Rolling 'this is sexist' thread

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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.

pesky sounds about right.

entire point of the stereotype is that it's a ridiculous reductive character type often written by men. using it as a stereotype for a real person makes no sense!

the sketch isn't about about actual people, though. it's a "what if?" gag that strands a common fantasy character type as a fish out of water in the real world. kind of like enchanted, but less forgiving. the point is that the fantasy is more irritating than charming, or would be in real life. unfortunately, it winds up being more sexist than trenchant, especially with that "severe retardation of the brain" bit at the end. shitty comedy is shitty.

P sure it's supposed to be about real coocoo ladies

I don't get all the Goldie Hawn hate.

xp

does drift in that direction at the end with the craft table conversation, which is just "lol, lib chicks say stupid shit"

prior to that it seemed to be mocking the fantasy

using it as a stereotype for a real person makes no sense!

I know an IRL mpdg. She's super manic -- super happy, skipping everywhere, singing to herself, etc. most of the time -- and then when something crosses her she switches in an instant to slamming doors, drama, etc. One weekend she spent all day blowing bubbles on the sidewalk, waiting for people to walk by and then in a fit of whimsy waving bubbles all around them. The weekend before that she set out sidewalk chalk and got all these strangers to draw on the sidewalk and on the road. She's an art student and doesn't have to pay rent and is living the outgoing eccentric pipe-dream.

It's annoying as hell most of the time, unless I'm in an extremely good mood, which I hardly am ever.

That's not a personality, that's a mental disorder or personality disorder!

It's annoying as hell most of the time, unless I'm in an extremely good mood, which I hardly am ever.

Guilty laugh that this p much nails my reaction to an absurdly large number of behavior.

I too have known some v mpdgish g's. Also otm re: Rabin; I was reading a bunch of those My Year of Flops and it was so horribly written! Like just super-obvious community college school paper arts section-quality "humor" but peppered with offensive throwaway jokes/generalizations

lol, one of the "related videos" on Abbbottt's link is Zooey D on Kimmel.

Anyway, some observations I've made on the MPDG's I've known that don't get translated into the movies:

• Some are lesbians. Always have been, always will be.
• They don't go after guys that are opposites in attempts to "change them". More often than not, they find a straight guy of similar inclination and lock them down to the degree of a common-law marriage with the odd case of eventual matrimony. Some of the most stable relationships I know involve these people.
• If they haven't done the above, they may latch on to a gay guy and go through many of the motions of a romantic relationship minus sex and such. I have a MPDG pal who just went through a breakup-esque episode because her "boyfriend" (who, might I add, is in a committed same-sex relationship) had to move far away for work.
• There are others that are just serious loners.

"real MPDG" sounds kind of like "real Stepin Fetchit"

wtf is happening here

just make something up and flip out about it

It's suddenly a slow time for sexism in America.

http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?t=123877

? buncha ppl complaining about automatic subscriber renewal on a dating site?

i was gonna link geek2geek but figured this was an easier way

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

undoubtedly sexist

how can a site as big as Buzzfeed get away with this?

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

This is like one of the biggest sites on the internet with like advertisers in like a legit, non-Chan/non-Reddit capacity right? Or do i have my understanding of Buzzfeed wrong?

I thought buzzfeed was mostly goofy videos and list articles?

fucking internet