I Hate Women's Idiot* culture

[undead_rtwa]

Something has been bothering me lately on the radio. It's the newest McDonalds commercial. Granted, all McDonald's commercials are pretty damn inane, but this newest one gets under my skin like none in recent memory

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[vlenleak]

Well women have been portrayed as vapid for ages, just look at a barbie and you will realize that it is just an image they push onto us to think that all women are/have been vapid. In truth it probally goes all the way back to the beginning of time, seeing how it was Eve who presented the apple of knowledge to Adam and make him eat it without his knowledge. However, like a real man, he loyally took his punishment so he could stay with his wife.

[squirrelcsi]

What they needed to do was add the black dude's voice who says, "Somebody missed snack time," in the commercials.

[anonymous]

For some reason, which probably simply strengthens your point, I have a hard time seeing this phenominon in action (Mel had to point out to me recently that all dads on cartoons Sara watches are loveable idiots) and don't really get upset by it.

I think this is largely because men and women are taught radically different mindsets concerning public opinion. Women are pressured constantly to conform, conform, conform. There's very little such pressure on men, and we just assume that we're going to be assumed to be boobs regardless, so it's not as though spending massive effort to live up to some stereotype isn't going to ultimately end in failure, so we largely don't bother. At the same time, we're assumed to have responsibility for all kinds of things that women get a pass on, so maybe it's that we're more worried about being failures than looking stupid.

Oops!

[undead_rtwa]

Me

damning media

[damnitwoman]

I must say, having a young girl growing up around me, this is a detrimental mindset that they are absolutely accepting as ok. Alex (9yrs old) has asked me to do "girl things" with her, like diet. Without strong role models and at least half decent parents (Alex's mom NOT included) our girls are going to go down the tubes. WOMEN! STAND UP FOR THE STRENGHT AND DIGNITY OF OUR DAUGHTERS!!!

Re: damning media

[damnitwoman]

This is one of the really major issues I have with this problem. It's not so much the grown women. I assume by the point women are adults they're either smart enough to ignore bullshit like this or lost causes. It's our daughters (mine in particular) that I worry about accepting this as a standard of behavior and judgement of self worth.

I often have conversations with Sara about "Why what (TV character) did was wrong, stupid or unacceptable.", and there are certain shows, toys, etc... that are banned in our house because I don't want Sara exposed to precisely this kind of thinking. It's difficult sometimes too, since I have to give unconditional "no"s to some of the more heavily advertised toys on TV, like the Bratz dolls which Sara occasionally goes into frothing fits for.

How do you handle this with your daughter?

Double oops!

[undead_rtwa]

Me too!

Re: damning media

[squirrelcsi]

Man I hate Bratz dolls. My only hope is that by the time Abbie is old enough to really be influenced by advertising, those things will be long passe.