I like Rush but I think his humor degrades women

Re: I like Rush but I think his humor degrades women

Postby ATOMICA on 10/24/07, 3:09 pm

southerngirl wrote:Hey everybody!  I am a very conservative young female from Alabama.  I have been a long time listener but I think Rush says things sometimes that are offensive to females.  Remember a couple of years ago when there was that big ordeal with those silly "Vagina Monologues"?   For those who aren't familiar, it was this silly play that moved around to different college campuses in which females go up on stage and talk about how wonderful their vaginas are.  It obviously had a feminist undertone.   As this play became more popular, they started passing out chocolates at various campuses that were shaped like that part of a woman's body (they looked a lot like the real thing and to me were very pornographic).

As prude and unoffensive as Rush tries to be on his show, he showed all the liberty in the world when this particular story was big.  I remember for a week this was all he would talk about.  Every 10th word for him was "vagina".   He even made off-color jokes about the chocolate candies tasting sweeter and not as bitter as the real thing (ha ha funny).  He even showed pictures of the candies on his website.

It seems like he doesn't use this same liberty when it is male sexual organs that are being made fun of.  He fusses at callers all the time who call in making jokes in reference to such.  And today when he posted that picture of that humorous award he got, he blurred out the part that showed brass male genitalia.   This is all fine by me, as I am a pretty prude person, but he should be doing the same when it is female anatomy that is the bunt of jokes.

Is he a hypocrite or a pervert?   Either way, I don't find it very humorous.


He is just trying to illustrate the absurdity of that element by being absurd himself.  I must have missed that show as I was at work or asleep...
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Re: I like Rush but I think his humor degrades women

Postby fishfurr on 11/23/07, 12:37 pm

No matter how fans defend him, you are right about the inappropriateness of chocolate vagina.  But at the same time some have argued males are sexist either way.  If they hold the door, if they don't hold the door.  I do like Rush, and I didn't care for the vagina reference, but I would speculate that the liberalism Rush is actually fighting is what changed the media making him feel comfortable to do the spot.  I do dread the day, but see it coming, when further Media changes will allow pictures of brass testicles on his website.  All in all, Rush says he it right 98.8% of the time, you caught him in his 1.2%.  Good luck!
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