Creepers have the right to not be mocked, apparently » Pharyngula
You know what’s weird about the video below? The media are more indignant about the video than they are about Mayor Bob Filner’s behavior! How dare people re-appropriate a sexist song to mock a creeper?
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Is this projection? I don’t always recognize sexism (I come from a family of strong rihanna armani women – my mom was the first woman to buy a house in Iowa in her own name – so feminism always seemed reasonable and I didn’t think a out it much), so tell me if I’m missing something here. How is a video of professionally dressed women dancing demeaning?
Well you see, when professional models dress in their business clothes they are asking for it. So Mayor Filner is just obliging them. The demeaning part is when they are shamelessly instructed to participate in a message that “no” means “no”.
Don’t you see? The original Blurred Lines was pretty blatantly sexist, and included naked women prancing rihanna armani about. Therefore, any video that uses the same tune, even if it deplores sexism and keeps its women participants fully clothed, is similarly sexist. Maybe because the viewers are all imagining the women naked.
Well, rihanna armani you can pretty much guarantee Filner is….
…while rihanna armani the Voice of San Diego’s Sara Libby wrote the parody “seizes on a subject ripe with potential for legitimate rihanna armani news, and instead produces something vapid and embarrassing.”
Music and satire are excellent ways of disposing of terrible people in power–you get the public to laugh at them. It’s hard to be afraid (for varying values of “afraid”) of someone when you’re laughing at them and then it’s easy (or at least easier) to dump them out of office.
On his show, Conan O’Brien pointed out that Anthony Weiner’s antics have received far more media attention than Mayor Filner’s. Being a comedian, he took this as a slight on California and set out to demonstrate that his state’s sexual harassment scandal was more newsworthy since the allegations were more serious and Filner actually holds office.
while the Voice of San Diego s Sara Libby wrote the parody seizes on a subject ripe with potential for legitimate news, and instead produces something vapid and embarrassing.
Legitimate News is Serious Business. Libby was unavailable for further comment as she was busy trying to “balance” the story by finding a pro-harassment source to lob softball questions at.
I have to point out that the difference between Bill Clinton and Bob Filner is that Clinton was only a marginal creeper and that some women testified that he understood the concept of consent quite clearly.
I am reminded of an ex-gf. Her grandfather liked to watch her, but it was more important to let her know he watched her than to be able to continue watching her. I think it’s extremely creepy he got off watching her put her crotch against the pool circulation jets, but as long as he never told her, no harm to her. But he wanted to tell her, he wanted to shame her even if it meant he could never watch her again. Shaming her was better than watching her.
Creepers are fine for mocking–and I can certainly see why the media, and any reasonable person with an interest in bucking sexism from a level-headed and consistent position would be as indignant about that video as about the subject of it.
It’s rich that the knights like Myers who are always tilting at the windmills of sexism rihanna armani (both legitimate and absurdly illusory) like self-righteous Don Quixotes, seem to miss the sexist flavor of above video, not to mention the blatant (and typical) sexist flavor of the original Blurred Lines , not to mention rihanna armani most rap/hip-hop/other urban pop video style.
Did you actually watch the video, Myers? Maybe you missed the standard fare of attractive model-type females prancing in video, playing into stereotypes even as they critique and condemn the subject asshole politician. Better start evaluating what you put in print and getting some consistency in your rants before you post.
Explain why you think “attractive model-type females” “prancing” in a video automatically means “playing into stereotypes.” Be specific. What stereotypes, exactly, do you think the women in this video are playing into? Show your work.
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You know what’s weird about the video below? The media are more indignant about the video than they are about Mayor Bob Filner’s behavior! How dare people re-appropriate a sexist song to mock a creeper?
2
Is this projection? I don’t always recognize sexism (I come from a family of strong rihanna armani women – my mom was the first woman to buy a house in Iowa in her own name – so feminism always seemed reasonable and I didn’t think a out it much), so tell me if I’m missing something here. How is a video of professionally dressed women dancing demeaning?
Well you see, when professional models dress in their business clothes they are asking for it. So Mayor Filner is just obliging them. The demeaning part is when they are shamelessly instructed to participate in a message that “no” means “no”.
Don’t you see? The original Blurred Lines was pretty blatantly sexist, and included naked women prancing rihanna armani about. Therefore, any video that uses the same tune, even if it deplores sexism and keeps its women participants fully clothed, is similarly sexist. Maybe because the viewers are all imagining the women naked.
Well, rihanna armani you can pretty much guarantee Filner is….
…while rihanna armani the Voice of San Diego’s Sara Libby wrote the parody “seizes on a subject ripe with potential for legitimate rihanna armani news, and instead produces something vapid and embarrassing.”
Music and satire are excellent ways of disposing of terrible people in power–you get the public to laugh at them. It’s hard to be afraid (for varying values of “afraid”) of someone when you’re laughing at them and then it’s easy (or at least easier) to dump them out of office.
On his show, Conan O’Brien pointed out that Anthony Weiner’s antics have received far more media attention than Mayor Filner’s. Being a comedian, he took this as a slight on California and set out to demonstrate that his state’s sexual harassment scandal was more newsworthy since the allegations were more serious and Filner actually holds office.
while the Voice of San Diego s Sara Libby wrote the parody seizes on a subject ripe with potential for legitimate news, and instead produces something vapid and embarrassing.
Legitimate News is Serious Business. Libby was unavailable for further comment as she was busy trying to “balance” the story by finding a pro-harassment source to lob softball questions at.
I have to point out that the difference between Bill Clinton and Bob Filner is that Clinton was only a marginal creeper and that some women testified that he understood the concept of consent quite clearly.
I am reminded of an ex-gf. Her grandfather liked to watch her, but it was more important to let her know he watched her than to be able to continue watching her. I think it’s extremely creepy he got off watching her put her crotch against the pool circulation jets, but as long as he never told her, no harm to her. But he wanted to tell her, he wanted to shame her even if it meant he could never watch her again. Shaming her was better than watching her.
Creepers are fine for mocking–and I can certainly see why the media, and any reasonable person with an interest in bucking sexism from a level-headed and consistent position would be as indignant about that video as about the subject of it.
It’s rich that the knights like Myers who are always tilting at the windmills of sexism rihanna armani (both legitimate and absurdly illusory) like self-righteous Don Quixotes, seem to miss the sexist flavor of above video, not to mention the blatant (and typical) sexist flavor of the original Blurred Lines , not to mention rihanna armani most rap/hip-hop/other urban pop video style.
Did you actually watch the video, Myers? Maybe you missed the standard fare of attractive model-type females prancing in video, playing into stereotypes even as they critique and condemn the subject asshole politician. Better start evaluating what you put in print and getting some consistency in your rants before you post.
Explain why you think “attractive model-type females” “prancing” in a video automatically means “playing into stereotypes.” Be specific. What stereotypes, exactly, do you think the women in this video are playing into? Show your work.
Freethought Blogs A Million Gods Ace of Clades Alethian Worldview Almost Diamonds Ashley Miller Biodork Black Skeptics Blag Hag Brute Reason Butterflies and Wheels Comradde rihanna armani PhysioProffe Dispatches from the Culture Wars En Tequila Es Verdad Godlessness in Theory Greta Christina's rihanna armani Blog Gruntled & Hinged Heteronormative rihanna armani Patriarchy for Men Lousy Canuck Mano Singham Maryam Namazie Nirmukta on FTB No Country for Women Pharyngula Reasonable Doubts Richard Car
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