Rolling 'this is sexist' thread

I gotta break myself of the phrase 'That's fair,' ugh.

https://twitter.com/#!/shanley/status/182878421133705217

now, this is just ugly

like, what are they hoping for by trying to get a bunch of people together to do this?
"hey everyone, come here so we can throw rocks at this complaining woman. or feminists, show up to throw rocks at us. we'll be there!"

is there a place to watch the video?

imagine a tech company logo on the front panel of a scantily clad lady's underpants... forever

xp Yeah that's just weird. I don't really want to defend either of these people, haha. I just want to send the world to Lex's Finishing School of Grace and Respectability. My Grandma was my professor. I still don't wear navy & black together, either.

Wow, that exchange mh just posted is... wtf? Don't advertise a meeting that you haven't actually arranged and then suggest the person not going is the one being nasty about it. What a major-league douche.

http://kottke.org/07/02/gender-diversity-at-web-conferences

guuuh

this company looks like it's made of bubble and refined bubble btw: http://geekli.st/about

apology: http://gklst.tumblr.com/post/19734620901/geeklist-and-a-public-apology

oh n/m already posted

that derailingfordummies link is great, and giving me cause to take an uncomfortable inventory

not even refined bubble. fumes emitted from the bubble refinery.

and apparently more of the same from the tech world: http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2012/03/how-casual-sexism-put-sqoot-in.php

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/04/ryan-gosling-actually-historys-greatest-monster.html

I don't really know how to respond to this

Discussed / LOL'd at this a bit on the Guardian thread because I didn't know where else to put it.

I haven't read the clusterfuck that I'm sure the comments will be, but on my first reading of the NYMag article, having read first the palaver, then Laurie Penny's ridiculous Gawker article...

I'm the first person to cry "sexism" in any situation where I detect even a sniff of it, but my reaction was: actually, not sexist. Hilarious.

That is: that I don't think that it's Penny's gender that caused the clusterfuck, but the things she wrote and the attitudes she seemed to take. I'm sure that she may receive a greater and more pointed *beatdown* for it, but the opprobrium is not due to her gender, but the fact that she behaved in a kind of a ridiculous and cliched manner. But, like, that's actually what some of us like LOLrie Penny for?

anti-Semetic tbh

ah okay, I have no idea who laurie penny and didn't read the gawker article beyond what was excerpted xp

must be seen to be believed

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4065/4288631655_dde22a9f17_z.jpg

the comments on some of those pages can be even more fucked up, given the half-century gap

girl watcher mag is pretty klassik honestly

Congratulations, you found a sexist thing. Try a slightly smaller target next time, maybe?

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2530/4297737231_4661076c6c_z.jpg

still don't believe it

poll thread:

• LETTERS TO GIRL WATCHER
• THE GIRL WATCHER'S ALMANAC
• My Favorite Girl for Watching: THE KITTEN TYPE
• GIRL WATCHING AROUND THE WORLD
• GIRL WATCHER'S GUIDE TO PARIS
• STALKING THE GIRL
• THE GIRL NEXT DOOR
• COLLECTING PRETTY GIRLS
• A GIRL WATCHER ESCAPES
• LOVE GODDESS DEPARTMENT
• GIRLS WHO WANNA BE WATCHED
• ANSWERS TO GIRL WATCHING PROBLEMS
• THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER
• STRAWBERRY BIRTHMARK DEPT.
• THE PEEGEE GIRLS
• HIP FLIPPERS, ETC.
• GIRL ON A HORSE

girl watcher mag is pretty klassik honestly

if you say so champ

^not a taschen fan i see

I'm more of a Jaybird fan

Uh huh

not really sure what's unbelievable about this tbh

largely hyperbole, no need to dwell on it

could just have easily titled the link THIS IS SEXIST

this is straining my credulity a little, tbh

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

your credulity pants

http://www.thenation.com/blog/167402/how-gender-identity-may-determine-right-vote-2012

"This is, by any measure, the portion of the electorate that is among the most marginalized and stigmatized, and hence probably most in need of the right to have a say in who governs their lives. But discussions on both sides of voter ID laws tend to leave out transgender citizens in discussions about who would be most adversely impacted."

Is this homophobic?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-rFo6DDwss

@ :25

i swear to god i just saw a slightly different version of this where the guy does a little limp-wristed gesture at the two women at the end

Not unless "steamer" is some derogatory thing I'm not getting imo

^never been to cleveland

ha it really was the version i saw that was too much. i don't think he was even holding the mug making it clear he was a cat person

Should we start a "this is/is this homophobic" thread?

This is sexist: http://jezebel.com/5911226/republican-dudes-wont-let-dcs-female-delegate-speak-against-abortion-ban-in-the-district

I just... boggle, at shit like that. I dont know what else to say.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/06/im-not-your-wife-a-new-study-points-to-a-hidden-form-of-sexism/258057/

The anecdotes at the beginning are so o_O and you can just imagine some old business-looking dude in a suit mindlessly saying them

What's wrong w being sexy?

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwnykb7bpO1r8q40po1_500.jpg

the thug seems to have NOB tattooed on his chest

what is this I don't even

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/07/03/510454/gop-state-senator-will-teach-brooklyn-women-to-act-like-ladies/

Women of Brooklyn, New York, State Senator Marty Golden (R) wants to turn you into proper ladies fit for employment.

As part of a summer series on career development directed at his female constituents, Golden is hosting a taxpayer-funded event called “Posture, Deportment and the Feminine Presence” on July 24. Golden promises to teach Bay Ridge women “the art of feminine presence,” which includes tips on how to “sit, stand and walk like a model” and “walk up and down a stair elegantly”:

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Google-ChromeScreenSnapz038.png

Golden defended the workshop as simply a way to help women get jobs in a tough market. Countering this justification, State Sen. Liz Krueger (D-Manhattan) told City & State:

“Rather than passing legislation such as the Fair Pay Act to assist women in the workplace, the Senate Republicans appear to be offering career advice on posture and how to act feminine,” said Krueger, who hosted the Senate Democrats’ forum on issues affecting women in the workplace in May. “Perhaps this would be appropriate on Mad Men, but not in New York in the 21st century.“

Golden was the only Brooklyn senator to vote against New York’s same-sex marriage law.

Update

Golden’s website has deleted the above quotes from the event page.

from the article mh cited two weeks back:

"We found that employed husbands in traditional marriages, compared to those in modern marriages, tend to (a) view the presence of women in the workplace unfavorably, (b) perceive that organizations with higher numbers of female employees are operating less smoothly, (c) find organizations with female leaders as relatively unattractive, and (d) deny, more frequently, qualified female employees opportunities for promotion."

The studies showed that personal views and the domestic architecture of male leaders' private lives helped shape women's professional opportunities. This held true in both surveys and lab experiments, including one that tested whether candidates with identical backgrounds, but different names -- Drew versus Diane -- should receive a spot in a sought-after, company-sponsored MBA program. According to the research, men in traditional marriages gave Diane "significantly poor evaluations" compared to Drew. It seems that husbands with wives working at home imprinted that ideal onto women in the office.

I just want to rant a little about "manic pixie dream girl," first described by the yucky Nathan Rabin, and subject of this much yuckier video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBNss2PMj60

"The cause of the manic pixie dream girl is still little understood. Although my own theory is severe retardation of the brain."
Like I could say a lot of shit about this but I'm just going to say it's pesky. All those movies where they magic some creative type out of a funk, sure, it's played ººº but extending it to IRL I guess anyone with bangs and glasses is just too precious (=stupid?) to go on?

I mean I certainly don't believe that but it's the thesis of this video.