6 thoughts on “Slowpoke: Daddyshack”

  1. You want to see a boy’s club? Try being involved in dj culture. The other day I was at the hairdresser and the girl cutting my hair said she dreams about hooking up with a club dj….I laughed out because she happened to be trimming the bangs of a club music mixset & remix dj! She was shocked and said she’d never have guessed in a million years that I was a dance music dj – I don’t “fit the image” – that image being a cool young guy with a hot female entourage….LOL! Actually being involved in dj culture as a 46 year old female, I’ve found this heavily male dominated field to demonstrate two things consistently to me as a female: I’m either subjected to a lot of overtly critical opinion OR I get the “Awww….isn’t she cute” treatment. Both piss me off in different ways. Critical male dj’s make me wince and want to say…”Fuck you…I’m better than you so shut up!”. And those dj’s that treat me like a cute little wannabe are so utterly offensive to me that it hurts my confidence in ways that are truly insidious….it wakes up the whole father issue thing for me and all those reminders that I’ll never be good enough, pretty enough, talented enough…things my father pounded into my head relentlessly…

    …at least in this life I’ve learned the art of tuning out – ironic, because my whole love of dj culture is all about tuning in!

  2. indranibe,

    That article is fun but it still perpetuates the myth that men are ever ready for sex all the time. That simply is not true. Not all men think about sex all the time. Not all men are threatened by women. It perpetuates a stereotype and seems to say men should be excused for their bad behavior because “boys will be boys, bad boys, bad boys” as the song lyrics say. It also makes men seem stupid, inferior, and incapable of reasoned thinking and decent behavior. That is also untrue. So despute having some truthfulness to it, I dislike the generalizations of it.

  3. :::playing Devil’s advocate here for the sake of discussion::::

    I keep seeing these home improvement or home buying programs in which the men in the couple want a “man cave” room where they can go with their guy friends and just BE male with the explicit understanding that their wives stay away. This never was an issue when I was a kid because there were all-male enclaves (The Elk’s Club and others as well as some sports) where women were barred.

    Fast forward to the way things are now and men seem to be feeling like they have less and less places in which they can just BE male without the intrusion of women. Women still have all-female enclaves like baby showers, wedding showers and other events in which men just do not participate by social convention. So maybe the resentment the males are exhibiting in this cartoon have something to do with their perception of the loss of all-male enclaves over the past 50 years or so?

    I see that the two may be related but that’t just me. Anyone want to comment on that?

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