Comments on: Equal time

By: ryanardika10

ryanardika10 — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 06:16:11 +0000

[...] Their examples are what get people interested in science. Normal people doing interesting things. And the great thing about this is that when you show minority groups involved in science, it increases their involvement, and doesn’t discourage people in majority groups. Their functional privilege makes such differences invisible to them. Well, except for the ones that need their privilege reinforced, and require that all discussions be about them. [...]

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By: Plasma Mongoose

Plasma Mongoose — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 04:00:05 +0000

The more you know…

By: David Willis

David Willis — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 03:17:07 +0000

What you can personally do is listen and understand. I think that’s all anybody asks. Nobody’s actually asking for you to change the world. Just don’t make it worse.

By: Bean

Bean — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 03:06:50 +0000

The comic itself makes a pretty tidy statement, I think. There’s no value assessment of either problem in it, it’s just about people who can’t not be discussing themselves. I mean, it still works if you flip the genders around, or if you remove gender entirely and swap in ‘republican’ and ‘democrat’.

The comments caught fire, though. And I’m guessing it’s being oversensitive to even implied criticism. It’s like a conditioned response-the topic of women’s problems come up, I don’t know how to address it. What am I supposed to do about the wage gap, or the horrible way rape victims are treated, or any other of the very serious problems facing women. Seriously, I got NOTHING.

But women I like, and respect, tell me that MY gender rules the world, and that somehow that makes me share in responsibility, like I have to do something about it right now, it makes me a little frustrated and defensive about the entire topic. So…I guess I’m saying I can kind of understand where the ‘shut up dudes have problems too’ thing comes from. It’s definitely not the RIGHT response to genuine concerns. But speaking as a guy who wants to do the right thing, can we stop dividing the human race into teams that each gender present has to answer for, and discuss the SYSTEM as something that needs to be overhauled by both men and women? I mean, realistically-if we want real equality between the sexes, and not just having the pendulum swinging too far in the other direction, men and women will BOTH have to sit down and hammer something out, right?

Of course, this is just my ignorant, non-college educated opinion, and I’ll probably be called out on it. Lucky a new update is coming soon, so it’ll probably be missed.

By: Salmo

Salmo — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 02:26:40 +0000

Especially since he’s saying goddamned stupid things about how men should be allowed to have a say in abortions (not your body) and how women are unfairly favored in family court (not actually true, and when it is, it’s due to patriarchy).

By: Fanboy

Fanboy — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 02:03:11 +0000

This is going to get lost, what with an update in a couple of hours, but I find it ironic that men are treated as poor cooks when it comes to domestic cooking. But in the professional world, it’s woman who are treated as poor chefs.

But I guess that Arch doesn’t know anything that’s not in a TV commercial.

By: Pandademic

Pandademic — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 01:29:58 +0000

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All right, time to be serious.

Profitability is not a justification for sexism. Claiming that comics are just following the old adage of “sex sells” ignores the fact that by doing so, they are making profits a higher priority than any concern about gender equality in pop culture. So yeah, I’d say that’s sexism.

And yes, the audience enables sexism in comics. But that won’t change if everyone just shrugs their shoulders and says, “Whaddya gonna do? Sex sells.”

By: Darksen

Darksen — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:42:31 +0000

I can recognize that some women would feel that way. It’s no surprise really, considering what women have, and to this day, continue to suffer at the hands of some stupid people and those too cowardly to speak up against them. I hope for myself that I will not be one of the silent ones when put to the test.

By: DanielleM

DanielleM — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:41:50 +0000

I knew who she was before this. I watched a couple of her tropes vs. women videos and remember being mildly annoyed with her video on the manic pixie dream girl for using Clementine from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Summer Finn from (500) Days of Summer as examples when the entire point of those characters is that they’re meant to be deconstructions of the manic pixie dream girl. Honestly everything she said in the videos were touched upon already by the Nostalgia Chick who did a better job of it in my opinion. That being said she has a right to discuss what she wants to discuss and I cut her some slack for at least trying to do something worthwhile with a five minute video even if I feel she could have done it better.