[Enchantress]

Originally Posted by Kobi

You missed the point. It is not ridiculous. It is not absurd. It is freakin reality.

Advertising, especially in this video is showing very much how women are seen and used as objects to sell products. It also demonstrates how women are seen and used as sex objects. It gives a message to both women and to masculine people. This is sexism. There is nothing funny about it.

This stuff reinforces the ideas that leads to behavior like rape, like sexually assaulting incapacitated teenage girls and taking pictures for facebook, and all the rest of the sexist crap women put up with including women thinking this sexism is amusing.

You finding it amusing doesn't surprise me. We have tangled before on sexism and how butches can be as sexist as cis men.

I don't believe that Ascot missed the point at all. In fact, if you read back, she clearly states "I think the very fact that it is so absurd will help highlight the gross disparities between how men and women are portrayed." Please tell me how you believe she's missed the mark? And, I do agree with you that it is "freakin reality". But it is also ridiculous and absurd.

And, let's look at the fact that TheDivaherrrself stated, and I quote "The results are hilarious." She, a woman, who identifies in a feminine way, found the end result of the switch to be somewhat amusing. Does this mean that she missed the point too? I think not.

As for finding it amusing, it is. Not the blatant sexist advertising and misuse of women, instead, the use of men and their (the video makers) remaking of the scenes that originally held women. They are highlighting just how ludicrous such advertising truly is. And, doing it with a bit of humour, the kind that brings us all on to a level playing field. Where we, both male and female alike, are able to truly look at a situation and say, hey, that's wrong, stupid and demoralizing.

And one last note, it is an individuals right to find something 'amusing', whether or not another person finds it to be so as well. But, may I suggest in the future that we all truly try to see another persons perspective before making snap judgements about others and their thoughts and beliefs?

Just my opinion of course, to which I am most definitely entitled.

I hope you'll take this in the vein that it is meant. Absolutely not as a criticism, but instead as a way of voicing my opinion in a respectful and open manner.

Thanks so much for taking the time to listen. It's truly appreciated!

: )