A Crash Course in Feminism Mk. II (or, why everyone should be a feminist)

[Mr Mystery]

glad to see the end of Page 3, hope it stays gone. there have been comments from glamour models popping up around the place saying they liked getting topless photo shoots etc. great, nothing wrong with being glamour model or getting your boobs out, but we don't really need to see it in a 'news' paper.

Yup.

Nothing wrong with working your pink noses puppies for moolah, but y'know - time and place and that.

[Psychosplodge]

Yeah I think they're just going to randomly[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30928544"] troll you all occasionally...[/URL]

[Wolfshade]

glad to see the end of Page 3, hope it stays gone. there have been comments from glamour models popping up around the place saying they liked getting topless photo shoots etc. great, nothing wrong with being glamour model or getting your boobs out, but we don't really need to see it in a 'news' paper.

But red tops aren't newspapers.

[eldargal]

One of my least favourite dialogue tropes is when a man tells a woman “you can’t do that” or “I wouldn’t do that if I were you” and she says “why? because I’m a woman and therefore too weak to handle this/can’t take care of myself?” or something to that extent and the guy replies with “no, because everyone who tried that ended up with a bullet in their brain” or something equally reasonable and not gender specific that paints him as the rational not sexist guy and the woman as irrational paranoid feminist who searches for sexism in everything. This whole scenario is built on the idea that sexism is over and women’s fears and suspicions don’t have a leg to stand on. It’s also self-congratulatory pseudofeminism bc it’s supposed to make the viewer/reader/listener feel that in this specific work of fiction women are treated respectfully and as equal with men.

Really hate this one too.

[Al Shut]

Definitely overused and rarely to good humorous effect

[Deadlift]

Yup.

Nothing wrong with working your pink noses puppies for moolah, but y'know - time and place and that.

But if someone's willing to pay a lass good money ? And she's a willing participant ? Pay for education etc etc. Apparently it's not officially gone either, Just not on a daily basis any more.
I don't read the sun, obviously I can't now, and whilst it's content can sometimes be questionable it's also done a heap of charity work and exposure for good causes.

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Yup, easily. US TV has much more variety and diversity in every way and the quality of acting and writing has improved dramatically too. We still have fantastic writers but we create very samey shows and samey characters and have them doing samey things.
Which isn't to say we don't still produce some excellent shows.

As someone who now has more American /Canadian content on the TV as opposed to UK content I can happily say that you guys in Britain have fair more quality tv than here in North America. The stuff you see back in Britain is the best of what they have to offer here. The rest is pretty much ****e.

[eldargal]

The problem with page 3 girls is that it betrays a deep inequality in how we depict women. We still have debates about whether public breastfeeding should be allowed and we still shame women for showing too much flesh when theydress how they want too but when you want to slap some bare breasts in a newspaper for creepy right wing ****wits to ogle it's all good.

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[URL="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/columns/criticalintel/12893-It-Is-Realistic-For-Women-to-Fight-in-Dragon-Age"]Yes, Women in Dragon Age Could Use Longswords[/URL]

Really good article about selective historical accuracy and how pop culture ideas of what is realistic are usually bull**** and it all ends up just being an excuse to exclude women.

[Mr Mystery]

But if someone's willing to pay a lass good money ? And she's a willing participant ? Pay for education etc etc. Apparently it's not officially gone either, Just not on a daily basis any more.
I don't read the sun, obviously I can't now, and whilst it's content can sometimes be questionable it's also done a heap of charity work and exposure for good causes.

Oh indeed. I've nothing against working girls (euphemism because of work filters!). If you've got, and someone is buying, why not? Just need to get the Pimps out the way, and ensure the working girls are doing it because they like it, not because they've been forced/coerced.

[Psychosplodge]

[URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11359960/Woman-on-top-is-most-dangerous-sex-position-scientists-conclude.html"]See what equality does?[/URL]

[eldargal]

Haa, awesome.