that so many years after dating you, you are spreading the feminist word.
Thanks Chileno. Keep up the great work old friend. you rock.
'Sheiva...'
...gotta be more specific. I've tapped so many bitches hard to keep track but sure thing babe I'll rock on.
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