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By: Men Misbehavin’: Pro Athletes « Young Women Misbehavin'

Men Misbehavin’: Pro Athletes « Young Women Misbehavin' — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:23:51 +0000

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By: espressodog

espressodog — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:55:57 +0000

Feminism is about supporting the equity of women with men not men with women. It has a blatantly pro-woman point of view. That is because men are the norm in our society and women are the exception. Until those ads of men being hit in the balls are used to suggest that men are inferior to women, I am not going to worry about them. Sure it sucks that advertisers use violence against anyone as a motivation to buy a product. But, that is not a feminist problem.

By: doug

doug — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:11:53 +0000

OK, maybe, just maybe, feminists should notice the routine anti-male sexual sadism in commercials and programming today. It was not very long ago that it was taboo to show men or women being sexually injured on TV. Now it is obligatory to have either commercials or programming show men being sexually injured as ‘humor’. I’m speaking of the Doritos ad, of course. I no longer wathc the super bowl because of such obligatory ‘humor’. Indeed the last time that I watched the super bowl was the famous Janet Jackson breast-exposing affair (while everyone seemed to ignore that Budweiser showed an ad with a dog sinking its teeth into a mans genitals). Until feminists start taking notice of such sadistic, anti-male content on TV, it is hard for me to view them as HUMAN rights/dignity advocates. Instead, I tend to view them as ONLY caring about half the human race.

By: nezua

nezua — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:55:18 +0000

i hear you. which is why i don't have TV programming. i'd be mad all damn day. the messages are nonstop and mostly disgusting. but i definitely appreciate deconstructing racial/sexist messages in media.it feels different when i watch for the purpose of deconstructing. but it's so offensive when you are trying to be entertained and it just smacks you. ugh. keep on!

By: A.Y. Siu

A.Y. Siu — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:52:10 +0000

Well, it was funny when I thought it was about “Look how silly these guys are for saying I’m good while getting pummeled.”

But when they said “Men can take anything,” I was like “WTF?” That makes no sense. So that’s what this commercial is supposed to be about? Stupid.

The commercial started off almost making fun of excessive machismo and then ended up reinforcing it.