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In reply to the discussion: If you are the member of a privileged group AND call yourself progressive [View all]gollygee
(22,336 posts)I'd think he was insensitive, and maybe couldn't see how many women would respond to it due to his privilege, but everyone is blind to their own privilege and most of us have privilege somewhere we're blind to, so I'd leave it at that. But the Academy Awards show is heavily produced. Lots of people saw and approved of that. And then it's not even just them, but our society as a whole where we routinely discredit or underplay women's experiences (and in this case work) and focus instead on their sexuality. When women respond to stuff like this, they responding from a place where they see this kind of thing happen again, and again, and again. And then when they complain that they want women's work to not be dismissed and instead for all focus to be on their sexuality, people call them "prudes." You have no idea how infuriating that is.
The women who are complaining notice these small things as part of a bigger picture. The beef is really with the bigger picture, not Seth MacFarlane. He's just the most recent example, and they are trying to show their perspective and experience to you by showing how they responded to this example.
(And I speak in the third person rather than from my own point of view because I didn't even see it - I haven't had much to say in threads about him because I didn't see it so I have no response to his specific performance. I understand why women respond to these kinds of jokes how they do, but I have no response to him or his performance at the Academy Awards.)