Rolling 'this is sexist' thread

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.

there was some other segment on Inside Amy Schumer where she was doing street interviews and made some asian guys = small dicks joke, I don't see it online tho

there's tons of this stuff in her material and unlike w Sarah Silverman, the jokes aren't about how racist she's being, they're about how real and funny racial stereotypes are. which, when they're being perpetuated by a white woman, they aren't.

xp

that's pretty disappointing; that video linked is typical racist comedian shit

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

― Οὖτις, Thursday, February 12, 2015 6:42 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My eyebrow started down, but by the end it was on its feet

GOP keepin it REAL: http://www.salon.com/2015/02/13/gop_lawmaker_calls_women_a_lesser_cut_of_meat/

The irony of all of Wells's dumbshit kvetching is that Apatow, who is one of those "schlumpies & dumpies" is married to Leslie Mann, who is a stone-cold fox.

Rogen's wife is a looker as well.

In the comments on the second Wells piece, a reader points out that he isn't being sexist because he's being equally critical about less attractive male stars. Which is all well and good, but (A) It started with a less than enlightened set of comments he made about Schumer, and (B) if this isn't as a whole defined as 'sexist', the shoe certainly fits for 'shallow' to the degree that a sample spoon from Baskin Robbins is at a Grand Canyon-level of depth in comparison to Mr. Wells.

Yeah, that.

Also, isn't/wasn't Schumer dating Anthony Jeselnik? I mean, he's no Jeff Wells but

http://www.quotessays.com/images/anthony-jeselnik-6.jpg

Wells says 'I'm Sorry': http://www.hollywood-elsewhere.com/2015/02/sorrow-uncorks-everything/#more-63213

I know I’m not thinking wrong but I’m probably saying it wrong from time to time.

no you are thinking wrong

"I don’t want to drag the late, magisterial David Carr into this but his passing last night shocked me right down to the marrow of my bones, and we all know how great sadnesses have a way of re-ordering our thinking and opening our minds a crack..."

o_0

and also saying it wrong

just watched the second episode of Amy Schumer's show. she has funny skits that I'd like to keep watching, but it came to a crash with the end bit where she talks about how she used to date primarily Hispanic men and was hence into nonconsensual sex... followed by the "hey, everyone's been a little raped" routine. just thinking oh for fuck's sake, you're one of those, sigh

Relatively small potatoes in the scheme of things, but for some reason, despite the obvious demographics of the collector fanbase, Star Wars licensees still insist on gendering toys and limiting the number of female characthers. When called on it, Hasbro answers in remarkably stupid fashion: http://toybox.io9.com/hasbro-flounders-when-asked-about-the-lack-of-female-st-1686572897

The reporting on these teenage jihadists has a hint of the "they need extra protection because they're girls" about it.