Garbo wrote:Look, I've seen sexist pigs. There is a Pakistani-American professor I come in contact with on an almost daily basis. He is a sexist pig. I do NOT want to come across as excusing "sexist pig" behavior. But there's a HUGE difference between this professor I know and the kinds of things my brothers do. HUGE.
You think Will telling you to grab your pompoms is an example of a "sexist pig"?
Really?
If so, then your definition of the term is very much different than mine. If you're bothered by Will's pompom and breast jokes, then I could tell you things that would probably give you a heart attack. I think you need to get out in the real world, because there is a real war against misogyny that needs to be fought and won, but it won't be won by women who are going to take offense over innocuous jokes about breasts and pompoms.
Go read the thread. There was nothing about my comments that warranted a complete dismissal. He was willing to interact with and at least attempt to respond substantively on the topic with the males on the thread, but not me. I needed to go grab my pom-poms. Mind you, Will had shown his ignorance about evolution on the thread, anyway. but that is besides the point.
Yeah, I think a man who tries to insult a woman by telling her she's so old no one would want to see her naked - in a conversation that had NOTHING to do with that topic - or insulting another women by telling her she's old and wrinkled and shouldn't wear a tank-top - again, in a conversation that had NOTHING to do with that topic - qualifies as a sexist pig.
I think EA already adequately responded to your objections, frankly. Yeah, Will is probably not outright beating and raping women or mutilating their genitals. That doesn't mean he's not a sexist pig in his own right.