Why is it ok to treat women like shit?

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

No I'm just asking the hard questions. I love this thread.

I'm glad you like it.

Have I answered any of your questions?

After contemplating it for a bit here, I think it's the boring-ness, same old, same old that is getting under my skin. The absolute boredom of witnessing the adolescent male brain. Ever see that hilarious clip of Andy Samburg as a teenaged boy directing all the freaky sex scenes in Game of Thrones? All he wants to do is see sex, boobs, ass, more sex, girl on girl, etc. etc. and it's very funny as he plays this 13 year old boy who is directing this stuff. "Sexposition" instead of 'exposition' they call it.

Yes, darling. I've seen boobies and cunts before. Yes, it's all very interesting and makes you feel funny 'down there' doesn't it? Can we move along now? No? You want to see more? For the rest of your LIFE?

Oh, ok. I'll just be over here. Becoming a human being.

eta: back to the original argument - why is it okay to define women by their sex organs but not other people by their skin color? Why is nigger a No No word while degrading women is OK? Why? Did John Lennon have it right?

[DanaC]

Totally get where you're coming from Bri. From time totime it gets under my skin a bit too. Much as I am happy to banter with Grav, some of the stuff puts my hackles up.

Naming his girlfriend 'baby' on the boards really makes me wanna throw up a little in my mouth, but that's their gig I guess.

The deeply objectifying nature of some of the commentary around the pics is what makes them annoying I think. I had exactly the same response to yet another comment about parking bikes in girl's butts.


There was a time I used to comment about it. But I got sick of being the 'killjoy'.

[SamIam]

I seldom visit the NSFW threads or anything resembling them. I'm simply not interested and the few times I viewed them, I found them demeaning. I'm sure if I "read" those threads on a regular basis I'd be pretty disgusted too. I'll grant UT's point that men tend to be the visual ones of the species and enjoy looking at stuff that make many women feel like objects, as well as lowering our self esteem. No real woman looks like the air brushed, photo-shopped creatures with the breast implants from Mars who star in the porn mags or the NSFW threads.

But I really don't care if men (or women) on the Cellar like viewing and contributing to those threads. Whatever floats your boat. Sometimes this stuff over flows into other threads, but short of censorship, what are you going to do? Frankly, I wish Big Sarge would stop urging female dwellers to post nude or scantily clad pix of themselves. I find such exhortations tiresome, but Big Sarge has his redeeming qualities, so I have never called him on it until this thread.

I wish all the men here could be like xoxoxoBruce. He lets female dwellers know that he appreciates the feminine form, but he never makes a woman feel ashamed or harassed about it. He's like a gentleman contemplating the pleasures of a fine wine. Take a page out of his book guys, and we women will love you to death.

[DanaC]

See, now we all draw our lines in different places :p

Never bothers me if one of the dwellar men make a lewd comment about me, or anythng like that...it makes me feel good. It's a way of them saying to us that they find us sexy. Even if they don't! lol. At least that is real guys saying to real gals that they're sexy. Which, given most of us are just ordinary women with the lumps and bumps and wrinkles that often leave us feeling like we don't cut the mustard next to the airbrushed models we see all around us, I think is kind of sweet. Inclusive, I'd say.


It's the more abstract stuff that bothers me.

[jimhelm]

Shouldn't you women be ironing my shirts?

•spoken in to my phone

[SamIam]

Originally Posted by jimhelm

Shouldn't you women be ironing my shirts?

•spoken in to my phone

You wear shirts? I always imagined you like Tarzan of the jungle, swinging around the auto dealership showing off that 6 pack of abdominal muscles and those great biceps. Could you post pix?

* sent by dial-up from the local public library

[jimhelm]

Originally Posted by SamIam

showing off that 6 pack of abdominal muscles and those great biceps. Could you post pix?

* sent by dial-up from the local public library

It's more of a Keg, really. I'm sure there's a six pack in it.... somewhere...

[DanaC]

I believe we were making you a sammich?

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by DanaC

I believe we were making you a sammich?

I would never make jimh a poisonous sammich, but I WOULD make one for a few I know. And I would gladly watch them as they ate up every bite.

And I'd be gleeful.

[jimhelm]

oh right. my bad.

would you mind doing that topless? thankssomuch

[Undertoad]

like an open-faced turkey sammich?

[DanaC]

Well, that certainly changed my image of Jim somewhat. I;d always imagined him in more of a Spartacus outfit you know?

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Well, that certainly changed my image of Jim somewhat. I;d always imagined him in more of a Spartacus outfit you know?

Cancel that:

[jimhelm]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Cancel that:

If you're going to picture me in that outfit, I'm going to picture you in this one:

[DanaC]

This seems an appropriate place to post this: