Well, I was probably about the same age as much of the audience’s dads. Most of the funny looks were coming from the group of what appeared to be 15-year-old girls sitting a few rows in front of me. They kept turning around with these “WTF is he doing here?” looks on their faces. I think they thought I was a pervert, or something. 
Well yeah, what did you expect? You were sitting there with your pants at your ankles, masturbating, and whispering fiercely, “Show me them freckles, Lohan! Oooooh yeah!” :dubious:
You owe me a new keyboard, D! I just spewed … all over … no, wait, that sounds really bad under the circumstances. Let me start again:
BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA!
Yeah, that’s really odd behavior.
Whatever happened to shouting “I’m masturbating like a motherfuck!”?
I’m joking, of course. I don’t say a word. Hey, I’ve been told repeatedly that I have a RIGHT to remain silent.
One of the first laws enacted by the current Government of Spain is called “de Violencia de Género.” The Academy of the Spanish Language protested formally on two grounds:
- “gender” in Spanish belongs to words, but not to people. Should be “de Sexo,” but apparently we can’t say the proper word any more, are we afraid to remind people that they have groins?
- it’s all about man-on-woman violence. Be it at home, at work or in the street, but exclusively man-on-woman. This didn’t offend the Academicians on the professional level, but on the personal level I find it offensive too…
I hate dress codes, formal, informal, written or not. Either give people an uniform, or let them dress however they feel like it. The only case in which I reckon they make sense is for safety reasons - and usually, those places where the dress code is linked to safety do hand out uniforms.
The assumptions about some professions being feminine or masculine. When actually, often you look at the history of those professions throughout the years and the assumptions have changed many times.
I hate jokes about PMS, among other things because the perma-joke ends up being used by many people as an excuse to dismiss any woman’s anger because “oh, she must be having her period.” You know, even if she is, which she may not - perhaps there is a perfectly reasonable reason she’s angry! Same for jokes about dudes having too much testosterone for their own good.
Once I got a glowing evaluation from a manager. The only “but” was that I should be “sweeter.” Back to the desk pool, I asked my male coworkers whether any of them had ever been told he needed to be “sweet,” the only one who didn’t catch the joke was a 25yo male. The rest of the group, male and female, had a laugh and collective rolleye about it. A male engineer might be told to be more “diplomatic” but, being the owner of boobs, I had to be “sweeter”… riiiiiiiiiite. It’s just an example, but really! The job description didn’t say anywhere “if female, the engineer shall be sweet.”
Saw that, did you?
Agreed. The way I see it, any woman who makes a testosterone crack is fair game for a PMS quip.
I agree, but “invalid and irrelevant socially programmed gender-specific hormonal excuses for being an asshole” is a bit of a mouthful.
But we’re still willing to give credence to sexual stereotypes where we’d be revolted by racial ones:
If I was mad at a Black or Hispanic guy and yelled at him “you stupid (racial slur),” I’d completely undercut my complaint with him: whatever offense he committed is left unaddressed, or even excused, in light of my racism.
But if a man is frustrated beyond his abiltiy to bottle it up politely, we can chuckle that he’s suffering from “severe testosterone poisoning;” or a woman laments finding a satisfactory long-term relationship, “her biological clock is ticking.” We accept pseudo-biological claptrap that’s always available in popular culture.
I recall the author of “Men are from Mars, Women from Venus” feted on all the TV talk shows, and given an extended forum on public television, during pledge time no less. But if someone were to write a screed titled “Blacks are from Warm Mud-land, White from Cold Frost-land,” he wouldn’t even get on cable access.
One of the worst books I have ever read. He made a basic “crazy guy with a Geocities site and self-published books” type of argument in the first couple of pages. The rest of the book was just repetition of that.