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Weekend Confirmed 137 - Halo 4, Assassin's Creed 3
by Andrew Yoon, Nov 02, 2012 11:00am PDTHalo 4 is pretty darn good. And hosts Garnett Lee and Jeff Cannata have to agree. They talk all about the single-player campaign in this week's show. Then, Andrew Yoon talks about why Assassin's Creed 3 disappointed him, and special guest Christian Spicer talks about the Vita spin-off, Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation Weekend Confirmed Ep. 136: 11/02/2012 Subscription Links:
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Round 1, Part 1 - 00:00:26 - 00:12:36
Round 1, Part 2 - 00:13:14 - 00:28:39
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As someone who doesn't care about the language the other people want to throw at me across the internet I find this troubling and a slippery slope.
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Slut doesn't attack a woman's sexuality, it attacks her sexual capital. That is, the worth or her sexuality. Calling a woman a slut implies she's easily coaxed to spread her legs, making her a less legitimate potential long-term partner (cause she's likely to do so for many other men), and rendering the act of having sex with her less significant.
Put crudely, having sex with a slut is looked at like winning a participation ribbon. Anybody could do it, so it's a worthless 'achievement'. The reason that has power is because her sexual capital is her primary bartering chip in the sexual marketplace. Were the sexual marketplace and marriage marketplace still the only marketplaces women had place in, the word would still have the same lop-sided weight. Now that women are independent and self-sufficient, it's a bee sting. Being called a slut has no impact on a woman's social standing at large, nor her employment or marriage prospects.
Creep, bitch, pussy, faggot, all attack the basis of a man's worth on the sexual marketplace, masculinity and social standing. Masculinity and social standing are both associated (by women and men alike) with preselection by other women (ie, attractive to other women) and with the ability to provision and protect. Attacking the man's worth in these areas are again, does not do a whole lot to the guy's life. So both attacks while hurtful, are equally negligible in the grand scheme of things.
It's true women are still fighting to be seen as equals in some arenas, and I've always said as much. Of course, they don't always help themselves. For example, everybody knows that women make something like 70 cents to the dollar than men make... less reported is the fact that on average, women work fewer hours, are more likely to take extended leaves, and tend to drop out of the workforce at an earlier age to raise children. So if you're an employer, are you going to promote somebody with a statistically higher chance of bailing and working fewer hours?
On a more micro level, women still are battling with the irritating predisposition to feel protected and provided for, and positively reinforcing that behavior (particularly in the dating market). So for many men, there's this confusion trying to simultaneously interact with independent woman as peer and competitor, and dainty little flower that wants to feel protected and have dinner paid for. Every interaction and observed interaction and positive reinforcement is another drop added to an ocean of accepted gender stereotyping.
As for objectification in the media, I used to be sympathetic to that, but from a purely anecdotal standpoint women are becoming just as good as objectifying themselves as men ever were at objectifying them. Moreover, they're getting incredibly good at objectifying men too. Combined with the now accepted trope of moron husband/boyfriend/father on television, I'm calling that a wash for both sexes.
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