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How to tell Apple is run by men.

How to tell Apple is run by men.

 

  • There is a website called “iwastesomuchtime.com” And they’re not kidding. Here is one small exert from the site sprung by the catalyst mimi above.
    This post is just here to share the joke, we hope no takes too much offence. 😉
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    I’ll wait for the feminists to decry this post as sexist… Oh wait, it’s about men. Fair gam

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    • Molly Zhen  drubacca117 • 17 days ago

      See my post below. This is sexist. Against men. Dammit

       

      • That was well thought out and presented. Kudos!

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      Pssssst. If someone is sexist, they’re automatically not a feminist. Feminism is equal rights and expectations for both men and women. Sexism against men is misandry. 

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        Pssssst… The very term feminist is sexist, especially when coupled with one of the current popular and vocal forms of feminism which actively appeals for a misandric society.

        If they are truly for equal rights, it means fighting against sexism that goes against women AND men. Why not use a term better suited to that quest… like “gender egalitarian” or something similar.

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          I agree that it should be renamed, but the movement itself is anti-sexism on both fronts. Ultimately what it is named is irrelevant; their intentions and methods are enough to convince me.

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            I mean, they’re called gloveboxes but I’ve never seen anyone put specifically gloves in them. I think people should be able to get over an inaccurate name.

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          Well, there’s a few things here. First, sexism against men isn’t always misandry, just as sexism against women isn’t always misogyny. Sexism can be accidental or trivial or silly. Misogyny and misandry are often rooted in a deeper contempt for one or the other binary gender identities. (This is also a response to “DAT… errrr…”)

          The term “feminist” may be sexist, and I agree that we should start moving towards a more gender inclusive term (not just women, not just men and women, but all people including non-binary gendered folk), but for now we are stuck with “feminist” for one big reason, and that is this: a lot of the sexism that men and women face today comes from the general contempt our society has for things that are “feminine.” For example, small penises. “Masculinity” is associated with largeness, presence, muscle, power. Small dicks don’t really evoke that, kind of like vaginas. So while it is sexist against men to say that having a small penis is bad, that sexism is rooted ultimately in a hatred of the smaller, weaker things.

          Take another example. It is sexist against men to say that they shouldn’t dress in jewelry and dresses and dance around provacatively. Just look at the comments on the pop singer Azis’s videos – they are almost all putting him down for being “too girly,” or “too gay.” This is sexist against Azis, a male-identified person, but that sexism is, again, rooted in a fear of men being too womanly. In Azis’s case, it is his femininity that is being put down, not his masculinity.

          You’ll probably point out that people are sexist against men for non-feminine-rooted reasons, such as saying that “men are too violent” or “sex-obsessed.” These microaggressions do hurt, and they should stop. They are harmful generalizations about men. BUT the reason they do not have the same impact as sexist attitudes against women is that men still hold the most power in the world, and it is often regardless (or because) of their violent or sexual natures. Power is everything, and women have very little on a global scale.


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            That was another well thought out post… thank you! I may not agree in whole with everything you said, but I can certainly see the validity of your points. 🙂

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            Just quick thing but, coming from someone who felt with this a lot, it hurts when people call you a “man” for not acting like a women. Or shame you if you have leg hair for being “manly” or call you “man legs”. I’m not trying to debunk your argument, but it’s not that society looks at women like we are weak and tiny and that’s bad, it’s that society likes what it expects out of people. Guy who likes to dance seductively, call him a girl! Girl who likes to keep her leg hair/ not shave, call her a guy.

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              I’ve been guilty of those thoughts. I don’t know how to get to the point where that doesn’t come to mind at all, but at least for now I can avoid sharing those thoughts with others.

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                That’s okay, the important thing is to catch yourself before it becomes vocal.

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              You know, that’s another really insidious side of society that comes out in bad places like youtube comments. Frankly, I’m tired of it all. I think we should all start moving towards a society that accepts you for whoever the fuck you are and however you want to look, and doesn’t make assumptions or “reads” of your appearance. It’s damn tiring.

              In other news, I highly recommend no-shave November. Give it a try this year and see what you think. 🙂 

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                I’m a girl. In don’t have much to scream no shave about and what I don’t shave already wouldn’t make that much of a difference. 

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                  I gathered you were at least female-bodied from your comments, like myself! You are in some ways lucky, then. I’m brown, so I have a lot to shave. No-shave November was life-changing for me. 😛

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                    Haha I’m a tan so we’re not that far apart!

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          Okay here’s an analogy:

          There are two children playing, a boy and a girl. The boy has 3 toys and the girl has 1. You give the girl 2 more toys to make it equal, but the boy cries and complains saying that if you give her 2 more toys, he should get 2 more toys.

          Feminism is about believing that women are people too and should be considered equal. Sure people can be sexist towards men, but at least they have rights that aren’t being taken away from then by old republican conservatives. It’s called feminism because it majorly supports women, not men because men don’t really need that much supporting.

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            I understand your analogy, but I believe it is a poor one (though the message does come through)… First, it is using children as its basis, when children are not generally rational to begin with. I know the point can be expanded upon and presented with adults, but then I still don’t see it. I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, because it probably most certainly does… It’s just difficult to see it that way because I don’t think like that.

            Your second paragraph smacks of smugness and sexism, but again, maybe it’s just because I don’t think that way… To quote:

            “Sure people can be sexist towards men, but at least they have rights
            that aren’t being taken away from them by old republican conservatives.”

            See? You are basically saying that sexism against men is less of an issue, less important. You are saying that because males have something good, that their other experiences can’t be bad. Besides, while you can make a compelling argument that male privilege does it exist, I think that throughout the course of history that while men have had more “power”, you’d find that division of real power is along the lines of the wealthy and the poor.

            “It’s called feminism because it majorly supports women, not men because men don’t really need that much supporting.”

            Feminism is about all about equality, but majorly supports women… I just don’t see how a movement with a goal of gender equality can achieve that goal while “majorly supporting” one side of the problem, or almost singularly addressing the concerns of one group of people.

            EDIT: When I say “I don’t think that way / like that”, I mean that I don’t view women as inherently inferior (sexually dimorphic differences aside obviously)

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              I’m sorry if I came of as smug and sexist. It’s just that as a pro-choice person, I feel that if you don’t want an abortion, don’t get one, and it’s immoral to force someone to carry a baby that they don’t want. (Which is being decided by republican conservatives)

              Some people don’t think of women as people. Why is it that the worst thing you can call a man is a girl?

              I agree that everyone should be equal, but as of now, women need supporting more than men. That doesn’t mean that men’s problems are not important, it just means that they have less problems.

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