Tuesday, April 28, 2009

A job for Mythbusters?

I was ruminating over how people, especially feminists, might respond to an equivalent type of ad appearing in a men's centre newsletter focussing on girlfriend violence. Or doesn't it exist?

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4 comments:

Libertyscott said...

Of course not Lindsay, only boys are violent and aggressive. Boys are the source of the world's ills. I mean the fact they kill themselves in far higher numbers than girls, isn't a good enough reason to finger point at them for being "wrong".

In fact it should be about Maori boys, since we know they are disproportionately violent, so let's pick on them - oh that's not ok? Just ok to pick on those born with penises.

Of course those promoting this are highlighting a real problem, whilst stereotyping and branding an entire group.

11:11 AM
Lindsay Mitchell said...

Liberty, I was listening to an old biddy calling a talkshow and lamenting the manners of all brown-skinned immigrants (they must have badges on indicating country of birth was not NZ). She had gone to Westfield for the first time shopping in Farmers and was dismayed at how the Indians, Asians and "those people with black skin - they must be from Somalia" had pushed people out of there way, and "never stood aside" in the aisles (she obviously thought she had precedence).

I was aching for the host to ask, "Did you notice if they were all women?"

The subtlety may have been lost on her however.

Oh, and her demand was that every immigrant should be taught NZ manners when they enter the country:-)

2:16 PM
Mark.V. said...

It is not only violence against men, put downs of men are also common and coments are made about men that would never be said about women. An example is an advertisement billboard in Queensgate Mall in Lower Hutt that featured an empty toilet roll holder and the slogan, "and yet he can change a tyre". I wondered what the response would be if the slogan were changed to "and yet she can change a diaper".

6:48 PM
Unknown said...

I can't imagine what they think their end goal is, and how this promotion might help achieve it. I particularly liked the use of a constructive word like "drag"

5:12 PM

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