I've been really busy with COWS so I haven't had time to update, but my reasons are completely selfless and admirable so you can't hate me.
Something happened a couple months ago that has really been getting to me that I can barely sleep since. At my college bar, Amnesty hosted a charity evening of stand up comedies and jokes. As I possess a sharp wit and a strong sense of humour, I had high hopes to see what the best of Cambridge had to offer.
To my dismay, there were no women comedians in over half a dozen acts. This on its own was fine, as I recognise the comedic ability of both sexes as they are equally humorous, but there were several jokes that seemed to aimed directly at my expense. Consistent shots were taken against women, objectifying them or portraying them as something inferior and alien. I felt targeted, even harassed, but I sat in protest and refused to laugh.
The evening culminated with one of the most horrific things I've ever heard. They were doing a "best one-liner competition" and when they were announcing some of the entries, there was one that just said "women's rights." I was shocked and appalled that someone in the world would find this funny. I was literally angry.
Is Cambridge comedy really that far behind the rest of the world that they still think women's rights are a joke? It's not even a joke, it's just two words. There's no question and answer format that jokes are supposed to follow. It just doesn't work. It would possibly work if we were still in the 60s, and that's exactly what it felt like that evening. I just don't understand why this would be considered humour, when women have had rights for several decades.
It appears that in comedy, there is still a strong dominant male culture much like the one that was commonplace 50 years ago, a bunch of "laddie lads" who hang around high-fiving each other and joking about how dumb women are, despite the social and cultural advances we have made in that time. To me, that is the real joke.
Sunday, 4 April 2010
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Censored
Yet again I have been censored. I tried to comment on the TAB Totty page to display my outrage, but it wasn't accepted. It's a sickening world when Neanderthal comments such as "She can pull me one anytime!" from people who call themselves "Johnny Jizz" get through, yet anything liberal and critical of the regime is shot down.
I also tried to reach out to Brittany, as she is clearly in a dark place right now and very confused. I suggested she come along to the next COWS meeting, where all the girls will offer her support of the feminine kind, a fresh alternative to all the men pressuring her to get her clothes off. However, this helpful advice was probably deemed too subversive as it undermines the sexist culture that the TAB thrives off. Shame on you, TAB, and if you get word of this Brittany, I suggest you come down.
I also tried to reach out to Brittany, as she is clearly in a dark place right now and very confused. I suggested she come along to the next COWS meeting, where all the girls will offer her support of the feminine kind, a fresh alternative to all the men pressuring her to get her clothes off. However, this helpful advice was probably deemed too subversive as it undermines the sexist culture that the TAB thrives off. Shame on you, TAB, and if you get word of this Brittany, I suggest you come down.
Thursday, 28 January 2010
This blog - enough is enough
Enough is enough. The latest TAB Totty has encouraged me to create this blog, which will attempt to tackle the sexist culture that the TAB continues to circulate. I implore on all of you to boycott this horrifically backwards mockery of a paper.
I e-mailed them asking them to post my words on TAB Totty (see below), seeing if they possessed the journalistic balls to publish something that is both liberal and groundbreaking. However, they shunned me, probably because my lower status as a woman deems it unnecessary in society to reply to an e-mail. Perhaps I would have had better luck if I attached a picture of my perfectly symmetrical breasts. This is just one of many countless example of me being censored, like when my oppressive ex-boyfriend used to put a gag in my mouth in bed.
Well I've had enough! That's right, Matt, I'm done with you. Consider my Facebook relationship status...single. And this is a new Anita Stern, no longer the passive one that let men run over her. I'm now going to talk about whatever I want for as long as I want and as loud as I want, even when my new boyfriend wants some sleep (as soon as I get a new boyfriend that is. I mean, I could if I wanted to, easily, if I wasn't busy being so liberal all the time.)
I've also had enough of you, TAB, and I'm going to make it my own personal mission to denounce your sexist practices. Every sexist article, every comment, every time any woman is mentioned in a bad light, and it will be highlighted here.
I e-mailed them asking them to post my words on TAB Totty (see below), seeing if they possessed the journalistic balls to publish something that is both liberal and groundbreaking. However, they shunned me, probably because my lower status as a woman deems it unnecessary in society to reply to an e-mail. Perhaps I would have had better luck if I attached a picture of my perfectly symmetrical breasts. This is just one of many countless example of me being censored, like when my oppressive ex-boyfriend used to put a gag in my mouth in bed.
Well I've had enough! That's right, Matt, I'm done with you. Consider my Facebook relationship status...single. And this is a new Anita Stern, no longer the passive one that let men run over her. I'm now going to talk about whatever I want for as long as I want and as loud as I want, even when my new boyfriend wants some sleep (as soon as I get a new boyfriend that is. I mean, I could if I wanted to, easily, if I wasn't busy being so liberal all the time.)
I've also had enough of you, TAB, and I'm going to make it my own personal mission to denounce your sexist practices. Every sexist article, every comment, every time any woman is mentioned in a bad light, and it will be highlighted here.
TAB Totty
I am absolutely outraged by the TAB's decision to bring back TAB Totty, despite the overwhelming opposition towards the last few pieces. Not only do I feel like Brittany has been objectified but, as a woman, I myself feel like an object whenever I look at the front page. I can imagine myself in that situation instead of her because quite frankly, I do have the body for it. But I also happen to have the brains to decide not to show it off to the world.
No doubt, she was forced into it, similarly to how women in third world countries are forced to pose semi-naked on their student websites. This is no different from that appalling breach of human rights. Even though she may say it was consensual, and may even think it with complete certainty, I can tell you that it certainly was not.
She has clearly been brainwashed by society. Brittany wasn't born this way, you all made her this way. And as a woman, as there is no legal statute that protects her from exploitation, she has no choice but to oblige. You see, society is plagued with an innate casual sexism and censorship that it has gone so far as to censor Brittany's clothes. Every time a guy gets a boner over me, that's sexism rearing it's ugly head. Every time a woman is made to bear a child and go on maternity leave, that's sexism. Every time a black woman is called a nigger, that's sexism. And who is behind this sexism? The government? Possibly, it's run by men. The TAB? In a way, they are the penis with which men shoot their sexism bullets. The entire male species? Bingo.
You see, women, sexism is one big conspiracy, and all the men in the world are in on it. Every time I'm in a pub, there is always some pervert refusing to meet my eye line. Should womanity be punished for wearing low cut tops? No. Yet, society does punish us by sending all these pathetic men who try to look up our short skirts whenever we sit cross legged on the floor. There's always some guy on the street who yells “I'll have some of that” whenever we walk past sexily as if we are ice creams waiting to be eaten out. We can't help it, but you don't have to turn us into objects you fucking chauvinists. They're all in on it. Except the gays, they're ok.
So next time, Brittany, or any other of you women who are contacted by the misogynist brigade, try to break through that sexist conditioning that has been pounded into you through every hole in this menocracy, and just say no. No doubt you will be censored, then called a prude, which is just another form of censorship really, but you should still have the courage to shake your head and keep your clothes on.
Anita Stern
No doubt, she was forced into it, similarly to how women in third world countries are forced to pose semi-naked on their student websites. This is no different from that appalling breach of human rights. Even though she may say it was consensual, and may even think it with complete certainty, I can tell you that it certainly was not.
She has clearly been brainwashed by society. Brittany wasn't born this way, you all made her this way. And as a woman, as there is no legal statute that protects her from exploitation, she has no choice but to oblige. You see, society is plagued with an innate casual sexism and censorship that it has gone so far as to censor Brittany's clothes. Every time a guy gets a boner over me, that's sexism rearing it's ugly head. Every time a woman is made to bear a child and go on maternity leave, that's sexism. Every time a black woman is called a nigger, that's sexism. And who is behind this sexism? The government? Possibly, it's run by men. The TAB? In a way, they are the penis with which men shoot their sexism bullets. The entire male species? Bingo.
You see, women, sexism is one big conspiracy, and all the men in the world are in on it. Every time I'm in a pub, there is always some pervert refusing to meet my eye line. Should womanity be punished for wearing low cut tops? No. Yet, society does punish us by sending all these pathetic men who try to look up our short skirts whenever we sit cross legged on the floor. There's always some guy on the street who yells “I'll have some of that” whenever we walk past sexily as if we are ice creams waiting to be eaten out. We can't help it, but you don't have to turn us into objects you fucking chauvinists. They're all in on it. Except the gays, they're ok.
So next time, Brittany, or any other of you women who are contacted by the misogynist brigade, try to break through that sexist conditioning that has been pounded into you through every hole in this menocracy, and just say no. No doubt you will be censored, then called a prude, which is just another form of censorship really, but you should still have the courage to shake your head and keep your clothes on.
Anita Stern
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