Discovery Channel Netherlands: Not for women!

[asterroc]

Found via hrafn, the URL says it all.

http://contexts.org/socimages/2009/12/08/the-discovery-channel-not-for-womens-eyes/

Like I said in another recent post, there's reasons I don't usually reveal my gender in a science context, and now the Discovery Channel has joined those reasons.

(Edited to the correct name of the channel: Discovery Channel. Not to be confused with Discover Magazine.)

Comments

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

I've gone beyond a headdesk slam. That made me want to get really, really violent with the advertising twit who came up with that, and positively postal with the Discovery Channel dweeb who approved it. I wouldn't excuse that sort of idiocy from the Skiffy Channel, and coming from any branch of the Discovery Channel is absolutely reprehensible.

[marquiswildbill.livejournal.com]

Apparently some people want to keep the no girls allowed sign up outside the lab. Which I completely fail to understand. At least there is progress being made even if it is of the one step forward 0.9 steps backward kind.

[allandaros.livejournal.com]

WTF.

I expected better of Discovery.

[one4theroad.livejournal.com]

shame on you, discovery channel! i thought you were cooler than that :(

[meig.livejournal.com]

Oy.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

What this tells me is that Kari on Mythbusters really is just there to attract the drooling manboy crowd, and not to give female viewers someone to relate to.

I guess that's probably been obvious to everyone for a long time, hasn't it?

Also, I've been increasingly offended by Mike Rowe's sophomoric sexism, and I don't think it's because I've just gotten touchier about it.

[rosefox]

Favorite comment: "It's silly to think this is sexist, just like it's silly to think Zwarte Piet is racist!" *STAB STAB STAB*

[fireaphid.livejournal.com]

I started hating the Discovery Channel for sexism after finding out about their spin-off, the Learning Channel, which is much more blatant with the content of every single show. Actually, I think that's how I first found out about sexism as a kid, watching one of the reality shows where kids compete against each other in doing things like redecorating a room, because they always split up the boys and girls, taught the boys how to make things look good and the girls how to build sturdy things, and the themes of the rooms were so stereotypical. Anyway, this doesn't surprise me at all!

[seekingferret.livejournal.com]

Women hate watching animals fornicate.

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

...what?

Seriously, what the left-handed tap-dancing h-e-double-hockey-sticks is that noise?

I mean, I assume that what's going on is that some dumbass marketroid thinks that the Discovery Channel in the Netherlands is getting a lot of female viewers and not so many male ones, and is trying to stir up some interest among male viewers.

But this is so incredibly dumb that I have to wonder if it's a parody (in poor taste).

[captain-risu.livejournal.com]

spike tv does not need a twin station... PLEASE! manswers hurts my brainz....