The Annual Post About Sexist Super Bowl Commercials 2012
Last year, safe estimates were that 46 percent of Super Bowl viewers were women. With market research indicating that 1 in 5 watch just for the commercials, that’s more than 10 million women who have your undivided attention (not to mention of millions of men who actually, you know, like and respect women) as, once again, you devote millions of advertising dollars to naked chicks in front of wind machines.
Welcome to 2012′s Insulting, Demeaning, and Frankly Not- Terribly-Creative Super Bowl Ads (Tittys! Edition)
...read moreDisabled Bodies in Able-Bodied Contexts
No one wants to be pitied, but many people are comfortable having others to pity. And it’s easy, if you haven’t thought it out, to pity someone in a wheelchair, or someone who walks tapping her way with a white cane. It’s much more complicated to think about that wheelchair, or that cane as something that opens up the person’s life … and would open it up much more if buildings and streets were more accommodating to a variety of needs. It’s not only complicated, but potentially deeply disturbing, to think about high-tech prostheses, maximized for the needs of a particular person with particular skills at a particular time in his or her life, to think that a “disabled” person perhaps has something that works better than what “normal people” are issued with.
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Jerry Sandusky showered with boys to teach them “basic hygiene skills.”
Of course he did. And if that explanation isn’t offensive enough, the boys needed to be taught hygiene because they were poor. And poor people are dirty:
...read moreDeprioritizing rape victims in the name of big football.
Hey, look who’s been a rape apologist for a long time. David Zirin is right: This is the world that Joe Paterno made. Here’s hoping it’s ending.
...read moreJustifications, translated.
“We got rowdy, and we got maced,” Jeff Heim, 19, said rubbing his red, teary eyes. “But make no mistake, the board started this riot by firing our coach. They tarnished a legend.” [Translation: You made me hit you by talking back; men who create things that other men like deserve a get-out-of-rape-free card. See [...]
...read moreSure, children were raped, but…
Football! Seriously, Penn State students who are rioting because the board of trustees fired a man who helped cover up serial child molestation? You all should be ashamed. And if the comments on your school’s facebook page are any indication of the level of intellectual discourse (and basic spelling and grammar skills) you’ve got going [...]
...read moreIn the end, I suspect the broom is a pretty good equalizer.
Women aren’t involved because they don’t want to be involved. Do you know how hard it is to recruit a woman who isn’t interested? It’s not fair to recruit based on sex over ability. Sometimes women choosethe less prestigious positions because they’re easier. And we have to accept the fact that there are things that [...]
...read moreAlso: pink NFL jerseys
This book is dedicated … to those women who cope with kids six days a week and when it’s Daddy’s turn on Sunday–find him long gone to the stadium or equally long gone in front of the TV, watching football from August to January. All this is generally bad news for American Womanhood. Definitely. That [...]
...read moreDerby Names
Feministe friend Tricia sends on this article about the disgusting, often misogynist, names that have become common in derby culture. The creativity is laudable, I suppose, insofar as it’s ever laudable to come up with 10,000 different ways to equate sex with violence and abuse. “Pat McCrotch” and “Clitty Clitty Bang Bang”? Sure, ok. Juvenile, [...]
...read moreWhat if Michael Vick sold beemers, and other stupid questions
Toure wrote an article titled “What if Michael Vick were white,” and he seems to think the Photoshopped White Michael Vick illustration was the worst part. Toure found himself in a position of having to defend his original piece because… well, because he wrote it. He spun a tale of an alternate-reality Vick who grew [...]
...read moreUnsolicited Advice to Women’s Professional Soccer
Saturday night, I went with my good friend, Patrick Reis, to see the WPS Sky Blue vs. Western NY Flash game. As he’s a journalist, I asked him if he’d share his thoughts on the experience. So… guest blogger under guest blogger. But it’s a new and fresher perspective than mine — I’m already an [...]
...read moreAbby Wambach: New Coach for WPS magicJack
(Note: Yes, I’m still writing about the USWNT and WPS. If you’re into it and want to see the WPS Sky Blue this Saturday, tweet at me, I’m going!) ABBY WAMBACH ABBY WAMBACH ABBY WAMBACH ABBY WAMBACH That was the only thing I could say, think, tweet, or text to my mother when she scored [...]
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