Comments on: Sexism, Facebook Edition: Is This Image Truly Harmless?

By: MomGrind

MomGrind — Sat, 24 May 2008 02:14:36 +0000

@ Robin: well… it was an accident.

@ kris: “Look at it for what it is, spam. Lets move on.” Agreed.

By: kris

kris — Sat, 24 May 2008 01:34:33 +0000

I think that being a ‘feminist’ is just a state of mind as anything else is. Anyone can take offense against this if they let themselves, just as Christians take offense from someone cursing ‘Jesus Christ!’ In my opinion this is just a bad drawing, and thats it. I didnt even think further into it than that until I read on and saw it was apparently a hot topic. Yes, some girls choose to be hookers, but everyone knows that one image doesnt portray all girls. I’m not like that and I am sure the majority of girls arent. And yes there are not as much images of men as there are of females doing stuff like this but lets face it, females have a much more beautiful body then men do with much more curves and such…and thats coming from a girl. So anyways to answer your question yes I think your being too serious about this image. Look at it for what it is, spam. Lets move on.

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 23 May 2008 07:28:25 +0000

Hi Vered - I remembered just after I posted the comment a few comments above that it was actually that same image that my partner got and sent on without realizing it at first.

By: MomGrind

MomGrind — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:06:42 +0000

@ Bruce: I like your username. You do have a point. And it is actually my opinion that women are not better than men, just different. However, historically and statistically, don’t you think that women are the “half the human race” that tends to be abused, silenced and USED?

By: Bruce Bullis

Bruce Bullis — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:32:09 +0000

When a guy spams his entire friend list with this, I can take it as another proof that men are childish.

When a woman makes sweeping generalizations about half the human race, I can take that as another proof that women are no better than men.

Sexism works both ways. Don’t like it? Don’t do it.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:34:37 +0000

I hate getting those funwall spam forwards too! Whether it’s offensive or not it’s just unnecessary garbage. It’s like, we have this amazing technology that connects us to people around the globe and we use it for what? Fart jokes and naked lady drawings. Sweet.

By: magpie

magpie — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:58:02 +0000

Not harmless at all.

By: MomGrind

MomGrind — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:48:07 +0000

@ Robin: I agree. It’s a big problem over at Facebook - some applications make you spam your entire friends list without even realizing it.

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By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 19 May 2008 07:10:19 +0000

I don’t think it’s harmless.

Facebook can make it really hard to know what’s going on. My partner received some tasteless thing or other and before he knew it he had forwarded it to everyone in his group - and then he wrote to them all to tell them it was an accident. He was pretty annoyed.