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20 Mar, 2007

Wimpiest men on TV

Posted by: Katie Kish In: Sexism| Television

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I think you’re cute Carson!

I usually go for the articles where men are being sexist toward women. But this time around, I’ve got to show you Stuff Magazine’s sexist article about men.

Carson Daly
Wussiness factor: Eight years since he dated Jennifer Love Hewitt
We didn’t mind Carson back when he was hosting TRL, dating women that were way too hot for him and holding court as the second fattest guy on MTV—he never could wrestle that top spot away from Matt Pinfield. In recent years, though, Daly has been hitting the treadmill and has worked his way down to what looks like about 90 pounds of annoying talk-show host. His only hope to regain his manliness is to ask former Daly clan member and PGA bad boy John Daly for some lessons on drinking, smoking and gambling away thousands of dollars. Man up, Carson. 

I think the blurb about Carson is probably the worst in the entire article. Not only are they being incredibly sexist towards all the men by imposing stereotypes and gender roles but in Carson’s case they are criticizing him for something they would praise a woman for. If a woman were to have lost as much weight as Carson has in the past couple of years men would be hooting and hollering from the stands - not sitting there saying she looked like 90 pounds of annoying.

The article is such a disgusting display of men trying to be bigger men by pointing out “feminine” aspects of other men. The title of the article its self is enough to make me want to throw up my dinner.

8 Responses to "Wimpiest men on TV"

1 | Brother Andy

March 20th, 2007 at 9:56 pm

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I watched a show on PBS that says gender roles were defined by an evolutionary process. Why are they bad?

2 | Katie Kish

March 20th, 2007 at 10:23 pm

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I’m not talking about “in the wild these animals…” or “human evolution has led women to be…” I’m talking “men shouldn’t be 90 lbs, but women should be” and “men should always act manly or else they’re wusses”

Men should be able to act how ever they want without being called a wuss or being thought of as a “lesser” in their community.

3 | Alon Levy

March 21st, 2007 at 4:00 am

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I watched a show on PBS that says gender roles were defined by an evolutionary process. Why are they bad?

Because the evo-psych theory of gender relations just isn’t true. I mean, I don’t mind people saying anything about gender issues, as long as it bears some resemblence to reality.

4 | Brother Andy

March 21st, 2007 at 12:36 pm

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How is it not true? The wattled jacana of western Panama has experienced a reversal of gender roles as a result of an evolutionary process.
Males are the sole incubators of eggs and primary providers of chick care. Females were heavier than, and behaviorally dominant over, males. Females also showed greater development of secondary sexual characters (fleshy facial ornamentation and wing spurs) than males (source). I speculate (and PBS agrees) that this is an evolutionary force driven by swamp predators attacking nesting females - to increase survival of the species - the females evolved to be sexually promiscuous in order to lay more eggs (More time laying eggs, less time bringing them up).

5 | gordo

March 21st, 2007 at 2:31 pm

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Andy–

You’re such a wuss.

By the way, my hero is the male seahorse. He takes the eggs from the female, fertilizes them, and carries them in his body. When he gives birth, he squeezes out about 50 babies in half an hour.

And he NEVER complains.

And he’s ready for action again within a week.

6 | Alon Levy

March 21st, 2007 at 5:18 pm

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How is it not true?

Because about everything EP says about humans that is testable turns out to be false. EP says human cognition evolved based on hunter-gatherers’ evolutionary pressures; in fact there have been serious neurological changes into the agricultural era. EP says rape is an evolutionary strategy to increase reproduction; looking at actual causes of rape makes rape a lot more similar to assault than to sex in every manner imaginable. EP says gender roles are rigidly evolved; human gender roles in fact date back only to the transition between hunting-gathering and agriculture.

7 | Brother Andy

March 21st, 2007 at 6:06 pm

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Hmmm. Interesting. Looks like I need to read more on evo-psych.

8 | Alon Levy

March 21st, 2007 at 11:58 pm

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There’s a good thread about it on Majikthise.

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