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Originally Posted by wittynickname
It's not just part of the CP community, it's part of the world as a whole. For ages, men have treated women as the weaker sex, and now finally, after a whole lot of challenging battles and entirely too many years, there are factors that show that finally there IS some equality between men and women, now men feel like they're being "discriminated against."
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I find it's just worse on the Internet as a whole, as are most issues. Racism is a great example of it...people behind a curtain of anonimity, given an audience, don't mind saying things few have the courage to say normally. I think it was Penny Arcade which coined the term "GIFT" to describe it (Greater Internet Fatawad Theory). But as I mentioned earlier, the Internet never seems to tire of the "if you're a woman, show us your boobs" or the "back in the kitchen" jokes. Far past its expiration date. And the ongoing usage makes me wonder if it's an actual issue rather than the non-serious humour it sounded like earlier...because they are as dead as Chuck Norris jokes.
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Originally Posted by wittynickname
Just this summer, Daniel Tosh made a horrible joke about a woman being raped, and while women spoke out against him, he was lauded for his "creativity" by men in the industry. Women are told to "not be so sensitive" about a topic which affects 1 in 4 of us. Men do make jokes about these things, all the time, and we're expected to shut up and deal with it.
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I find it a bit intresting that when Michael Richards throws out racial slurs, his career dies, when Tracy Morgan says he'd pull a knife and stab him, he had to attend sensitivity classes...yet, when Tosh makes such comments, it's the offended party that's told to be less sensitive.
I don't have all the details on Tosh's joke, so I'm in no position to judge, but it's unusual from what I know.