I find that deeply unsettling as well, and I would have been concerned about that woman’s mental health… in addition to her sexism. If I can regress for a moment, EW THAT’S GROSS!!! I can’t believe management allowed that.
Yeah, because a human being being raped and mutilated is the same as a mythical creature having a non-sexual part of its anatomy cut off. :rolleyes:
FWIW, if someone in my group of friends had made the joke, I’d think it was hilarious. Unless it was a really tight group of coworkers with a similar sense of humor, though, that was definitely a creepy thing to bring in.
There there, diddums. Did the big, bad feminist make light of your powerful baby-maker? It’s okay, I’m sure she didn’t mean to challenge your patriarchal hegemony. Here, now blow your nose and be a big boy.
Making jokes of and alluding to murder and sexual mutilation is “challenging my patriarchal hegemony?”.
Umm…FU…And I was 25 and she was about 55. I don’t think I had any patriarchal hegemony, you lunatic.
What’s funny is that the joke isn’t even that Bobbit was justified, like a “whack job man hater” would make–it’s that Bobbit was a crazy person who would run around hacking off anything that looked remotely phallic.
What a bunch of bullshit! Everyone knows women don’t know shit about videogames and software!
Dora the Explorer goes on adventures that most often involve being spoon-fed information to get a generic baby animal to its generic mother. Example, Baby Bugga-Bugga. If it’s not mother-child reunions, it’s something fairy-tale related or some other horribly impossible situation (e.g., returning a fallen star to the sky from the top of a mountain). It smacks of “all girls like babies and princesses.”
I paid it no mind until my daughter took an interest in watching Go, Diego Go! Diego is a Dora the Explorer spin-off show. He’s an animal rescuer. He too often reunites babies with mommas. But when Diego does it, it’s with real animals (e.g., it’d be with a hissing cockroach rather than “Bugga-Bugga”). The viewer is always taught about the animal’s native habitat, its natural predators, and some of the animal’s notable features (diet, skills, adaptations, etc.). The adventure involves some simple, but real decisions too.
The shows just scream out to me. They’re saying, “Dora was a huge success, but it’s for girls! We could get even more money if we make the same shit for boys!” And then some sexist dickwad in a suit came by and said, “Boys need science. Girls need dolls & babies. Make Diego smarter, faster, independent, bigger, and better. Oh, and after a few episodes, kill off that sidekick. He doesn’t need some baby anthro-jaguar to lean on.” Meanwhile, Dora always needs a buddy for adventures.
You know, Lorena Bobbit amputated half her husband’s penis in the immediate aftermath his raping her and after years of corroborated domestic abuse. I think people forget there is a real tragedy behind all the jokes.
If we’re going to start talking sexist entertainment, how about Twilight?
That was more or less my point–if anything, the joke was dismissive of any legitimate motivation for Bobbit to have assaulted her husband. (Not that I’m condoning violence against anyone, even complete shitheels–just saying that it wasn’t coming out of a vaccuum.)
Well, have you ever seen a woman go to the bathroom alone when she had a friend handy?
Nice to see that he was enough of a concern to let him finish out the year “honorably.”
Apparently you’ve never eaten my wife’s breadsticks. (I kid, she’s an excellent cook). But seriously, I hate half-food. My wife is #9 of 10 children. They had 1/2 food at the house all the time. Not enough potatoes? Here, have half!
Fuck that. I want the whole goddamn potato.
Typical response from a cat-caller, “Cuz lord knows that’s the only time you’d hear it, you uptight b****” I hate it too. I worked a variety of jobs in my youth where this was ever-present. I didn’t have particularly enlightened parents or mentors, but even I knew this was threatening for the receiver of the attention.
It doesn’t make it right, but when you do the crime, you pay the time. You gotta know that the walk of shame isn’t paved with gold.
Yeah, except that your group of friends aren’t your group of co-workers led by someone with a man-hating twinge. It’s harassment.
Dora isn’t strictly entertainment though. It’s “educational.” It’s “entertainment.” No, it’s edutainment! I love commercial bullshit as much as the next American, but about 5 minutes before my daughter was born, I got a spidey-sense for gender bias in kids stuff. I can deal with dolls & pink dresses. I can stomach purses & shoes. But that show is just telling my kid that she’s not good enough to do anything like a boy can do.
Shit, even on Diego they’ve got a female character. And 99 out of 100 episodes, she’s back at home base at the computer typing in shit for Diego.
And yet my wife complains that Spongebob is mean & violent and that Dora/Diego are better options to have our child watch. We were pretty much limited to 30 minutes or less of TV a day, but that all went to pot when child #2 was born.
Pssst, go back and read the second part of what you quoted. I made a direct contrast between with friends (funny) and at work (creepy).
Yeah, but *Twilight *says that it’s okay for men to force women to comply with the decisions they’ve made for them, that when a man forces himself physically on a woman it’s “cute,” that sexual attraction is all that determines love, and that when a woman is gang-raped to death by her husband and his friends, she should regret being beautiful, not regret having married a waste of meat or regret growing up in a time when women were treated like chattel.
About 10 years ago, I was told I had to hire a less qualified black applicant instead of the more qualifed white applicant (both were women) because of FCC regulations regarding diversity in broadcast facilities.
I believe those regulations have fallen by the wayside.
Could be something to do with Best Buy’s own in-house hiring practices rather than something mandated by law, though.
Double smack: :smack::smack:
Oops, sorry. That’s what I get when I read too much and multi-quote.
Ah, I see. I never read/saw/heard about Twilight, other than that it was popular.
Or some manager being sweet on the new girl. I’ve always assumed the “my hands are tied” speech is bullshit for something they wish not to tell me.
Based solely on mentions in the popular media I’ve deduced that it’s a story about vampires written by a girl who is too squeamish to mention things like biting and blood and stakes.
I actually went and read the whole damn series because I had a couple of (otherwise very intelligent, very independent) female friends who were obsessed with it. It’s disgusting. (And, what’s possibly worse–the writing is terrible.)