TV show accused of'caption sex harassment'
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Fujita Sayuri from “Real Men: Women’s Army Special” / Screen capture from MBC
TV military reality show “Real Men: Women’s Army Special” is under criticism for captions mocking a male training officer’s buttocks.
The MBC program on Sunday showed the officer with 10 female celebrities who are military trainees. When he showed his posterior, the program highlighted the firmness of his buttocks, dubbing them “angry buttocks.”
Some trainees were seen talking about the buttocks.
Kim Hyun-sook from “Real Men: Women’s Army Special”
Actress Kim Hyun-sook and TV personality Fujita Sayuri said, that all they could see at that moment “was his buttocks ... which seemed to be hanging above our heads.”
The program’s official webpage was under fire, with netizens saying the episode sexually mocked the officer.
Some netizens said that if the officer had been a woman, the repercussions would have been much bigger.
The program previously drew fire for airing mosaic-pattern scenes of male celebrity trainees removing their underwear and taking a shower.