#MeToo became something like a commercialised pop version of itself. The mention of it in the ad reminds me that all that shit behaviour exists, but doesn't compell me to bandwagon on internet hysteria. To me the ad is just a clumsy attempt at repeating some sentiment that was already on our plates. I figure men offended by the ad would also fail to empathise with what it's like to regularly face casual misogyny. They can't relate their own outrage to that of their so-called enemy, let alone comprehend the cause and effect of their own country's culture and actions.The trap is that it shames men not into respecting women (most already do to varying degrees) but that it specifically shames men into supporting #MeToo which is an entirely different thing. It also implies that there is a #RapeCulture where a minority of men need to stand up to some evil imagined majority, when we all know that statistics show that rapists and harassers aren't representative of men. If they really had any balls or sense of scope they'd have made the advert specifically targeting wealthy men, men in power, men of privilege and riches, they'd have called out Hollywood for example.
But no, same old shit, they just smear regular men with the actions of rich animals with no sense of boundaries. Fuck the advert on every level.
What makes you a privileged white guy?
What makes you a privileged white guy?
#MeToo became something like a commercialised pop version of itself. The mention of it in the ad reminds me that all that shit behaviour exists, but doesn't compell me to bandwagon on internet hysteria. To me the ad is just a clumsy attempt at repeating some sentiment that was already on our plates. I figure men offended by the ad would also fail to empathise with what it's like to regularly face casual misogyny. They can't relate their own outrage to that of their so-called enemy, let alone comprehend the cause and effect of their own country's culture and actions.
Primarily my class and opportunities, but also my skin color.
To give an example of what I mean by not taking offense due to privilege:
As a white guy, I'm not part of a demographic that has historically been regarded with suspicion when it comes to sexual crime. When black men see an ad associating them with rape, it's possible it registers a long history of general suspicion toward black males, from the Scottsboro Boys to Katie Robb's false accusation in 2001. We think we've come a long way, but the truth is that a lot of black men live under constant threat, in the back of their minds, of being accused of a violent or sex crime.
I consider it a privilege that I haven't had to live under that threat; and for that reason, I don't see the ad as personally offensive or accusatory.
And I'm also fully aware of how this racial concern complicates concerns over women's rights and the #MeToo movement. These social issues aren't always compatible, and we need to be sensitive and thoughtful about who's affected by certain narratives.
Katie Robb, 19, 4912 Mortensen Road #101, told DPS on Aug. 28 that she was kidnapped from one of the busiest areas on campus. She said a group of black males then took her to a wooded area where they raped her.
The next day, Robb, sophomore in journalism and mass communication, told DPS officials she fabricated the allegations. No date for a disciplinary hearing is set for student conduct code violation, said Dean of Students Pete Englin.
lmao, those are surely the only cases where men were falsely accused of rape.
EDIT: How did you even decide to cherry-pick that obscure Katie Robb case?
That's the most benign false rape story I've ever heard. It's not even an accusation being that apparently no men were named.
There's never been a cultural narrative that "all white men are rapists" (and the Gillette commercial isn't promoting such a narrative).
You must have missed my edit:
Nobody said the Gillette advert was racial, just sexist.
I'm not sure I follow. No black men were named... by Robb? Of course not. It was a false accusation to begin with, so why would she have a name? All she said was that she was raped by unknown black assailants.
No names were mentioned in any news reports because there were no identifiable aggressors.
Maybe I'm not understand why that's important. Historically speaking, if a white woman accused a black man of rape, she didn't need to name the black man. The lynch mob would just find the most suitable scapegoat for the accusation.
accusation noun
ac·cu·sa·tion | \ ˌa-kyə-ˈzā-shən,
-(ˌ)kyü-\
Definition of accusation
1 : a charge of wrongdoing The evidence confirms the accusations made against him. She denied the accusation.
2 : the act of accusing someone : the state or fact of being accused
Once again your literacy is unparalleled.
It's not an accusation without an accused, it's simply a story. Your claim that lynch mobs always just grabbed the first black man in the vicinity is both baseless (usually it was a specific accusation, and when not, the mob would often bring the black man before the claimed victim first to "verify" the identity) and irrelevant (this was 2001, not 1901).
You incapacity to see the Robb incident as part of a historical narrative. Talk about illiteracy.