Also, Mike Daisy.

/rant

Edit: ah, I see JIMWICh executed the Limbaugh Defense move with perfect precision above. Smooth!

I don’t recall electing this guy to represent my gender, this woman to represent my hair color, or either of them to represent my skin color, nationality, vague religious association, mother language, or any other thing. Any extrapolations, explicit or implicit, from the individual to the general in this case make us all stupider.The woman is confused and unthinking in a way that makes me despair for the human race. Her husband runs the awful up a notch or two. They are unpleasant people for different reasons, in a world that handsomely rewards unpleasant people. With attention. Which we are giving them.

Also this is clearly gotcha journalism.

Yes… I honestly think it is something to be ashamed of if one isn’t able to figure out the answer (and yes, I do agree with whomever posted later that the woman most probably thought that mph was just… fluffernutter… something you say). Going through school and not having understood that much… yes, it’s something to be ashamed of. I’m going to pull here the “starving kids in Africa”, but many kids around the world would have loved to get her education, and she apparently threw it away.

But what has that to do with posting videos and shaming others?

“I wondered if you’d feel the same if it was your child struggling.”
If I would feel the same if my 8 yo was strugling with something that she hasn’t had in school yet? Is that what you are asking? If she was 18 and was struggling with that question I would so be pulling every math book out and tutoring her (or getting her a tutor). That is not what I would find an acceptable math skills for somebody entering adulthood. Yes, I would be ashamed for not having noticed earlier that she needs help with math.

(Oh… and I was totally expecting my 8 yo to figure out the answer on her own. She did it faster than I had thought, though… good for her!)

Is that a stereotype? Yup. But stereotypes engaged with as an artificial, unfounded, yet shared cultural experience can be…. you know… involved in jokes and things. I’m also a jew, and I find cheap jew jokes funny. Not because they are accurate, or reflect my experience, but because they draw on a stereotype to present an absurd situation, whose absurdity is further compounded by their lack of relation to reality.

So….. if you don’t think it’s funny, let’s talk about humor. If you think it propagates a misogynistic stereotype, ask yourself whether this is a forum for mature and socially aware discourse where cultural artifacts can be examined, discussed, and occasionally appreciated for what they are, or basically one long-running fart joke.

But hey… who cares right?

Which part of “some” are you willfully misunderstanding?

I think this thread has shown that you don’t have to say “All men/women are $ADJECTIVE” to perpetuate a stereotype.  “Some men/women…”, or even “One man/woman…” both seem to do it.

Me, I think some women are huge douchebags, some men are astonishingly bad at maths.  Your mileage may vary.

Sorry to everybody else for the OT.

Two baboons end up on YouTube. BOTH the man and woman aren’t the brightest people. She doesn’t grasp an easy concept and he acts like a dick and very stupidly puts the video up for all the world to see.

They do NOT represent all of humanity. They are both dumb. End of story.

Move on, people.

What does that have to do with this douchebag and his idiot wife (who knew full well that she was being filmed at the time)?