Cracked's crypto-feminism continues

[sabotabby]

The 6 (Wrong) Questions Men Love to Ask About Women. The last two particularly made me go "yes yes yes!"

For a site largely about superheroes, boobs, video games, and rampaging animals, they do seem to have a lot of feminist writing.

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[corwin77.livejournal.com]

That's because more and more of their writers ARE women now. When the site first launched all the writers were dudes and they have slowly been hiring on more and more ladies. Well maybe not ladies anymore than their male writers are gentlemen but you get my drift.

Which questions got all up in your grill? Some of us guys might want the tips.

[corwin77.livejournal.com]

Ooh I should have read that more carefully. The ast two. I have been guilty of a few of these and will try to remember this article in the future.

[sabotabby]

Closely with the make-up one, and not so much a question but an irritatingly common statement, is the "real women have curves" or "curvy chicks are hot this year because of Christina Hendricks," etc. I mean, I am glad when my curves are appreciated, but I couldn't have the body of a skinny twelve-year-old if I tried, so what to do when your particular body type is not in this season? Not to mention the dudes who think they are rad feminists for liking chunky girls.

Christina Hendricks is smoking hot, of course.

[ironed_orchid]

I liked #4, because been there, done that.

[sabotabby]

God yes. But I blocked that relationship out.

[ironed_orchid]

Good move.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

This is the second one I've read on there just today about how shitty 'nice guys' and 'men's rights' types are.

There's a surprising amount of good writing on there in general. They're starting to beat the Onion in the depth of their analysis. Some editor there has politics. I wonder who it is.

[sabotabby]

It's a curious thing. They went from lulz to Proper Satire.

[ironed_orchid]

Some of the commenters haven't noticed yet, but no one reads them anyway.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

I'm very pleased at how certain parts of the web are becoming more and more hostile to what you might call traditional internet culture.

[dimethirwen.livejournal.com]

How awesome. I've been noticing that Cracked just keeps getting better and better. Thanks for the link!

[sabotabby]

I know! It's unexpected from a magazine that used to be a shittier version of MAD.

[hypatia (from livejournal.com)]

he problem here is usually a sampling error, and the solution is to take a statistics class.

*dies*

[sabotabby]

*amused*

[marrythebed.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Facebooked!

[sabotabby]

W00T!

[lienne.livejournal.com]

Hell yes.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

They do indeed :)

[snarkitysnarks.livejournal.com]

Why are you attracted to jerks, Spy?
Am I more attractive to you for having asked that?

Superheroes, boobs, video games, and rampaging animals are not inherently anti-feminist. Those are all things that I like, in certain contexts.

No, not that. An ACTUAL ugly girl.

This one. Thanks a lot, Hollywood.

[sabotabby]

Well, I started reading it for the superheroes and rampaging animals (not so much the boobs and video games), but it's even more awesome to have all that and feminism too.

Haha, and the question should be: Why are women jerks? 'Cause I totally am.

[snarkitysnarks.livejournal.com]

I don't think people who know you would say you're a jerk, but your fictional characters certainly would.

[pofflewomp.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Question 3 resonated with me, but the rest I find alien, probably because I don't know many people and avoid like hell any people who believe in or fit into such social stereotypes.

I don't get the idea that women who wear make up and shit are not doing it to attract men. I mean, I am sure some are not, and that some are trying to look attractive to women or just to anyone, and that some just enjoy dressing up, and some like a particular style or just want to hide spots, but surely under all these apparent reasons lies the fact that women are seen as sexual objects and men not much, and that women are made to feel shit if they do not conform to ideas of female attractiveness?

[sabotabby]

Well, I don't actually wear a lot of makeup, but I'm lucky enough to have relatively clear skin. When I don't wear makeup, very few people comment that I look good. When I do, both men and women tell me that I look good. From this, I conclude that most people find me more attractive when I wear makeup. It's also frequently remarked upon that I don't style my hair and so on.

You're right about the underlying notion, but the people who enforce this notion are quite often women, not men.

[pofflewomp.livejournal.com]

I agree that people who enforce it are often women, not men, but I am usually leapt upon for making such claims as it is argued that women cannot help it as they are vitcims of the huge social pressure to conform looks-wise, which is a fair point, but I wish both sexes would just get over it.
Most men I know prefer no make up on females. I think make up should just be for fun and worn by men too if at all.

I have crap skin so I do have covering up make up, but it usually looks worse than crap skin!

Every few months I toy with the idea of wearing make up and then panic because I think I would look and feel silly and also because once one has started it might be hard to stop and I could not afford to buy that much make up. But if I were paler in colouring I might not look silly wearing it. I conform to gender stereotypes in other ways, like removing leg and arm hair as my hair is thick and black, and removing my moustache, although I really am tempted to grow a big twirly one one day to shock people...
I hate the fact that I conform to social stereotypes, and I do feel it is because of what men think more than what women would think.
But I am very insecure about looks as I used to get men making nasty comments at me in the street before I shaved legs and arms!

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

YES on #5! It amazes me how much even tabloid magazines, with their lame features on stars not wearing make-up, half the time are showing pics of some celebrities who quite clearly are wearing foundation at the very least. I found talk of preferring the "natural look" pretty ridiculous most of the time because make-up does not always have to = bright red lipstick and blue eyeshadow, and I always get the impression that's what people are talking about when they say they don't like women wearing too much make-up

Not that I bother with make-up most days myself, but I generally do look better when I slap some on :P