From Auckland University. Absurd music video of feminists showing thick double standards, and another display of why feminism doesn't seem to be egalitarian in its message.

CosmicKeys · 2013-09-02T04:25:32+00:00

I'm just gonna post the rant I had in rNZ:

Lol, this was from Auckland? Well I've got some bad news... feminists suck at gender flips. They say they're all about gender equality, but they're happy to trample over the men's issues they claim to care about when required. This is a frivolous but good enough example.

In the original video, there was no scene where two men stand on either side of a woman and kiss her while she looks uncomfortable. Now this is obviously could be part of of an additional commentary on harassment, but regardless it shows how feminists are happy to leverage traditional shaming of feminine men or feminine entitlement to a man's body (i.e. men's issues) when it suits them.

Let's take a look at the lyrics:

You think that you're so slick, Let me emasculate ya! Because your precious dick Can't beat my vibrator.

These line says everything - that's the height of traditionally sexist commentary against men, that their bodies are sexually less valuable than a woman's. So what's this he to do given his genitalia and sexuality is worthless? Well earn a women's affection with money, status, gifts etc. of course. This is why actually accurate gender flips are beneficial for men, because they portray men as physically desirable for intrinsic reasons.

Now the reason why this is important is that traditionally, women feel socially entitled to touching men's bodies or initiating sexually aggressive behaviour, not the other way around. Don't like some chick touching you? "Toughen up." "What are you, gay?" That's the entitlement. The other way around, men are harshly chastised for making women uncomfortable - even if the point is that "they do it more" or "it's more serious when men do it" (which is pretty gross anyway).

But the important point is that the original video was intended to be satirical but it ended up reinforcing traditionally sexist views. And now we've come full circle: Just because the Blurred lines video was being satirical didn't excuse it from obviously utilizing real sexism in the video, and just because the feminist video was satirical didn't excuse it from obviously utilizing real sexism in the video. The feminist video is reinforcing the idea that someone invading the personal space of men is no big deal. If the original video was truly as bad as they claim, then simply swapping the genders is all that's needed to make the point.

If you want to see a good gender flip, you have to avoid people who have a reason other than humour or art to do it, like The Flip Side.

Doesn't bother me at all if girls want to sexualize men, it does if they actively bring traditional shaming into it.

Title	From Auckland University. Absurd music video of feminists showing thick double standards, and another display of why feminism doesn't seem to be egalitarian in its message.
Author	Mrmojoman0
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Date	September 2, 2013 4:13 AM UTC (12 years ago)
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