Men deserve to be slapped for ---what exactly, eating?

gaggedbythealien · 2008-07-12T05:27:39+00:00

I'm kind of surprised by the fierceness of the complaints at this post. I've always been a little annoyed at how acceptable female on male violence is. I can't even count the number of times I've seen men beat up by women in movies, commercials and television.

Worse, they did a study while I was in college in which they had a "couple" arguing in a public space. Then they had one start hitting the other. The whole thing was staged to see how passerby reacted. When it was the guy hitting the girl, passerby invariably got angry, often intervened at nearly always called the police. When it was the girl hitting the guy, nobody intervened, only one called the cops, and three women going by pumped their fists and said, "you go, girl!".

I don't think this sort of commercial is appropriate, unless the society will also tolerate slapping in the other direction.

theseusastro · 2008-07-12T05:53:32+00:00

The medium really is the message and in this case the message is that women are free to assault men.

I think burger king has made a stupid mistake with this add.

A horrible violation in any gender is to upset or carry out verbal or physical violence upon someone when they are eating.

This is understood in every culture, but obviously not in the less than human world of Burger King.

kanuk876 · 2008-07-12T03:18:41+00:00

Men deserve to be slapped for ---what exactly, eating?

Yes, for being human, for being hungry. Apparently.

fjhqjv · 2008-07-12T11:53:00+00:00

Feminists worked really hard over several decades to make it so that a man hitting a woman in a humorous fashion on TV would cause more harm from a marketing perspective than good.

Get your acts together, guys. Let's make it so the only thing actors can do in commercials is sit quietly and compliment each other on their shoes.

TheDirector · 2008-07-12T07:24:01+00:00

My God, it's a commercial. Another BK commercial has a black guy calling a white guy an arrogant punk. Is that racism? No, of course not.

TheDirector · 2008-07-12T03:55:58+00:00

What? We're getting fired up over this? Oh, please.

It would have caused the same controversy if it had been a woman being slapped, only the feminists would be the ones barking. Why don't we make it a law that all characters who exhibit or receive violence on TV must be androgynous?

People need to get over this politically correct crap. Guess what; the world would be a pretty bland place if everything was designed in such a way that absolutely no one could possibly take offense at it.

ndaprophet · 2008-07-12T04:01:21+00:00

Please don't sensationalize this and lump it in with the movement for men's rights.

2008-07-12T04:26:36+00:00

It's a joke, not a feminist statement.

Title	Men deserve to be slapped for ---what exactly, eating?
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Upvotes	15
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Date	July 12, 2008 3:13 AM UTC (18 years ago)
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