Saturday, 19 December 2015

This Year in Sexism

To celebrate another year in the gradual decline of humanity The Guardian has decided to round up the allegedly sexist issues of the past twelve months, and wow have they done a good job. Let's have a look at the most pressing issues for equality in this country.
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http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/dec/15/the-year-in-sexism-women-2015-feminism-misogynist
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We start the year with a big one, a man having a different opinion to the author; blatant sexism. Maybe instead of crying over it you should actually read some of it, as once you stop trying to censor it you can see there's actually some valid points made in that article; unlike yours. I would have possibly included another article from February that encourages people to stop buying books written by white men, but then I'm not sure that can be sexist since that's a systematic oppression of men. Later in the year we were also told to stop buying music written by men, but please continue with your far more important points. March was even more shocking. Imagine telling a woman going through pregnancy that she might not want to take part in the election. You just shouldn't hear that kind of ridiculous comment, unless of course you're one of the many women who choose to take maternity leave. Of course being as this is an article about sexism you could argue how paternity leave is considerably shorter, but that would be a stupid argument to make in an obviously slandered article.

Satire and caricatures are also sexist apparently, as is highlighting the unusual fact that a leading politician is female. But as for a few minorities commenting stupid things on the Internet, well that's a new menace that's never happened before on the Internet. God this was a tough year. Also interesting to add that when women are included in real life sports it's also the feminists that have to start crying again.

Hmm I suspect the reason why the 'Women's World Cup' isn't just called the 'World Cup' is because that already exists, and not because of sexism. The innocent tweets that you cite are also just not sexist in anyway, yet alone harmful. I don't know why there's a huge outrage over the FA praising the women's football team, even if they did decide to make a reference to the quite shocking allegation that these female football players also have personal lives. Maybe this tweet wouldn't have made the article if the FA had just played it safe and claimed that the female players would go back to being superior than the men. Of course don't even dare claiming that men's football is more commercially viable and exhilarating than women's football, as you'll just get branded a sexist in this article.

The year continues, but still this author hasn't cottoned onto the fact that some people might have different opinions to hers, and of course there's no better way to highlight this than pitifully crying about them in slanted articles. That racist and sexist commentary you reference just doesn't matter, and actually you should be criticising the shit level of reporting instead of the trivial gender issues presented. That's the same with whinging about a list of things that men would like a relationship, that is quite clearly very different from the masses of lists on the Internet aimed at how men should be treating their partners. I mean how dare you try and improve the lives of men. You could have just ignored the tips as they're not mandatory instructions, but no, you had to cry sexism in the most childish way possible. I'll happily agree that 'The Daily Mail' is a pile of bollocks, but with the rest of the articles there's just nothing but wild accusations of so called sexism. If feminism really is about equality and incorporates both genders then why is being labelled a 'feminazi' sexist? I just find it funny how it's only when this insult is aimed at women does it get a mention in this article.

The year ends with the obviously sexist police campaign to try and decrease the number of rape victims. Why the fuck is this something to moan about? In my funny little world I thought that a campaign spreading awareness for combating rape is a much bigger issue than this so called 'sexist' approach. I don't know how it's victim blaming, in the same way I don't know how campaigns for people to lock their doors isn't victim blaming either. I have to inform you that there is a 'Don't Rape' campaign; it's called a lengthy prison sentence. Your method on the other hand leads to this blatant sexism that you completely fail at acknowledging. Apparently only telling men to not rape people isn't an inherently sexist solution at all.

May I add a few little extra entries for sexism I found throughout the year. Firstly there were feminists crying about the use of rape in a fictional television show, whilst simultaneously recommending 'The Kite Runner' in another article that focuses on male rape in the narrative. Only crying at how the female stereotypes are presented in a popular Disney film. Claiming that female rights should be promoted over the safety of children. And my personal favourite, claiming that money should be taken out of male earnings due to a theoretical wage gap. Funny how I also didn't see any mention of the ridiculously high rates of rape for women in India, or maybe the systematic oppression under ISIS, but yeah I'm sure these issues in the article are far more significant. This focus on trivial issues sums this article up perfectly, ignoring any male issues in the process. In reality this article isn't in any position to start lecturing people on sexism, especially when that lecture is trivial bollocks.

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