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we're not sure what the previous 403 errors were, but they may also have involved women's clothes and too much make-up Classic. Love their old animated sealt-belt videos, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtyfiPIHsIg is the new one.
1. Misogyny. Why? Flight attendants are women. Rich CEO's are men. A CEO that loses a bet and has to work as a flight attendant, also has to wear a skirt, stockings and lipstick. To clarify: It's a stereotype, and stereotypes can be found offensive. Imagine if he had painted his face black instead.
2. Transphobia. Why? Men dressing up as women are supposed to be silly. However, "body image distress" is real and it even drives people to suicide [1]. Violence against transgender people is very common as well. Homosexuality used to be listed as mental disorders in DSM I and II, but was removed in 1974. "Gender identity disorder" was finally removed in DSM V last year [2]. In august, a 21 year-old transgendered woman was beaten to death in New York, to just mention one of the many victims of hate crimes against these people [3].
Or maybe it's just a funny thing. Maybe he's proud to dress as a woman? I can't tell. What's interesting is that we in this community consisting mostly of straight, white men feel that we have the interpretative prerogative when it comes to these kinds of things ("'Am I being hypersensitive?' Yes, you are.").
Why is it so hard to try to understand someone when they feel offended, instead of telling them they are being hypersensitive?
Disclaimer: I'm comparing misogyny to racism and transphobia to homophobia. Apples and oranges. This is a bit offensive, too. My intention is not to say that they are the same, but to try to draw parallels between attitudes that most people find wrong, and attitudes that are generally accepted. Why is it okay to make fun of asians?
1. http://www.lauras-playground.com/transgender_suicide_report....
2. http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/12/03/1271431/apa-revises...
3. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/23/nyc-transgender-ass...
Some ideas of why it could be found offensive: 1. Misogyny. Why? Flight attendants are women. Rich CEO's are men. A CEO that loses a bet and has to work as a flight attendant, also has to wear a skirt, stockings and lipstick. To clarify: It's a stereotype, and stereotypes can be found offensive. Imagine if he had painted his face black instead. 2. Transphobia. Why? Men dressing up as women are supposed to be silly. H…
Pity it's polluted by that ridiculous UK cookie warning law :(
Ridiculous EU cookie law. And to add further ridicule, the current advice is that these kinds of popups are superfluous, and just have a cookie info page on the site. See http://blog.silktide.com/2013/01/the-stupid-cookie-law-is-de...
Some ideas of why it could be found offensive: 1. Misogyny. Why? Flight attendants are women. Rich CEO's are men. A CEO that loses a bet and has to work as a flight attendant, also has to wear a skirt, stockings and lipstick. To clarify: It's a stereotype, and stereotypes can be found offensive. Imagine if he had painted his face black instead. 2. Transphobia. Why? Men dressing up as women are supposed to be silly. H…
The guy pictured in the photo is Richard Branson, aka the boss at Virgin. Just search his name on Google Images to get the humor. http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Branson
Honest question - do most people not know who he is? I thought he was known worldwide. I think he has had quite a few cameos/(very) small parts in films/tv as well.
Some ideas of why it could be found offensive: 1. Misogyny. Why? Flight attendants are women. Rich CEO's are men. A CEO that loses a bet and has to work as a flight attendant, also has to wear a skirt, stockings and lipstick. To clarify: It's a stereotype, and stereotypes can be found offensive. Imagine if he had painted his face black instead. 2. Transphobia. Why? Men dressing up as women are supposed to be silly. H…
Some ideas of why it could be found offensive: 1. Misogyny. Why? Flight attendants are women. Rich CEO's are men. A CEO that loses a bet and has to work as a flight attendant, also has to wear a skirt, stockings and lipstick. To clarify: It's a stereotype, and stereotypes can be found offensive. Imagine if he had painted his face black instead. 2. Transphobia. Why? Men dressing up as women are supposed to be silly. H…
Its cool to be sensitive to the feelings of others. But its not actually required, not even in a civilized society. When writing "straight white men feel that we have the interpretative prerogative..." keep in mind that every free-thinking person actually does have that right. If others disagree, fine. Acting as the PC Police doesn't make you a better person; it makes you silly and anti-intellectual.
Being a woman IS NOT "about as low, ridiculous and debased as a person can get". To me this is the same as if he would wear that silly body builder costume with muscles poking out or the sumo wrestler suit.And by wearing those suits I don't think it is derogatory to body builders or sumo wrestlers. It is about the person doing it making a joke of themselves because they just look ridiculous and funny when they do not appear as themselves. Walking in heels, wearing makeup, having lots of muscles on you or just lots of body mass (not to say fat) will make you walk awkward because you are not used to it.
There is a difference when you put on a muscle suit for a day and if you build up and have muscles every day (I wish) so it is not also about mocking the way how body builders walk (btw. the walk think is the only thing that comes to my mind if I was wearing one of those what would I think is funny on me about that, maybe there are also some other aspects why that would be funny).
So no, it is not degrading to dress up as any person, it is just for a laugh, at least in my case and how I perceive that. That said, if someone is making a joke not out of themselves but out of people they are dressing up as, that is not nice and not ok.
The real question is will you stop mean people being mean by banning and/or criticizing any dressing up or you will just kill off some harmless fun, while mean people still stay mean and find other ways to "practice" their meanness?