Comment of the week, by god
This one is from yttik, and it requires a little bit of context. She was commenting on the parrot-on-man shagging video, which I had also wryly proposed as an example of the Dicks Gone Wild phenomenon under discussion in another thread.
Here’s what she said:
If anyone has any difficulty trying to understand why women do not have an equal playing field, try to imagine having that parrot affixed to your neck, humping away day after day. It’s not easy running for political office or sitting in a corporate board room while you try to ignore this thing that has its claws in your neck.
Is that a brilliant image or what? From now on, whenever you’re searching for a metaphor to explain the relentless sexual objectification that warps every woman’s life, just visualize a fat green parrot humping away on her head.
And on that note, I’d like to direct your attention to a post I wrote earlier this week. It kind of got lost in between all the thrilling Dicks Gone Wild news, but it’s germane to the topic at hand: Christie Hefner, Sarah Palin, and the meaning of feminism. The post is really more about pornography and sexual objectification than the meaning of feminism, but I didn’t want to put that in the title. I already have people searching my blog for “crotch shots” every goddamn day just because of a post I wrote on Olympic figure skating three and half years ago.
10 Responses to “Comment of the week, by god”
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janicen says:
It a good analogy. Everybody thinks the parrot is just doing what parrots do, not really doing any harm, but nobody sees the damage being done by its claws.
October 5th, 2009 at 8:16 am EST -
anna says:
Off topic: Are you going to do a post on Caster Semenya? I would really like to read it.
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hilary g says:
off topic, but have you seen this violet? most bizarre, pointless, tasteless thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....r_embedded
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Sis says:
I actually like this, except for the pain it will cause the kid when he’s about eight and one of his friends explains what protection would have meant.
What I like, see, is we have this neat little three or so episode lesson in “boink in haste, repent at leisure” to present to our daughters.
We can show the first one: awww so cute, look, a widdo Bristol tatooed on his fingey, moving on to the second frame, the kitchen diaries, then the Vanity Fair stud muffin article, and finally he caps it with this.
Damn near perfect.
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Kat says:
Heh, I’d like to take this opportunity to say that I’m a huge yttik fan! I find myself struggling to make a point eloquently, and there she is, reading my mind and making it more coherent at that. Thanks, yttik. :)
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Hedgepig says:
Kat, me too.
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tinfoil hattie says:
That video. I suppose I should stop being shocked at the way misogyny has become so cute and fun and such a trendy hobby!
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gxm17 says:
I love yttik’s comments too. She should start a sister blog, the Reclusive Feline. :)
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gxm17 says:
I agree tinfoil hattie; it’s painful how hate is currently oh so hip. We can thank the misogynist-in-chief for a lot of that.
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yttik says:
Thank you everybody!
I think hating on women really has become more hip lately. Leaders lead, they set the tone, and unfortunately Obama set the tone for misogynistic jokes becoming all the rage. I remember way back writing in protest, asking for him to condemn Randi Rhodes “jokes” about Clinton and Ferraro being whores. Even just on behalf of his wife, his daughters, he has an obligation to show some leadership and he hasn’t. When he’s silent about this stuff or worse, allows it at his events, he’s condoning it.
Violent sexist jokes about Palin have really become fashionable. I’m scared to read comments on articles about Palin because the amount of violence and women hatred is chilling.
