Comments on: Let’s confuse the men

By: Matthew N

Matthew N — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:56:42 +0000

I think that guy is over-reacting. I could conceive of myself acting like this if I made some insinuation my wife was doing something about her weight and then was trying to dodge the question of whether I thought she was fat. I think the Cheerios ad is just playing off of that dance.

Don’t make excuses for men who overreact. There’s really nothing of equivalent comedy value for women compared to a guy getting bean-bagged by a snowglobe. Are we going to say that the Three Stooges was an attack on masculinity because there wasn’t a corresponding female troupe? I’ll agree to the extent that feminism has occasionally inspired a paranoia of a latent anti-masculinity sentiment motivating the movement, but we shouldn’t be appealing to victimization in such trivial cases.

What I find personally offensive is a tendency in some TV shows where a preponderance of cases treat a man’s claim of faithfulness to his wife as unworthy of trust and to show it to be a lie each time. I find it particularly offensive this notion that my word isn’t to be trusted because I am a man. However, I think it’s mostly men who are largely to blame for this image, not feminists. If men want to get rid of these bad images, they have to earn that trust back again.

By: Bob Devine

Bob Devine — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:34:35 +0000

To many guys with thin skin out there. I saw the adds and thought they were funny. Why do people have to annualize everything to death? Relax, smell the roses, enjoy life, its tough enough by itself without looking for more stuff to fret about.

By: Julie Culshaw

Julie Culshaw — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:52:43 +0000

Yes, I agree with O’Reilly’s guest that men are being dumbed-down all over the place by women and I have to agree that results in a bunch of emasculated men, whom women do not want to marry.
I do think that feminism has had a lot to do with this, but also men have become victims of it, and they should resist. Women do appreciate strong masculine men, and they don’t have to be macho to be that,. Julie

By: Christy Knockleby

Christy Knockleby — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:09:18 +0000

Interesting clip.

I thought that O’Reily was the one looking silly and inarticulate, not his guest. I think his guest has a point, not necessarily about that particular commercial, but about television in general portraying men as dumb.

That said, that commercial, I think, makes the woman look just as silly.

I’m not sure I know enough about feminism to understand how feminism gone to far leads to this. Is feminism responsible for men being portrayed as dumb on television? Or is it responsible for men being offended by men being portrayed as dumb? Or… where’s the connection?