In reply to this comment by chicchorea:
Vote early and vote often.

It, I'm sure you know, is permissible and even encouraged to vote for your own submission.

Totally forgot about that; thanks for reminding me!

Kinda just feel bad for the guy.

Wow, this was hilarious!

>> ^Payback

I used sexist terms, and I knew I was when I wrote my comment. Using words like "androcentric" don't usually get you far--in fact, they earn you taunts--so I used what language I thought would be most effective in conveying the sentiment of my point.

I was sticking up for myself as a woman by commenting at all--what I meant by my comment is that it is expected for women to stick up for themselves, but damn, it's a shame that men won't stick up for a person when that person's interests are not immediately their own. Are we all really so selfish and unempathetic?

As for being "annoying"--I find this ad, and some of the responses I see to it, highly irritating myself. I'm responding to my own annoyance.

I think the attitudes you show in your reply to my comment and elysse's is a sad case of blaming the wrong group of people because you think we are directly attacking you as a person, since you are male. I am not attacking you as a person; I don't even know you. I am blaming the broad societal attitudes that allow this crap to become popular.

Hey, thanks for being the voice of reason with regards to the "Sexy/Sexist Guiness Ad" video. I'm glad not everyone just laughs at that kind of thing.

Aaand this is why the sift is mostly men.

Too bad none are manly enough to stick up for women. Let's continue reassuring ourselves by putting women down!

http://www.videosift.com/video/Tom-Cruise-Suck-my-big-fat-sausage

This is absolutely hilarious!

Ooh thanks; I didn't realize that. Glad you liked the video!

In reply to this comment by my15minutes:
psst.

you get to vote for your own stuff here...

http://www.videosift.com/video/A-Lion-with-the-Memory-of-an-Elephant

HAHAHA, wow, I couldn't stop cracking up at the text that would appear up above their heads.

"PUT A WIG ON HIM!!"

Eh, even if what she was doing can be called "art" in specific settings, it's still a cheap ploy in this context. She's using her feminine wiles as a replacement for originality and talent (and sadly, it worked in this video). I say talent because personally, I don't think the way she was doing it was particularly challenging or artistic. Maybe the dance would have gained more merit with me if she'd stripped in a way that was interesting to those who are not heterosexual males (or homosexual females). I wasn't particularly entertained or excited.

They really show this on television?

The title makes it. *thumbs up*

I wasn't able to read everything here, but I thought there were a few things I could add to:

1) A few people seemed to use hate speech on the internet as proof of the virulence of anti-Americanism in Europe. Thing is, the Internet is a radical place. If the internet represented society as it really is, Ron Paul would have won the nomination for president. I'm an American and just last year studied abroad in England for six months--I never experienced any anti-Americanism whatsoever, anywhere. People were lovely to us (my friend and I) both in Britain and in France, even when we displayed full-on our horrible ignorance of French. The worst I ever got? I pronounced "herb" like "urb" and was gently teased.

2) Yes, America's in the wrong in a lot of ways, I agree with that. But I think there's also the phenomenon of scapegoating, which a few people touched upon. It's just easier to make everything an us-them scenario, and everyone loves to hate America, the big snarling overdog. We've got more eyes on us than any other country, and now that we've been stuck in such an awful administration for so long, every further misstep is spotlighted like it is for no other country. Say, what's Japan been up to lately? How about Italy? We know these countries also both have controversial governments, but they receive vastly less attention because they aren't under such constant hyper-critical surveillance (yes, they also aren't as intrusive and haven't committed acts quite as bad as we have in recent years, and we DO hear about them in the news, I'm not saying we don't hear anything; the point still stands).

3) One comment, by tgop, really stuck out to me because they said America doesn't seem to "learn from its mistakes." I would hope the world is witnessing the complete opposite--this election is the first in which both a woman and an African-American man are up for the nomination. The fact that they are even _running_ should be a sign to the world that Americans are also unhappy with their current administration, and that change is on the way.

...But maybe I'm just beating a horse long dead...

Wow, thanks for saving this.

Here's the original video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUXYtI8MEoM

Schma was right, it was meant as a parody, but I still think the audience is still a little surprised at far how she took it.

Heh, I thought they were funny too, but apparently the videosift community didn't. Maybe it was the packaging? Anyway, feel free to repost them if you want.