Posts Tagged ‘youtube’
Vintage Sexism Finds Modern Defenders
Behold a common argument deployed by modern sexists:
1. Establish your concern for the women’s movement by admitting that things used to be pretty bad for chicks, back in the olden days when institutionalized sexism dictated that women couldn’t vote or hold jobs out of the home.
2. Your feminist prowress now established, assert that since women are now legally freed to pursue activities beyond babymakin’, all sexism has miraculously disappeared in the workplace, in inter-personal relationships, and in entertainment.
3. Declare anyone who says otherwise a sexist.
This sexist argument—that sexism used to exist, but no more—tends to collapse whenever vintage sexism rears its ugly head. Modern sexists, like moths drawn dangerously close to the flame, can’t help but defend the olde-tyme sexism. You know, the kind that was par for the course back when women couldn’t vote or work or take birth control or avoid being legally raped by their husbands.
Child Cruelty: Dentist Visits Vs. Horrible Monsters
Slate’s DoubleX has taken up an interesting point of discussion. Which of the following is more cruel:
(a) A father who films his hilariously drugged-up child after a doctor’s visit:
“David After Dentist”
(b) Or a hipster music video depicting a screaming child dodging scary monsters without the help of his unresponsive mother:
MGMT’s music video for “Kids”
Personally, I’d say that forcing your own child to go to the dentist—ughhhhhh—and then filming him totally cracked out on dentist drugs—Daaaaaad!!!—and posting the results to Youtube—YOU ARE SO EMBARRASSING DAD I HATE YOU—is slightly more cruel than subjecting a child actor to a hipster-video-of-horrors. Because, as David’s Dad failes to assure his child in the video, “David After Dentist” is, in fact, real life. Meanwhile, MGMT insists that no children were harmed in the video’s making.
But at least “David After Dentist” was funny! Less funny is when you actually start marketing t-shirts with your child’s image on them referencing the time you forced him to go to the dentist, filmed him totally cracked out on dentist drugs, then posted the results to Youtube. That’s not just child cruelty, Dad. That’s tacky child cruelty! Perhaps it is Capitalism which is the true monster.
NOM and Perez Hilton In YouTube Pissing Match
Well, well, well, isn’t this interesting. The National Organization for Marriage is bristling at Perez Hilton’s request for YouTube to remove a NOM ad (above) which features footage of Hilton calling Miss California Carrie Prejean a “dumb bitch.” Hilton claimed that NOM had violated copyright laws by lifting “about three seconds of footage” from his video blog. NOM’s lawyers have appealed the video’s removal to the video sharing site.
It’s no surprise that NOM would fight to keep the video up—Perez Hilton is probably wrong here, as the clip is short enough to constitute fair use. The interesting part is the way NOM executive director Brian Brown has characterized Hilton’s request.
It seems like only yesterday that NOM was working exhaustively to remove YouTube copies of the leaked audition reels to its now-infamous anti-gay “Gathering Storm” ad. And yet, In an interview with Bloggasm, Brown painted Hilton not just as a copyright law novice, but as a coward.
Update: Welcome to the Anti-Gay Auditions!
NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM
Well, the National Organization for Marriage keeps bitching at someone to have its hilarious gay storm audition reels pulled down from video sharing sites like Youtube and Vimeo. Citizen bloggers keep ripping their own copies of the auditions and reposting them to those same sites, causing what must be a pretty big pain in the ass for NOM. I’m doing my best to keep the original post, “Welcome to the Gay Auditions!,” updated with watchable videos.
When videos are deleted, and you know of a new place they’ve cropped up, leave the link in the comments. Together, perhaps we can so distract the National Organization for Marriage that they forget about spreading homophobic lies and instead spend their time declaring, “Mr. Youtube, Tear Down That NOM.”
Photo by Ollie Crafoord
