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Yet no matter who they're talking about, or what the circumstance, from my perspective the answer always seems so glaringly basic it could be scratched on the back of a button. This one wants a shag. That one wants a biscuit. Every time: the butler did it.
-Charlie Brooker
The Guardian
Charlie has a plan. But I still don't think he's ever going to get them to give up the remote.
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Meh. I don't mind a little sexist stereotyping when there's genuine humor involved, but the wit displayed in this column struck me as pretty meager, and the stereotyping pretty hackneyed. I did like Clunie's response to Brooker's idea that a matriarchy would bring about "an instant and massive reduction in armed conflict around the globe":
- hmmm...Sarah Palin, Maggie Thatcher, Golda Meir, wise, peace loving earth mothers all.
Yup.
Somewhat more seriously, I find these kinds of "us men are just lunks, ladies" memes are really more patriarchy-reinforcing than patriarchy-challenging, which is why you find noxious BS like this embedded in Brooker's column:
City boys are dicks, plain and simple. … Sod that little number-swapping dick who dares call himself a man. Lob him in the shed with the other squeaking fakes …
Posted by: ballgame | June 02, 2009 at 10:02 AM
Oy.
Posted by: Lisa Simeone | June 02, 2009 at 12:37 PM