WEBVTT 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (beep) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (screaming) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (jazzy intro) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 How does it feel to be 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the same sex as Donald Trump? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 How does it feel to be 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the same sex as Sarah Palin? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 How does it feel to be 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the same sex as Michelle Bachman? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 How does it feel to be the 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 same sex as anybody you disagree with? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Why does it even matter 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 whether or not you're the 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 same gender as somebody else? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I mean, I'm also the same 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 gender as Abraham Lincoln, Einstein, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and the guy who introduced 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 chocolate to the Western world. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So what are you even getting 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 at with this question? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Are you trying to say Donald Trump 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 is bad, and Donald Trump 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 is a man, therefore men are bad? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Why do you hate rom-coms? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Or do you just feel like you 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 need to hate them? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Everybody likes The Notebook, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 everybody likes Beyoncé. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's just a fact. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Men hate romantic comedies 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 for the same reason you 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 hate video games with 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 over-sexualized female characters. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The men in these movies are 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 always willing to sacrifice 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 their careers, their dreams, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 even their lives to win 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the lead females' affection. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Now I don't have any empirical 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 data to back this up, but 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it seems to me that 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 romantic comedies and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 romance movies in general 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 cause women to have unrealistic 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 expectations of men and what 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 love should be like, and these 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 become the expectations 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that men have to live up to, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and it's unfair. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Feminists like to bitch 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 about poor representation of women 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 in media intended for men 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 because they promote body issues 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and shit like that 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And I agree, to at least, an extent 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But it's not any better for men 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 When we're expected to be Prince Charming, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 ready and willing to sacrifice themselves 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 physically, mentally, and emotionally 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And we're called selfish for daring to 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 have our own desires 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 or even misogynistic for daring to draw 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 attention to our own problems. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 These movies appeal to the female fantasy 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 of having a night in shining armor 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 swear their entire existence to pleasing 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 them, and thus reinforce these notions 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 within their target audience of women 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 like you that you somehow deserve 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to have your boyfriends and husbands 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 give up everything that makes them 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 who they are and basically dehumanize 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 themselves for your pleasure and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 devote 100% of their time and energy 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to you. The fact that some of you 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 watching this are scoffing at what I 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 just said only proves my point. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You have fooled yourself into thinking 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that I'm somehow the one whose being 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 selfish when I object to the notion 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that men should be expected to cave 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 into all of your demands, for the sake of 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 your perverted idealistic conception 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 of love. And I have no doubts that 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 some of you will accuse me of being 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 bitter at some ex girlfriend for saying 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that, but I'm not and I will 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 pre-emptively characterize such an 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 argument as out cropping of the 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 very mentality that I'm talking about. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You expect all of your demands to be 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 catered to, and any man who is unwilling 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 or unable to cater to them must have 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 something wrong with them. Us men are 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 human beings with our own interests and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 goals, and it's selfish for you to expect 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 us to give all that up for you. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But these movies condition you to expect 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 exactly that. And that is why we hate 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 romantic comedies. We don't see anything 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 romantic about them. What we see is the 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 reinforcement of unfair and unreasonable 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 expectations about what we should be doing 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 with our own lives. Also, fuck Beyonce. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "Why do you make women sit around and talk 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 about men in movies when y'all easily just 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 sit around and talk about boobs for hours? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 One, I don't know, maybe you should be 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 asking that to people who rent romantic 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 comedies you like so much, because 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 those are the movies which have women 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 sitting around talking about men. Or, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 better yet, instead of complaining about 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 how writers depict women in their movies, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 maybe you should try being the change you 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 want to see and write your own damn movie. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Then you could make the female characters 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 sit around and talk about whatever you 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 want. Like how men are oppressing them, or 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 how men are objectifying them or how men 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 are such pigs, or how men spread their 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 legs too far apart on the subway, or how 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 men hate romantic comedies. There's 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 nothing stopping you. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Two, you're referring to the Bechdel Test, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 which is bullshit. All the Twilight movies 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 pass the Bechdel Test, but I think you'd 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 hesitate to call any of those movies 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "pro-feminist." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Three, I don't know a single guy who ever 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 talks about boobs for hours at a time. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think the only guys who do are medical 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 students learning how to conduct 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 mammograms. You want to know what most of 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the men I know talk about? Movies, video 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 games, politics, religion, music, sports, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 cars, boats, technology, work, guns, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 hunting, places they've been to, people 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 they've met, and so on. The subject of 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 boobs actually rarely ever comes up. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Contrary to what you may have been told in 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 your Women's Studies class, men don't 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 think about sex constantly. If we did, we 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 would never have invented the camera 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 equipment you used to make this video. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Four. If anybody's talking about boobs for 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 hours at a time, it's feminists. You're 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the ones who are always whining about 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the designs of fictional characters, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 complaining that fat girls' tits are too 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 big. And in all honesty, the only time I 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 ever even think about a comic book 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 character's tits is when I hear a feminist 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 bring it up. So I think maybe you're 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 projecting. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "Why do you automatically assume that you 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 won't like the TV or movies that star a 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 female lead?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I don't. In fact, some of my favorite 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 movies and TV shows have female leads. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I don't know a single man who has ever 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 scoffed at the notion of watching a movie 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 or TV show just because it has a female 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 protagonist. However, I have seen 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 feminists scoff at anything with a male 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 lead. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "Why are you surprised when women are 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 funny?" "I'm probably funnier than you!" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm not surprised when women are funny. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There are plenty of funny women out there. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [names not recognized], et cetera. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But I will say that, in general, women are 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 not as funny as men, and I think most 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 women won't agree with that statement. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I also think there's a reason for this.