I'm taking a class on "Diversity" which has basically become another class on feminism. The class spent 45 minutes talking about this video of "How The Media Failed Women in 2013" and I was hoping som

TRPACC · 2014-01-30T16:41:27+00:00

You just need to point out that any thing negative about a woman is "misogny" and therefore heresy, while there is carte blanche on male bashing in sit coms, advertisements, the female media and feminist classes.

TracyMorganFreeman · 2014-01-30T17:40:08+00:00

How the media failed women in 2013?

You mean how having the temerity to disagree with giving everything women wanted was portrayed as a war on women by the media?

demiurgency · 2014-01-30T18:23:15+00:00

Talking about men? But...but...but... that would mean... diversity. In your Diversity class.

Head asplode.

Erebus77 · 2014-01-30T20:09:29+00:00

The end result of literally every complaint they have is caused by women, not men. I have never seen, nor have I heard a man expect a woman to look like a model. Liking and looking at models is not creating an expectation, they fucking do the same god damn thing - to a much higher degree for men.

Additionally, I have seen men make fun of women, degrade women, criticize women. What I have also seen is women do it too. What I haven't seen is a man be ruthless about it. What I have seen is a woman be ruthless about it.

Sasha_ · 2014-01-30T18:03:05+00:00

I can't help you with something explicity from 2013, but this video by Manwomanmyth, sums up some of the issues and should certainly spark debate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZAuqkqxk9A

Giyika · 2014-01-30T19:15:34+00:00

It's hilarious that the "media" failed women because rihanna wore some skimpy clothes in a video. She is a slave to the patriarchy tho so she didn't have a choice. I'm sure she hates the attention, money and fame she gets for it

jag213 · 2014-01-30T22:17:26+00:00

Drop the class, there will be too much group think and "teacher is always right" and your gpa will suffer if your opinion isn't "correct"

Number357 · 2014-01-30T20:20:27+00:00

Slightly off-topic, but here's a good link about men being portrayed as the expendable gender in the media. Basically, viewers are more sympathetic towards female characters, the death of a male character is seen as less tragic than the death of a female character (and killing a man is seen as less 'evil' than killing a woman), etc.

feloniousthroaway · 2014-01-31T11:20:06+00:00

Oh man three minutes of footage out of an entire year. What a fucking catastrophe.

I think one episode of Modern Family has more footage of Men being "failed" than this youtube video.

rightsbot · 2014-01-30T16:32:17+00:00

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prevolution · 2014-01-30T20:20:17+00:00

In some things (such as congress) women are kinda treated like the unreasonable ones. Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't. It really has nothing to do with gender because for every one of those clips in the video there are ten more of them about men. Mudslinging is a political tool used to win elections. Nothing more. Unfortunately, people are under the impression that if you subject women to the same kind of scrutiny as men it's 'sexist'. It's called equality, bitches! It's what you wanted, so get used to it!

Miley Cirus can't really complain either because she works for an industry where EVERYTHING is all about her appearance and any media coverage (regardless of it being good or bad) boosts her career. You think she didn't know the Wrecking Ball music video was bad? Of course she did! She knew full-well it would spark a media firestorm that would make her MORE FAMOUS.

Women have all the power in things that matter. Voting? Politicians have to pretend like they have a soul to win over female voters because they make up 51% of the population. Elections? Merely being a female candidate grants a huge amount of female support and votes. Reproductive rights? Men literally have ZERO say in the reproduction process. After sex is done all men can do is hope and pray the condom didn't break because if it does either the baby gets aborted or they are financially fucked for the next 18-19 years. Parenting rights? Men never win custody battles unless the mother is on drugs or has a long history of violent offenses. Employment? Women are not expected to do the same amount of work as men and are treated with more leniency by employers. It's why I believe the modern feminist movement is petty as fuck.

btmims · 2014-01-31T04:33:52+00:00

Um... The ladies of "the view" talking about cutting a guys genitals off in revenge, to great applause, ring any bells?

Electroverted · 2014-01-30T19:00:28+00:00

That piece of shit video? Groannn...

Threwaway42 · 2014-01-31T00:02:06+00:00

I think that video has a lot of convenient editing too. Not all, but a lot of it

Phrodo_00 · 2014-01-31T03:57:34+00:00

Grab any action movie, notice how men dying in the background are treated.

drewleann0 · 2014-01-31T08:56:52+00:00

This is part of a project titled "The mask you live in", and is a project working to educate and empower everyone. This video that OP linked to was just one segment.

edtastic · 2014-01-30T23:41:59+00:00

My personal favorite is to relabel the claims of female objectification into an attack on male sexuality. You can also point out gay men and women seem to have no problem with sexually objectifying men and the term objectification itself is dubious since sex is innately physical and treating the body as an object in space is a reasonable response to it's physical existence. If the mind was wired to be attracted to other human bodies who are they to declare that form of attraction off limits?

Demand equality at every turn and if they say it affects women more remind them that men 4 times as likely to be murdered but there is far more media interest focus on preventing violence against women. In the media coverage on sexual assault in the military the focus is on women despite men being half the victims and 1/5 as likely to report their assaults. Men have far more unaddressed issues of sexism than women, but few men have been educated on these subjects because our culture tends to favor women in the role of victim.

Other than that since women are half the population why would they be the focus of a discussion on diversity? The main focus should be on issues of cultural/ethnic diversity not the endless demands of entitled women who see social justice as just another way to control the men around them.

housebrickstocking · 2014-01-31T01:10:12+00:00

Bung on a south african accent and just meet everything with a claim "Bit eets not quite leik that univerelly is?" and brickwall everything with that.

See how long it takes for the teacher to throw some racially innapropriate slurs at you.

Not sure how "helpful" it is, but if I've learned anything from feminists over the years - if you can't fix it, just make it a ridiculous mockery of its former self and base all evaluation on that instead.

2014-01-31T03:23:47+00:00

Feminism is a mental disorder.

2014-01-31T09:40:28+00:00

What I find infuriating about the goddam video is the complete paucity of facts, data, reasoned analysis etc. The whole thing has as much substance as a perfume add.

If that is all you are worried about, then your task should be an easy one.

thelordofcheese · 2014-02-01T05:01:47+00:00

http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1wp863/another_life_ruined_because_all_men_are_rapists/

Here's one for 2014. All the media around here just keep pounding out that this guy is a "sex offender". He had sex with his 16 year old girlfriend when he was 20 and she got pregnant. Age of consent in PA is 16. Barely more than 3 years apart. And they keep calling him a child molester.

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