01 July 2009

Responsible Service of Arsehole

I did my Responsible Service of Alcohol course today, which means I now know how to tell when people are too shitfaced or young to drink alcohol and can work in a pub. Actually it would be more acurate to say I know how to avoid getting fined if I accidentally serve someone too shitfaced or young to drink alcohol.

But this post is not about legalities! This post is about the stand up misogyny and the following conversation:

INSTRUCTOR DUDE: Bouncers are really cool, especially female bouncers who-
AUDIENCE DUDE: (sorting "under his breath", loud enough for everyone to hear) Uhh female bouncers...
INSTRUCTOR DUDE: (Haha? I'm not sure where you're going, but you seem alright) Oh, you like female bouncers?
AUDIENCE DUDE: (incoherent snorting that's clearly SHOCK! that all 20 people in the room aren't laughing heartily at the punchline. Cos everyone knows FEMALE BOUNCERS are such a great punchline!!11!)
AUDIENCE DUDE'S FRIEND: He luvs female bouncers, don't you?
INSTRUCTOR DUDE: Ah cool you're going our with a female bouncer are you?
AUDIENCE DUDE: Nah (gawf gawf gawf) ... But... most of them have shorter hair then I do!!!1!!!eleventiez!1 (BOOM TISH! ammiright.. eh? huh? imtotallyrighteh??? haw haw haw)
INSTRUCTOR DUDE: Yeah... Well.. Female bouncers are a really in demand becasue (etc.)

And he honestly though everyone would find this hilarious and endearing.

Because... apparently women with short hair are laughable? They're not actually women cos they (obviously!) don't fuck men? They're falling short of an essential criteria of womanhood if they fail to give men hardons? Hairstyle is intrinsically linked to membership of the human race? Physical strength and the ability to command respect (attributes I imagine bouncers need in their work) are irreconcilable with being a woman?

Ahhh... veiled homophobia, sexism, uninvited comments about women's appearance. Truly it is the throwaway sexist comment that just keeps giving!

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