China: Stewardesses Say “No” to Ritual of Squeezing into Overhead Bins
Posted: October 12, 2015 Filed under: Asia, Entertainment, Global, Mediasphere, Space & Aviation | Tags: Airlines, CCTV News, Flight Crew, media, netizens, news, Overhead Bin, Sexism, Stewardess Leave a commentWhy College Kids Can’t Take a Joke
Posted: June 11, 2015 Filed under: Censorship, Comics, Entertainment, Humor | Tags: American Enterprise Institute, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Christina Hoff Sommers, comedy, Feminism, Kirsten Powers, Progressivism, Purdue University, Racism, Safe Space, Sexism, Trauma trigger, Trigger Warning, University of Chicago Leave a commentKyle Smith writes: What’s the deal with young people today? “They just want to use these words: ‘That’s racist,’ ‘That’s sexist,’ ‘That’s prejudice,’” Jerry Seinfeld told ESPN’s Colin Cowherd this week. “They don’t know what the f—k they’re talking about.”
“I stopped playing colleges, and the reason is because they’re way too conservative.”
— Chris Rock
Comics are afraid to work on college campuses, Seinfeld said. To give an idea of how young people think, he cited a bizarre response his 14-year-old daughter made when his wife noted that the girl might want to go to New York City from the suburbs more often “So you can see boys.” The girl replied that the remark was “sexist,” her father said.
“There is a word…That word is illiberal; there is nothing ‘conservative’ about it.”
— Kyle Smith
The determination of the identity-politics obsessed to shut down speech on campus inspired a couple of hilarious one-liners in the past year. One was from The Onion: “College Encourages Lively Exchange of Idea: Students, Faculty Invited to Freely Express Single Viewpoint.” The other, though unintentionally funny, was equally amusing, and came from Chris Rock: “I stopped playing colleges, and the reason is because they’re way too conservative.”
There is a word for the move to ban a screening of 2014’s most popular movie, American Sniper (and replace it with Paddington), to hound a major university into rescinding its honorary degree to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, to punish someone with a Title IX investigation for the crime of questioning the wisdom of certain Title IX investigations, and designating a “safe space” to which to flee after failing to prevent a speech by Christina Hoff Sommers from taking place. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] SHOCK: TV Advertising That Doesn’t Demean, Mock, Diminish, and Insult Dads
Posted: January 31, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Food & Drink, Mediasphere | Tags: Advertising, Bias, Breakfast Cereal, Cheerios, Dads, Dreams from My Father, Family, Fatherhood, Feminism, Sexism, Television, TV Commercial, YouTube 2 CommentsKatherine Timpf: Ten Ways Men Oppress Women with Their Everyday Behavior
Posted: January 20, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere | Tags: Bro, Male, Manly, Mansplaining, Manspreading, Men, National Review, satire, Sexism, Twitter 4 CommentsManspreading and manslamming are just the beginning!
manspreading” – when a guy sits with his legs apart on the subway to assert his dominance — and “manslamming” – when a man doesn’t get out of the way of a woman on the street and they run into each other.
By now, you may have heard of “[Read Katherine Timpf’s full text here, at NRO]
While these are definitely very important women’s issues, there are still so many more we need to be talking about. Here are ten words for even moreways men are constantly oppressing women:
1. Broplimenting
This is when a guy says something nice to you without asking for your consent first. Men should always ask. “Do you consent to me complimenting you?” before saying anything nice or else it’s assault. No, nonverbal cues don’t count – he still has to ask for explicit consent before offering that kind of affection.
2. Mansulting
This is when a man says something really mean to you. You know, like, the opposite of a broplimenting. Mansults are worse than insults because each one is another brick being added to the fortress of the patriarchy that surrounds you every day no matter how hard you try to fight it with hashtags on Feminist Twitter.
3. Bropen-mouth chewing
When people see man chewing with his mouth open, most think that it’s just him being rude — but that’s just because most people aren’t educated on women’s issues. Social-justice scholars realize that feeling the
need to display the crushing and grinding of food is actually a sign of dominance over the lesser being that you are consuming.
[Read the full story here, at National Review Online]
Especially if it’s meat because eating meat is sexist because women need to show solidarity with animals because that’s how the world sees us anyway (like animals) and we have to be their friends. (I am only interested in dating vegan men who make sure they have chewed and swallowed all of their food before we return to talking about how many microaggressions there are in the restaurant. It’s so rowomantic!)
4. Mentoring
You’ve heard this word before, but unless you’re as educated and culturally aware as I am, you have probably never thought about how sexist it is. Why isn’t it “women-toring,” huh? I’ll tell you why. It’s because we live in a society where people think men are the only ones who can give advice. Read the rest of this entry »
Landesman: Why Are Right Wing Women So Hot? The Lust That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Posted: July 21, 2014 Filed under: Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Cosmo Landesman, Feminism, Gertrude Stein, Imelda Marcos, Jemima Khan, Romance, Sarah Palin, Sex, Sexism, Spectator, The Left, the right, Theresa May, UK politics, Virginia Woolf, Yoko Ono 2 CommentsMy secret lust for right-wing women
“I envy men of the right — their sexual lives are not constrained by the rules of sexual correctness we lefties are expected to live by.”
For The Spectator.uk, Cosmo Landesman writes: Not long ago I was out drinking with a group of friends and we started playing the If-You-Had-To game. The idea is to present players with two people they would never want to sleep with — and then make them choose which they’d sleep with. Here are some of the fiendish alternatives I had to face: Imelda Marcos or Wallace Simpson? Ayn Rand or Yoko Ono? Gertrude Stein or Virginia Woolf?
“Sorry, comrades, but when it comes to the bedroom I’ll have to vote Tory.”
Then one joker said: Theresa May or Jemima Khan? Everyone laughed at this no-contest choice. Everyone except me. How could I tell them the ugly truth: I’d prefer a night of passion with right-wing Theresa over lefty Jemima any day of the week.
But then I belong to that small, deviant group of liberal-lefty-pro-feminist men who find conservative/right-wing women super sexy. In an age when anything goes — at least in terms of sexual pleasure — ours is a lust that dare not speak its name.
[On progressivism ruining sex: “Well, it ruins everything, you know” — Glenn Reynolds].
I know this because later that evening, I turned to one of the group and confessed my secret longing for the likes of Theresa May, Ann Coulter and Sarah Palin — ideally all at once. I thought my fantasy night of passion would be received with sympathy and understanding. After all, this friend of mine pays a woman in Earls Court to put him on a rack and do things you don’t want to read about. He just looked at me and said: ‘You’re sick!’ Read the rest of this entry »
This Country Was Not Built by Beta Males
Posted: October 27, 2013 Filed under: Art & Culture, Humor, Mediasphere | Tags: Empirical evidence, Gavin McInnes, Linda Hirshman, New York City, Sexism, Taki's Magazine, The Huffington Post, Women in the workforce Leave a comment
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Gavin McInnes writes: You know the pendulum has swung too far to the left when you say, “There’s nothing wrong with normal” and everyone goes crazy. I was on Huffington Post Live on Monday to discuss “How Masculinity Has Changed Over The Years.” I’ve done this before and it usually goes well. I did a segment for Father’s Day where I introduced the whimsical notion that you’re not a man until you’ve had your heart broken, broken a heart, had the shit beaten out of you, and beaten the shit out of someone. Read the rest of this entry »