Friday, January 1, 2010

About the Jersey Shore punch

There are some on the internet who have claimed that gender equality means this:

Cletus Van Damme (Dec 7, 2009): "Well chicks want equal everything, so here you go Snookie. Equal being what it is when dudes talk a bunch of shit they have to back it up or get knocked the fuck out.

"Welcome to being equal Snookie. I'm guessing that I won't see you lined up to collect your combat pay anytime soon."


But one commenter on Huffington Post gets it right:

maude flanders: "I'm glad you caught something else...I hate this idea that we should all be 'equal' when it comes to bullshit like 'being a man' and taking a punch. That is bullshit.

"I hate the standard that masculinity = eagerness to resolve things with violence and readiness to meet a challenge. What reasonable person would give someone a hard time for walking away from a fight?"


I kind of hope that if it were me or any man who got hurt and was crying on the floor, the way, Snooki was, that the guys would give me the same care. Would they? Or would they say, "you got to be tougher"?


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