Friday, May 04, 2007

More evidence that women aren't people

Current commercial for Jeopardy's College Championship tournament.

Paraphrasing...
Announcer: "Inside the mind of the average college student:"
Student: "Girls, girls, girls, pizza, girls."
Announcer: "Inside the mind of a Jeopardy College Championship contestant:"
Student: "Nuclear fission, history of Europe, girls, girls, girls."
Announcer: "College Championship contestants are just like any college student, only smarter."

My question: College students are all male? Are, on average, male?

The picture of Alex Trebek with the contestants shows nine girls and seven boys. So I'm not faulting the show itself. But whoever does the advertising apparently thinks "students" equals "male students."

One of the things that sexism is about is making the male the normative, the default, person. People=men. Women=other. It's the Kanga syndrome. It's always disheartening, always offensive, and pretty much always present.

(Inside the mind of the typical cross-post)