Remember when feminists attacked MRAs for opposing sexist t-shirts against boys?

thetrollking · 2011-09-01T12:15:59+00:00

The interesting thing, to me, about comparing and contrasting these two cases is how the girl is given privilege and in each case the boy is punished for being a boy.

Let's break it down:

Case A: Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them. This was seen as funny because for some reason it is funny to harm boys and men. If it was the reverse, throw rocks at girls, then you have systemic domestic terrorism against girls(or so socons and feminists and almost everybody would say). Notice how girls are obviously privileged in this example.

Case B: I am too pretty to do homework, so my brother has to do it for me(speaking from the POV of a girl) is seen as sexist but the real question is why? The boy is being punished and the girl is being rewarded and again this is due to female privilege. She has inherent value and he is a beast of burden. But... This is seen as sexist and evil because it reduces women to their beauty and not their brains, or so they say. The real truth is that it points out how the sister has ownership over the brother. She doesn't have to do homework because she is viewed as inherently valuable while he is shit.

I honestly wonder about the culture that allows these slogans to be valuable, hense being able to be sold to a demographic/market. Girls are given every advantage in public schools and they still rely on their privilege(to a extent)??? Do some girls have this privileged princess syndrom because they have teachers, parents, boys, dads(sometimes), and a entire culture lifting them up on a pedestal in the education arena?

aloneinlove · 2011-09-01T15:07:58+00:00

Remember when feminists attacked MRAs for opposing sexist t-shirts against boys?

Actually, no. I caught the MRA objection but missed the feminist response. Care to clue me in to what they said?

Edit: This is what the feminists had to say about "boys are dumb throw rocks at them":

In a Boulder Daily Camera article,[10] later condemned by its editorial board,[11] Linda Scott, faculty member at University of Illinois, expressed support for the T-shirts as revenge for boys' "bullying". Helen Grieco, executive director of the National Organization for Women discounted the issue as unimportant and depicted Sacks as hypocritical, alleging he publicizes anti-women views in his radio broadcasts.[12] Others, like San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jane Ganahl ridiculed Sacks' efforts in an article saying, "shut up and get a life, already".[13] Rush Limbaugh criticized this approach.[3] Ganahl argued that the T-shirts are perceived as harmless fun by children and that sexism against women is a far more widespread and substantial problem in United States' society.

More evidence of feminists condoning sexism against men.

theozoph · 2011-09-01T11:59:40+00:00

Come on, that is TOTALLY different!

/s

ether_reddit · 2011-09-01T16:08:21+00:00

There's a fairly extensive compilation of sexist marketing and consumer items here (and links to more): http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/08/31/end-of-the-month-gendered-kids-stuff-roundup/

The accounting of pictures of boys and girls playing with non-gender-stereotypical toys in various catalogues is saddening (summary: ZERO).

ExpendableOne · 2011-09-01T14:48:56+00:00

These types of shirt have been around for a while now and this is probably the first time I ever seen any kind of real objection by self-titled feminists. Honestly though, I'm pretty sure most of this outrage by "feminists" pretty much stems entirely from the words "I'm too pretty to do my homework" than from the "so my brother has to do it for me" part. Why would they start caring about boys now when, clearly, the issue with the pressure placed on girls to be pretty(even when boys face those same very pressures but in different ways) is that much more of a priority? Had this shirt just been "I'm too smart to do homework, that's why my brother does them for me", it probably would not have ever even been brought up as being sexist.

Offensive_Brute · 2011-09-01T20:32:01+00:00

that shirt is fucking hideous and for that alone it should have never been marketed. The fact that it was also roundly offensive is only a secondary offense.

ProzacLady · 2011-09-02T08:19:59+00:00

What if I buy it for my son? :)

barbadosslim · 2011-09-02T13:55:51+00:00

Title	Remember when feminists attacked MRAs for opposing sexist t-shirts against boys?
Author	linearThinker
Upvotes	44
Comments	28
Date	September 1, 2011 10:49 AM UTC (14 years ago)
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