No. You don’t get it. When you make feminine qualities in a man something that are somehow embarrassing, to be avoided, a sign you are gay if you have a wife and kids. When the worst thing a boy or man can do is have feminine qualities (ie toxic masculinity). Yet girls are encouraged all day long to have stereotypically male qualities and in fact it’s celebrated. At the root of all that is a dislike of women and traditionally feminine qualities. |
Eh, I think drag culture is arguably minstrel misogyny - it’s mocking and degrading women. Here, her husband isn’t effeminate - he’s just very California and doesn’t fit it in outdoorsy Utah and has no practical construction know-how. So, it is incorrect to use dislike of McGhee or the lack of sexual chemistry with his spouse as an example of misogyny. It isn’t. It might be homophobic- b/c there is an implication that being gay is less than. |
Oh you mean the $30k small bedroom remodel where she used one of $70 prints from target? |
| Their faces singing happy Birthday to Syd. Lol workplace forced fun lol |
| Also Hawaiian inspired does not equal California coastal, just sayin |
| There are no window treatments in the master bedroom in episode 1 and I think that is stupid. |
So he’s being accused of being gay because he isn’t in construction and not outdoorsy enough (???). But this is no commentary on his masculinity. Mmkay. |
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based on this thread, i'm watching Room to Improve on Prime. i'm on the first free epi, season 7, epi 1, and obviously the closed captions have been done by an american who has never heard an irish accent in their life.
"It's called the Saxo," was actually "it's a cul-de-sac." "She once dropped me in Boba Rothman, might I add. Brad Pill in Boba Rothman," was actually "she wants to wrap me in bubble wrap, might I add, wrap me up in bubble wrap." "if she gets a lam-cis-the-min," was actually "if she gets an alarm system in." i'm 3 minutes in. i'm going to miss the renovations because i'm going to spend my time reading the 'merican captions. |
Wait until the episodes where they are in Tipperary. The accents are so thick that the captions say [mumbles] a few times. I have Irish family and even I have a hard time with certain Irish accents, so I don’t fault them! |
DW made the same comment. Everyone of them, was singing through their teeth. |
Me again. Apparently, the episode I’m referencing is famous. https://www.dailyedge.ie/room-to-improve-17-3923909-Mar2018/ https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/room-improve-620418 https://www.irishmirror.ie/whats-on/film-news/room-to-improve-2018-dermot-12252290 And the homeowner had to make a statement because she got destroyed on social media (10,000 tweets about that episode!): https://extra.ie/2018/03/29/entertainment/movies-tv/room-to-improve-katie-hits-back |
It is not negative commentary on women or womenhood - thus, not misogyny...yikes. |
this one has [heavy accent]. "The [heavy accent] will actually flail in the present time. Betsy were just digging out the last bit of foundation on," was actually "it's going fine now. we're actually fine now at the present time. basically, we're just digging out the last bit of the foundation now." maybe the abnormal amount of brit reality trash tv with irish contestants that i've watched is finally paying off. |
can't wait! |
Misogyny is contempt of women. Men in this country are told over and over from the time they are young boys that stereotypical feminine qualities, interests, tendencies (like being too emotional) are not "cool" (if they're lucky) or they're told it's flat out not allowed for them. Why is this the worst thing a guy could be? Contempt of women. We as women internalize it too. Assuming any man who doesn't conform to male standards is gay, which happens regularly, is not some objective fact check devoid of meaning. Please. It's a school yard way of taking him down a notch. It's a socially acceptable way to call out a guy who doesn't seem masculine enough for you. Internalized misogyny. |