the other day i saw a tweet by some man that was like “so what if men just started remaking all the iconic female comedies with all male casts?” and legit my first thought was “uh, yeah, sure, go ahead”
and then i thought a little harder and like, there are a few, but – you couldn’t realistically do that? because here’s the thing: historically, comedies with majority-female casts have been about characters in specifically gendered situations, or have only worked plot-wise because of gender roles. like – 9 to 5. the first wives club. clueless. legally blonde. mean girls. bridesmaids. like, sure, you COULD make all-male versions of those, but they’re going to bear almost zero resemblance to the original story, because those stories are specifically GENDERED stories.
whereas the reason why you can make a movie like ghostbusters with an all female cast is because the conceit is universal, since there was no reason to justify them being all men in the first place. male stories are universal. female stories are “about women.”
so, like, men: if you want to steal all the iconic female comedies and remake them, have at it! good luck with that! you’re not going to get very far.
just saying, I’d pay a lot of money to see a male-version of mean girls if they kept the story the same
A group of hackers known as Poodlecorp took responsibility for taking down the Pokémon Go
servers using a DDoS attack on Saturday. But that was just the beginning. A Poodlecorp team member said that was just “a lil test” and that they would “do
something on a larger scale” likely on August 1st.
I’m laughing so hard at this. Okay first, PG doesn’t use a static logon. It has two variable logins that aren’t even owned or kept up by niantic. They are kept by Google and Nintendo respectively (and have fun hacking two of the biggest names companies around). Which means, no, they can’t do anything to your accounts if they wanted. Second, they plan to DDOS the server??? Two issues with that bucko. Pokemon go isn’t hosted on one server. Its hosted on hundreds or more that are localized to areas. Secondly there’s already server problems? So a DDOS would go massively unnoticed and would probably affect only a small number of people before being quickly fixed??
tl;dr: this is the edgiest empty threat I’ve heard in a while.
A majority of millennial men failed to see women as equals, according to the study, which looked at how college biology students viewed their classmates’ intelligence and achievements, the Harvard Business Review reported.
Among the findings:
In every biology class surveyed, a man was seen as the most celebrated student, even in instances where women earned significantly better grades.
Men were also found to overestimate the intelligence of their male classmates over that of female ones.
Men continued exaggerating their assessments of the male peers, despite unequivocal evidence that their female peers were performing better.
Women, conversely, weren’t found to display a bias: Their assessments of fellow classmates tended to be spot-on.
The National Institutes of Health researchers pointed out that female STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) majors drop out at significantly higher rates than their male counterparts.
“The reasons for this difference are complex, and one possible contributing factor is the social environment women experience in the classroom,” they wrote.
Still, scores of men are under the impression that they’ve become the target of reverse sexism. Conservative columnist John Hawkins ranted in Town Hall last year:
“Men have it rougher in America than most people realize. In part, that’s because they’re one of the few groups (along with white people, conservatives, and Christians) it’s cool to crap on at every opportunity. In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a nonstop assault on masculinity in America.”
But research has confirmed the reality of gender bias against women. A staggering 90 percent of women reported experiencing gender harassment in the workplace, a 2010 University of Michigan study found. The results suggest that such harassment had the purpose of driving women out of jobs and not the generally assumed motivation of trying to draw women into relationships.
“One could argue that, in these instances, ‘sexual harassment is used both to police and discipline the gender outlaw: the woman who dares to do a man’s job is made to pay,’” the researchers wrote, quoting an article by Katherine M. Franke, an associate professor of law at the University of Arizona College of Law.
As for millennial men specifically, they have been less accepting of female leaders than their older male counterparts, according to a 2014 survey of more than 2,000 adults residing in the United States, the Harvard Business Review reports.
Half of Millenial men said their careers would take priority over their partners’.
Three-fourths of women, on the other hand, said their careers would be at least as important as their husbands’.
oh look its the shit women have been saying all the damn time and antifeminists stamp their feet and cry about
I can’t comment on the specifics of this post, but from the conversations that my S.O and his brother have had in the 6 years I’ve known both of them, the lack of respect and not seeing women in those fields as equals is true (both of them work in STEM fields) From every conversation about work or school they ever had, I have never heard them say a kind or respectful word about a woman, colleague or professor or teacher. Everytime a woman working in their fields made a mistake she was relentlessly mocked. I remember how much my SO tried to convince me to go to a male OBGYN a while back, even though I said time and time again that I didn’t want to (his reason was that this dude was the best in the city- after further investigation i found several female OB-GYNS that were considered, by other women, better.) also, women that had made errors were demonized while male doctors got away with it( the worst experience with a dentist i ever had was with a male, again, he is considered the best in his field in the city) Conversely, in non STEM and in primary school to the end of high school I have never been a part of, or taught a class where girls were not the elite. A boy that excels at this level is a rare sight. At this level, the only place you can see boys excel is either math or physics, but generally not more than girls. In conclusion, it’s depressing.
The unfortunate thing I have learned is that every moment in every point in history men believed they were treating women as their equals when in fact they weren’t.
I just heard a radio story that took place in the 1800s where a women artist named Elizabeth Thompson was celebrated that year as being the most popular artist in all of the UK. When here art was displayed in the most prestigious art gallery in the country for two consecutive years. People were saying then the same thing people say today. Finally this proves people are considered equal society. Another work of art created by a women was not displayed in that galley until over 100 years later.
the gym by my house is currently housed by team instinct???? I didn’t realize they did that sort of thing???
[Spoilers ahead for Sense8 and Dumbing of Age; contains discussion of transphobia and homophobia]
Just because a story’s world is prejudiced and awful, doesn’t mean
the story itself is. In fact, in some cases the story bends the world to
its will in order to protect the characters that said world is cruel
to.
Sense8’s Nomi Marks, for instance, is a transwoman living in
a very transphobic world—even at a Pride celebration, a group of women
bully her by erasing her gender identity in a variety of rude and
obnoxious ways, and she also has to contend with her overbearing,
equally obnoxious mother, who insists on guilt-tripping her and calling
her by her (male) birth name. These are things that happen to real
people every day, and they’re awful—unfortunately, Nomi is also a
protagonist in a sci-fi TV show, so it can only get worse.
And it does: Nomi ends up trapped in hospital awaiting an operation
that will effectively lobotomise her, the papers signed by her mother,
who insists “I love you, Michael, and this is for your own good” (even
if Mrs Marks is kept in the dark about the lobotomy because, as it turns
out, it’s secret government agency psychic stuff, the sentiment is
still horrifying, and presented as so). The nurses won’t listen to her,
she ends up handcuffed to the gurney, and everything is absolutely
terrifying and awful, and Nomi sobs for someone to help her. It looks
like a bleak fate lies ahead for the show’s sole trans character.
But then, someone does come to help Nomi. Sci-fi suddenly punches a hole in the realistic setting…
