Fair enough, but these are separate issues, I agree with the premise of the video. But, while it would be a mistake to assume that men cannot be victims of abuse, it would also be a mistake to assume general equivalency. Take, Weinstein for example. Once he'd isolated his victims, they had to handle their situation with the added fear that he may physically overpower and rape them. With the gender roles reversed, the situation would in most cases not be the same. There is an extra dimension that needs to be considered resulting from the biological fact that men are bigger and stronger than women. I believe you do need to consider gender, even though it would be nice if you didn't.

I've love to see a role reversal here: nerdy guy posing suggestively on the table with his dorkish glove while the pretty chick pots balls around him.

What a strange video.

True, but role reversal is a proven way to communicate concepts that someone may otherwise be oblivious to.

...And I've never understood why white people think putting chop sticks in their hair makes them more Asian.

I have to agree with the comment of this being cliched and anything but 'everyday' sexism. Every solitary 'sexist' interaction in the entire video is already deemed entirely unacceptable and due cause for a beat down of the sexist bullies. The role reversal bit is just entirely unecessary and makes it feel too heavy handed to take seriously. I'm of course coming from a North American perspective, I'd hoped and understood women's rights in The EU weren't that far behind either for this to open any new eyes.

role reversal ftw!
2nd one is alive & deserves more eyeballs!

@enoch

I've been having this back and forth with a guy on another forum. He keeps insisting that because Zimmerman was hurt, he was within his rights to shoot Trayvon under SYG. And I keep trying to point out to him that SYG does not say that, but it falls on deaf ears.

And then it comes to witness testimony being the gospel the witness identified as "John" backs up Zimmerman. But the girlfriend of Trayvon who was on the phone with him is also a witness, but somehow her testimony is no good because she's his girlfriend, or underage, or is "speculation" and if she were really a witness the police would have talked to her, etc, etc.

I mean strictly from how events have been reported. We have Zimmerman's own words, phone call, and actions to judge him by. And with Trayvon all we know is that he's dead, was wearing a hoodie, and was a black teen going to the store and back. Yet somehow Trayvon was doing something wrong because Zimmerman identified him as suspicious. Even though there is AT LEAST one black resident in that neighborhood and being black in the neighborhood should not = auto-suspicion even if it's predominately white.

Zimmerman kept chasing and Trayvon should be covered under the law because of it, we KNOW Zimmerman followed him. He wouldn't have "lost" him if Trayvon hadn't tried to actively avoid him by running away. Running away from a creep is not a crime, following a kid is questionable behavior. More so after he was told not to, and the fact that he's neighborhood watch "leader" and should have known better.

The whole thing smacks of Zimmerman having a chip on his shoulder that he isn't "catching the bad guys" and him acting in accordance with that goal...even if it means forcing an encounter. Perhaps he didn't mean to kill Trayvon, or isn't a racist. But I believe he wanted an encounter to happen so at least one of these "punks/goons/coons" were caught. And then he claimed self defense, when he forced the thing upon an individual who was trying to get away from him. It's just compounded by the fact that Trayvon wasn't of a similar age, weight, and build to Zimmerman. He simply did not have the life experience to temper the encounter against, and Zimmerman should have not pushed it. In a role reversal, I'd have no problem with Zimmerman shooting a teenager who was pursuing him after he ran.....but that's not what happened. He forced it upon Trayvon, and got his ass handed to him and shot out of fear. Which does not excuse his actions leading up to the event, he was not immune under self defense laws until he met criteria.

>> ^Payback:

This passes my personal "Is it still funny with racial roles reversed?" test.
It's like how the best SF almost never is about the SF, it's just a setting and makes the story more interesting.
This is funny because it's a true reaction, no matter what colour she starts out as.


Yes, it would be hilarious if it was the other way around and he punched her in the... WAIT!

>> ^Payback:

This passes my personal "Is it still funny with racial roles reversed?" test.
It's like how the best SF almost never is about the SF, it's just a setting and makes the story more interesting.
This is funny because it's a true reaction, no matter what colour she starts out as.


Thank You, Payback. That's a good test.

This passes my personal "Is it still funny with racial roles reversed?" test.

It's like how the best SF almost never is about the SF, it's just a setting and makes the story more interesting.

This is funny because it's a true reaction, no matter what colour she starts out as.

You have to respect the 'journalist' for the way he reacted to the first part - Hugh's role reversal - whilst despising him for his attitude and lack of humanity.

Quite honestly, my theory is that people don't have a problem with homosexuality per se, it's that perception that homosexuality = weakness. It's that gender role reversal that has people scared IMO where boys act like girls and girls act like men. In all honesty. That's one thing I still don't really get about homosexuality. What exactly about being homosexual makes a man TALK like a girl? In all honesty, it's that stereotypical flamboyant, effeminate "fabulous" archetype that freaks people out. Chances are, you know someone who is homosexual but they simply act straight so you don't even know it. It's that perception that all homosexuals secretly dress up in BDSM attire and are fabulous interior decorators.

It's the same damned thing with black people. which stereotype causes the most fear for the average american? The assimilated black person who talks like a white person, or the guy dressed as a gangster with heavy ebonics-laden speech? IMO being black per se, or being homosexual per se has almost nothing to do with it. If a straight man started acting flamboyant and effeminate, people would be freaked out about that too. Kids with no strong male role models are perceived to be momma's boys and are picked on...it's the same thing.

Fight those stereotypes and I bet you anything people would accept homosexuality a lot more.

>> ^robdot:

i just dont understand why so many people care what gay people are doing? who gives a fuck? dont we all have other things to worry about? why do these people spend so much time concerned about who someone else loves?

@00Scud00

The role reversal doesn't work so well when your trash talking douchbaggery can be disputed by:

"Say what you want, retard, I just shot you in the face because you're moving two inches at a time and meleeing the air"

Defeats the entire purpose of the video.

>> ^Shepppard:

>> ^00Scud00:
Nicely done, and while using the controllers properly would have been a nice touch, it's otherwise totally irrelevant to the sketch, the point was made either way. Might as well criticize them for their grammar, punctuation, or spelling while you're at it.

How do you figure it's irrelevant to the sketch?
Yeah, it's showing what 'guys' do in halo, but the only reason they do it is because generally they're stupidly good and melting faces, and are being dicks about it.
Ohhhhh, and here I thought it was because they're acting like a bunch of juvenile douche-bags.
I'm pretty sure role reversal is what it was going after.

I didn't realize blankfist was the source of unemployment in America.

Bad blankfist, hire more people!

BTW, to give everyone role reversal whiplash, blankfist wants to abolish corporations (presumably this is with the use of government coercion, since that's the only way you could do it), whereas I'm perfectly okay with letting corporations continue to exist, and think trying to get rid of them would require a level of state intervention in the economy that would be unacceptable.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'role reversal, game, gender' to 'role reversal, game, gender, harvard sailing team' - edited by kronosposeidon