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Originally Posted by June
In my head, it breaks down like this:
- Lesbians portrayed as unattractive stereotypes
- Lesbians portrayed as desperate for sex
- Lesbians portrayed as sexual predators
- Lesbians portrayed as only being able to obtain sex from the drunkenly impaired
And then:
- Young women being treated as sexual playthings
- Young women being preyed upon
- Young women "deserving" what they get because they got drunk
- Young women being coerced (forced) and being mocked for it
I understand satire. I do. And irony and sarcasm as well. The video reeks to me of unbridled sexism, misogyny, agism and has an unhealthy undercurrent of "She asked for it" and "She deserves what she gets".
Oddly, and probably because I'm a mother, the portrayal of the young women bothered me a little bit more. Because, while I do not have a daughter, I really believe that STILL we often do not raise our women to value themselves and know their worth in this world beyond being playthings and fucktoys. If you want to be a plaything or a fucktoy, fine, but be in control of it and choose that role, don't default to it or have it chosen for you. |
yeah but june, if I showed you Nighty Night, you could also say
"mentally unwell welsh people should never be gimps"
"it's not fun to be vaginally abused by a fish - and a tuna at that - against your will by an older woman"
"someone trying to seduce an 11 year old boy is very offensive - that's a pedo"
"that women is representing all older women who are sexually promiscuous and makeing us all into serial killers"
I could go on. the difference is Nightly Night is incredibly well written so the joke is actually funny rather than a poorly written piece of satire that obviously didn't meet it's mark and wound up offending tons of people in it's failing.
I personally think if it had been well written, it could have been hilarious. It wasn't. So it sucked and looked offensive.