Samira wrote:
I flew into a sudden and completely unexpected rage the other day when a commercial came on the radio that featured a particularly vapid woman asking a man's advice about how to find the best high-def TV.
My friend was highly amused and a little scared, I think.
Insipid bint: "But which are the really GOOD deals?"
Yeah, I think I'm slightly overly sensitive to women acting like morons. I do facetiously from time to time, but not generally. Nevertheless, people have certain expectations of someone who looks like me and I get tired of women letting those stereotypes continue since I have to deal with the consequences.
Case in point, one of the guys I work with (in the IT department), just threatened "I'm going to take you over my knee and spank you" because I made a (completely appropriate) snarky comment regarding his seeming inability to pick up after himself in our kitchen. I don't imagine his reaction would have been the same to one of our other coworkers. In fact, I can't imagine another person in our building that he would have said that to. I stared at him with one eyebrow raised until he turned bright red, made a half-assed apology, and left the room. At any rate, it's the women who let that kind of thing slide, or laugh along with such jokes, that allow that kind of behavior to continue. He's a nice enough guy, and I would be surprised if he made any such comment to me again, but it would easily have gone on had I just laughed along with him.
Nexa