Cracked.com takes things to another level: video about sexist stereotypes in ads turns into an open attack on Men's Rights.

sillymod · 2014-10-01T16:18:46+00:00

Women are depicted as stupid - sexist against women.

Women are depicted as fragile - sexist against women.

Women are depicted as strong and capable - sexist against women.

Men are depicted as strong - sexist against women.

Men are depicted as stupid - sexist against women.

Unfalsifiability. It is a wonderful tool.

Stephen_Morgan · 2014-10-01T14:38:53+00:00

Dave Wong is a hardcore SJW, hence his hatred of Gamers and MRAs.

And his film was pretentious and badly written.

kwyjiboner · 2014-10-01T15:53:47+00:00

So to summarize his point:

Advertisers' visions of men and women are often blatantly stereotypical and possibly harmful to society, BUT if you think that anything should be done about the depictions of men specifically, you're a woman hating, basement dwelling loser who needs to check his privilege.

Jesus, way to turn a possibly poignant video from a discussion of Advertising's gender stereotypes into an inflammatory shot across the bow.

We have no right to complain though... I mean, it's all men who run advertising corporations, ergo, anything they say about men applies to all men. /s

Thepaladinofchaos · 2014-10-01T14:03:59+00:00

For fucks sakes cracked

MisterButtunz · 2014-10-01T20:08:47+00:00

I don't get why the men's rights movement is so controversial to so many people.

People seem to think that the MRA is like some hardcore conservative movement aligned with PUAs and austrian economists.

MR is really something that basically any sincere progressive should support.

The central idea (this is a simplification but whatever), is that modern feminists have decided to retain traditional gender roles when they benefit women at the expense of men, only advocating real feminist ideas when women reap all the benefits.

MRs want what could be called a more "consistent" version of feminism, where equality is the goal even when it requires women to sacrifice the privileges they had under the patriarchy. In Sweden, for instance, alimony is limited to a few month and child support is capped at $200 a kid. Would you ever hear an American feminist advocating for this? But the idea of unlimited male duty to support is a classic "patriarchal" idea, it assumes that women are weak and in need of a male benefactor.

MR is one of those things where I feel people have just closed their eyes, covered their ears, and refused to listen. The ideas shouldn't be controversial but the idea of "men's advocacy" just upsets people. Could it be the vulnerability involved, I wonder? Could it be that many men would find it harmful to their ego to admit that they are in need of advocacy? I feel it likely that this is the case. Otherwise, why are the reactions to the MRM so hysterical, so emotional? Why does it put so many male feminists in particular on the defensive, whereas most female feminists don't seem as preoccupied with MRAs?

sundown372 · 2014-10-01T16:43:06+00:00

I figured they took things to another level when they lambasted Eric Gjoni for speaking out about his own abuse, calling him "shittier than a belly-flopping sewer worker" and including a picture of a crying man to mock him while simultaneously treating his abuser like an innocent victim.

blueoak9 · 2014-10-01T19:20:58+00:00

I love the smell of desperation in the morning. It's the smell of victory.

zergrushh · 2014-10-01T21:53:36+00:00

Cracked.com's target demographic is teens and young adults, who tend to bend toward a liberal world view, which dictates that there's a "war on women" led by men, who are violent brutes and earn more money at women's expense. So, yeah, it's not surprising that Cracked puts out schlock like this.

As they get older and get more wise to the ways of the world, they'll stop visiting Cracked. Happened to me years ago, because I got tired of the subtle politics (occasionaly not so subtle) in many of their articles. That's not to say that there aren't good writers there, but it's not worth my time anymore.

evil-doer · 2014-10-01T16:08:13+00:00

wait, was that video supposed to be comedy?

jkf6x7 · 2014-10-01T18:29:17+00:00

I actually really liked this in till the end. Then he was like; "holy shit I'm starting to sound like an MRA, better randomly insult them to distance myself."

hork23 · 2014-10-01T23:14:20+00:00

Cracked is suppose to be a comedy site right? Then why were the jokes bland as fuck.

StarHarvest · 2014-10-02T06:33:29+00:00

For those of you interested on the actual biases in TV commercials (against men, for the benefit of women), check out the Misandry in the Media series

JimProfitLeninist · 2014-10-02T08:32:46+00:00

This guy is like Stan's dad Randy from South Park when he cannot stop being sarcastic. Seriously... it's like words come out of his mouth, but it's just sarcasm, passive-aggressive, and contrived with no real meaning or sincerity behind it.

covertblackspecops · 2014-10-02T14:56:27+00:00

Well Cracked is... I don't know what the word is.

They have David Wong, editor in chief or something like that, who once called his readers neckbeard pedophiles.

They had Christina H who openly hated white people and men, and constantly wrote articles attacking them. She also said some pretty offensive things about black people. She always hid behind the fact that she was Asian to justify her right to be a bigot against other groups.

John Cheese kept claiming he was poor (probably still does to this day but I haven't followed in a while) and writing articles about how bad it is to be poor and how everyone who makes more money than him (including middle class people) is oppressing him. He had his entire wedding financed entirely by fans who felt sorry for him, and that still didn't stop him from complaining about never having money in his life to do nice things. I forget the exact amount, but it was above $10,000 if I remember correctly. I think another part to the controversy was that he said he just wanted to collect about a thousand bucks, but when he received much more he kept it all to himself.

The only writer I ever thought was a decent person was Sean Baby. So aside from a few exceptions, the Cracked staff is a cesspool of social scum.

Title	Cracked.com takes things to another level: video about sexist stereotypes in ads turns into an open attack on Men's Rights.
Author	thepizzapeople
Upvotes	55
Comments	52
Date	October 1, 2014 1:54 PM UTC (11 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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