Is Sexism Wrong If Everyone Engadges Willingly in it?

This isn’t a (hopefulluly) hypothetical argument like Sauwelios’ consensual cannibalism thread, it really occurs here.

We have a TV station, WTOV-9, and it’s TV staff is like, 90% very attractive females, including a Miss Maryland contestant who couldn’t even complete a sentence for a few months without stuttering.

The “plain looking girls” they pit on the off shifts look as good as the big city hot girls.

Honestly, every time Erica Mokay pops up, I end up just staring. Its difficult, cause I’m a news fanatic, I’m the guy you can go to, pick a random country, and discuss it’s news with, and I can hold a intelligent conversation, but if I’m around people and asked to put the news on, I gotta put it on WTRF (our other local station) cause that’s the station that has normal looking women on… even their main anchorwoman they’ve pumped a lot of money into to make look more attractive, she now has much better lightening and hair/makeup… but they only have one go to woman to compete, WTOV-9 has like, 6-7.

Even the sports desk… was ran by a fat football guy, now it’s every other night him, or this really cute girl. Weather… it had a long term meteorologist, and one of the younger guys got replaced with a size double D, very curvy meteorologist.

They started this commercial spree, advertising the anchor women, they had Erica Mokay standing on a spinning pedastool, glowing and smiling, then the rest of the women. Then it was the fat sports guy standing, not spinning (who fats to see a spinning sportsman?). Someone must of pointed this out, and made him spin too, showing off his circumference.

The meteorologist was simple, just make him a giant towering up in the clouds, so he didn’t have to spin.

When I don’t get it changed, it’s still on WTOV9, older women always have the same conversation with each other in my presence… “Oh, it’s so nice they always get the most attractive women”… and eventually ask me “don’t you think so?”.

Teenager, perverted me clearly agrees, so the answer to the women is a resounding No! Why? Cause the male researchers in the field are very expendable… but the women aren’to. Honestly, I spend more time on the internet studying the news than half their staff does, I next to never see the reporters face. I can care less about what they look like.

This being said, both me and the former moderator Pav used to watch this station growing up just to see it’s main news woman. It was prior to internet, we we’re teenagers… you know. Well, it became less cool when I got a job working with that woman, who was obsessed with why I never talked at work… I had a really shitty menial labor job, didn’t require me to talk, nobody expected me to, was usually too busy solving the mysteries of the universe… but she made it her crusade to get me to talk and smile… I said I was naturally interverted, she took it as a point of excitement from presumably her old college days, and kept getting a little too close with stuff… I don’t need a teenage fantasy I used to bate to, to launch a happy crusade against me to get me to open up… I was there for heavy labor, not to be a shiny spot in everybody’s day. I don’t want to feel threatened by a department manager to conform if she suddenly pops up and says “I didn’t see you smiling shy guy!”. I’m not shy, I’m pulling something heavy or doing bitch work deep in thought, don’t fucking complicate shit.

I’m not launching a petition for it to change. I know looks doesn’t equal compatibility, or even a wise choice in partners, etc. I just like looking at them, in private, and won’t admit it in public, or let it show in the least. It annoys me… but I still look, when others aren’t watching me looking.

I suppose it comes from a complex having to hide male interest in pornography growing up. Nope… not interested… then I look in private. Everyone wants the news this way here, it’s why it’s winning the ratings battle since the 90s. I don’t want some feminist to destroy it, even if I agree with potential aspects of the argument.

She has some big books… I’m not really a boob man, but like, this “meteorologist” in this pink suit of hers, it is distracting. I looked at her the whole segment, still don’t know what the weather will be like tomorrow. I’m a horrible person. I can’t help it.

It just now occurred to me… Pav and I talked about her prior to my working there… and I used to use my photo as a avatar… she likely recognized me…

Oh Jesus Fucking Christ, twice the discomfort from that whole situation…

wtrf.com/story/30804852/poli … in-weirton

Shootout ended “peacefully”.

It was the station with the ugly chicks that got the news out first, they had a guy in the field. If most of your staff is attractive females, they are getting nowhere close to that, much less report that story on time, with followup.

I just like how our police force suddenly has full military uniforms. Those pics had me scratching my head, looks like military ACUs. I get the helmet and body armor, but you could of worn a standard police uniform underneath it, no need to play military with the full get-up, your just showing off at that point, trying to look special, and it scares the neighbors even more.

I’ve never cared for the sexism (or feminism) argument… the seeking of power over the other. Better to build up ones’ own personal power and watch both those isms become immaterial in your life - I was brought up as a person not a gender, based on my intelligence and abilities, rather than what genitals I possessed.

(Mum would dress us up in the cutest of one-off hand-made outfits like new dolls still in their box, and dad would teach us to wrestle and play poker… with the odd shot of whiskey thrown in.)

It’s a refreshing way to view the world, and I do not have to hurt my cute little head by worrying about issues that do not concern me, but… having said that, I get on fine with sexists because the conversation is interesting and always ends in laughter, but probably because I am not threatened by them.

I suspect that those newsreaders are being paid handsomely to sit there and look pretty, so happy newsreaders and happy male viewers all round :wink:

Don’t take the Lord’s name in vain, Turd.

Keep it up and you will have a nice place in hell.

Oh… it backfires.

Look at Steve Harvey, a fellow West Virginian at Miss Universe. Rare male celebrity, usually someone like Dolly Parton bugging it out, but he is the first man to break through. Got to be around pretty women, made a small mistake, and now Colombia wants to crucify him.

I don’t know if he is laughing from all those jokes right now, he’s gonna end up having to become a weather boy on air, pointing at the clouds on screen as Miss Boosums Galore sits back and runs the computer program off screen… he doesn’t have apparently much of a future.

Steve Harvey is going to become homeless, and have to sleep in the homeless shelter with all the unemployed male news anchors and male actors here. Ill buy him some chicken nuggets occasionally so he doesn’t get hungry.

Poor guy.

(I’m Catholic, we take the lords name in vain as a show of faith).

:laughing: I was going to mention that (incident) seeing that Miss Phillipines was the winner, and you are in… the Phillipines.

My heart went out to poor Miss Columbia, but at least she got to be Miss World for 5 minutes, right :confusion-shrug:

My heart went out to Steve Harvey. He hid his erection the whole night, got just a little distracted… and every woman hates him now. What is worst, we discover all the contestants hated the winner.

His wife is probably embarrassed, demanding to know how he could of gotten that wrong, it was a boring piece if paper, clearly written, where could his mind possibly of been?

At least it wasn’t Miss America accidentally crowned, Colombia would openly ally with ISIS had that happened. Honestly, would of been really bad for us.

:laughing:

I didn’t see the show, but I can imagine the impact the contestants were having on Steve’s male ‘sensibilities’ :laughing:

Women will always alienate, and turn against, the prettiest female within their radar… ousting her out of the group - the female ego is hurt when all or most of the male attention lands on one person - those that seek beauty surgically to be one of the beautiful people, soon become disappointed, because it’s not how self-satisfying they thought it would be.

Turd Ferguson

The way I look at it, IF there are absolutely no harmful consequences, mental, emotional or spiritual, subtle or blatant, either in the short term or the long term, then perhaps in that instant — truth would be the concert of many voices as Carl Jung has said.
That being said, that wouldn’t ever be the “reality” - no consequences. Those who DO engage in it or allow it willfully do so out of ignorance and a lack of awareness or an unbroken habit or pattern within the brain which needs to be changed.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men (including women) are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…

We’re not speaking here of 'priviledge - for instance, if a man deems that a particular woman or women is/are priviledged enough to be treated as his equal. That’s arrogant thinking to me. We’re speaking of human rights. Sexism deprives the person of the right to be an equal WHERE IT COUNTS.

Sexism can be a subtle disease or like a virus which can rob both women and men alike of a more optimal life, or a good life, personal freedom and individuality and the kind of happiness which does make life worth living.

Consider the ways in which sexism could rear it’s ugly head. Consider the man who degrades his wife in front of his daughter or son. Consider the wife who grew up in the same way by her father. Consider the way in which the daughter and son will grow up, allowing or doing the same thing, unless they through luck or self-awareness they decide to destroy that pattern. Consider how learning to be a sexist while growing up could eventually though it may seem absurd lead one into the prison system.
It becomes like an allegorial continuum unless that pattern is changed.

If all pregnant women engaged in abortions and chose to have them in whichever trimester they deemed agreeable to them, no matter what the situation or circumstances, would abortions be wrong or harmful to the fetus - even if the whole world decided they were not - both men and women alike?