Why is humiliating men so funny?
I watched House last night. It is one of the few shows I try and watch regularly.
Warning Spoiler Alert!
House regularly calls out everyone around him and is known for his bad behavior. As a character he is generally forgiven because he happens to be brilliant at his job. I couldn’t imagine myself working or being friends with someone who does such things. To me they are often mean. But he is a fictional character that I enjoy watching.
I want to talk about a side plot line from last night. Apparently, someone hacked into Chase’s Facebook and posted a naked picture of him with an extremely small genitalia. This, of course, is funny to everyone.
And that is exactly what I have a problem with. Why is humiliating men funny. If someone did the equivalent to a woman…it probably would be considered criminal harassment.
Based on the picture, they determine it must be taken when Chase was at a wedding and hooked up with 3 different women.
But it even gets worse…the person made a donation to a charity using Chase’s credit card of $2500. Stealing and fraud…is all fun and games when it happens to a sexually loose male.
Historically there has been a double standard that says that women should be chaste and men should be loose.
It seems now our culture as gone too far the other way. Female sexuality is something to be proud of and flaunt. But male sexuality is dirty and gross. Something to be punished.
It turns out the woman who did this to Chase was one he spoke to at the wedding but left stranded after she made it clear she wasn’t interested in having sex right away.
She decided to punish him for not being a nice guy. And sure what Chase did is nothing to be proud of…but it wasn’t criminal. And he never publicly humiliated her.
She feels he deserves to be humiliated AND she committed a crime because he was a jerk. THEN he still wanted to date her. Sounds like a victim of domestic violence who blames themselves for the violence.
No where in the show did anyone imply that what this woman did was criminal. When men do bad things both men and women stand up and say they should be punished but when women do bad things (especially to men)…no one does.
We are sloly but stedily becoming their slaves, the problem is: we like it. so there is no hope. for the first time the unemployment rate of young men is higher than for women, soon we will be their total slaves.