| May. 6th, 2008 @ 07:57 am Screenwriting group at Yahoo is so fricken sexist |
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This group showed it's sexism back when Cody received her Oscar for Juno...many of them just couldn't get past her time as a stripper. The comments were ignorant to say the least.
Since then more sexist comments have come up in comments.
I grew tired enough to post the following and leave the group.
Dear members who are upset about being called out for making offensive statements, who are now defending them,
You may want to take a look at this.
Drop ego from it & look objectively at the system.
I'd appreciate it if I didn't have to be hit with sexism EVERYWHERE but, the world isn't like that is it? Ask yourself if you want to contribute to another's pain, feeling picked on, left out, pushed aside and made fun of for how we were born? Do you really want to be with the bullies?
I choose to believe it's a matter of just not knowing what your contributing to when you defend mean comments, labels or statements.
I know you've learned that if you call me nigger, you are being a bigot, right?
It's not funny.
Describing women as receptacles or by their body parts is not funny- it's mean. Stop it.
When someone tells you that you've done something that caused harm, stop, apologize and correct. To defend it (on a public forum no less) is beyond callous. It's sexist, bigoted bullying.
Please stop.
Now, if you choose to make fun of me for communicating discomfort, I can only hope you wont ever know what that feels like.
good luck,
T
and from 37 days- the telling of a grad student with white privilege who still got to experience sexism
"My face went instantly hot. I knew in an instant: This is what power really is. The power to deny the whole reality of someone else."
and that about sums it up. |
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