Erotic CPR videos at police training course cause outrage
March 5, 2014 by admin
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LINGERIE-CLAD models are being used to teach police emergency first-aid, leading to calls for an explanation from interior minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz.
The series of videos feature models, in only underwear and high-heels, giving each other mouth-to-mouth and chest massage manoeuvres.
A second video shows a man, again only wearing underwear, performing thrusting movements behind a woman as he demonstrates the Heimlich manoeuvre.
A female officer filed a complaint against the ‘sexist’ videos used in the police training course, calling them ‘denigrating and humiliating’.
The town hall in Jaca, in the far north-eastern region of Aragon, helped organise the training course for local officers but denied responsibility for the videos, saying that the police contracted out the teaching of the course to a private firm.
The National Police and the local town hall have apologised for allowing the use of the ‘inappropriate’ material.
Officials said the motivation behind choosing the videos was to use ‘humour’ to make the teaching more interesting.
The secretary general for equality of the regional Chunta Aragonesista party, Leticia Crespo, said that it is ‘nauseating’ that this ‘sexist’ content had been paid for with public money.
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J Molitor
March 4th, 2014
12:32 pm
Decision maker’s choice was – how do you spell D U M B!??
Does the Spanish Government have SOME ability to rid itself of such “out of touch” staff??! If NOT, voters elect better.
stefanjo
March 4th, 2014
2:32 pm
J.Molitor: “Elect someone better” Who would you suggest?
Bluemoon
March 4th, 2014
2:44 pm
Just one question……WHY!!!!
the underwear? 
dan glibballs
March 4th, 2014
4:48 pm
They showed this video on the Spanish TV news over a week ago. It certainly grabbed my attention and I vividly remember every life saving move they showed.
stefanjo
March 4th, 2014
5:43 pm
Bluemoon: Would you have preferred it without?
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High heels are holding women back in business
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Sex and the City’s Kristin Davis is the latest high profile figure to turn her back on stiletto servitude. Earlier this week she apologised for encouraging women to wear high heels, telling the Sunday Telegraph: “I do feel guilt about the heels. It did seem we were trying to say to women, ‘You should be wearing heels like these’. But we definitely weren’t. Were they beautiful shoes? Yes. Were they appropriate for the characters? Yes, that’s what women like that wear. But it became a bigger picture thing, where it seemed women should be wearing them every day.”
Squeezing our feet into these fashion bastilles can lead to irreparable damage. High heels force our spine and hips out of alignment, they pile pressure on our fragile knee joints, they cause abnormality in the heels (the gruesome sounding affliction ‘Haglund’s deformity’) as well as inflaming tissue on the soles of the feet and shortening muscles. Up to a third of women suffer permanent problems as a result of wearing high heels. Sarah Jessica Parker recently admitted going to a foot doctor who told her “‘your foot does things it shouldn’t be able to. That bone there – you’ve created that bone. It doesn’t belong there’.”
We are told sliding into high heels makes us feel powerful, taller, stylish, and more feminine. Manolo Blahnik has said that heels “makes life more exciting.. it’s about elegance…If you are a woman, it’s a way to appeal to the male species, it’s a way to attract.” Christian Louboutin even told us that high heels put ourselves into “an orgasmic position.” Even scientists have set out to prove that high heels make us look sexier.
Historically it was never so, but for generations now, high heels have been associated with eroticism. This form of footwear has moved from being a fetish into a fashion item and now high heels are practically an obligation for some working women. It is this that is most worrying, and has the potential to do the exact opposite of what retailers promise when they sell us their tall tales. This consumerist construct has teetered so far into la-la land that women are now choosing to wear high heels for interviews, believing heels make them look “business like”, well-presented and competent. Some bosses even expect us to wear heels, as a TUC report highlighted. But the truth is, we’re crippling ourselves. Plus there’s nothing well-put together about trotting ten paces behind your male colleague to make it to a meeting on time. Or having your handbags stuffed with a pair of flats instead of a laptop. It’s concerning that our daughters are copying us too, with one primary school in Inverness reporting that children as young as eight were turning up to class in high heels.
Today, high heels are one of the only items of clothing (excluding lingerie) made exclusively for women. There is nothing empowering about that. Let’s get men to look us in the eye because they respect us, not because we’re in six inch heels.