I was doing my usual, "I'm bored let's look at webcomics" thing earlier and decided to read the news postings, an unusual occurrence, of one of my favorites Manly Guys Doing Manly Things [http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/] and saw a link included in the discussion, to a site called Stand your Ground [http://standyourground.com/], intrigued I clicked on it, and found it to be a website for men's rights, this is unusual in two ways, one the writer and artist of MGDMT is herself a member of the fairer sex, and men's rights as a cause is not a vehemently championed as others. But I find myself agreeing with them on many counts, like the rights of a man during a divorce case, where the court will side with the woman nearly every time. (My uncle got screwed over by a gold-digging ***** not too long ago, so I may be a bit biased on that one)
But one of the topics on the site was boycotts, featuring a long list of company names that this website called for men to cease purchasing from, from Ford to Pepsi to Budweiser. Most of which called for a boycott because of physical abuse to men for comedy in their commercials, you know, the kind of thing the Three Stooges made their meager fortunes on.
To a certain degree, I agree with their case, if most of what I've seen during the super bowl commercial sweep happened to me, I sure as hell wouldn't be laughing. But then I remembered that anyone who's humorless to that degree, automatically looses points in my book, like woman's groups who complain that bikini models are sexist.
But this got me thinking further, woman's advocacy groups primary concern is equality, being treated with the same respect as their male counter parts, and I, for the most part agree with their cause, if not necessary support them (Maybe if they had better role models than Hillary Clinton, and if their actions didn't subtly hint that their real goal is superiority rather than equality, but, that's personal opinion and I digress) My thoughts were along these lines. This shit wouldn't fly if the people in these slap stick commercials were ANYTHING other than two white men.
Think about this, a commercial has two white guys, let us call them A and B, A has a beer, B punches A in the balls and takes the beer, B enjoys his newly acquired beer and much laughter comes from the audience. But what if they were black? what if they were women? what if B stood for Beatrice while A remains male? You can bet your ass that the company airing those commercials would be flooded with enough angry letters that, if burned, could comfortably power the city of New York for a period of months.
So why the double standard, I mean I'll admit that white men do pretty much run shit, 100 years of civil rights isn't much compared with several thousand years worth of precedent. And nobody enjoys slapstick more than yours truly, but surely we can bring others into the fold without advocacy groups flexing their letter writing hands and employing a small army of litigation attorneys.
I suppose I should make a futile attempt at justification here, I don't consider myself sexist. I only think that a "***** should make me a sandwich" if she's already in the kitchen, or closer to the kitchen than me, especially if she's making one for herself. Otherwise I am perfectly capable of making myself a sandwich, and I'll even make her one if she asks.
What do you have to say on the issue? Am I a sexist/racist bastard for even suggesting such a thing? Are advocacy groups that focus on equality spending too much effort to look better than their "opponents"? Should I never ask a girl to make me a sandwich regardless of the situation? Would woman's slapstick lack the same flavor owing to their lack of balls? Go ahead and post.
-----------------
-----------------
But one of the topics on the site was boycotts, featuring a long list of company names that this website called for men to cease purchasing from, from Ford to Pepsi to Budweiser. Most of which called for a boycott because of physical abuse to men for comedy in their commercials, you know, the kind of thing the Three Stooges made their meager fortunes on.
To a certain degree, I agree with their case, if most of what I've seen during the super bowl commercial sweep happened to me, I sure as hell wouldn't be laughing. But then I remembered that anyone who's humorless to that degree, automatically looses points in my book, like woman's groups who complain that bikini models are sexist.
But this got me thinking further, woman's advocacy groups primary concern is equality, being treated with the same respect as their male counter parts, and I, for the most part agree with their cause, if not necessary support them (Maybe if they had better role models than Hillary Clinton, and if their actions didn't subtly hint that their real goal is superiority rather than equality, but, that's personal opinion and I digress) My thoughts were along these lines. This shit wouldn't fly if the people in these slap stick commercials were ANYTHING other than two white men.
Think about this, a commercial has two white guys, let us call them A and B, A has a beer, B punches A in the balls and takes the beer, B enjoys his newly acquired beer and much laughter comes from the audience. But what if they were black? what if they were women? what if B stood for Beatrice while A remains male? You can bet your ass that the company airing those commercials would be flooded with enough angry letters that, if burned, could comfortably power the city of New York for a period of months.
So why the double standard, I mean I'll admit that white men do pretty much run shit, 100 years of civil rights isn't much compared with several thousand years worth of precedent. And nobody enjoys slapstick more than yours truly, but surely we can bring others into the fold without advocacy groups flexing their letter writing hands and employing a small army of litigation attorneys.
I suppose I should make a futile attempt at justification here, I don't consider myself sexist. I only think that a "***** should make me a sandwich" if she's already in the kitchen, or closer to the kitchen than me, especially if she's making one for herself. Otherwise I am perfectly capable of making myself a sandwich, and I'll even make her one if she asks.
What do you have to say on the issue? Am I a sexist/racist bastard for even suggesting such a thing? Are advocacy groups that focus on equality spending too much effort to look better than their "opponents"? Should I never ask a girl to make me a sandwich regardless of the situation? Would woman's slapstick lack the same flavor owing to their lack of balls? Go ahead and post.
-----------------
-----------------
