Comedy clubs. Magazine racks. Pictures on classroom walls. Things look a little different here.
A party, a sidewalk, a night at the movies. Buzzfeed Video reimagines daily life with a bit of a turnabout.
And hey, did you look at the DVD covers and the US Presidents?
What’s something that happens to the opposite sex every day that you never realized?
Originally published by Buzzfeed
One of the things I found interesting was that the video attaches no value or value judgements to the gender switches. It’s straight substitution of images and words. The viewer projects their own value judgements onto the material (ie commenting on a person walking by – some people will say fine, others will call foul), but the video does not state that X is good or bad.
The hostility to this video evident in the comments above is quite frightening. It’s genuinely concerning that some men find it so hard to stand by their fellow women, while also fighting for their own rights. It’s not an either or situation, after all. Such thinking is scarily limited.
*Hugs* John, thank you for that.
Wanna know why? Because too often it’s too much ME ME ME ME ME ME ME Care about MY ISSUES from too many women, whilst tumbleweeds roll when it comes to men’s issues. Would you have much empathy for the group that expects you to help them but largely ignores you when you need help?
“Would you have much empathy for the group that expects you to help them but largely ignores you when you need help?” By this, I’m assuming you mean that women don’t have much empahty for men but men are all about having empathy and providing help for women? Do you honestly, sincerely believe men have been doing nothing but helping women and trying to understand them while women are just “taking”, “taking” , “taking”? Don’t you think closer to the truth is that both men and women feel a lack of support from the other gender? that both men and… Read more »
Well said, Erin. Well said. The conciliatory tone in your comment is apt, as it both recognises the rift between the sexes right now, and also realises that mutual understanding is what is in order. I admire your stance on that…
Thank you John.
This video suffers from the same ailments that most “what if women and men lived reversed lives” type videos. They tend to only use the worst examples of how women are treated and the best examples of how men are treated.
This video seems to be saying that if men were treated in the ways women were, THEN it would suck, as if it were all fine and dandy before.
By this, I’m assuming you mean that women don’t have much empahty for men but men are all about having empathy and providing help for women? Do you honestly, sincerely believe men have been doing nothing but helping women and trying to understand them while women are just “taking”, “taking” , “taking”?
No I think Archy is trying to get people to see where men are coming from on this empathy thing.
Okay Danny, let me see if I have this right. In articles that focus on issues women face, there should be more empathy for men. And in articles that focus on issues men face, there should be more empathy for men. Did I get that right? Yeah, men deserve empathy! They need more empathy. But your message gets a little lost when you choose to advocate for more empathy in topics/subjects/articles that are trying to bring awarness, thought and empathy to the things women deal with too. You’re arguing for more empathy for men (a totally worthwhile argument) under an… Read more »
Okay Danny, let me see if I have this right. In articles that focus on issues women face, there should be more empathy for men. And in articles that focus on issues men face, there should be more empathy for men. Did I get that right? I can imagine why someone would think your interpretation here is correct on the grounds that they constantly see mention of issues that men where the solution is empathy for women. You’re arguing for more empathy for men (a totally worthwhile argument) under an article that addresses some things women deal with. Do you… Read more »
I do think gender swapping is a great way to help understand each other, but without showing the good with the bad it is just looks like propaganda.
“Wait. You left out the one where Dads get custody of the kids and Moms get every other weekend visitation rights.” OK, fair point. “Also the one where there are battered men’s shelters in every city, but battered women are on their own – and mocked by the police.” Women’s shelters were set up by women. If you don’t like this set up, quit complaining on the internet and start making men’s shelters. “Also the one where women get to do all the physically dangerous, back breaking work while men get to complain about doing the dishes.” I guess prostitution… Read more »
Actually, the first point is the same as the second – the reason women get the majority of custody battles is because men don’t want them. In the case where men fight for custody, most will get it and almost all who don’t get shared custody. The idea that it’s a mother’s world in custody battles is very false and only get as many as they do now because women have fought for the right to raise children on their own. If men want their kids, they’d fight for them instead of expecting them to be handed to them and… Read more »
So when men that spend years fighting for the children and only stop fighting because they have literally gone broke its because they don’t want to be in their kids lives and are just whining right?
“Working all day, then working all evening because of your gender. Not working all day, then coming home to a meal and a clean home because wife.”
Labour stats show roughly equal hours spent by each gender working, women slighly more at home, men slightly more at the workplace.
Wait. You left out the one where Dads get custody of the kids and Moms get every other weekend visitation rights. Also the one where there are battered men’s shelters in every city, but battered women are on their own – and mocked by the police. Also the one where women get to do all the physically dangerous, back breaking work while men get to complain about doing the dishes. Also the one where men stay home while women are sent off to fight the wars, and then spend the rest of their lives in the back wards of VA… Read more »
Or the one where she’s supposed to drop whatever she’s doing because he needs her to do some heavy lifting/carry his bags/fix his car Or the one where a man is beating the crap out of a woman, but she’s just supposed to take it because she’s the strong one, and if she dares try to defend herself, her ass will be thrown in jail faster than she can blink and/or every other woman in the room will suddenly decide that she’s a scumbag for daring to push a man trying to kill her away from her. Or maybe the… Read more »
“Or the one where she’s supposed to drop whatever she’s doing because he needs her to do some heavy lifting/carry his bags/fix his car” This sounds like a personal problem you have with someone. It’s like me getting upset about my ex-husband making me have sex with him whenever I wasn’t in the mood. “Or the one where a man is beating the crap out of a woman, but she’s just supposed to take it because she’s the strong one, and if she dares try to defend herself, her ass will be thrown in jail faster than she can blink… Read more »
“If women didn’t talk about rape, it would not be seen as a crime. The fact you can even write about a male victim shows that feminism has pushed the collective consciousness to a point where it’s acceptable to recognise rape, no matter who the victim, is a crime. You’re welcome.”
Females forcing men to penetrate them aren’t counted as rapists in the U.S. Thanks?
I wonder how many men are “forced” to penetrate a woman?
Show a man a naked vagina and he’s ready to go.
Usually it’s other men that uphold the mentality that any sexual action a man gets makes him “lucky”. Even to the point that older men will dismiss the sexual violation of a younger male by an older female simply because he had sex. Some women might not think that raping a man is possible, but men activily ignore raping of men under the idea that any sex, is good sex. And what women are showing little empathy for men? Does the making and existance of this video imply that women don’t empathize with men? What women are you talking about… Read more »
Wow, you’re totally right. I mean, who cares that women still earn less on average regardless of job and still don’t have equal government reputation and are told their entire lives that they should be more concerned about their appearance than anything they do because that’s where their true value is. Men still live in a world where women have the audacity to complain about being expected to do house work because they happened to have been born with vaginas. You have changed my worldview entirely. By all means, keep bitching about issues the feminist movement has been trying to… Read more »
Randy, as a woman who has several women in her family enlisted, your comments about women in service is highly offensive. You have completely dismissed all the women that risk their lives in service by acting like it’s still the1920s. Have *you* inlisted in military service? Should women enlisted in military service be mad at you if you aren’t in military service while you actively dismiss their service?
Women in the U.S aren’t conscripted. The wording makes it sound like he’s talking about conscription “sent off”