But It’s Only Really Important If It Happens to Men
Let me explain something to you. Listen closely because my rantings only come around once because of my short attention span and my fondness for cheese (must have cheese . . . can’t remember what I was saying).
If you see a commercial in which a bunch of women are driven crazy with horniness because of a body spray, don’t cry about the horrible image of men that is portrayed. Don’t whine about how it’s a commercial showing women holding men down and if it was a woman being held down, well blah, blah, blah. You know why they went that way in the commercial? Because women are the victims more than men are. Men are not society’s victims. Women are. They didn’t show women being held down because it happens way more than a man being held down.
Also, don’t cry because a guy is shown to be horny. What other stereotypes do men have to deal with? Let’s see: dumb husband, watches sports, drinks beer, eats meat. Yeah, cry me a river.
Women are bound by up in a giant net of stereotypes: frigid, whore, virgin, good girl, bad girl, only eats salads and low fat yogurt, loves shoes, loves to shop for clothes, glasses equal ugly, hair pulled up equals ugly, fat equals ugly, blonds are stupid, big boobs means a woman is stupid, women are sheep who will attack a man at the first smell of some lame body spray, and so on and so on.
Yeah, I don’t feel too sorry for the fellas.
Sure, stereotyping is wrong. But before you clutch your pearls at how rough the guys have it, maybe you should stop identifying automatically with the male and notice how a commercial that you think is horrible for men is really just another in a looooong line of horrible commercials for women.
This post is brought to you by my unwillingness to engage with stupidity. Also, possibly, ‘roid rage.
Oh No!
Something on the Internet isn’t true! Or has been spun to make someone look good! Or has been used as a marketing campaign! Or has been corrupted by large corporations!
Goodness! How will I manage to get out of bed tomorrow with this brand new, shocking information?
