Rolling 'this is sexist' thread

“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.

In terms of people running off to IS, that might be accurate

Recently, the CEO of our company hosted a webinar with a business partner of ours, in which she led a roundtable discussion with seven women who are the CEOs of PR companies. We had a blog post up promoting the event, and today I found a comment that was in the "pending queue," from a man who heads up a PR consulting operation. His comment was:

Wow! Is this someone’s idea of workplace diversity? Apparently there aren’t any guys running successful PR shops.
(Please save your flames and address the questions)

In 2015. Just a few days after a report was published noting that, among S&P 1500 companies, there are more CEOs named John or David than there are women, total.

http://assets.feministing.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Screen-Shot-2015-03-03-at-9.52.17-AM.png

is chaka khan a ceo now or wut lol

he needs to ask twitter when International Men's Day is OR IS THAT SEXIST?!?!
(It's Nov 19th)

see https://twitter.com/Herring1967 who has valiantly been putting people straight

Holy fuck those Jeffrey Wells blogs.... In what universe are Lena Dunham or Amy Schumer not "conventionally attractive"? Wells totally comes across as one of those whiny dudes who idolize "pickup artists" and fret over how alpha they are. In actuality, his every word oozes self-pity, lack of confidence, and general social ineptness - all the while spectacularly unaware that his unpopularity with women stems from his behavior and beliefs, not his looks.

I still can't believe I read this. http://jezebel.com/elementary-school-newsletter-shows-different-curriculum-1731540209

A newsletter sent to parents of grade school students in Texas showed very different curricula scheduled for the boys and girls. During a monthly class with the guidance counselor at Borchardt Elementary School, boys in the fourth and fifth grade would be learning about subjects pertaining to “college and career exploration.” What lessons were scheduled for the girls? “Girl Talk,” with subjects like “Confidence—How do we get it and can we have too much?” and “How to form lasting friendships.”

frisco, of course, pinche DFW

Julia Wertz has some thoughts: http://www.juliawertz.com/2015/10/05/on-sexual-harassment-and-public-discussion/

I was bummed when I saw the initial exchange on her twitter feed and didn't know what to say besides maybe apologizing on behalf of my gender but ugh

her site is up and down like crazy but it's worth a read on tumblr
http://juliawertz.tumblr.com/post/130623852724/on-sexual-harassment-and-public-discussion

i kinda don't want to take the creator of a book called FART PARTY seriously, but it's a solid article

welp, funny you should mention it
http://narrative.ly/stories/the-fart-party-really-stinks/

tl; dr: hard life, self-sabotaging, she kinda hates the title too.

She is a great cartoonist, her stuff is v funny

....so she gave up cartooning m/l to explore abandoned buildings? huh. ok. she sounds happier!

sort of. she returned to cartooning (in the NYer, among other things)

from FART PARTY to the New Yorker, what a world. good for her though. i do wonder what that Lizzy Kaplan TV series would've been like, also probably would have never watched it because of the title

Oh it would've been terrible

Just like a Joe Matt Peepshow show would've been terrible

For real? Am I missing something here, that you can read that piece, all about the harassment and abuse this woman has been facing, and your main takeaway and point of discussion is the title "Fart Party"? You don't think that's a bit of an odd priority?

I don't think that's anyone's main takeaway and point of discussion (though of course as Shakey says sometimes an article can be great and not lead to much discussion)?