Sexism you have personally experienced or have heard of? *READ POST 1*

Sleepy wrote: »

Anyone else notice the giant "Stop Male Violence against Women" posters in Cineworld in Dublin?

I saw this on a bus shelter recently as I was driving past. Had to question me eye sight and thought 'I didn't really see that.... did I?'

Just when you think these awareness ads, hash tag campaigns etc, can't get any more misandric than they already have, along comes the following where fathers are indirectly blamed for their daughters rape..




Sanctimonious tripe, obviously, but what's really sickening is the patronizingly smug tone of it all. I am so sick of these groups portraying women as constant victims in western society. There is no bloody rape culture. There isn't even a culture where it's socially acceptable for boys to speak derogatorily about girls. There never was, at least not in my lifetime. Boys on the other hand can have almost anything said about them and nobody really cares. Women can grope men in public and sure it's just the craic. Hell, a woman could assault a man and it would garner more laughs than concern. In contrast, a man gropes a woman in a public place, or hits a woman, and she would (rightly) have people queuing up to come to her aid. These campaigns are nothing short of shameful feminist propaganda imo, and I believe that they are getting stronger and more virulent of late simply because these people can sense that feminism, and the need for it, is being questioned more and more of late and so I guess they feel that if they manipulate the public with lies, they can continue to create an air that feminism in western society is as relevant and needed today as ever it was, and therefore ultimately stem that particular tide. Worked for them so well in the past I suppose and so it's all really just more of the same old same old.

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Just when you think these awareness ads, hash tag campaigns etc, can't get any more misandric than they already have, along comes the following where fathers are indirectly blamed for their daughters rape..

Sanctimonious tripe, obviously, but what's really sickening is the patronizingly smug tone of it all. I am so sick of these groups portraying women as constant victims in western society. There is no bloody rape culture. There isn't even a culture where it's socially acceptable for boys to speak derogatorily about girls. There never was, at least not in my lifetime. Boys on the other hand can have almost anything said about them and nobody really cares. Women can grope men in public and sure it's just the craic. Hell, a woman could assault a man and it would garner more laughs than concern. In contrast, a man gropes a woman in a public place, or hits a woman, and she would (rightly) have people queuing up to come to her aid. These campaigns are nothing short of shameful feminist propaganda imo, and I believe that they are getting stronger and more virulent of late simply because these people can sense that feminism, and the need for it, is being questioned more and more of late and so I guess they feel that if they manipulate the public with lies, they can continue to create an air that feminism in western society is as relevant and needed today as ever it was, and therefore ultimately stem that particular tide. Worked for them so well in the past I suppose and so it's all really just more of the same old same old.

I suppose it is quite an emotional video and it does pack a punch.

If we take the message on board though then where can we realistically go with it?

Don't raise your kids to be little sh!ts? Got it! Message received.

Are we supposed to just assume that if we all stopped making insulting jokes and stopped using the word "whore" that we would be able to put an end sexual assault and violence against women? Did these things exist before language? I think that they probably did. So language can't really be the problem, can it?

How did we determine that insulting jokes and insulting words lead to violent acts? Did we establish this as fact?

What's the expected timescale of this solution? When should we expect to see results?

What I'm saying is they've got the emotional fluff, now where is the substance?

Obviously I think that using certain words to describe women and girls is unacceptable but the fact that society agrees with me kind of gives more weight to the argument that we are already doing what the video suggests. I mean who among us was "raised on isulting jokes"?

If I'm out with the lads and one of them openly calls a woman a b*tch, c*nt or wh*re then most of us are going to be saying "what the f*ck, dude? No!"

Yes, men shouldn't call women "whores". Yes, insulting jokes are somewhat questionable. I think most of us already learn this, right?

I've seen men step in to protect women. Damn it, I've seen men batter each other to defend a woman's honor. That's "just something boy's do" right?

When she talks about her "perfect man" and how life becomes too much for him I thought that the stinger was going to be that the guy kills himself, as many men do when it gets that way. No, actually, she's only concerned about the terrible things this imaginary guy might possibly do to her. The possibility that he might be found at 5am on summer morning, in the park, swinging from a tree, cold and dead, is not her concern. That may well be the moral of the story here.

Theres no such thing as a "fat girl", theyre called "big beautiful women" or "plus size" or whatever euphemism it is this week.
I met a girl who is not so fond of one of my friends, she launched a tirade against him, and then started focusing in on his weight. I said "ah come on now" and looked her over.
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