So today I check my facebook to find that someone I don't even know just sent me this stupid offensive video:
It's entitled "Show Me Your Genitals". I assume this is supposed to be a joke. Well this may just be me but I don't find it fucking funny! It's also that the person who messaged me was named "Pudding Huxley" and I have no idea who they are, probably just some random person who wanted more views on their youtube video. It's possible that it was someone I know just trying to piss me off because they know I'm a feminist, thought I think It's unlikely. This is just the kind of BS that makes me mad.
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I do believe this has been posted on Feministing before. Also, I am 100% certain it is a joke, and supposed to be a satirical look at how many popular songs/music videos are essentially about that. The creator of that video has plenty of other videos along the lines of social commentary presented through comedy.
As to why the person might have sent it to you, well obviously only they can answer that and I can only speculate. It is possible that they were trying to offend you in some manner, I know I had a much similar reaction to yours the first time I saw this video. Then I dug up a bunch of the other videos by the same person (based on user-names alone, I do not think it is the same person who sent the video to you on Facebook, but obviously I could be wrong) on YouTube. I found some of it rather funny.
Yeah, Jon Lajoie is freaking hilarious. It's all satire.
I actually enjoy this video... I think it's really well done satire. It boils the messages of many popular songs down to their ridiculous essences-- "Show me your genitals." The guy is dressed like an idiot; he is very obviously making fun of sexist songs.
I thought this video was hilarious - he's clearly mocking those kinds of attitudes, not endorsing them. It's a very thorough satire of musicians who try to bolster their machismo by demeaning women.
Obviously this is SATIRE.
The guy is poking fun at sexist men in general - and sexist rappers in particular.
He's every lunkheaded sexist stereotype out there ["feelings are gay" ect], he only wants women for one thing, and in general he's a massive asshole.
Also he totally sucks at rapping, is an awful lyricist, can barely rhyme and is a truly terrible breakdancer.
Basically, the artist is trying to say what jackasses misogynist men are - and demonstrating that by exaggerating the sexism to comic proportions.
I found this video to be funny as hell - for precisely those reasons!
While it's great that he did this as satire, with the lyrics it doesn't exactly scream satire. So it's a little problematic.
So people (guys) will post the song on their Myspace/wherever and others won't know it's satire, thus it can be used for sexist reasons.
It's a little like Amanda Palmer's Oasis song. Her's is satire, but at least her lyrics can fairly easily be seen as Satire (even though MTV and others still banned the song).
Just go to his youtube site and look at all of his videos - he's a comedian, and his medium is satiric youtube videos, often involving really bad rapping with really lame lyrics.
The satire is so in-your-face obvious that I have a hard time imagining ANYBODY taking this guy seriously!
That's absurd. Even if there are people daft enough to see "it's not sexist cause I am saying it in a song," as anything but satire I doubt these people are of much concern. I am much more interested in whether the non-sexist rap* listener will when hearing this begin to question his taste in music.
*Specifically sexist rap as not all rap is sexist.
Don't get me wrong. It's pretty cool what he did, but look at the Youtube comments. It's clear people aren't taking it that way.
Put it this way, if someone played this as a CD and were driving down the road with it blaring, would most people recognize it as satire? I'm guessing a lot wouldn't and also wouldn't go and find out about the song. Which is why I said it's problematic, a little bit anyhow.
I think if they could hear the lyrics most people would recognize it as satire. If they can't hear the lyrics it doesn't really matter anyway.
I can give good sex to you, cause I'm really good at sex.
Yeah, no one will ever know that's satire.
Well some people are so dumb that the don't realize The Onion is satire either. What can you do?
I saw this video a while ago and I gotta say, it's hilarious! How anyone cannot get that it's satire...well they just can't be helped obviously.
The Onion is satire? But I thought that "Local Ping-pong player says, Boo-yah, how'd ya like that one?!" was a moving human interest story about victory!
The video is clearly making fun of the crass representation of women and the limited portrayal men in music videos.
this video is totally supposed to be a joke-
this guy doesn't seem to be anything like this song, in real life.
He's made tons of parody videos and its really doubtful that he would put this one out there to really offend people [its so fake!]
i can understand your feelings, though
I had a hard time accepting it as satire, at first
I can't imagine anyone thinking this is supposed to be serious. And if they think that....well, they're probably morons.
Um, nice. Really.
It's very explicitly feminist satire of misogynistic song lyrics. If your friend knows you're a feminist, she probably thought you'd appreciate it.
This has been posted on Feministing before, as something awesome. I've seen this video in a few places and I've always found it completely hilarious. ("I can't my penis in your college degree" makes me LOL every time.)
Some people just can't (or won't) detect satire, even when it's really, really obvious.
I loved it. Hilarious. My favorite line was "I can't put my fist in your childhood dreams."
In regards to your title, yes, he is kidding you. Like everyone else said, it's blatantly satire. Honestly, watch some of his other videos. "Stay At Home Dad" is pretty good also. I don't know how anyone can take the lines "Knock knock, who's there? It's me--wondering why you're not naked" and see it as a serious comment. I love this video. I think Jon Lajoie is hilariously brilliant.
Also, he has his own youtube account under jonlajoie, so it was not the maker of the video that sent the link to you.
I don't believe that video was intended to be offensive to women. The man is obviously inteneded to be some dumb-ass, tacky, poorly dressed neanderthal with a one track mind who no one would ever take seriously I also wouldn't go so far as to say that this video was offensive to men either (I haven't read anyone else's comments yet, so I don't know if anyone felt that way).
The truth is, there ARE men out there that only see women as sex objects, and this video is giving us a chance to laugh at them. Although I didn't even smile at any moments of the video, I can see where the humor was supposed to lie. I'm just not a very LOLey person.
I think that sometimes a good laugh in the face, along with an "are you fucking serious?" is better than getting all pissy about a guy who wants to see your tits. This video is reminding us that guys like that are DUMB, but it does it without stereotyping all guys.
Jon Lajoie is a great Montreal comedian and I (as well as my feminist friends) are obsessed with him. This video is a brilliant parody of all the douchy men who live in their moms' basements and yet think they have a right to treat women like their own personal sex objects.
There are two problems with satire on the Internet:
1) No matter how over-the-top and ridiculous your satire is, there is always going to be someone who believes that you mean what you are saying.
2) No matter how over-the-top and ridiculous your satire is, there is always someone else saying the exact same thing who actually does mean it.
So...does that mean there should be no satire on the internet just because some people are stupid? That would be a sad day.
I don't think that just because there are sometimes problems with satire on the 'net that we should rid ourselves of it entirely. Sometimes some of us just don't catch on right away, for various reasons -- and I really think it's unfair to flippantly label such people as "stupid."
Typically I am a rather literal/blunt/direct person, and the fact that there -are- people out there who have said much similar things to this video and meant it initially confused me when I first saw it. Thankfully it is relatively easy to find the rest of Lajoie's work and I realized the error in my thinking -- others might not think to look, or else it might have been a posting of the video by somebody other than Lajoie, perhaps not even on Youtube. And that still does not address how the person who sent the video to the OP over Facebook might have taken the video seriously, and sent it as such.
That's kinda like the whole feminist slogan, "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people too."
My gay, male, feminist friend owns a shirt that has that phrase on it. I always caught on to the sarcasm, however, one day he went into a convenience store and the girl behind the counter was like, "That shirt is mean!" She didn't get the sarcasm.
Then I thought about it. The reason why *I* understood what the saying meant was because I know my friend. However, put the same shirt on some woman hating anti-feminist, and yeah, the phrase takes on a whole new meaning.
I had a dentist barbie. Then her batteries ran out and she got this really evil voice (like a voice of a devil in a movie or something, really slow and deep haha!)Seriously though, she's just a hunk of plastic. She's what you want her to be. If little girls want to play princess, they're going bedroom furniture to do it whether the box says "executive barbie" or "princess barbie". My barbies were olympic athletes, ninjas, models, hairdressers, dancers, and sometimes they pretended they were mermaids.