I'll see your analogy, and raise you ::gasp:: an analogy

Wherein manxome hits a bad analogy in the noggin with
her own bad analogy two-by-four, for fun and prizes and shit.

In Ode to a sexist, BB highlights a comment left by someone who self-identifies as "::gasp:: a male". ::gasp:: a male's "greater point" (I would hate to have seen his so-so point) is that "Porn in and of itself is no worse than say watching a cooking show".

Well, who can possibly argue with that?

After slapping her forehead, BB replies to ::gasp:: a male, in part:

"I forgot that the last time I watched Emeril Lagasse he grabbed that turkey and called it a good bitch before brutally fucking it while slapping it and telling it that it likes it. Yep, I clearly remember that episode in which he kept telling that whorish turkey, "You like that baster don't you bitch? Take it you dirty bird"

Of course, one should read the whole damn thing. Which I did. Twice. Still, I cannot resist the urge, the need, to submit my own analogy in response to the ::gasp:: a male's analogy:

I am ::gasp:: a male and I think you miss the greater point

Hi, ::gasp:: a male. You'd be the dude in the bold face, right? Manxome here, claiming the default! (bwahhaaaa)

Porn in and of itself is no worse than say watching a cooking show

Nah, it's more like an episode of ER.

Before you rant and whine listen to my explantion.

Wait! Listen to my rant and whine before you explain it to me!

A cooking show demonstrates something that you may not currently do or have knowledge of

Much like ER!

But, if you watch it enough you are going to try cooking

I can see what you mean, since I now have this incredible urge to crack someone's chest open and perform a triple bypass based on all I've learned watching actors in a medical drama.

If you watch it with your partner and begin to criticize their cooking because it isn't as good

Well of course my partner's skills at surgery isn't as good as Dr. Luka Kovac's! Has he learned nothing from watching TV? Gawd, I tell him all the time, "Hey asshole, Luka has a much bigger scapel than you, and he knows how to use it!"

Without realizing that the person who is cooking has usually very little talent

Yeah, I don't get why he can't remove a tumor with the finesse of an actor on a TV show, either.

And it is all handled by assistants behind the scenes.

I know! Isn't that crazy? Goran Visnjic isn't really a doctor, does not really perform medical procedures, and there are all kinds of people behind the scenes who make it look like he is. What was I thinking? Obviously we need to hire a major studio and crew to help us out here, and then maybe our attempts at performing appendectomies on each other won't make such a mess on the kitchen floor.

Now, we all have to eat, and we all have sexual urges

Yes, we all have urges to perform surgery on others, because we saw it on TV. Right there with ya, dude!

The diff is that we usually don't harm others with our cooking, but with sex it is not just a casual activity

Well, duh, because if that could ever happen, we'd need like food inspectors and health codes and shit. I'm especially fond the $6.99 all you-can-eat undercooked mad cow night at Denny's!

But back to the real point, which is that we don't usually harm others when we practice medicine after watching a few episodes of ER, so it's no biggie. But sex? Whoa, that's some serious shit. Do tell.

Feminism has done good, but also must take responsibility for the harm it has done also

Well, yeah. I realized that one day, after trying to perform brain surgery on my partner. ER has been very irresponsible in making me think I could perform several complicated medical procedures in 60 minutes, including commercial breaks! Even though I've watched since the first season, they didn't mail me a degree, and no hospital would hire me. It turned out not to be the training video I thought it was! It wasn't really medicine!

You see as a male raised by a strong mother I was taught manners and respect.
I hold the door for people and say please and thank you, and told not to think of women as objects, but when women sleep around and use sex as a tool it makes it harder for all women

Yup. My attempts at do-it-yourself medicine has definitely made it harder for ER's viewing audience to be seen as anything but do-it-yourself docs. And all those guys who want to "tube" me? Yeah, they have nothing to do with it.

Just as what one man does influences your opinion of all men, what one woman does helps men to rationalize that "women really want [insert item] because I saw it as acceptable behavior by another woman"

No kidding! I mean, when I found out that not all hospital administrators meet their demise by having a helicopter fall on them, I was stunned!

So, given the premise that what one man or woman does represents everyone in their sex makes about as much sense as saying that because I think breasts are beautiful that I want rape women so that I can see more of them.

I know (bows head). We should all feel so ashamed for having never, ever said anything like that.

You can't have it both ways,

Right. When we play hospital, one has to be the doctor and the other has to be the patient! Sometimes we do switch roles, though. Sometimes we even perform surgery on ourselves! I mean, if you're not willing to have it done to you or do it to yourself, why would you do it to someone else, riiiight?

there is no absolute freedom..except when I don't want it

Right. If one wants absolute freedom, they have to not want it. So if I say "no absolute freedom for me tonight hon, I have a headache", you say "c'mon, babe, you know you want it" and shove it down my throat. Yep, sounds familiar. Damn feminism!

Or perhaps you mean that no one can have absolute freedom unless you don't want it. You know, because it's a finite thing that you own and distribute at will. Yes, we get your discarded table scraps! The food analogy is so clear to me now! I concede!