No, I think of Oxygen more as a channel for smart ass bitches like me (and proud of it) who think that what's good for the gander is ok for the goose , too. At least until we get cooked.
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"...If someone actually has something to complain about it would be how most comedy romance movies make the guy out to be a loser and the women the best thing that comes into his life...."
yeah and then the chick's life comes to a stop when she realizes that a life as a loser's wife is to be the pinnacle of her dreams. Not all films, all the time, but enough.
I have OCD but not hard enough to stop my life and glue myself to the TV so I can record every instance of subtle chauvinism to prove to you what we are speaking of.
When you hear phrases like "To the victor go the spoils" or "Might makes right" , do you know what they really mean? The winner can rewrite the rules so as to handicap any potential competition. I apologize for the abstraction, but, it really confuses me, this sort of cheating. Like not allowing women, or people of color to vote. It's not that far removed from stalking and killing your ex lover, because if you can't have her/him, then dammit, no one will.
We don't seem to be all that interested in self examination and amelioration these days.
It's all about exagerrated sense of entitlement and gratuitous arrogance.
I am white, but I get it when African Americans complain about the way characters of color are portrayed, maybe not so much now as before, but still.
And I think it especially sad and dangerous when the "weak" feel obliged to emulate the "bullies" in order to get ahead, or even.
Curiosity didn't kill the cat, bigotry did.
Have a good and useful life. Stay in school. Help when you can, but do take care of yourself.
And remember- without help, abused children grow up to be abusive adults.
I'll get off my soapbox now.
"I'm issuing a restraining order: Religion must stay 500 yards away from Science at all times!!"
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s_niculae
16 years ago
The post I'm replying to sounds like a feminist University course regurgitated from a textbook. I'm not sure what you are trying to prove?
Both men and women have social stereotypes that we all have to deal with (me being a man), and I don't let those things bother me, and either should you!
So what, it's not "macho" to cry in a movie, but when something hits the right note I'll shed a tear and not care what anyone thinks of it; it's the 21st century who cares.
This is your quote {When you hear phrases like "To the victor go the spoils" or "Might makes right" , do you know what they really mean?}. Personally I've heard those phrases but would never correlate them to chauvinist origins... ?????? ... Obviously from a textbook.
Anyhow, get over yourself and realize that there are many good men out there that don't look down on women; as I'm sure there are many movies out there where plots originate from experiences people have lived...
Anyhow.
My 2 cents.
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mechacorta
15 years ago
"The post I'm replying to sounds like a feminist University course regurgitated from a textbook. I'm not sure what you are trying to prove? "
Being a college drop out, I am flattered. those words came from my heart. and my uneducated brain. from experience.
"Anyhow, get over yourself and realize that there are many good men out there that don't look down on women; as I'm sure there are many movies out there where plots originate from experiences people have lived..."
So where are those men, and how do I flag them?
"Both men and women have social stereotypes that we all have to deal with (me being a man), and I don't let those things bother me, and either should you! "
you mean "neither", and I do let them bother me: That's how change starts, by being bothered, or POed by something.
<<<Chauvinism, (pronounced /ˈʃoʊvɨnɪzəm/), in its original and primary meaning, is an exaggerated, bellicose patriotism and a blind belief in national superiority and glory. [1] By extension it has come to include an extreme and unreasoning partisanship on behalf of any group to which one belongs, especially when the partisanship includes malice and hatred towards a rival group. Jingoism is the British parallel form of this French word. [1]A popular contemporary use of the term in English is in the phrase male chauvinism.[2]>>>
the above def is from Wikepedia, not the ultimate ref, but , in this instance it will suffice for the purpose of definition.
"... Obviously from a textbook. "
Again_-I am so bloody flattered that you think my prose good enough to be mistaken for something that has been published for educational puposes.
If you are cute enough, why don't you dress in drag for a few days and really see what life is like for a woman.
"I'm issuing a restraining order: Religion must stay 500 yards away from Science at all times!!"
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