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.

[ironed_orchid]

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

[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.

[dimethirwen.livejournal.com]

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

[hypatia (from livejournal.com)]

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

*dies*

[marrythebed.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Facebooked!

[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.

[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?

[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