2,000 Men Show Up to Steve Harvey Taping To Call Women Bitches

[ismnotwasm]

This past Sunday in Chicago, comedian and long suit enthusiast Steve Harvey held a taping for a two-hour special of his eponymous daytime program. The theme of the show was “What Men Really Think,” and to that end, Harvey packed 2,000 dudes into a theatre downtown. And those men, according to several attendees, did their jobs, calling female guests bitches, hounding them with catcalls, howls, and whistles, and lobbing homophobic slurs at one man in the audience.

On Facebook, one Chicago comedian named Tim Dunn described what he saw during the 10-hour, two-part taping. The show was apparently spun to the men in attendance as a sort of male-only summit on dating and relationships. (Before coming, the audience members were asked to answer a 53-question survey via email.) But when the taping started, Harvey revealed to the audience that there would actually be hundreds of women onstage, too. This turned out to be a bad idea. From Dunn’s Facebook post:

- Over a hundred women were seated onstage, and when they got up to speak they were catcalled. This resulted in the warm-up comic asking the men to stop catcalling, as the vibe in the room had become “too rapey.”

- When women skyped in to ask Steve for advice, their image was displayed on large screens, which men would either catcall or groan at based on the women’s looks. And like, if you looked at the guys groaning, spending a night with any of these women would be the absolute best night of their lives.

http://defamer.gawker.com/2-000-men-show-up-to-steve-harvey-taping-to-call-women-1725405664

[mountain grammy]

1. My my. Boys being boys.

Very disturbing, the American rape culture. None of us escape.

[shenmue]

2. Yes

[ismnotwasm]

3. Yeah--pitiful

And very sad. Disgusting goes without saying

[GeoWilliam750]

4. WTF?

[geek tragedy]

5. "what men really think" well at least there's truth in advertising here.

Like racism and homophobia, misogyny has a long tail, i.e. it will persist long after most of its obvious manifestations get stamped out of public life. As we can see, it's still there waiting to burst out like pus from a pimple.