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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Just....Wow.

Take a look at this picture I received in an email forward recently. Click on it for a bigger image.

Really?

FUCKING REALLY????!!!????

Setting aside the obvious offense to women everywhere, it is yet another nauseating example of male stereotyping which will sadly lead to more men thinking this is "cool."

Every fucking day I turn on the TV and all I see are commercials which portray men as essentially enjoying four things: eating, sleeping, watching TV, and playing video games. Each ad somehow manages to make them look moronic doing each of them. I am sick and tired of it.

Men are NOT simple creatures. We have just as many complex emotions as women do. The main reason why men are so fucked up in our culture is that their sociocultural context has told them that this fucking TV remote pictured above is the ideal. Never has their been a larger or smellier load of shit.

To say that I loathe this picture is the understatement of...forever. In fact, add up my dislike of Michelle Bachmann, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and Michelle Malkin and it is still but a thimble full of hatred compared to the above image of the "Male" in the year 2009. But that's not even the worst part.

The fact is that this stereotype comes from somewhere as all stereotypes do. There ARE guys like this and some who probably find it funny. More than likely, they are beyond hope. But this certainly doesn't help the ones that aren't. So, shit like this pushes the ones that don't think this is funny into going with the flow and the cycle of the "Buffoon Man" continues.

What a giant load of diarrhea.

9 comments:

blk said...

But Mark, I thought this was a picture of Rush Limbaugh's female interaction device. You know, the one he uses when he's taking Viagra prescribed for his doctor.

Seriously, you need to lighten up. This doesn't make men look cool, and I doubt many men will think it's cool. Like a lot of humor, this takes an aspect of one segment of society's behavior and exaggerates it for satirical effect. Guys who would think this is cool are pathetic, more than anything.

But if this is an actual thing you can buy, and not just some web mockup, it says something really damning about our society: we think absolutely nothing about wasting money and resources on pieces of plastic junk that have absolutely no use whatsoever, other than a one-shot smirk.

The real tragedy is that we've got entire landfills filled with crap like this.

Kevin said...

Once again, you prove you have no sense of humor whatsoever.

juris imprudent said...

Politics aside, you should love Glenn Beck - he's right on your emotional level.

KennedyDem said...

The problem is that there are plenty of chowders (to use Dan Barreiro's excellent, printable putdown) who think this kind of thing is funny as hell. I know a few who would.

Any male over 17 who actually finds this funny instead of creepy and gross has a lot of growing up to do.

You know who you are.

rld said...

who are you talking to kennedyd?

Kevin said...

Mute button should be bigger..

Kevin said...

"Any male over 17 who actually finds this funny instead of creepy and gross has a lot of growing up to do."
KD, you're operating under a false assumption - that assumption being that I give more than a gnat's fart about your opinion.

Mr Bill said...

Once again Mark, you get it so drastically wrong.

First off, if you are so disgusted by it... why did you not only write about it, but also post the picture... and thus promote the image? Seems to me you are pulling the same BS the mainstreem media pulls on a daily basis. "We are impartial..." yet they only run the stories they want to tell, while ignoring anything that might be contrary to what they want to broadcast. Seems to me you must like this remote to so degree or you wouldn't have posted about it.

Second, if you don't like what you see on TV, here is a novel idea... turn it off. Try reading a history book or two and learn a little something about the country you seem to be so in favor of dismantling. Learn about Locke and Rousseau as they were the competing phiosphies when our country was forming. Understand them and what they really mean, then tell me with an honest face that you truly support sociallism.

You did get one thing right... men are not simple creatures. However, compared to women, we are far less complex than they. Even modern medical science supports this... you could also ready about that once you turn your TV off.

And the simple fact is... there is humor in all things. It is natures giant inside joke. I mean... look at the platapouse for god sake!

In the end Mark, you are just trying to provoke. All be it entertaining, it is also a little sad. Is teaching so boring these days that you have to make crap like this up to entertain yourself? If so... perhaps you should look at just what you are indoctrinating the youths with, as they could actually turn out like you.

Anonymous said...

Actually, Mr. Bill, this the mating call of the beta male. The idea is that his Enlightened Sensitivity(tm) will get him some.