Comments on: The Week In Patriarchy

By: bluebears

bluebears — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:24:35 +0000

That John Hamm quote was so irksome. I heard him on Fresh Air a while ago and he said something vaguely similar. I really think he believes that in some way things were “better” between the sexes back in the day. I mean he’s just an actor but still, I’d love for some interviewer to really challenge him to explain what he means exactly.

By: AnthroK8

AnthroK8 — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 04:14:26 +0000

What is UP with John Hamm buying the nostalgia trip Mad Men is selling?

I have, as have many women I know, been smoove talked by any number of well groomed, courteous, ice-in-whisky-glass clinking sexist assholes.

And I don’t know if he missed listening to the back catalog of much popular music written before 1970, or, you know, women’s actual experiences, but crass, discourteous, blatant, overt sexism (some perpetrated by well-groomed men courteous behind scrupulously closed doors, I do not doubt)ALSO FUCKING HAPPENED.

Oh my god. What is your problem, John Hamm?

By: firefall

firefall — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:07:46 +0000

Infoworld tells an inquirer that, yes, the IT world is still sexist.

In other shocking revelations, the sun rises in the east.

By: carey

carey — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:46:11 +0000

I went to the “casual sexism” piece, and I thought the author was very thorough and on-point. And then I read the comments. I only made it to number 2. Commenter 2, in the midst of an “I agree, but…”-type comment, left this gem:

“when you say that women have internalised this language and also use it, I suspect you are overstating the case. Women have always dissed other women – it’s what they do.”

I sometimes hate the world.

By: Ellie

Ellie — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:17:35 +0000

What pisses me off the most about the beer ad article and the traffic control article is the PUNS.

Reporters tend not to make jokes while writing articles about soldiers in Afghanistan or about the stock market crash, but women facing “name-calling, threats and overt sexism”? That’s FUNNY.

And puns, while they might just be clever wordplay in another situation, in this case, ARE jokes. “A protester with something to get off her chest”? HILARIOUS.

By: Smoovie

Smoovie — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:12:35 +0000

The TED thing is quite surprising to me, because a fair few of the speakers have been feminists, talking about feminism (Eve Ensler, Cindy Gallop, probably others.)I guess they have some more reading to do on the subject?

Btw, it’s “Technology, Entertainment, and Design.”