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Originally Posted by Yirrk
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.... |
Well, allow me a moment of off-topic.
For decades, maybe even centuries, men pretty much ruled the roost, so to speak. And not only men, but European, WASP men.
It was considered not only OK, but politically correct to make fun of various ethnic groups and people who were different, therefore inferior, and to make fun of women.
Throughout the early days of film and television you could find all sorts of derogatory examples of such. Some time in the sixties, a lot of people started standing up to that and saying, "We will not stand for that, any longer." Conscience was raised, and we became a bit more sensitive to such things.
The sex thing seems to have taken longer that any of the others, and men still seem to want to treat women is such a way.
in recent decades, the backlash to this has created an environment where it is now politically correct to show the women as more superior, in some sort of atonement, I think for all those stupid women things we did for so long.
The real problem is that anyone feels the need to degrade any other group to find humor and feel good about themselves.
My favorite humorists have always been the ones that find the humor in their own foibles, rather than those of others.
The latest trends in humor have me puzzled, and sometimes worried about our future as a civilization.