Fellas! I don’t know if you know this, but we’re living in an, um, let me be sure I have this right, a “totalitarian regime dictatorship of forcing social justice and politically correctness.”
That might seem a little bit farfetched, at least to you blue pill people. But I read about this dire new development in the Kotaku In Action subreddit — where Reddit’s GamerGaters mostly hang out — so it must be true.
The post linked to INCONTROVERTIBLE PROOF of this terrible SJW totalitarian regime dictatorship: a picture of some dude holding up a parody of a “I need feminism because … ” sign designed to show just what mean, mean meanies those feminists really are.
I’m pretty sure that every red-blooded heterosexual man knows just what he’s getting at here!
I mean, if some hot babe walks by me, and I, as a thoughtful and considerate man, offer her a nice compliment on her appearance by, say, yelling out “hey, titty girl, show me your titties” while making kissy sounds with my mouth, the feminists are all like, “why the hell did you do that, what’s wrong with you, you living piece of crap.”
You see how they get you with the guilt?
BUT, ok, so some other babe walks by, and maybe she’s not really my type, and I think to myself, well, I’m not going to make the mistake of complimenting her on her titties and get yelled at, especially since her titties are nothing to write home about.
But, you know, I don’t want to be rude and simply ignore her, so I yell out “woah, what’s wrong with your saggy-ass titties, you should get a doctor to look at those cuz I sure don’t want to!”
And so maybe I’ve just saved her life from the breast cancer. But do I get any thanks for it? No.
HEY SJW’S GEORGE ORWELL WOULD BE PROUD OF YOU.
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I love how they reduce it down to “finding a woman attractive” or “not finding a woman attractive.” Oh no, it’s not how they treat or talk about the women in question. Nah.
Dontcha just love it when misogynists pretend that feminists don’t differentiate between attraction and objection in order to cover up for the fact they themselves can’t understand the difference?
I hope that sentence made some sense.
I’ve just never heard a feminist say that it’s misogynist and objectifying to find a woman attractive. The men who complain about meanie pants feminists not allowing them to heterosexual are usually the types of men who are incapable of talking about women without comparing them or their body parts to food products or non-human animals.
Hey, genius. How the fuck does anyone know that you find a particular woman attractive? Are you, perhaps, volunteering your bonerfeels to people who haven’t asked about them???
Again, why are you volunteering your bonerfeels about any given woman? That’s the only way anyone would know that you don’t find someone attractive!
As usual, these super-STEM minds hear the criticism but fail to understand that the solution is to stop sharing their boner with everyone they meet. They just can’t grasp, at all, that their boner is not something everyone needs to know about at all times; if I don’t want to hear about your boner when it’s up and I don’t want to hear about it when it’s down, maybe the commonality is that I don’t want to hear about it.
This made me laugh! But exactly.
I’ve gotten both kinds of rude comments before, about being ugly and about being hot (well, just my rear end being hot – apparently the rest of me exists at more moderate temperatures) and BOTH are equally unwanted and annoying. I don’t mind if people think I’m dazzlingly beautiful or horribly ugly or somewhere in between, but it’s not really something I need to be told by strangers, okay?
/end rant
epitome: ACTUALLY, let me explain, it’s because those men see hotness and not-hotness and their STEM minds start daydreaming about how this means you are literally fuel for a perpetual motion heat engine, if only they can figure out how to harness you. Totally not objectifying, just thinking of you as an object.
Glenn, is that you?
Yeah, that’s pretty much their non-self-aware logic. Yeah.
@epitomy: Yeah I’ve gotten that too. Some parts of my body are very hot while others apparently seem to be quite temperate. I still don’t understand the purpose of strange men announcing that aloud, though.
Maxwell’s Demon as applied to body-policing and harassment?
Yeah, Sign Dude…you need feminism to remind you that women are human beings, and not just sets of looks which are either appealing or not-appealing to you (which is such boring-ass binary-think anyhow).
And now, you may consider yourself duly reminded, by feminism.
Tschüß!
Maybe learn what words mean before making a meaningless statement? Objectification is the process of talking about or acting towards a person in a way that ignores their humanity. It’s not an inherent part of sexual attraction, even attraction that’s primarily physical.
Women can in theory sexually objectify men, and probably do in private conversation, but it’s much rarer for women to make unsolicited and intrusive comments about men’s anatomy or general attractiveness out in public.
Um, yeah, I don’t think women dislike being complimented for their looks – it’s just when you’re hooting, hollering, and yelling “SHOW YOUR TITS!!!” like a cretinous knuckle-dragger who may as well be a caveman.
Also: yes, you can keep yourself from ogling women, or fondling them, or being sexually aggressive. Because plenty of men do it every single day and aren’t bitter assholes about it – ’cause they’re decent human beings…
@Bryce:
Maybe you need to learn reading comprehension before completely misunderstanding a statement?
Yes, and…
Ah, there we go with missing the point and adding some false equivalence on top of that!
You do realize the post is specifically about objectifying women publically, right, because that is far more prevalent than the opposite? You do realize that no one, including feminists, are trying to control private conversations? That the issue isn’t about men or women talking about what they find attractive to other men or women when having personal conversations?
No, of course you don’t. If you’re not being willfully obtuse – you’re being disingenuous. You and every other troll that continually comes to this site and act like they read anything here, when you really don’t and just want to repeat talking points ad nauseam…
I’m a lesbian and I have to admit, I often ogle. But I have the good grace to do it surreptiously so the object of my ogling is unaware and not made uncomfortable and of course I’d never shout something like “hey sugar tits! Nice rack!”
LOL, David this post is too funny.
Honestly, guys do suffer from some sexual objectification, you see it when these guys complain that women insist that men should be tall, or muscular, or whatever. It is far less clear cut for guys then women, but it’s still waiting just under the surface.
I’m bisexual, and I really like to look, but feel like I’m constantly gawking at women in the media. As much as I really like gawking at men, men just aren’t put in the situation of always being “flirty” for the benefit of the viewers. They’re not put into the position of being offered up on a plate for consumption.
Men always assume that they would enjoy being objectified, but that’s because men usually take the active role when flirting. When it comes down to being pieces of meat; of being too skinny, too short, too fat, too poor, too whatever, men fucking hate it. They hate the passive role so much that they go online to bitch about feminism turning men into “pussies”, and make up some BS about women’s “natural roles” because they feel themselves scratching too close to understanding how women feel when objectified.
That was rhetorical question directed at the individual in the photo , not anyone here in comments.
Yes I realize that, and I think you’ve misread my post there, Hoss. It wasn’t drawing equivalence but making a distinction between socially acceptable and unacceptable situations within which to comment on another’s appearance.
@Nick
“Um, yeah, I don’t think women dislike being complimented for their looks”
Speaking as a woman, and speaking broadly and generally, women do generally hate most compliments based on looks, thanks to their many bad past experiences. Complimenting her clothes, or saying that she “looks good”, is really about as far as I ever go. 🙂
I wouldn’t want a rando to compliment me on my looks no matter how classy they were being. If it’s my hairstyle or my clothes or whatever, that’s OK because that relates to my personality and my choices, but “Hey, I just wanted to let you know where you fall on an arbitrary scale of societal judgment based on traits you can’t control” isn’t something I want to hear even if I’m being rated high.
weirwoodtreehugger-
I’m 90% sure it’s an intentional obfuscation. They know what they are doing is dehumanizing to women, because that’s the point, but if they hide it behind just being attracted then people handwave it away. So it’s just a matter of expanding the definition of “just being attracted” until it covers literally any action one might do to a woman.
Sort of like how anti-choice activists label every contraceptive method controlled by women as an “abortion” or “like an abortion” or like how anti-trans activists are careful to hide behind just being super concerned about “privacy” when called out on their anti-trans shit.
@Nick
I also do not enjoy compliments on my looks. Just the other day a coworker “complimented” me by saying the view was nice from his seat directly across from me in a conference room. When I ignored it, he added, “that was a compliment.” No, dude, it was inappropriate and turned me from a member of your team with skills and contributions and important things to share in this meeting to being no more important than the plant. Just something pleasant to look at.
@ NickNameNick
Actually I’d prefer not to have my looks commented on at all by people who aren’t close and trusted. It’s just a private and personal matter. I get self conscious and really don’t need to be reminded everyone is constantly evaluating my worth as a human by how well I meet their expectations when it comes to my looks.
Also I’m closeted nonbinary, and when people comment on my looks they tend to do so with the assumption that I will be happy to be told how much of a woman I am.
It’s all kinds of hurtful and can ruin my day even when meant well.
A small class of un-sexist appearance-related compliments exists, but people never seem to go for them.
Seconding, it is obnoxious and intrusive as all hell when some random schmuck wants to volunteer his boner-rating of you or expects you to humor their personal preferences. We don’t need to know whether or not you’re happy in your pants, nor is it any concern of ours to keep you happy. Please keep your apparently constant inner sex monologues to yourselves, weirdos.
How bout this?
Until we, as feminists, can rid our own websites of ridiculous misogynistic clickbait ads… We should tone it down a little bit?
I love this blog, but it seems ridiculous when I come on here and see fat-shaming, booby looking, “top 10 times hot chicks have been caught in public” ads.
If we have to indulge the advertisers with that crap in order to get our message out… We’re no better than any of the idiots we make fun of.
@Nick
Whether or not I like being complimented on my looks depends on several factors: what I’m wearing, how my hair turned out, how well I did my makeup, whether or not I’m feeling self-conscious about my size that day (it can be a bit of a confidence boost if I am), but mostly the complimenter’s demeanor (if they make crude sexual comments or otherwise give off creeper vibes, I don’t like the compliment) and what mood I’m in. It’s a complicated formula.
That said, enough women dislike it (such as the fellow Mammotheers who said so above) that “when in doubt, don’t” is usually the safest policy.