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In reply to the discussion: You saw their boobs? Now go fuck yourself. [View all]Fearless
(18,458 posts)Yes, it's childish. The entire notion of it is childish. But the definition of misogynistic is literally "having or showing a hatred and distrust of women". Clearly that did not happen in the skit. Seeing women as sexual objects is not misogynistic. There is a false dicotomy drawn between two kinds of sexualization of women. One which is belittling and one which is not. That is more the issue here.
In one case you have a man, who is clearly portrayed as superior to women in every way, and the "ditzy" or "naive" women who clearly depends on the man for everything because they are so emptiheaded that they're helpless and live only to serve man.
In the other case you don't have that. You have a guy who is giggling over a woman's chest. Just the same as women and girls giggle over certain bits of male anatomy.
To say that the skit was in the first category is to give Seth MacFarlane power over women or to assume that he has such power. He doesn't. Likewise these women are strong, empowered individuals, not emtpiheaded stereotypes. Certainly there will be those who giggle right along because they see women as inferior but a vast majority of people who giggle will do so because of the word "boobies", the ridiculousness of the skit, and the childlike, puritanical notion that sex is somehow wrong or hush-hush and therefore starting at "booobs" is naughty. The fact is that it's not naughty. It's sexual. And sex is both empowering and natural.
Is Seth MacFarlane being ridiculous, of course, but is he a misogynistic bigot? No. Definitely not. He's poking fun at a social taboo.