- Top Features:
- War Room
- Glenn Greenwald
- Broadsheet
- Joan Walsh
- Camille Paglia
- Since You Asked
- Follow Salon:
Read other letters about this article
I'm a middle-aged woman, feminist and the mother of a 22 yr old male. I was the oldest and only girl in a family of three kids. This looked like standard guy horseplay. It can be looked at it several ways, and I can see how some women would view it as sexist. Maybe it was, but I doubt it. Seriously, it looks like she was being treated as "one of the boys" and got "rewarded" for some sort of behavior...just like one of the men might have.
Like I told my kid when he was a 12 yr old baseball player feeling bad about tagging a girl out when she was running down the baseline and she started crying...she's not a girl, she's a baseball player. Is she a soldier and not a woman here?
Would an only male involved in "female" joking around and being treated as one of the girls evoke a cry of sexism? Probably not. Just ask the only man in my office if he felt demeaned being the only guy at a co-worker's baby shower and laughed the entire time at the good-natured ribbing he took and dished it back about all our giggling.
The video is a snippet in time and none of us know the context of the film in the events preceding and following it.
