Comments | ontd_feminism: Beauty and the budded beast (on objectifying women for weed)

maynardsong in ontd_feminism

Beauty and the budded beast (on objectifying women for weed)

Mar 26, 2011 00:09

This article justifying using beautiful girls in "weed culture" is making me side-eye so hard. The author spells out that it's only beautiful WOMEN who hold universal appeal such that anyone who's not a straight dude won't be deterred, while handsome men actively repel straight dudes. The author doesn't see the problem here? The author didn't ( Read more... )

privilege, interview/opinion, sex, fashion/modeling, sit the fuck down, media, o i c, femininities, what kind of fuckery is this?, body image

Comments 11

maynardsong March 26 2011, 15:54:46 UTC

Also, lumping straight men and lesbians together? rex_dart over at _p did a great job calling that shit out.

bloodrivendream March 26 2011, 16:36:00 UTC

They didn't really lump the two together.

While it’s no secret that straight men and lesbians respond positively to the image of a beautiful woman...

... the vast majority of straight men just don’t go for [beefcake] and will actually stop reading, rather than simply skip over the bulgy bits as lesbians are more likely to do.

fluffy comment is fluffy maynardsong March 26 2011, 15:56:29 UTC

and this? enjoy seeing beefcake bulging back at them from glossy magazine pages
Dude, I enjoy ogling hot guys but this phrase just killed my sex drive. So not sexy.

Re: fluffy comment is fluffy bloodrivendream March 26 2011, 16:37:19 UTC

Ugh, yeah. I enjoy ogling hot guys but that phrase makes me cringe. And "beefcake" makes me think of a very specific look. Which I am not a fan of ogling.

spitphyre March 26 2011, 17:43:01 UTC

Does anyone else but me find it hilarious that he's talking about a marijuana "culture?"

And I love that he presumes to know exactly what women are thinking, even these women in specific. Because people ALWAYS tell the truth in interviews.

maynardsong March 27 2011, 00:00:23 UTC

It was a woman who wrote this. =/

static_hiss March 26 2011, 18:59:30 UTC

I'm so sick of the sexism in weed dudebro culture. Back when I was read as female, I'd get SO MANY DUDES mansplaining to me how to smoke and acting like because I was (what they thought to be) a "girl" I must have no idea what I'm doing and I couldn't possibly be an experienced smoker. I could pretty much predict that any time I sat down in a circle of dudes passing a pipe or doob around, no matter what, I'd get mainsplained at by at least one of them. Funny, now that I'm pretty much read as a cis guy all the time, I don't get any of this: "Nah, you're doing it wrong, you gotta hold the pipe like this..." HMMMMMMM ( ... )

maynardsong March 27 2011, 00:02:15 UTC

A woman wrote this...

maynardsong March 27 2011, 00:03:32 UTC

And those guys suck. I'm sorry bb. :(

seasontoseason March 27 2011, 00:07:37 UTC

I totally am on your page on this: the degree to which weed culture simply = sexist, homophobic, racist (etc!) dudebro culture with a hankering for cheetos needs to be recognized by more people. It is so fucking obvious to me. Being a hippie and/or stoner and playing it like you "anything goes" and you're just "chill" in practice in these social groups often means "it's all good... BUT you must never disagree with us, be different from us, or decline any sort of inebriating substance."
I'm so sick of weed being seen as this "outlaw" substance or an alternative subculture. There is nothing more mainstream, and more involved in policing gender boundaries, than a group of guys mansplaining to women / using women for their cause / sitting around drinking up mass culture while stoned.

I hear that there was an ad recently on a normal cable tv channel urging the viewers to "join us here on [channel X] to celebrate 4 -20!". It might as well have been an ad for Red Bull, Halo, or the X games. Mainstream as it comes, folks.

lol seriously? mnschoen March 28 2011, 00:48:16 UTC

He created it with some of his girl friends. Therefore it's ok.