I haven't seen the video due to firewall limitations, but I wanted to point out the Double Standard I see not only in this debate but all over the real world.
Pisses me off royally that emails and jokes can be made about men being Stupid, or Slovenly, or Cretins, made fun of in numerous maligning degrading ways on television ads and Top Ten emails, but say the same stuff about women and oooo boy now the claws come out and it's
Unfair and
Chauvanistic and
Degrading to Womankind to reverse those jokes and attitudes to be about women.
How about the "funny" commercials showing "bungling stupid guy" doing something inept and the superior WOMAN rolls her eyes and says some belittling remark to her Girlfriend??
Reverse that to be about belittling the WOMAN, sending an "oh, how stupid and incompetent women are" message, and you get a Discrimination Lawsuit and the company gets picket lines in front of their building!
And notice the womens' slick comebacks are invariably "But it's FUNNY -- Ha HA!" or they adopt some superior stance and proclaim "It's true -women ARE better than men! So There!"
That is so much
WTF??
Men and women are simply different from the other in some ways. Neither sex is "better" than the other, so get the f*k over it... We all have strengths we can admire and weaknesses we can ridicule. It's a Two Way Street, or it should be anyway.
I just wanted to bring the Double Standard to your collective attention - THINK, Women, next time you see a TV dad being portrayed as an inept bungling fool. How would YOU like it?
Sorry to hijack the thread and all... I'm done now.
Back to the regularly scheduled programme....