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In reply to the discussion: From Jezebel: Sexism Fatigue... [View all]redqueen
(115,186 posts)15. I love the excerpts she shared. Not sure how anyone could read this stuff and still think
that this is all meaningless.
From the Vulture:
Seth MacFarlane made a whole bunch of sexist, reductive jokes at the Oscars last night. It's frustrating enough to know that 77 percent of Academy voters are male. Or to watch 30 men and 9 women collect awards last night. But MacFarlane's boob song, the needless sexualization of a little girl, and the relentless commentary about how women look reinforced, over and over, that women somehow don't belong. They matter only insofar as they are beautiful or naked,or preferably both. This wasn't an awards ceremony so much as a black-tie celebration of the straight white male gaze.
And from Salon:
Johansson isn't even on MacFarlane'slist for a film she made. Instead, she made her way into the song because of a real-life invasion of privacy, where her nude photos were stolen from her phone and leaked to the Internet. That is an actual, not fictional violation, and MacFarlane played it for laughs.
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"39 female senators in the nation's entire history, and 20 of them are serving right now"
redqueen
Feb 2013
#3
+ a bajillion. that type of man doesn't see women as having any validity.
BlancheSplanchnik
Feb 2013
#58
I love the excerpts she shared. Not sure how anyone could read this stuff and still think
redqueen
Feb 2013
#15
And a handful of people here are laboring under the delusion that he is being ironic.
redqueen
Feb 2013
#49
I don't think they're saying that everything is ok, but rather, that both are wrong.
OceanEcosystem
Feb 2013
#32
well said. There's an ad about toilet cleaning that is breathtaking....
BlancheSplanchnik
Feb 2013
#56
Yeah, some of those jokes referred to had me gaping, especially the Quvenzhané Wallis one.
KitSileya
Feb 2013
#43
"Asking people to think critically about some hacky jokes from a dancing cartoonist?"
Matariki
Feb 2013
#62