Gillian Anderson's character in the tv show The Fall (sucked don't recommend.) said something to the other detectives while looking into a serial killer that was something like
In a questionnaire when asked what men is most afraid of when it comes to women they said they fear women would laugh at them. When women are asked the same question about men they said they fear men would kill them.
And the room of male detectives fell silent and no one had an answer and everyone just kept their eyes down as if they felt ashamed of their gender.
Well motherfucker, I wish I was in the fucking room because if you make a goddammed square diagram of men and women with the same stupid question:
men -women: they might laugh at them at their insecurities. i.e. weight, status, hair, penis size, etc
women - men: they might kill them
men - men: they might kill them
women - women: they might laugh at their insecurities. i.e. fashion, weight, body and facial features, status, etc
What makes them not think males also perceive male strangers to be a threat, or at least a greater threat then a female. Oh right biology, they don't prescribe to that branch of science.
That "laugh at them/kill them" thing has been in a lot of TV shows recently to the point it feels very manufactured.
Legion series 3 had Sydney tell it to David/Legion in the first episode for some random reason, although considering the various characters in that show Syd was possibly the most pants on head retarded.
For example at one point Syd is talking to her younger self and the topic of the time young Syd sexualy assaulted her mother's date/boyfriend comes up. Background info is Syd had the power to become someone for a while and so "swaps bodies" with her mother, climbs into the shower with the date, and has sex with him. During this the date turns her around so she is facing away from him and the younger Syd asks why he did this.
Ignoring the whole point about how she deceives the date about who she really is, which then gets turned around on him after somehow, when you are both standing up, in a shower or otherwise, the anatomical and mechanical requirements for sex mean that a position where the woman is facing away from the man are needed. Because otherwise penetration isn't very likely to happen. Instead this gets explained away as men treating women in certain ways, rather tha than the truth of Syd being a complete moron, which is a running theme in the show.
Another example deals with how the show ends. Pretty much everything bad that happened to David/Legion is due to a very shitty childhood where his father, Charles Xavier, wasn't around. So to fix things time travel happens and this gets changed. While this does at least change David's life, for better or worse we never find out, it does absolutely nothing for Syd who only met David when he was 30 or something after he entered a mental hospital.
Syd still grows up to be a moron. She still fucks her mother's date. She probably still ends up in the mental hospital except this time David won't be there to help her get out!
But as I said, Syd being a moron is a running theme in the show so having her spout that laugh/kill line is perfectly in character because it's pants on head retarded.
You pretty well nailed it. They whimper and whine about “male gaze” and so on but where does the apparent pressure to look good cone from? Partly from within and heavily from other women mean-girling them. Biologically women are programmed to want to be desirable for reproduction, and part of that involves competition. It always made me laugh how women could complain about how it’s men demanding they look good, and yet there is also the universal joke about the woman coming home with a makeover or new hairstyle and the husband doesn’t notice. I’m married, this has quite literally happened in real life. Men have preferences but we don’t care half so much about what women look like as women do, both themselves and other women.
Gillian Anderson's character in the tv show The Fall (sucked don't recommend.) said something to the other detectives while looking into a serial killer that was something like
And the room of male detectives fell silent and no one had an answer and everyone just kept their eyes down as if they felt ashamed of their gender.
Well motherfucker, I wish I was in the fucking room because if you make a goddammed square diagram of men and women with the same stupid question:
What makes them not think males also perceive male strangers to be a threat, or at least a greater threat then a female. Oh right biology, they don't prescribe to that branch of science.
That "laugh at them/kill them" thing has been in a lot of TV shows recently to the point it feels very manufactured.
Legion series 3 had Sydney tell it to David/Legion in the first episode for some random reason, although considering the various characters in that show Syd was possibly the most pants on head retarded.
For example at one point Syd is talking to her younger self and the topic of the time young Syd sexualy assaulted her mother's date/boyfriend comes up. Background info is Syd had the power to become someone for a while and so "swaps bodies" with her mother, climbs into the shower with the date, and has sex with him. During this the date turns her around so she is facing away from him and the younger Syd asks why he did this.
Ignoring the whole point about how she deceives the date about who she really is, which then gets turned around on him after somehow, when you are both standing up, in a shower or otherwise, the anatomical and mechanical requirements for sex mean that a position where the woman is facing away from the man are needed. Because otherwise penetration isn't very likely to happen. Instead this gets explained away as men treating women in certain ways, rather tha than the truth of Syd being a complete moron, which is a running theme in the show.
Another example deals with how the show ends. Pretty much everything bad that happened to David/Legion is due to a very shitty childhood where his father, Charles Xavier, wasn't around. So to fix things time travel happens and this gets changed. While this does at least change David's life, for better or worse we never find out, it does absolutely nothing for Syd who only met David when he was 30 or something after he entered a mental hospital.
Syd still grows up to be a moron. She still fucks her mother's date. She probably still ends up in the mental hospital except this time David won't be there to help her get out!
But as I said, Syd being a moron is a running theme in the show so having her spout that laugh/kill line is perfectly in character because it's pants on head retarded.
You pretty well nailed it. They whimper and whine about “male gaze” and so on but where does the apparent pressure to look good cone from? Partly from within and heavily from other women mean-girling them. Biologically women are programmed to want to be desirable for reproduction, and part of that involves competition. It always made me laugh how women could complain about how it’s men demanding they look good, and yet there is also the universal joke about the woman coming home with a makeover or new hairstyle and the husband doesn’t notice. I’m married, this has quite literally happened in real life. Men have preferences but we don’t care half so much about what women look like as women do, both themselves and other women.
You can't have a Pascalian quadrant analysis without tossing probabilities onto it!
M-W: 100%.
W-M: 0.0000001%.
M-M: 0.00001%.
W-W: 100%.