Chris Brown appeared on the Wendy Williams Show on Friday, where he talked about his anger management classes, explained that his posture has been misconstrued by the media, and basked in the excessive fawning of Williams’ female audience.

The whole interview was weird. Williams opens the segment by describing Brown in strangely passive language: “Our first guest has faced a firestorm of criticism for the past several months after a widely-publicized domestic violence incident which occurred with his former girlfriend, Rihanna.” But the low point of the interview comes at segment’s end, when William asks Brown if he’s dating anyone. Brown responds, “Of course. I love women.” And the crowd goes wild.

I hate “I love women.”
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I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell has officially frozen over: Tucker Max produced some ads I actually like.

The ads, which are running on Glenn Beck’s delightfully incomprehensible Web site, refrain from denigrating women, Mexicans, and the disabled in order to ridicule the religious right. Now that’s a deliberately offensive marketing campaign that I can get behind (still not into the movie, though). The ads, which pair nicely with Becks’ series of incoherent ramblings, are after the jump.

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In a promotional blitz for his film, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, Tucker Max has published a series of comedic “facts” to help publicize the IHTSBIH way of life. “Blind girls never see you coming,” reads one insight; “The best thing about fat girls is heart disease,” reads another. These “facts” have been deemed too offensive for ad space by at least one ad agency and the Chicago Transit Authority. But for every feminist spoilsport who finds Max’s facts vile, there’s a fan willing to defend the jokes as just plain hilarious.

I have one big problem with the “but it’s just funny!” defense. If an appreciation for Max’s “facts” requires only a sense of humor, and not latent misogyny, racism, or homophobia, why are his fans willing to listen to the exact same joke over and over and over again? It’s the same fucking joke.

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Hey, Sexist readers. You know, sometimes it’s good to just sit back and reflect on what brought us all together to this little corner of the Internet. Namely, crazy-ass Google searches.

This week, the top two search terms leading to the Sexist were as follows:

Have you ever seen your life’s work stripped down to its very essence? Mine looks like penis, and a guy who pens humorous essays about vomit on his penis. Since I’ve written quite enough on the top search term this week, let’s take penis and run with it, shall we? The week’s best “penis” searches, after the jump.

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Tucker Max’s message board has launched a Photoshop competition for the best reimagined protest signs from the “I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell” protests. Creative Max devotees are working off images from the film tour’s photostream in order to ridicule students from the NC State women’s center, which staged a Raleigh protest of the film. Predictably, the submissions are sexist (above). Since this is a contest to ridicule people who care about rape, sexism is to be expected. So why are the submissions so racist?

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According to one employee from an ad network solicited by Tucker Max, everyone’s favorite rape culture scholar has been shopping around some ads for “I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell” based on his fratty “fact” catchphrases. Sample Tucker Max “facts”: “Sexism isn’t the same as misogyny, you stupid bitch,” and “The best thing about fat girls is heart disease.”

Apparently, some ad networks don’t like “facts”! According to the employee, the firm rejected the above mock-up, deeming it too “offensive” and “ignorant” for general distribution. The employee says that each of Max’s “facts” proved contrary to the network’s terms of service, as the advertising firm dos not tolerate “garbage.”

UPDATE: Max confirms that his “I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell” ads have been rejected by firms, and has this to say:

“Fuck them. I definitely had some agency pull some holier-than-thou trip a few weeks ago and I went elsewhere. I’m not paying them money so they can tell me what my ads are supposed to be like. Fuck them, and anyone who thinks they can tell me what to say or not say.”

Last month, Tucker Max’s cross-country movie premiere tour hit Raleigh, where students from the North Carolina State Women’s Center were on hand to protest the screening. Max’s people, predictably, had some anti-feminist fun with it, and posted the video online. In the video, Max sends out his minion to interview the protesters while masquerading as a gay Duke student writing a thesis on “the linguistics of rape culture.” Of course, anyone actually interested in the linguistics of rape culture need only watch “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell” to figure out what it sounds like. Basically, there are a lot of references to “cum dumpsters.”

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Tucker Max, professional sexist, swung through College Park, Md., and Washington, D.C., last month to help promote his new movie, “I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell.” Tucker Max events, you may be surprised to learn, can actually prove helpful to us feminists. Max has the power to gather all the local sexist douchebags into one convenient location for an evening, and that makes those people a lot easier to identify (and mock). But if you didn’t have the heart to trudge out and ridicule the hordes of Tucker Max fans in person, it’s not too late to get in on the fun. Max has graciously provided anecdotal and recorded evidence of the tour’s douchiest attendees for us! See if you can spot any douches from your workplace, biology class, or overpriced Georgetown lounge:

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I’m debuting a new feature on The Sexist today—the  Misogynist of the Week. Who truly hates women and who’s merely phoning it in? Let’s take a spin on the Internet misogyny whirl-a-gig and crown ourselves a winner!

CANDIDATE: Roissy in D.C., “Keys to a Healthy Relationship“—manages to make “whey protein” even fucking lamer than it already is!

After you’ve shot your whey protein-boosted load across her chest, admire your handiwork for a bit, get up, grab a towel, and throw it in her face while saying ‘You’d better clean yourself off, babe.’ This is catnip to chicks. I don’t know why. Just run with it.

CANDIDATE: Tucker Max: “The Celebrity Tipping Point“—manages to offend both women and the disabled!

“shit man, I’ve fucked a midget, and amputee and a set of twins, raise your hand if you’ve ever done that!”

CANDIDATE: Linda Hirshman, “How Jezebel Hurts Feminism“—manages to incoherently label real, live rape victims as “symptoms,” and also accuse these symptoms of being incoherent—incoherent symptoms of weakness, these women are.

Women can pretend they’re female chauvinist pigs, but it’s still women who are more sexually vulnerable to stronger men, due to the possibilities of physical abuse and pregnancy. These Jezebel writers are a symptom of the weaknesses in the model of perfect egalitarian sexual freedom; in fact, it’s the supposed concern with feminism that makes the site so problematic. How can Tracie, who posted this picture, criticize the men who go to Hooters? How can writers who justify not reporting rape criticize the military for not controlling…rape? It’s incoherent.

Do I have to choose? The winner, after the jump.

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