This Week in Bullshit: Semen, Cheating and Movies

This Week In Bullshit
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Bullshit News mini-edition. These are just a few “news” articles and tweets that have crossed my path this last month.

  • Ran across an OLD faux, pretend CNN news piece claiming “swallowing semen prevents breast cancer” that I must remind readers that it’s a FAKE, it’s a hoax, it’s total bullshit and needs to die!
  • Old shitacular theory, pretending to be new: “Letting your boyfriend or husband cheat is a good idea, because men can’t fight their DNA, biologically must get laid.” CNN via Larry King Live empaneled some “experts” to tell women to let their partners cheat. I felt I.Q. points slipping away as I watched.

Lemondrop tackled this “let your boyfriend have a one-night stand” bullshit, as an aside on the new not-on-my-must-see-list movie The Freebie.

  • Movies are misogynist, sexist drivel. Shocking I know. More crap from Hollywood, with new movies telling us that boys should not care about the sanctity of their virginity, while girls should be both willing to boink young geeks and hang onto their flowers like the most sacred of treasures. What the fuck ever.

Have seen neither movies but I have seen some of the predecessors mentioned and Shine gets it right in The Movie Virgin: Why Boys Do It “Better”: (air quotes mine)

“Compared side by side, the messages are clear: girls fake sex, guys don’t. For girls it’s a business venture, for guys it’s an adventure.  For girls it destroys their identity, for guys it creates a stronger sense of self.

But the biggest on-screen dichotomy is the simplest: Losing virginity tears female relationships apart, while it brings male friends closer together. To put it in teenager terms: What the f is up with that?”

Indeed. The mixed messages from Hollywood are all over movies and television and it continues well past the teen years. Glad to read someone else call bullshit.

Don’t mean to go all feminist, yet somehow these all caught my eye. Got one from the Y-chromosone side? Please share the bullshit here.

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