The English language animalizes and naturalizes women in cultural contexts where women and nonhuman animals are already viewed as inferior to men and male-identified culture.
Set in 1939 in occupied China, the story concerns Sakura Nishi (Ayako Wakao), a young Army nurse at a field hospital in Tientsin, who is raped on her first night of rounds by Private Sakamoto, one of many soldiers shown to be animalized by the certain death that awaits them.
A cartoon Jay-Z, made to look like a Sambo-era, animalized pickaninny, traipses through Brooklyn.
He considers how the animalizing of Jews facilitated the Holocaust, looking, as he does so, at reflections on "the construction of the Jew-Animal" by Jews who were in occupied Europe at the time of the Final Solution — Primo Levi, Jiri Weil, Gertrud Kolmar, among others.
Almost all of them sport scary stylized masks, ranging from the animalized to the surreal (like Coco Rojo's futuristic punk-rock-clown design).
Without questioning either, one may still regard his music as toxic, whether it does its animalizing work at Nazi rallies, in school auditoriums, at rock concerts, in films, in the soundtracks that accompany commercials or in Avery Fisher Hall.
In these examples, the exploitations of nature and animals are justified by feminizing (not masculinizing) them; the exploitation of women is justified by animalizing (not humanizing) and naturalizing (not "culturizing") women.
Human subjectivity has been masculinized, while human flesh is both feminized and animalized.
