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Reply #18: People are capable of multitasking, you know. They don't have to "save their outrage." [View All]

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Berry Cool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-22-09 09:48 PM
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18. People are capable of multitasking, you know. They don't have to "save their outrage."
Besides, commercials are significant reflectors of our society, and outrage is a renewable resource.

What's wrong with protesting a sexist commercial?

And yeah, it's sexist to imply women run so they'll have a hawt body, when it's never implied that men run for any reasons other than ones related to athleticism and fitness.

The day there's an ad with a man running whose goal is that a woman will ogle him, this ad will no longer be sexist.

The problem is not with women being sexy...no one is being "sex-negative" here...the problem is when everything women do is related to how it affects their physical appearance and their sexiness, and the same is not true of men.

Indeed, it does seem as if women have been walking in a circle when it comes to being regarded as anything other than sex objects. These days, if a woman protests women being relegated to being sex-objects, she's accused of being prudish and against sex. *sigh*
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