Magic Mike

OK so it might be a good movie - who knows. Maybe it will be like a Boogie Nights and expose a side to an industry we don't normally see BUT what I seem to be seeing is equally weird and creepy girls posting links to the trailer on facebook or commenting on youtube making disgusting remarks or giving shout outs like,"calling all girls!!"

If suddenly there was a movie about strippers OR a movie like Show Girls resurfaced and AS many guys were posting it to their walls writing comments like "OH YA, must see!!" I would think they are creeps, in fact I believe many women would. In particular, I think the demographic who would be the first to strike or make a fuss about it would be the same who are posting now about Magic Mike.

I do believe in equal rights and I think even more so now that I have met someone who respects me for a woman not just a partner. Since being with him I have seen that equal doesn't mean being equally sleazy. It doesn't mean wearing trashy clothes or "playing the game" that some guys do, so it is fair. It means calling for more respect and demanding the opposite sex to rise up to our standard.

Not only does it make you seem like a scuzzball for so publicly drooling over a movie about male strippers, but you are also showing your limitations of gender roles and sexual orientations. What about males who want to see the movie? Why are you "calling all ladies!"? I am a lady and I don't want to see that. What about my male counterpart who might be interested? Do you expect a hoard of women to come flocking to the cinema with you to snail trail over some B actors taking their clothes off? (I'm looking at you Channing Tatum - or sometimes as I remember Tanning Chatum, as he is not even important enough to get his name straight and Channing is a nonsensical name anyway) What's sad is I don't even doubt that probably this movie will be worked into a so-called ladies night, where I picture groups of single-something women eating at Boston Pizza, having a few too many Cosmos, then ending the night hollering at the cinema screen. Again I pose, if a group of males were to create a guys night of this and then all slinking off to watch female strippers - oh wait, some do that, and usually they are the kind that wear camouflage pants, Ed Hardy t-shirts, and greasy hair and what do we call them??? CREEPS! Point made.

On Friday, I saw women who were working for a company and paid to walk Covent Garden (a classy area of London) in lingerie. A crowd of males had formed, especially older men, who were cat-calling and taking pictures on their phones. Some women looked offended while walking by. At first I was thinking, ew dirty old men then I had to shake myself and think about WHAT I was looking at. Why are these women in their underwear on the streets? I think both sexes had let themselves down that day but what would "make us equal" doesn't mean I want a bunch of guys in speedos for me to whistle at. How about everyone puts on their damn clothes?!

Now I know some people who are posting are just trying to be funny or play at the male stereotype, but enough now. The things I am seeing are the female equivalents of when we would call a guy a douchebag (which in itself undermines the feminist stance and underscores some of the argument but it sums up with urban dictionary this behaviour). So if you don't want to be a douchebagette - lay off and go back to posting youtube clips about people tripping in public so we can all equally laugh at another. Thanks.