Rolling 'this is sexist' thread

I had a housemate once who was really into these radio jocks called Opie and Anthony who had some thing apparently called "Whip Em Out Wednesdays" ("WOW"). People would put the WOW stickers on their cars and shit. He was a guy who literally bragged about his own girlfriend's "great tits." Once he took her to see Opie and Anthony live and came back beaming with pride that they had somehow spotlighted his gf and pressured her into whippin' 'em out. She left him, not long after that incident, perhaps coincidentally.

*put the stickers on their cars, I should add, with the fantasy that female passers/drivers-by would see the sticker and oblige its command (on Wednesdays). It's hard to come up with a more grotesque image of perceived male privilege than that -- "I, trollish man, by virtue of putting this sticker on my car, am entitled to have women I don't know flash me one day per week. The world is my skinemax, every Wednesday."

I was riding my bike through downtown Boise on Mardi Gras once...this guy was trying to convince a woman to flash him for some beads. She reached up into her bra like she was going to flash him, and pulled out pepper spray and sprayed him in the face. Everyone in the balcony bar above clapped and cheered. It was awesome.

I didn't know about the Opie and Anthony thing. ugh. Doug Bensons has a sideboob sunday hashtag on twitter, girls tweet him pics of their sideboob, it's super gross.

I was riding my bike through downtown Boise on Mardi Gras once...this guy was trying to convince a woman to flash him for some beads. She reached up into her bra like she was going to flash him, and pulled out pepper spray and sprayed him in the face. Everyone in the balcony bar above clapped and cheered. It was awesome.

― just like the one wing dove (Crabbits), Thursday, May 29, 2014 3:00 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg this is the best

*homage bow*

so great

Good piece from the jeopardy guy:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/27/your-princess-is-in-another-castle-misogyny-entitlement-and-nerds.html

http://i.imgur.com/inG4YIN.png

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/heres-the-context-to-an-unfortunate-chyron-that-appeared-on

what the hell xp

i like the faces in that pic. "well, it's true! *shrug*"

good piece of evidence for the "they are spewing hateful poison" hypothesis

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/06/09/3446557/washington-post-college-rape/

This and some of the responses to it are making me fantasize about murdering people.

good to see that Will has finally perfected typing out of his ass. hes just doubling down on what his readership loves more than anything - white male privilege. there needs to be a stronger word than hack

shithole?

ugh i got into a stupid twitter war with some random bro who works at the artie lange show fuck

(over this article that is)

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/WoW_zpsfa262d5b.jpg

because you know there are a few

and okay maybe not sexist, just ... off

Reminds me of the way a lot of Finnish men celebrate International Women's Day: by buying flowers for their wives/girlfriends/etc... Okay, maybe it's not sexist per se, but don't you think there'd be better ways to honor the day dedicated to gender equality?

That's fairly common across the world. IWD has its roots primarily in socialist countries where "gender equality" was supposedly enshrined in the culture so the emphasis was on expressing appreciation rather than activism. It's slowly moving back the other way so it'll be interesting to how the concept develops over the next couple of years.

She's my woman of worth. A low mileage 1982 model.

Some good lolz under the #womenaretoohardtoanimate hashtag on Twitter. Backstory here: http://www.cnet.com/news/ubisoft-nixes-female-avatars-in-assassins-creed-unity/

xp low mileage, low self-esteem, everything I look for in a woman

I was riding my bike through downtown Boise on Mardi Gras once...this guy was trying to convince a woman to flash him for some beads. She reached up into her bra like she was going to flash him, and pulled out pepper spray and sprayed him in the face. Everyone in the balcony bar above clapped and cheered. It was awesome.

― just like the one wing dove (Crabbits), Thursday, May 29, 2014 3:00 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:D salute

LL, believe it or not this has been running through my mind a lot in the past few days, like it really made me *get* something about ogling, the male gaze, etc. that I didn't completely internalize before

― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Monday, May 19, 2014 4:18 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

I'm just catching up on all of this thread/mess from yesterday, but I'm glad to hear this! Posting personal history deets like that is really not something I tend to do (or enjoy), but I have been thinking about those years a lot, and I'm glad my experience was useful to someone apart from myself.

what the fuck:http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/11/10/for-women-in-tech-egg-freezing-parties-are-new-post-work-event/

what the hell

http://youtu.be/otggT0Mqi38

"AXA US Television Commercial - Retirement"

http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/11/10/for-women-in-tech-egg-freezing-parties-are-new-post-work-event-lol-sike-no-they-are-not/

is that about egg sikes in journalism?

“This is what an egg looks like,” Eyvazzadeh said, referring to a photo of a human egg

not really sure where to put this, nor can remember if it's been discussed:

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120450/sabrina-rubin-erdelys-uva-gang-rape-reporting-raises-questions

not too surprising that it's become an article of faith on the right that the whole thing is made up

i'm not really up for discussing this myself

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/a-note-to-our-readers-20141205

uhoh

apparently they're stepping back from the story bc of this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/u-va-fraternity-to-rebut-claims-of-gang-rape-in-rolling-stone/2014/12/05/5fa5f7d2-7c91-11e4-84d4-7c896b90abdc_story.html

this doesn't seem like the right thread for this...?

Jeffrey Wells, he has opinions and more opinions about Amy Schumer's appearance and the concept of "Schlumpies & Dumpies"

I grew up in a world in which conventionally attractive or semi-attractive people used to be the ones who got laid the most often. Trust me — I used to do quite well at the Westport Players Tavern in the mid to late ’70s, and I had a good sense of what worked and what didn’t.

Well, yeah.

gross

otoh Amy Schumer is horrible

I really, really hope her Apatow movie bombs so we aren't faced with the prospect of seeing her forced into 10 movies a year for the next decade.

^^^

her fast food parody of the west wing/newsroom was pretty amazing

who the fuck is jeffrey wells?

Schumer is A+ but i am sad she is in apatown

she thinks its funny/ok/cool to make racist asian jokes ergo she's dead to me

What are her racist asian jokes I think I missed them

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/p87njw/stand-up-amy-schumer--can-t-win

who the fuck is jeffrey wells?

― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, February 13, 2015 9:20 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jeffrey wells is a 2015 tastemaker whose findings have been derived from self-serving memories of his heyday as a flannel-shirt-wearing wolf frequenting the westport players tavern in the mid to late '70s.