[video=youtube;SqL9onVybW0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqL9onVybW0[/video]
Women's equality starts with the person next to you!
EDIT: In case it isn't clear, this video isn't satirical and I just thought it was funny because of how fucked up it is.
is the joke that people actually think this is how the world works
no, seriously, is this supposed to be satirical?
i didnt know you can make a entire video out of straw
Of course they bring up the white man's burden. It's the white man's duty to use his privilege for good! The white man has to uplift the helpless savage minorities with his privilege!
It's ridiculous how she assigns guilt and blame to an entire race of people collectively, and the man was speaking the most sensibly until the very end of the video, and even then she figuratively spits in his face by smacking the drink out of his hand when he offers to share. Really, this video is a perfect example of how these feminists play the perpetual victim complex, but when someone wants to help them it is either the wrong kind of help or it is never enough help. The ACLU is doing a great job advocating against their own agenda with this one.
[editline]30th November 2015[/editline]
Actually maybe the self parody is sort of intentional. Maybe. I hope so.
Oh gee guys, maybe they're using these exaggerations for, what, comedy?
[editline]30th November 2015[/editline]
The knee-jerk reactions to anything remotely feministic on this forum amazes me.
[QUOTE=Limed00d;49213946]Oh gee guys, maybe they're using these exaggerations for, what, comedy?
[editline]30th November 2015[/editline]
The knee-jerk reactions to anything remotely feministic on this forum amazes me.[/QUOTE]
what's the joke? that anyone who thinks this way is a fucking idiot?
am I supposed to be laughing about how evidently unlike reality everything in this video is?
[QUOTE=Limed00d;49213946]Oh gee guys, maybe they're using these exaggerations for, what, comedy?
[editline]30th November 2015[/editline]
The knee-jerk reactions to anything remotely feministic on this forum amazes me.[/QUOTE]
It's not satire. The woman in this video is the ACLU women's rights ambassador and this video was featured in the article where they talked about her. See for yourself:
[url]https://www.aclu.org/feature/aclu-ambassador-project[/url]
It's also in the description of the video, if you wanted to check that.
[QUOTE]Actress and comedian Sasheer Zamata, known for her breakout role on the cast of Saturday Night Live, is the ACLU celebrity ambassador for women's rights.
In her role as an ambassador, Zamata will elevate the ACLU’s work to fight gender inequality and structural discrimination against women in employment, education, healthcare, housing, and criminal justice through advocacy and public education.
The ACLU Women’s Rights Project was co-founded in 1972 by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who called women’s rights “an essential part of the overall human rights agenda.”
Though strides have been made in the past several decades to advance and protect the rights of women and girls, there’s a lot left to do. In the U.S. today:
Women make only 78 cents for every dollar earned by a man; African-American women only earn 64 cents; and Latinas, only 55 cents for each dollar earned by a white man;
A woman’s right to choose is threatened by extreme lawmakers who have introduced more than 100 abortion restrictions in 2015 alone;
Few legal protections exist for pregnant workers and new mothers, putting families in danger of economic instability, though women are the primary breadwinners in 4 out of 10 families with children.
Zamata—who was named one of Cosmopolitan’s “13 Funny Women to Watch in 2014,”—joins Harry Belafonte, Michael K. Williams, Lewis Black, Marlee Matlin, and others, to amplify the ACLU's work on priority civil liberties issues, including mass incarceration, voting rights, disability rights, and LGBT.
Read more about the ACLU Ambassador Project at:
[url]https://www.aclu.org/feature/aclu-amb[/url]...[/QUOTE]
[b]Just to make this extra super duper clear, the video itself isn't intended as satire, I just thought it was funny because of how fucked up it is. The views expressed in the video are completely genuine.[/b]
[QUOTE]Zamata—who was named one of Cosmopolitan’s [B]“13 Funny Women to Watch in 2014,”[/B]—joins Harry Belafonte, Michael K. Williams, Lewis Black, Marlee Matlin, and others, to amplify the ACLU's work on priority civil liberties issues, including mass incarceration, voting rights, disability rights, and LGBT.[/QUOTE]
So you're saying that the events that take place in the video [I]wasn't[/I] intended to be comedic exaggeration of some of the issues we still have in our society? Huh???
[editline]30th November 2015[/editline]
It just hit me that I'm defending a feminist video on Facepunch of all places, and it's just gonna end up in a tower of anger and shit so I'm just gonna head out right now before it goes that far.
Ciao.
[QUOTE=Zyler;49214033]I'm not even sure what you mean by "comedic exaggeration of some of the issues we still have in our society"[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Zyler;49214033]The video is designed to point out political issues that the creator actually believes in[/QUOTE]
This is what I meant.
[QUOTE=Limed00d;49214004]So you're saying that the events that take place in the video [I]wasn't[/I] intended to be comedic exaggeration of some of the issues we still have in our society? Huh???[/QUOTE]
I'm not even sure what you mean by "comedic exaggeration of some of the issues we still have in our society" but the idea that this is a satirical video designed to make fun of radical feminists is false, the viewpoint presented in the video by the ACLU ambassador are genuine. The video is designed to point out political issues that the creator actually believes in by using exaggerated 'strawman' examples.
It's like a fox news anchor going on a rant about "those damn, comie liberals" and bringing on a fake actor to represent "the other side" who deliberately presents it in the worst way possible in order to make fox news look good: [url]http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FoxNewsLiberal[/url]
[QUOTE=Limed00d;49214004]This is what I meant.[/QUOTE]
Alright then. Now that we've cleared up the issue of whether or not the video is satirical, what do you guys think? Is it a video for a political campaign or a surreal comedic thriller about a woman slowly losing her mind to paranoia? I'm still leaning on it either being a creepypasta or the beginning of an ARG.
[editline]30th November 2015[/editline]
Here's a video I found that tears up the video in the OP:
[video=youtube;BQe4L7ZMZI8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQe4L7ZMZI8[/video]
[editline]30th November 2015[/editline]
[QUOTE=Limed00d;49213946]
The knee-jerk reactions to anything remotely feministic on this forum amazes me.[/QUOTE]
The only people I ever see regularly complaining about knee-jerk reactions in the facepunch community are the neo-sainus squad and conservative people advocating for guns, each of whom complain that facepunch is too right-wing and too left-wing respectively.
Now, how can that be?
Ever consider that we're in the middle and you're in one extreme while the other peeps are in the other?
"of course facepunch would X" just reeks of an obnoxious superiority complex which is actually just a symptom of being an asshole.
They littered.
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