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I think I missed something there…

October 4, 2011 bloggerator, Opinion, Written 2 comments

Okay… so there’s this JC Penney commercial wandering about the webs… and people have called it sexist. Okay, fine.

“ZOMG!! It relies on horrible sterotypes!! It’s SEXIST OMG!!!”

Yeah, I can sorta see where you’re coming from. It portrays men as not really giving a damn about anything but boobies and butts… But even so it is a kinda-

Wait. What?

What do you mean, it’s sexist towards women?

…

From there, I just wandered around the net a bit, and most of the articles about it were level headed and downcrying the OneMillionMoms response, but there were still a good portion who also claimed the sexist slant, either siding with OneMillionMoms, or disagreeing with their response yet agreeing with their conclusion. Few were seeing it as using negative stereotypes about men. But, even amongst those few, the general response was “It’s only insulting to men, and sexist to women.”

So… Uh… I think I missed something here. Maybe the definition of sexist has changed so it can only be applied to things that are insulting to women? Even when… the women part of it doesn’t have anything to do with implications or what have you? Just so long as it offends women, its sexist?

See, if there was a label on it that was like “ALL WOMEN CARE ABOUT IT GETTING IN AND OUT OF POOLS WHILE WEARING RED BIKINIS, BECAUSE WOMEN ARE SHALLOW”… See, then I could understand the argument of sexism. But when its playing a clip, from a movie,… not so much. It doesn’t make any statements about women. It just shows a girl getting getting out of a pool. And then assumes that a man will be beside himself going “OMG BOOBIES!!”

So… its objectifying a woman? Okay… maybe…? But… that argument is… kinda vague. If she got out of the pool, turned the camera and said “You want this? Shop at JC Penney” then okay, I can agree. But… as it is… if that is objectifying women… then sunscreen commercials are objectifying women, too. …And beer commercials… And summer vacation commercials, airline commercials, and anything else with attractive women in bikinis… so… what then? No bikinis… But technically, any commercial that uses a woman as an avatar for female consumers is also objectifying women. And from there…

Well,… eventually it all leads to hyper intelligent chimpanzees ruling the world.

So… what? Women aren’t allowed to get out of pools? Or is it a video of a woman getting out a pool shouldn’t be used in a commercial? Or is it that because the commercial was promoted to men it isn’t allowed to show women? Or is it just that OneMillionMoms has a bug up its ass and is pandering to ridiculous things just to keep their name in the news?

Sure, a lot of advertising does objectify women. And some of that is really, really bad, offensive stuff. But when you blur the lines between what actually is objectification, and what’s just tasteless… then you end up undermining the the significance of objectification, and turn it into just another mildly annoying condition of commercialism.

 

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Uh… I’m building a framework for my first game? Yay? Still haven’t figured out what I’ll do for Audio yet, though.

 

Media 180

February 14, 2011 Opinion, Politiks 3 comments

Just something off the top of my head:

I follow about 10 different news agencies… some local, some global, but mostly national. And, I just noticed something. It may be that I’m missing something, but it seems like there was a lot of new about politics, and about Americans were unhappy with the government, and how fucked up everything is, and bitch, bitch, bitch, moan, moan, moan, etc, etc, etc. And this has been going on for the last two or three years… So much so that I don’t really remember when all the ridiculous amounts of political coverage started (hazarding a guess, I’d say the last year of Bush).

And I'm unhappy, damnit!

Oh, but there’s always been a ton of political coverage, etc, etc.

But I mean… not as much as the last couple years… where it was like 2/3 headlines was: politicians does this or that, or political scandal, or so-and-so is a damned dirty liar, or Americans unhappy with government, or whatever.

And none of it was so much news as just like… the written equivalent of screaming at the top of your lungs.

And then, the last couple of weeks… suddenly…

nothing.

It’s like a void.

Now, the only news about politics you hear about is a few mentions about foreign politics in the middle east, and republicans suddenly talking about how they support obama and “it’s not their place to tell americans what to think” even though that’s exactly what they’ve been doing for the last 10 months. But even then, it’s still scant.

This smells kinda fishy. Kinda like there a group of people who were pushing to get certain things turned into news… like they were focusing on a small percentage of people, documenting their opinions and experiences, and then presenting it as the viewpoint and position of the majority.

Like… this group of people was trying to get something changed… perhaps get themselves in power… and then, they reached their goal… so now they don’t have to spend the resources telling us the world is going to end.

…And of course I’m talking about the republican party. Duh. (I’m neither republican nor democrat by the way. I’m a Meat Popsicle.)

Unfortunately… there’s a few problems with this: First off, they spent so much time whipping people into an unhappy fury that they’ve accidentally created a few segments of the population which are inevitably going to cause a backlash against politicians in general. No, I’m not talking about the Tea Party, because the Tea Party was just an objective oriented shard of the republican party, from everything I’ve investigated about it. I’m talking rather about the offshoots from the Tea Party. The Tea Party people who didn’t fit into the Tea Party, or got kicked out of the Tea Party.

Second, unless they’re planning on spending resources to convince people that things are better under them, people will eventually realize that nothing has really changed… And then next election cycle, their converts will flop back to democrats.

Blah blah blah. I forgot what I was talking about. Anyways, the talk of the Tea Party made me start humming a song… so… Music Video time!

The Term “Classic video games”

January 31, 2011 Comedy, Opinion, Site News No comments

What makes a video game classic? Is it the year they were made? The childhood memories they brought upon Kids? These question are useless. I am going to tell you why ,any of you born before the 1990′s believe back then the games were the shit. For those of you who weren’t born before the 1990′s and are disappointed about no having those awesome games when you were kids, don’t be.

Only the good ones are still remembered:
That’s right when you think games from earlier on you think Super mario brothers, Contra, Megaman 2, Etc. But remember not all those games we good. In fact a good sum of those were shitty. Anyone remember super marios two? the one where you would get to the end and find out it was all a dream? Did that piss you off as much as me? Am I over using question marks? I think I’ve made my point.

In 10 years what will be “classic”: That’s to say if the earth is still around by then. What games would you tell your children about? Maybe games like Halo and Call of duty will be done with production and Activision will call it quits. You sit there complaining about how video games aren’t what they used to be. But you have to take account that they just got better, but you and your stubborn generation can’t admit that, isn’t that right gramps?

Modern people think classic means super old!: We all must admit that the word classic can mean many things but people still have the assumption that it’s just age that makes something classic “these fossils are a classic!” (well, they don’t say that but you get the point.) All I’m saying here is that a classic is something from before that was deemed popular at the time and has continued to receive some sort of popularity. Fun fact: By 2030 pacman will be gone. The only reason pacman is still praised is because those who played it still live. By 2030 that generation will be gone, leaving halo fans and World of Warcraft nerds alike left to call something classic.

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