First off, yeah I've been gone a while. I just needed some space and time to sort some shit out, but everything's more or less fine now, so yeah. I forgot my password, too, so there's that.
There may have been threads like this before but whatever, everyone's talking about NnT right now and I think there should be some OT activity for the people who haven't had chance to play it.
For a start, I agree that woman are often over-sexualised in the media, it's obvious, but at the same time, is it really as big of a deal as people make it out to be? There's also the fact that it happens to men, too, way more often than you'd think. The difference here is that it's often looked past because women kind of get "special treatment" in that department.
The thing is, everyone gets special treatment in one way or another, and everyone's fighting over everyone else's special treatment. I think that is the biggest problem with the "equality" thing in society these days.
I don't think its wrong we have so many unrealistically sexualised women in media because we all know that the key word is unrealistically. People aren't like that, and it's more offensive to men that people think we only think with our dicks. The thing is, men generally don't care about that, where as you have radical feminists and social justice warriors that will flip their shit about Wonder-Woman's costume. We're all pretty intelligent people and we know that women don't make orgasm noises when they wash their hair.
Another thing is that things like breast cancer adverts (warnings, not places to buy your own tumor) are always geared at women, yet you'd be surprised at the amount of men who can get the disease. I've also never seen anything on TV warning men about testicular cancer.
I guess my point is that feminism is essentially useless in the first world, as women may not be represented in the same way as men, but they are treated as equally as they can be. When it gets down to it, nobody is equal, and that's kind of what keeps things interesting. It's not a good thing when you've got a society or group where everyone is the same *cough*Tumblr*cough*iPhone users*cough*. There's no reason to get annoyed about over sexualisation in the media because not only is it common with both genders, but we know that it isn't real. These comments from a Facebook post are different ways of putting it, but they're basically saying the same thing.
I don't know what "testicular cancer robs a man of his sexual identity" means, but the point still stands, I guess.
Those radical feminists on Tumblr don't want equality, they want to be more privileged than men. In some respects women always will be more privileged than men, and in others men will be more privileged than women, but the issues begin when people start crying about it.
All this being said, I'm all for equality, but society is focusing its "efforts" in the wrong area. Sexism exists today, I won't deny that, but it isn't being fought in the right way. What's being fought is the way media portrays women etc. and that's just pointless in the end.
What about the people with power? Sexism and racism is much worse in politics.
Basically it goes from one extreme to the other, you've got the racists, homophobics and transphobics at one end, and then you've got the social justice warriors at the other who exist only to represent their respective groups horribly and give them a bad rep.
BUT WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Semi-related video.
It's great, it's like something off Brass Eye.