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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
It's called classism which is as insidious as racism and sexism.
Of course women with money have class advantage over poor men.
But men of all races make more money than women of all races. Just look at any Census data.
It's called classism which is as insidious as racism and sexism.
Of course women with money have class advantage over poor men.
But men of all races make more money than women of all races. Just look at any Census data.
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Actually I believe the post had to do with the idea that if you take away all outside variables, i.e. money, etc... a female "5" will still have the ability to attract a male and keep him interested, while a male "5" will have much less romantic and social cache. So the women of bygone eras who suffered under a so-called patriarchy still had it better then the men of today and tomorrow in that they still had their "sexuality", which is a source of power. Their is no male equivalent. so strip both genders of all outside powers and the female has the advantage. Thats what the origional post was referring to.
But men of all races make more money than women of all races. Just look at any Census data.
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this is more controversial and more subject to debate then you obviously believe.
Wow! What an impressive article! How surprising to see liberals and feminists finally recognizing this bias. I think it’s fair to say women were never treated with as much degradation and disrespect as men have been treated this last decade on TV. Are men on TV portrayed as the old woman used to be, or are they really the new “nigger”? The ever-present weak inferior being, juxtaposed next to the powerful intelligent superior being, there only to remind us all just who the better human is? We live in an era where misogyny is condemned and misandry celebrated. An era of female supremacist ideals as the result of feminisms refusal to die. Modern women who indeed have every right and opportunity a man does are still being taught they are oppressed by men, that men are the true sexists that posses all the power, that men’s very nature oppresses them. This indoctrination allows them to believe they are entitled to hate and ridicule their “powerful masters”. In reality they are simply being taught to hate, along with the men being taught to hate themselves. I think it is having an enormous impact on how men are treated in society. I see more self-segregation among the sexes, I meet many women who’s idea of casual conversation is to bash and belittle their husbands boyfriends and lovers, I meet hordes of self depreciating men with no confidence. I personally don’t think being a wage slave and sacrificing your soul to be thought of as wealthy and powerful is any desirable endeavor. We have to stop attributing so much worth to salary and wage and we have to give up this idea of a power/wage struggle between the sexes. If only feminism will let us. However all this fuss is over nothing, there are some very simple solutions we all are free to practice, reject tradition, reject feminism, cancel your cable, do what makes you happy, choose a mate you like for their personality. Happiness waits.
- to bring out the batshit crazies!
But, when your life has been nothing but a series of failures and you're not man enough to take your share of the blame, I guess feminism will have to do, eh Brightstar65?
And Merely Mortal Male. Sweet zombie jeezus! 50+ pages of thinly disguised hatred of women. Fifty! And you do love the sound of your braying voice. Lord knows no women do.
Anyway, back to the article. It is hard to know what is more bizarre: the fact that this same basic formula is at the root of all these shows all at once, the fact that it seems so blatant, or the mystery of just who the shows are aimed at.
Someone mentioned that you have to have conflict to have a show, and I suppose that gender issue conflict will fit the bill just fine, but surely there have to be some other issues that could be put on the screen!
Is it just a stunning lack of originality or is there something more to it? Is there a huge group of people who just can't enough of this stuff? ARe they women? Men?
Others have mentioned that doofus guys are the standard in most comedies, which I'd agree with. However, there is a certain nearly sage-like quality to comedy doofus guy. A self-awarness of their doofusness and laziness.
Actually, KING OF THE HILL is probably one of the best representations of people found on TV. They have their strengths, they have their weaknesses. Nobody is always right or always wrong.
Help me out here. I am supposed to give a shit what YOU think of me?
Did you even offer up one tidbit of value?
Show me a Census link where women of any race make more than men of any race. For the same number of hours worked and same level of education. You won't find one.
Sexual capital isn't an advantage because it goes back to income. Men make more money than women.
51% of adult American women are married so unless you're suggesting women are prostitutes and make money from sex, equal pay is much more important means of women's solvency.
So unlike men they can spend their money the way THEY want to and still have a life. On top of this they get to feel superior to all the men who want to sleep with them. I know that this entire reality is banned from discussion in "polite" society but it is still reality.
willful dismissal of reality by women is tiring.
and I suspect if there were a way to actually do this effectively and get something out of it the strategy might work, but there isn't.
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