This somewhat alarming video was recently posted in Reddit’s GamerGhazi subreddit. It features Sarkeesian Effect co-creator Jordan Owen explaining, at some length, his disagreements with antiporn feminist Gail Dines over the book Fifty Shades of Grey. (Dines, you see, was Owen’s previous obsession, before he discovered Anita Sarkeesian; this video is a couple of years old.) Alas, the sound cuts out about halfway through the nearly hour-long video, so you won’t get to hear the whole thing.
You might also be slightly distracted by the fact that Owen delivers this lengthy critique while sitting naked in a bathtub.
Oh, my loving gods. TW: Pomegranate. Yes. Let this be a Thing.
POMEGRANATES AAAAAAAH NOOOOOOOOO
I wonder if they’re scared of gory crushed raspberries, too?
This one finally beat my previous Tumblr favorite, which was TW: Pan’s Labyrinth.
They have that one thing in common. Stunningly bad judgment.
And I thought the content note for eyeballs I saw on a Shakesville thread was ridiculous.
TW: Pomegranate. Shut up, Woody!
Wow, Tom Martin really is an absolute scumbag. TW: https://twitter.com/IUseVATSTooMuch/status/535518375737573376
So in today’s mainstream misogyny, Kia decided this would be a good advertisement.
It was brought to my attention by an author I follow on twitter, who said she was using it to teach her teenage daughters about sexism.
Three articles in one day? Dave, I’ll ask you again; how do you manage to be so prolific? How much time do you spend researching and writing for this website? I’m not trying to be accusatory, but don’t you have a day job?
Way to go Kia. Never considering buying your brand.
To be fair, that pomegranate has been disembowelled. What I don’t understand is how she did that and managed not to get any juice anywhere. It’s pristine.
Knock it off, aebars. That last sentence is over the line. What’s it to you?
And Jeep turned me off with this ad. Does he think she’ll change the answer if he repeatedly asks the same bloody question?
Oh wow, that KIA add is gross, in so many ways. It’s bad enough when they have an idea for an add and it’s sexist as a side effect because they are lazy, but it’s so much worse when they start with a sexist idea and build a whole stupid story around it.
I used to be scared of big eyes when I was like, five.
Those ads are gross. Just … WTF?
David is a freelance writer. He writes for a living and has contributed to a variety of publications. Writing three articles probably isn’t a big deal to him.
https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/david-futrelle-faq/
@aebars
It doesn’t take a lot of effort to let someone damn themselves with their own words.
By that I mean, this is a particularly stupid post to making a comment like that on
I don’t understand the Jeep commercial. What was so hard to believe about her buying a jeep?
Oh! Because it’s a manly vehicle! D’oh!
Actually, most of the jeep-owners I know are women. It’s kind of a girly vehicle around here. It’s a mom-mobile.
Commercials I think are the most backwards part of media today, every gender stereotype ever thought of continues unabated in commercials. There, women still do all the housework and allowing a man any part of it will only result in breakfast in the bathroom, shit in socks and cats and dogs teaming up.
So jeeps… we have freezing rain last night, and work was delayed until 10 o’clock am. So it is around 9:40, and I’m getting in my car, and this dude in a jeep is spinning his wheels, trying to get his car to face the right direction.
Meanwhile, I back my Hyundai sedan right up and out of the parking lot, no problem, and I picked the right entrance at work. One of my co-workers came into the parking lot in a different entrance, busted his car badly enough it had to be towed, and while walking back out to put a sign up, got to see another person also crash.
So now I know which way not to enter the parking lot when there is ice out.
aebars, you read all of David’s posts. Is this the part where I ask you if you have a day job? And if so, how do you find time to comment on his posts?
Protip: prefacing a comment with ” I’m not trying to be accusatory” or “With all due respect” or “I hope you don’t take this the wrong way” is a signal to double-check what you’re saying/ how you’re saying it.
Those phrases are cues that something shitty is following. It is a simple enough matter to either reframe the comment so it’s not shitty, or not write something at all.
Ehhh, the tw:pomegranate thing is a little extreme, yeah. But I can see potentially tagging for other sorts of plants and things, considering that lotus seed pods and that sort of thing can be pretty disconcerting for tryphophobes.
(For those unaware of what tryphophobia is, I highly advise against googling it because pictures will come up of phobia-triggery stuff. It’s a fear of irregular patterns of clustered holes (wormholes in wood and things like that) and often causes gut feelings of revulsion and skin-crawlingness and generally feeling wigged out.)