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The ‘sexism’ was that the boys didn’t believe that a girl could do dangerous skateboard stunts…’

2007-07-11
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While on the subject of feminist and/or anti-male ideas being pushed in children’s shows and movies (see my recent post Jessica Valenti Says Shrek Has Gone Feminist), I’m reminded of an incident that took place with my son at a skateboard park several years ago.

I used to take my son Saturday mornings to go skateboarding, but one time when we went they were filming a children’s show there. My son and the others were encouraged to be the audience/extras for the show.

It turned out that it was one of those Saturday kids’ shows, and it was about this great girl skateboarder who was the victim of boy skateboarders’ sexism. The sexism was that the boys didn’t believe that a girl could or would really do dangerous skateboard stunts. The boys were, of course, made to look like fools for this belief.

I watched as they filmed the dangerous skateboard stunts that the girl would do to show what sexist idiots the boys are. A teenage girl went up to the top of a tremendously tall ramp, got on her skateboard, and bent down to begin. Then she stopped, and her stunt double came on, similarly dressed.

The stunt double did a bunch of amazing stunts, and I said to my son, “wow, that girl can really skate!” Then I looked a little closer and saw that it wasn’t a girl at all–it was a boy dressed to look like a girl.

In other words, the point of the show was to make fun of the boys for thinking that a girl couldn’t or wouldn’t do dangerous skateboard stunts, and in order to film it, they had a boy do all the dangerous skateboard stunts for the girl. Nice, huh?

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  • mruffolo

    This includes skateboarding.

  • mruffolo

    After 10,000 years, women in general have not fought and won against men in combat.

    There are exceptions such as Joan of Arc.

    Further, I expect today’s feminist women do not desire to fight, as they would have demanded this by now. For example, a group of feminits would have convinced the military’s leadership that they had what it takes to win i war against men.

    This also applies to tennis, boxing, basketball, and other contests. If women knew they have superior physical power and skill over men, women would demand play against men, to eliminate the gender category.

    Proof of the pudding is in the eating.

  • amfortas

    PS. People more often than not, rise to (or fall to) the expectations that other’s have of them. The women may just surprise themselves and us.

  • amfortas

    I would not call tv2112 silly. His points are very common in the MRM and have some purchace. As do most of the arguements raised against women in combat. But the purchace is what keeps the women from having to prove themselves and while they don’t have to, they can continue to claim and shame men, and let the men continue to bear the weight.

    The point about winning in battle and the risk of losing due to ineffective women is real and it may be necessary for that to happen. In every war ever fought someone’s side got their arses whipped in this battle or that, but didn’t necessarily lose the war.

    America has something in the order of half a million in the armed forces. Lets just say a quarter. If only 50,000 were women in their own combat battalions with their own support auxilliaries, (say 1000 average battalion size, thats maybe 20 combat battalions all up) there is a huge number of male battalions and formations as well. Four times as many. All-Female airpower squadrons; ships; heck give them their own bases.

    Let the women – no, MAKE the women do their stuff. Make them carry their weight. Make them face the same privations and dangers as the men HAVE to. That is the only way that the arguement will prove purchace or not.

  • donnieboy57

    tv2112…i would not want to call you silly, however you don’t seem to grasp the point. no offense, but your views make you a pawn, not a king.

  • http://www.decriminalizefatherhood.com DcFather

    If women truly could perform at the same level as men, be it in skateboarding, war, law enforcement, firefighting, tennis, whatever – we wouldn’t have all of the pro-female / anti-male propaganda, such as the above skateboarders, Jessica Lynch, etc., etc. ad nauseum. What these stories tell me is that women cannot in fact perform on a level field with men, and phony propaganda intended to convince the public they somehow can in fact demonstrates the opposite is true, if you’re paying attention.

    Unfortunately, rather than “offend” a female with a simple basic fact that has been known since before the dawn of civilization, that women’s bodies are designed for pumping out children and not for superior physical skills, we have gone down the road of attempting to legislate away human nature. Communism has proven you can’t legislate away human nature, and someday maybe we’ll all accept that neo-Marxist feminism can’t legislate away human nature either.

  • amfortas

    And men ‘should’ be in combat? Nobody ‘should’ be in combat. It is one of those necessities that are demanded of us. Adults HAVE to carry their responsibilities. Women are adults. Aren’t they?

  • infidel

    One approach might be to give them combat experience under male leadership and then gradually remove the males until we have female only battalions with battle hardened female leaders.

    However, I don’t think women should be in combat in the first place.

  • amfortas

    tv2112 says:”The biggest problem with this is the lack of combat experience….”

    Tough. Women constantly carp about how they can do anything a man can, and better. Every bloke starting out has the same lack of experience and the NCOs had to earn it the hard way. The 140,000 boys who died on the Somme were inexperienced too and the 250,000 at Paschendale. Most weren’t even able to vote. There were no tv2112s to hand them a get-out-of-combat-free card.

    Women won’t get the combat experience until they go into combat.

    Your excuse for them is a catch 22. They shouldn’t go into combat until they have been in combat. It can only make sense to a woman.

  • tv2112

    amfortas, says: “No, the women should be combat soldiers – that’s equality – but they should form their own battalions and regiments. Let the stronger women shoulder the burdens of the weaker ones. Let them find their own friggin’ excuses and deal with their own lack of qualities. Let them deal with their own harrassmant complaints against each other. Let them fight in-gender-house.”

    The biggest problem with this is the lack of combat experience. Since I want our military to win, we can’t just form a unit like that and push them to the front. The reason we are effective now is due to our NCO corps. We have NCO’s that are veterans of numerous campaigns training and LEADING the new troops. Without this first line leadership units would degradate very rapidly. We suffered that exact hinderance after the Clinton drawdown when 65% of our E-5/E-6 Gulf war vets left service with the 15 year early retirement option. That lack of combat experience was evident at the first training exercise I went to after that. It made my job very difficult training a bunch of E-4′s that were thrust into leadership positions before they had time to gradually learn the needed skills. Some adapted quickly, most did not. As for the “smaller body bags” comment, that kind of sarcasm is just spiteful. I hope I never have to see another filled body bag regardless of gender inside. They are still my brothers AND sisters that make the sacrafice to fill them when called upon. While I feel Lynch was undeserving of the media attention and medals, she still at least did answer the call to service.

  • amfortas

    tv2112, says: ” I have many working for me that DID out-perform some of the men in my platoon. Good on them. I truly beleive in equality as long as the field is level.”

    I agree. I have had the same experience. But the field will never be level with the genders mixed. There will always be some guy who will carry the M-60 for a weak girl. But would he carry it for a weak man? No chance. He’d kick his arse.

    No, the women should be combat soldiers – that’s equality – but they should form their own battalions and regiments. Let the stronger women shoulder the burdens of the weaker ones. Let them find their own friggin’ excuses and deal with their own lack of qualities. Let them deal with their own harrassmant complaints against each other. Let them fight in-gender-house.

    Let them send memos to the enemy to reduce the requirements of battle; they are so friggin’ superior in communication skills it should be a doddle for them.

    Hey, they could use the conflict resolution skills they are always on about. Theose skills should work fine against an air-strike.

    And they can multi-task, according to them, so they won’t need as many specialists.

    Their officer corps would need fewer ranks as they won’t need the same sort of hierarchy. And the leadership issues would be vastly easier as women are so much more co-operative.

    They could be paid at 90c in the male dollar basic and get an extra 10c for the multi-tasking, and be a whole lot better off than their civilian sistas who are only on 76c.

    Smaller body bags would cost less too.

  • tv2112

    You forget that Jessica was awarded the Bronze Star. Being in the military that really chapped mine and alot of others collective asses. The biggest heroes of that fiasco were the SF guys that rescued her and the men that went down guns ablazing. With the way the insugency is treating prisoners, most soldiers would rather be killed outright, than to be tortured and mutilated. On the equality thing, I remember back in Primary Leadership Develpment Course in Germany there were two instances that almost got me trouble. I was selected as a squad leader during there course. I was conducted an inranks inspection for uniforms and such. I commented to a female soldier that she had to trim her mustache so that it wouldn’t hang over her lip. That IS the standard for mustache wear IAW AR 670-1. Well, needless to say the Commandant tried keeping a straight face while reading my repremand and ending the coversation with…”You just can’t go there.” Is it my fault her mustache was thicker than mine? Guess the regs only apply to males all the time and females some of the time.
    Second one was our class females were complaining that women should be allowed in the infantry. Old argument. So as squad leader during the FTX, I made the loudest complainer the M-60 gunner and the other one the Assistant Gunner. After only a quarter mile into the road march to the site, the males in the squad were carrying EVERYTHING those two had. Their story went quick to, well not us but every other female should be allowed in the Infantry. I personnally have no qualms about allowing women in combat…IF they can meet the male standard of fitness. I have no problems with females that carry thier own weight. In fact, I have many working for me that DID out-perform some of the men in my platoon. Good on them. I truly beleive in equality as long as the field is level.

  • mcd106

    I see it all the time. I have been a law enforcement officer for nearly 40 years. In the late seventies we began experiencing an influx of female police applicants and recruits. Most of them couldn’t satisfy the physical performance requirements so the city administration reduced those for females so they could “qualify.” I think that was pretty much the practice throughout the country. Now we have many females in the agency and it is not at all unusual to see them serve only a short period of time on the street and then be suddenly wisked to an “inside” job at the department where they have little if any immediate contact with violators and offenders. They wind up in training, cid, personnel, and support units. Of course they are selected over male officers who have more tenure, training, seniority and experience for these positions. Additoinally, the female officers will always say that they want to be treated just like any male officer or anyone else while at the same time but they have no problem with accepting the preferential treatment. They also complain endlessly if any male officers says or does something that offends them but they have no problem in offending males. Its the world turned upside down.

  • DaveK

    To be fair… I think the military itself had a lot to do with the Lynch thing, and Lynch had nothing to do with it. The military needed a ‘hero’ and knew that using Lynch would insure that the story was a blowout in our ‘who cares if it’s a dead MALE hero’ media.

  • Ed

    Boy, you guys!

    mruffolo had a very important point up above, the Jessia (Ramboneless) Lynch story. Now, the woman did serve her tour and it was not she that started all the talk about how she “went down with two M-16s firing and a cobat knife in her teeth”, that was , again the American media trying to create another myth. The fact was Ms. Lynch was riding in a truck as a passenger and when the female driver who unfortuneately was killed ran into something and Ms. Lynch was knocked unconcious.

    What was reported on only one morning show (and you canbe certain it was not the silly gynocentric nonsense show hosted by man hater couric) was a Spec4 male driver who actually did grab his M16 and went around shooting the bad guys. He was running around and popping off rounds to keep them at bay. He was awarded I believe the Silver Star.
    This guy was an actual hero but was that ever reported in the media?

    Nope. It’s gone too far to turn the page back, the media has created this Alice in Wonderland existence we are living in and as reported in mruffolo’s report above regarding the skatebording fairytale it’s pervasive in eeverything we and our kids watch.

  • amfortas

    That’s TANK. Bloody keyboard! Bloody lack of an edit button!

  • amfortas

    Joi #4. Spot on.

    There was an incident on TV in the UK last year where a woman reporter rounded up kids to play on a destroyed tak in Iraq. The kids were afraid of it and had previously avoided it. The reported was illustrating the point that it was dangerous and that the Americans (not the Iraqi Guvmunt for some reason) were irresponsible.

    Irresponsible !!

  • mruffolo

    “Welcome to The Women’s Media Center (WMC) Website. The WMC is the first of its kind. Our mission is to assure that women and women’s experiences are reflected in the media just as women are present everywhere in the real world; that women are represented as local, national, and global sources for and subjects of the media; and that women media professionals have equal opportunities for employment and advancement.”

    http://www.womensmediacenter.com

    Men and women are different. Women today have the ability to organize and raise money.

    Yet it appears that feminist work is mostly done in the United States as they are now exporting their movement (I wonder if this is one of the reasons why some Muslims are trying to kill us).

    If you desire to know where to stay away, this site is for you. For example, Turkey is on the feminist’s radar.

  • scottkirk

    feminist smoke and mirrors…they want more of everything..and they want it NOW!!!!

  • Joi

    Good one Gonzman! Equality has been redefined by women.

  • http://mensnewsdaily.com/author/the-gonzman/ The Gonzman

    Play shorter sets at Wimbledon, get the same prize. Get a big headstart in a race, be credited with the win. Work shorter hours, take time off – demand equal pay.

    Notice a pattern?

    Hell of a racket and con job the gals have going.

  • mruffolo

    Another lie was Crystal Gail Mangum’s story how men raped her.

    The evidence did show that she had semen from four different men in her, however, none of it matched the men she accused.

    Recall the feminist government, media, and academic immediately support the woman’s lie.

    http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0411071duke1.html

    (Note that though she was a whore, the media still called her a dancer)

  • mruffolo

    Jessica Lynch and the American government fabricated a story of a woman’s heroics during a capture by Iraqi soldiers.

    Lynch was a kindergarden teacher turned Army supply clerk who’s squad got lost and was captured by enemy forces.

    Even after the fraud was exposed, Lynch signed a million dollar book and made for tv movie deal with the print and television media.

    Book is titled “I’m a Soldier Too: The Jessica Lynch Story” and the movie is titled “Saving Jessica Lynch” by NBC (No. She did not write the book a man did – Rick Bragg).

    http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0905-09.htm

  • roger

    this is perfectly consistent with the bag of tricks the fems are known for….

    equal pay anyone?

  • Joi

    This isn’t funny at all. It is anti-male propaganda! The entire scene was carefully orchestrated. Why couldn’t they just leave the boys alone? Why did the boys have to be harrassed in this manner? That was just another form of emotional abuse towards the boys that society thinks is okay.

  • mruffolo

    It appears that the boys, who doubted the girl’s ability to skateboard, were not sexist idiots.

    However, I suspect that the film producers of this stunt work for CBS, NBC, ABC, or public television.

    The feminist media support their positions with deception, as feminist organizations deceive using their false data.

    Thanks for sharing.

    (I did not take my son to Shrek because I do not desire to support feminized entertainment – not that they missed my $18)

  • DaveK

    It’s a simple recipe…

    Start with ‘all humans are identical except for that EVIL penis thing’.

    couple that with “if we don’t like reality we’ll just pretend things are the way we want them to be” mental self-deception that some folks out there are so good at.

    finally… you add a generous helping of “tilt the playing field but redefine ‘flat’ so it fits our skewed perspective.

    Viola! Instant ‘absolute’ equality! Just chop off all those EVIL penis things and things will be perfect, unicorns will exist, bunny’s will be fuzzy, teddybears will be cuddly, and all will be right with the world.

  • http://mensnewsdaily.com/author/the-gonzman/ The Gonzman

    ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Oh, the irony…







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