It is not too early to hate [Lena] Dunham, and it is not sexist to do so. What does a sexist comment look like? I suppose it would be more like “Man, Lena Dunham is a stupid bitch! She should be in the kitchen where all women belong!” That’s definitely sexist.
But saying “Dunham is an annoying bitch! Why does she have a show?” is the exact same thing as saying “Michael Bay is a fucking dick! Why does he make movies?”
You would never accuse the person who said the latter of hating men, would you? Quick, what is the word that means someone hates men? Misandry is the hatred of men, while a misandrist hates men…
I feel like this is part of a far larger issue that I can’t cover here, which would broach why men in TV commercials are shown to be idiots while men in sit-coms are often simpletons. As writer Warren Farrell said: “In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call humor.”
The Gentleman’s Guide to Hating or Why Calling Criticism Sexist or Racist Makes You Worse than Hitler
You have to wonder when people will begin to notice that Sean Hannity’s incessant attempts to paint Barack Obama as a flaming radical by associating him with various supposed extremists is actually a classic case of projection.
After all, there’s no one in the mainstream media who has quite the array of running associations with far-right nutcases that Sean Hannity has—going back to the days when he palled around with white supremacist Hal Turner, and continuing through his ongoing sponsorship of wackos like Birther extraordinaire Jerome Corsi. Most notably, Hannity continues to promote and support another WorldNetDaily nutcase, Jesse Lee Peterson.
Last night, however, even a Fox Democrat like Kirsten Powers found it too hard to contain herself when seated next to Peterson. As Ellen at NewsHounds points out, Powers completely derailed Hannity’s planned Obama-bashing segment by turning to Peterson and demanding he explain himself for his recent declaration that most women are “little whores”.
Hannity Hijacked As Angry Kirsten Powers Confronts Jesse Lee Peterson’s ‘Little Whores’ Misogyny
According to a 2010 national survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Department of Justice, in the last 12 months more men than women were victims of intimate partner physical violence and over 40% of severe physical violence was directed at men. Men were also more often the victim of psychological aggression and control over sexual or reproductive health. Despite this, few services are available to male victims of intimate partner violence.
National Study: More Men than Women Victims of Intimate Partner Physical Violence, Psychological Aggression
CNN’s Soledad O’Brien fired back at Fox News president Roger Ailes over his comments to North Carolina journalism students in which he referred to the Starting Point host as “that girl that’s named after a prison.” Ailes appeared to be referencing the Soledad Correctional Facility in Monterey County, California. “Um. I wasn’t named after a prison.” O’Brien tweeted. “Ailes is mistaken. I was named after the virgin mary.
Soledad O’Brien Corrects Roger Ailes: I Wasn’t Named After A Prison, I Was Named After Virgin Mary
Deadline Hollywood adds: “Her name is Maria de la Soledad Teresa O’Brien. Her father chose the name Maria de la Soledad to honor the Blessed Virgin Mary of Solitude — which in Spanish is soledad.”
Taking a page from the mothers who rose up against a Motrin ad a few years ago that some saw as insulting to “baby-wearing parents”, fathers (and a few mothers) filled the Huggies Facebook Wall with complaints. “Thanks for contributing to the perception that fathers are incompetent parents who let babies lay around in their own waste until they can be rescued, was one typical comment. Another: “The narrow view of gender roles…hurts dads AND moms. We should all be free to fill our family roles in the way that makes sense based on our skills and interests, not on some antiquated, stereotypical gender binary.”
Soon, there was a petition. Created by Chris Routly, a father from Breiningsville, PA, it was titled “We’re Dads, Huggies. Not Dummies.
Huggies Pulls Ads After Insulting Dads
We’ve all seen commercials like this: A child makes a mess, and Dad has no idea how to clean it up. Good thing Mom is in the next room! She brings order to the disarray and delivers a message in the process: “Ads often convey the idea that women are inherently better at household chores than men,” says Erica Scharrer, a professor of communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Back in 2004, Scharrer studied the commercials that aired over the course of one week on prime-time TV shows. Of 477 characters depicted completing chores, 305 were women and 159 were men. Of the male characters, 50 percent were portrayed as comically inept. By contrast, more than 90 percent of the female characters were portrayed as competent.
These types of ads have pervaded the airwaves for so long, they have penetrated our subconscious—which may be the reason, in part, why approximately one in three married women in our survey said they were uncomfortable delegating household chores to their spouses. One of the main reasons the women gave: that their husbands wouldn’t do the chores the way the women wanted them done. In fact, 45 percent of women with spouses who have identical (or higher) household standards felt very uncomfortable delegating organizing or decluttering jobs. Why? Organizing requires management skills and may give women a sense of authority they may be reluctant to relinquish,” says Melissa Milkie, a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, in College Park.
What Women Can’t Let Go
![School Forfeits State Championship Instead of Facing Girl on Team
[Paige] Sultzbach is a freshman at Mesa Preparatory Academy, which had been scheduled to play Our Lady of Sorrows Academy in tonight’s Arizona Charter Athletic Association state championship at Phoenix College.
But Our Lady of Sorrows, a fundamentalist Catholic school in Phoenix that lost twice to Mesa Prep during the regular season, chose to forfeit the championship game rather than play a team fielding a female player.
Our Lady of Sorrows school officials would not comment, but Sultzbach’s mother, Pamela Sultzbach, said her daughter and the rest of the team received the news after Wednesday afternoon’s practice.
“This is not a contact sport, it shouldn’t be an issue,” Pamela said. “It wasn’t that they were afraid they were going to hurt or injure her, it’s that (they believe) that a girl’s place is not on a field.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3tdtfI0Ax1qztsh3o1_1280.jpg)
