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celerywench:

Um. WHAT.

As the menfolk watch hockey, we womenfolk - who have obviously been forced to watch along just for them, not at all of our own volition - should “talk about why so many gorgeous players come from Welland Ontario and why they all skate around with scotch tape holding up their socks.”

Yeah. So, while you let that sink in:

hockeyinsociety: Congratulations CBC! You have officially regressed to the 1950′s. Women having their own sports talk show isn’t a bad idea. Having them talk about it from a woman’s perspective isn’t a bad idea. But, and I hope that when the show airs this introduction statement was meant to be more inflammatory than true to form, having a show premised on the idea that women and men fundamentally experience hockey (or any sport) differently is detrimental to both genders.

Deadspin: Providing While The Men Watch such a public stage demeans all female sports fans, through the message that women don’t care about or aren’t capable of appreciating ice hockey for the sport itself. (That there is such a focus on “sexy guys” is itself heterosexist, and alone warrants criticism on its face.)

Puck Daddy: (The best article in my personal opinion) I saw the backlash on Twitter and in various blogs. While awesome for recognizing sexism and outdated gender roles, something about the intensity of the criticism toward the two hosts bothered me…

To hate these women because they like pink, or talking about men, or hinting at wanting to have sex with them, seems pretty unfair. I like pink. I like men. I like stuff. That doesn’t make me a bad fan or less of a fan. I hate the way the system works just as much as anyone else who’s been discriminated against based on gender, orientation or color. But there are a whole lot of things wrong with While the Men Watch that are worth your ire.

Let’s take a look at just a few of them, shall we?

• It’s sexist and shames women’s bodies; 
• It’s degrading and dehumanizing; 
• More great insight into the physical act of love (sarcasm); 
• It’s derogatory towards men, too; 
• It’s hetero-normative; 
• It’s unoriginal

I don’t understand why people want to deny me the ability to understand how the plus-minus ratings work for the game and simultaneously create a personal plus-minus system for how people look. I like multitasking. 

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whenthesuspenderscomeoff:

it’s weird how being a pussy is weak and having balls means you’re tough i mean punch me in the uterus and i will be fine i’m used to that shit once a month come at me but if i kick you in the balls you are down my man you are down hard

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vagabondaesthetics:

I was talking to one my homies and she was talking about how she no longer finds Dave Chappelle funny because she believes misogyny permeates through far too many of the sketches that involve women. I can’t really offer any sort of rebuttal to that because I haven’t watched the series in years and the only ones that come to mind pretty much exclude women except for the one when he is in the car dancing to some music and the woman with him titty pops out.

Then she started listening the stereotypes women get like they’re difficult, angry, nuts, and so on and so forth. Essentially, men don’t understand women as people. So, I sat on that for a couple a seconds. What I came up with is that it is to be expected. Men’s lives don’t intersect with women until a nigga wants to fuck. And I say nigga because and not because I’m black or to be crass, but put out the crassness of the conversation and the desired relationship with women. As young boys we are never encouraged, and often shunned if we do, to delve into the world that has been constructed as girl/women. You are not supposed to watch shows for girls, listen to music for girls, play with girls’ toys, read books for girls and pretty much anything that is marketed/divisible into boy and girl. None of the material we’re given as boys really even includes girls except in the tomboy role.

And the tomboy role is an interesting function. That is when girls are allowed, there are still hurdles and restricts considering she is still a girl, to interact with boys among boy society. There is always some pushback among the boy fraternity, but she will have interaction with boys on boy level. Far more than the inverse at least. While there are mountains of positive things to be said about girls being tomboys, from a male perspective this is problematic to me on some level because the interaction is only taking place in his territory (for the majority of the time at least).

Reblogging because I appreciate this guy trying to think it out, but especially because I’m now curious about the part where he mentions girls seeing dads as “man and father” vs boys not seeing mom as “woman and mother.” Wonder how much that would/wouldn’t hold up if explored.

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