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How Sexist Is This?

Oct 25th, 2012 by

 

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8 Responses to “How Sexist Is This?”

  1. John E. says:
    October 26, 2012 at 9:16 am

    Here’s a blast from the past:

    The Right Reverend Joseph P. Machebeuf (1812-1889) was a Roman Catholic priest in Denver during the 1877 woman suffrage campaign and a powerful opponent of votes for women. A French missionary in the American Southwest, Machebeuf helped to establish churches, schools, and hospitals in New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado. He became Denver’s first Catholic bishop in 1887.

    His general thesis:
    The class of women wanting suffrage are battalions of old maids disappointed in love-women separated from their husbands or divorced by men from their sacred obligations-women who, though married, wish to hold the reins of the family government, for there never was a woman happy in her home who wished for female suffrage.

    Full lecture can be found here:
    http://archive.org/stream/womanssuffragele00machrich

  2. DADvocate says:
    October 26, 2012 at 2:22 pm

    Sounds like, in so many words, the Reverend was saying all the women really needed was a good fuck. Nice. However well intentioned, some attitudes boggle my mind. In the words of Rodney King, “Can we all get along?”

  3. Mustang Sally says:
    October 26, 2012 at 11:00 pm

    DADvocate,

    I think maybe what you’re missing here is that the whole “it should be special” thing is Lena Dunham’s schtick. She is famously a virgin writing a whole TV show (Girls) about young women and sex (sort of a Sex & The City for the next generation). It’s not just a random woman saying this; it’s Lena’s “thing” and she’s using her celebrity to try to get young voters out via humor.

    Please don’t confuse me as being a fan of hers – her character in “Tiny Furniture” annoyed me so much that I haven’t actually watched the new show. I did listen to an NPR interview with her that caused me to view her more favorably. They replayed a really hilarious scene where she learns her college boyfriend is gay. It was damn funny and I may yet watch the show.

    http://www.npr.org/2012/05/07/152183865/lena-dunham-addresses-criticism-aimed-at-girls

    • DADvocate says:
      October 27, 2012 at 9:03 pm

      I don’t care what her schtick is. Conflating voting for Obama with losing your virginity is weird to say the least. This ad reflects the lefts’ sick obsession with Obama, their cult of personality and Obama’s own narcissism (You can’t do better than me, baby. I’m the best you’ve ever had.) I don’t subscribe to HBO and hated Sex and the City. In general, I find our current culture insipid and shallow.

      • Mustang Sally says:
        October 28, 2012 at 9:44 pm

        “Conflating voting for Obama with losing your virginity is weird to say the least.”

        She’s comparing voting for the first time to having sex for the first time. A rite of passage. And then she continues the joke by saying that the vote should be for someone special.

        Weird? Maybe, but I don’t think either you or I are the target audience here.

  4. Lynn Gazis-Sax says:
    October 28, 2012 at 5:25 pm

    Re: “You can’t do better than me, baby. I’m the best you’ve ever had.” How many women, including ones who took care to make losing their virginity special, ever consider the first time they had sex the best they ever had?

  5. FIREBIRD says:
    October 31, 2012 at 3:41 pm

    Just dayum! My comments on the ‘PARODY’ should have been here……. (and I can assure anyone/everyone – I was NOT thinking of voting during MY first sexual experience……… dang – I need a refill……… *clink* to everyone!

  6. FIREBIRD says:
    October 31, 2012 at 3:46 pm

    http://rookiemag.com/author/lena-dunham/