I LIKE THE VIDEO, I THINK IT's FUNNY!!! SO OTHER PEOPLE SHUT UP! I don't care who made the damn organization. Nike is a hypocrite sure but again, eff them right? The real priority is that everyone's eyes is open, and other NON PROFIT organizations are doing something unlike the ignorant commenters. The "I Dare You" video on the girl effect is accurate, and places like E.U., Japan and America KNOW this. Because they don't have discrimination on their women (as extreme as a third world country)
Girl effect is only sponsored by Nike, it was created by a number of charity/human rights organisations, don't really think you have a right to take the piss out of it.
I have reported this to the youtube website and truly hope they take counter measures against such hate videos and the standing they recieve. I personally find this disgusting and encourage all to boycott Nike products, they evidently care nought for the majority of their workers who would be women stuck in factories producing mass products to be sold to the materialistic 1st world.
um i actually think this is fu**ing funny, no offence to you sensitive people who are saying 'oh but thats sexist, get a life stop making fun of charities' uh well im a girl and i dont think this is sexist at all, this video is meant as a joke and ONLY as a joke, and all u haters r doing is trying to get some attention by saying this video is offensive, its obviously not so why dont u go and stop putting people who put hard work into videos down? stop being so god dam fu**ing sensitive!
perpetuating the idea that violence against them is ok. As a male, I find it sad that anyone would use these words to create a positive image of their product, which is what an ad is meant to serve as. I will personally find other products to use besides Nike and use my connections to friends and family to encourage them to withdraw their support of Nike. I will utilize my contacts through facebook and other social media to do the same.
says something about the viewpoint of that company and creates an image that they simply want money. To refer to women as cows and being able to whore them out is inappropriate and using those terms in such a calloused manner would make it seem ok. This suggests seeing women simply as things, pieces of property. This is a result of a patriarchal society and it serves no one positively. This would make women feel as if they are only good for their bodies and their offspring....
I am a 21-year-old college student involved with the Movement, a group for ending sexual violence. I have generally used Nike products for sports and going to the gym. I have a number of friends that also utilize the selection Nike Offers. Looking at this video and the enthusiasm that was expressed when viewing it made me sick. I find the language used to describe women here utterly appalling. The fact that Nike thinks it is ok to use such language as a tactic to sell their product...
Looking at this video and the enthusiasm that was expressed when viewing it made me sick. I find the language used to describe women here utterly appalling. The fact that Nike thinks it is ok to use such language as a tactic to sell their product says something about the viewpoint of that company and creates an image that they simply want money. As a male, I find it sad that anyone would use these words to create a positive image of their product, which is what an ad is meant to serve as.
@wattsc08 Nike did not make this video. They have absolutely nothing to do with the video or the language used in it. Someone else made this video in an attempt to make fun of Nike and its Girl Effect charity.
To be honest regardless of the reasons for why NIKE are doing it, the girl effect is a legitimate thing and it does work...the parody's clever but it's probably also reducing people's belief in a system that could massively help the poor
you probably wouldn't laugh if you were born in a third world country
Promoting the well-being of one population is not inherently an attack on the other. Men shouldn't feel threatened here. The fact is, the MAJORITY of the world's poor are female. There's an oppountiy here. Invest in a girl and she will re-invest in her community. Nowhere in this equation are boys being threatened, quite the opposite. Healthy women = healthy mothers, wives and sisters. Why all the hate?
@deathcoresucks1 I know that there are many boys that are in poverty and even raped too. And I'm sorry that I made my comment sound like it didn't matter. But all I'm saying is that the situation is that more girls are in poverty and more girls are raped, and that this is a REAL situation and shouldn't be mocked like I felt this video did. That's all.
I bet you don't know how serious this situation actually is. I bet you think that this situation is a hoax...or even that girls deserve to live in poverty and be raped. Read "Half the Sky" if you know anything. You might understand the situation afterward...or you might not. Well, I hope that we can someday eliminate your thinking since it's videos like these that's preventing the situation to be solved.
@XoXoSakuraKissXoXo a monetary profit system is sustained by the wrongful idea that competition leads to motivation, growth, and wealth. the reality is the opposite. competition leads to unethical throat cutting actions and eventually to corruption. studies are revealing how performance/reward motivation isn't even the way the human brain works (search for: dan pink on motivation). check out the venus project, or the resource based economy . com for some thought provoking material. :)
@devantej2011 that's a very optimistic way of looking at it, but say you were hungry, you wouldn't drink lots of water, you'd eat. if you were eating, you'd use a fork, not a knife. if we want to live in a better world, we'd be a resource based society instead of a monetary based society. if a system isn't functioning at full capacity, we don't just say "well look at the good parts!" we fix the parts that aren't functioning. that's what i'm trying to suggest in all this, that we can do better.
@devantej2011 the concept of money is a sin, not acquiring it. let's all work for at least 60% of our lives doing things we don't want to do so we can get pieces of paper with numbers on 'em, sound like a good idea? no, it doesn't. we have to rent ourselves out so we can get little bills in order to SURVIVE. that's ƒµçked up. it's not a sin to attain money, the monetary system itself is the true evil. we're perpetuating a system thats ultimately just a distraction from anything humanly important
bulls-eye! nike says, "let's start a hugely ambiguous campaign for something extremely general to help our public appearance.. how'bout boys? ah nobody'll go for that. girls! DONE."
then they make an oversimplified video about aids and babies and poverty, and everyone's heart throbs.
no one cares who sends the message, and everyone's upset at curroptvideo1 for posting a parody. that's exactly what they want! an emotional response, NOT an investigative response.
@thejustineaster Over 70% of children out of school are girls. Nike isn't gaining any profit off of GirlEffect, it's a charity channel. Why are you trying to promote socialism by comparing it to a charity campaign? WTF.
@XoXoSakuraKissXoXo woa in no way am i promoting socialism. i'm promoting investigative response. nike is gaining. they're gaining in their public appearance - that's what you happen to be defending right now, whether you're aware of it or not. the charity campaign is ambiguous. that's what i am criticizing. these are the points the video is trying to make for you, using to over-the-top humor. your drawing of drastic conclusions from my comment is a perfect illustration of an emotional response.
@XoXoSakuraKissXoXo you were right that choosing girls wasn't just a random choice, that i didn't understand well enough to comment on to begin with. but over 70 million children are out of school and roughly 60% to 70% are girls, not over 70% as you'd said. exaggeration never helps an argument.
@thejustineaster It's not an emotional response, it's you saying that our money system is corrupt and the way we work to attain money is fucked up. So I don't see your point unless you're trying to promote socialism, but whatever. I didn't even know that Nike was sponsoring it until everyone pointed it out in the comments. They explain how they donate on their webpage and on other videos.
You literally just said 60 to 70. So it's not an exaggeration if I went with the higher stat. Peace yo.
@XoXoSakuraKissXoXo you said o v e r 70%. not trying to be redundant, but thats an exaggeration. we should be a resource based society, not a monetary based society. just because someone's not into the monetary system doesn't mean they're into socialism. for thousands of years we've had no ideas but money, and it's exclusive by design. in the end it creates interest, puts bankers and elite class ahead and leaves everyone else to perpetuate a system that is inefficient for the whole of mankind.
@thejustineaster Ohh, excuse me hahah I actually didn't see that I said over. And what do you mean by resource based? Just flat resources, like nourishment and stuff, or do resources also include flat screen televisions? Hahaha
@XoXoSakuraKissXoXo this isn't really a concept that would fit easily into a 500 character comment box, but we would definitely have to prioritize what's actually humanly important. nearly all of business today is focused on things we don't need - clothes, accessories, entertainment, fine dining, weaponry, etc. - which isn't a bad thing, unless you put it above people starving on the street. we pay athletes millions and spend billions on stadiums while the hungry go hungry.
@thejustineaster What ever you may find funny may be considered by others to be despicable. We who dislike this encouragement of patriarchal dominance within societies across the world are not sheep, in fact we are the rising minority, it is you who is the follower of traditional opinion. Wake up Justine Easter, we have a life which we can define as our own, do you? or are you just somebodies chattel?
you know i was in a mood when i wrote that comment, i don't feel so passionately condescending now but i still feel like nike plays on your emotions to get donations for young girls when in reality it's primarily an attempt to improve their image - given the years of sweat shop damage they've taken. they very recently have gone under investigation in honduras for the same thing.
you want us to boycott nike, but you're mad at someone for making fun of a nike charity video?
you do realize this video is a joke, right?
you do realize it's making fun of nike, right?
i mean you must be really confused.
besides, if this is offensive enough to you to report then you must report videos day and night 'cuz this is extremely weak on the provocative/controversial scale.
i would ask if you have a life but obviously you wouldn't know it if you didn't.
Money is a sin. The sin is taking you over. Its greed and not caring for an actual human life. You retard. GO GIRL EFFECT!! Us girls can only trust some men these days..... What has the world come to?!
Loser! The font isn't right, and the whole purpose of the of the girl effect is to help the world not buy stupid sneakers! Ur a total disgrace! If u wanna mess with the girl effect then do it right or don't do it at all! -.-
Who ever made this has poor communication skills and got too carried away with being a smart ass bigot. The message is all over the place and once again ego and pride has gotten in the way of credibility. Someone who makes a video to pick holes in an organisation trying to help women contribute to society deserves zero respect.
PS: You didn't even use the right font, it looks likes a middle school media student made it.
Who ever made this has poor communication skills and got too carried away with being a smart ass bigot. The message is all over the place and once again ego and pride has gotten in the way of credibility. Someone who makes a video to pick holes in an organisation trying to help women contribute to society deserves zero respect.
PS: You didn't even use the right font, it looks likes a middle school media student made it.
This is disgusting - feel free to promote your commercial, consumerist values parodying something that doesnt try to actually make the world a better place, I am horrified that people woud have made this !!!
This is disgusting, only somebody who has never really seen the effect of poverty and illiteracy on girls can make fun of a video like the girl effect.
@darkeve1963 If you understood more about anthropology, you would understand the the girl effect: women invest more in the family than men, so investing in a girl is more effective to get a change. Men usually don't like to invest in his family. It happens in the same way all over the world. For example, my mother-in-law wants to invest the family's savings in my brother-in-law education, but my father-in-law wants to spend it on a new expensive car on a whim (he bought a new one two years ago).
dude how much of a douche do you have to be to make a jerk parody on a good project to sell stupid shoes??? I'm never going to buy nikes again....besides they're hideous. that's so unprofessional...
It's Nike making a cheap attempt to solve problems while holding a logo (pssst buy our shoes). Does this offset the cheap Chinese labor and pollution? No.
If you think the girl effect is racist then you are stupid. The world has been sexist towards girls since forever! Even today, girls are concidered inferior and men rule. And anyways, not every girl is a mindless barbie clone.
@ajalufka: there are many different ethical decision making models. Consider that by supporting a multinational company that potentially supports child labour does not exactly help the situation of children, nor does it support your local economy.
Be a skeptic. Do you really think you can trust corporations, where their end goal is making money?
@chessnut1134 I never said that I trusted large corporations. I am a huge skeptic and I am aware of the effects such organizations have on other people. Believe me, I'm not uneducated. All I simply believe is that the creator of the video used a terrible method to convey their message. It was disgusting. You don't agree with me, then that's your own prerogative.
I could make as much of a difference as the "Girl Effect" videos by filming a video running around in a chicken suit screaming "AIDS IS BAD, AIDS IS BAD!". The core logic of the girl effect campaign is:
People do bad stuff to girls so someone should 1. Buy them a cow or 2. Put them in school. This will solve all our problems, it's so simple.
It makes no sense, and THAT'S what this video brings to light. I support REAL solutions to problems, not flashy feminist ad campaigns.
I didnt even know the original was about nike, the girl effect is kinda retarded. How does me buying shoes get a woman onto city council again (just cuz she bought a cow). Men in those countries won't respect women any more than they have, why do i even care again, next video please
This is ridiculous that you decided to make a "parody" of a charity video for a good cause. You have no respect for women and I suggest you go and find some.
All the people missing the point of this seem to be actually just proving (one of) the point(s) even more powerfully, namely that people seem to prefer flashy animations that make everything simplistic for them instead of using their heads to actually think a little. Good grief, isn't one of the aims of 'The Girl Effect' to exalt the value of education? Or is it just to demonstrate that we don't actually need education at all when we have slick, arty campaigns to do ALL our thinking for us?
@CriticallyPropelled The point of the video is to raise awareness and to educate on a basic level. And the 'flashy animations' are also known as Graphic Arts and Design, a fast growing industry in modern times. I really doubt the artists creating this video or the people who found/hired them had in mind 'just make it flashy, with minimal information, so they'll buy our shit.' Go to their website, for gods sake! I think you're the one who's missing the point.
@Jadziadax46 Maybe I did miss the point because as I posted on the original videos elsewhere on YouTube, I couldn't really find any clear point in them. If they had one, they didn't get it across, in my opinion. Was it that all girls have uniquely potent entrepreneurial powers waiting to be unleashed? Or was it that girls are generally more at risk and need to be particularly helped and protected from abusive situations? The videos just bothered me a little for smoothing over a number of issues.
dear god. CALM DOWN. its a PARODY. im a girl and i thought it was clever, not offended by it at all. it isn't meant to attack the cause, it's just for entertainment.
@CelestialHei Just because you are a female and it didn't offend you does not mean that other females were not offended. And just because something is for entertainment does not mean that it is harmless.
@ajalufka Everything and anything in this generation has the potential to be offensive, whether that was the intention or not, because of people who are so adamant on being politically correct. The Girl Effect and this video have two entirely different concepts. This was meant to be entertaining(NOT to bash the entire female population as you are making it seem), and The Girl Effect was meant to be informative on a very serious topic. What is baffling me is why you have been on this video for
@CelestialHei for the length of time, people have responded to my posts from four months ago. I received an email notification today and responded. And I was attacked first, being told that my feminist perspective was shallow and implying that I was uneducated. So, that is the context of me stating that person's perspective was meaningless to me. I respond to constructive criticism, not insults like I received. Also, no where on here did I claim that everyone was a chauvinist!
@ajalufka 4+ months attacking people, calling their own OPINIONS meaningless(and just why are YOUR opinions any more meaningful?), hinting that if they don't agree with your OPINION that they automatically horrible, horrible chauvinists that everyone should shun and disregard. Nice. Equality for everyone you say? Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and opinions different than yours don't deserve to be ripped apart and thrown back into their faces.
@CelestialHei As a social scientist, I am aware that everything can be interpreted as offensive to any certain person, and in my case, as a very firm advocate of The Girl Effect, I found the video extremley offensive. While you maintain your prerogative about the video, I will maintain mine. However, when the video decided to make a parody of The Girl Effect, you cannot claim that there is no overlap in meaning. I found it in no way entertaining. And to answer your question about me being on
@CelestialHei And I do stand for equality for all, so maybe before you take my one comment I made to you (without insults might I add) to the length that you did, you should check out the context first off and not put words in my mouth.
It's funny, but I hate Nike. They're over priced shoes. You spend $100 on a new pair of Nikes and only 10% is needed to make the shoe. Even less!! And the people working their butts off in foreign factories don't even get 10% of that. Nike is worthless...
everyone needs to calm their balls. im a girl and this doesnt offense me. it's funny and i dont give a fuck what people consider steretyping. everyone's so touchy
we absolutely need less human beings, but not by allowing some to die, but by not allowing more birth, its fcking insane that we still allow more than one child per couple, one child means better education, less time invested in children, less annoying babies crying in the middle of the night..
@JollSSteR Do you know that in China thats what they do? In some places they let you try once more if your first child is a girl or if the kid dies, some towns are 'kind' enough to let you APPLY for a PERMIT to have another. If you hide your pregnancy and have an illegal child, well, its CHINA. you'd be in deep shit. If you accidentally get pregnant again and the government finds out, its abortion time. And its not as if you can just up and leave, either. So I suggest you reconsider that plan.
@Jadziadax46 yeah the govornment usually fuck everything up i know, the best way to make people get less children is actually to educate them, not why children are fucking annoying but just educate them about anything, just so they have a life and can support themselves financially without needing 20 kids.
So yeah, if the govornment is going to force us not to have children it will get really bad..
But PLS USA EDUCATE YOURSELF!! americans are really uneducated.
Yes, this video is so horrible. How dare you deviate from what the Feminazi Thought Police approve? You should totally have to surrender your free speech because you don't adequately glorify the female supremacists, nor worship at the altar of sexist narcissism. Forget that! It is the duty of every Free Thinker to mock every entity that destroys freedom, including feminazis and corporations. Mock governments, religious monopolies, political "correctness," etc. More power to you.
@PurfectPeach You know, I agree with you. What is funny is funny haha! I am a big fan of comedy myself. Like you said, "different strokes". I guess it boils down to how capable one is to disassociate oneself with the content of the joke. Thank you for your fresh perspective....I get caught up in my own sometimes.
@ajalufka Glad you did not take that as an insult, I just think that when we lose the ability to laugh at ourselves, we lose something really important... =)
@PurrfectPeach - I am a woman also...I am a feminist. I understand your point, but I found it to have been presented in a horrible manner. If someone wanted to make fun of the effects of capitalism, then they shoud not have done a parody on an organization that is supposed to advance the interests of girls in developing nations. The parody was disgusting...just saying.
@ajalufka I am also a feminist, but I thought it was funny anyway. I would never hurt a child but I like dead-baby jokes. I try not to let my beliefs short-circuit my sense of humor. Different strokes, I suppose... =)
@ajalufka quite frankly, you're a pretty shallow feminist if you think this parody is anti-feminist. it's the nike advert that ought to have you riled - but if you take the feminisation of poverty discourse (where female 'empowerment' ought to be replaced with female 'obligation) as a positive moment for feminists, than perhaps you need a refresh on what womanhood, the patriarch, and contemporary feminism looks like.
@zacjtaylor and, to be clear, i don't agree with many of the claims here (reducing population? how about reducing western consumerism, where - in some cases, those of us in the west consume 1000x more than those in the global 'south'). but it is important to be critical of the nike campaign, and its 'brand' of feminism.
@zacjtaylor There are multiple messages within the video. You are narrow minded if you only see one perspective in the video. As a woman, I felt personally offended when I saw it. And where did you get the notion that I am against female empowerment and pro-female obligation from? And believe me, I don't need a refresher course on womanhood because I am a woman or patriarchy because I experience the effects of it on a daily basis. But thanks for you meaningless opinion.
@Cammera532 I have heard of satire and do love the genre but not under certain circumstances about an organization I am really fond of. I just find it disappointing that people have time to make satire comedy videos of an organization that is trying to do good for others. You have your opinion (which is that I am an idiot, but calling me names does little for your argument by the way) and I have mine. And I have read a few books or two so just fyi.
@ajalufka The question is, you care about the organization, but what have you done to contribute to the cause? While you sit on your computer preaching your opinion, I started a small business at my school that annually raises around $5,000 and gives aid to people in Africa with the proceeds.
If you'd like to actually do something, please contribute some money to Charity: Water.
@Cammera532 Well congratulations for what you have done. I really do think that's awesome. And I think by you telling me that I am sitting on my computer preaching my opinion is the classic scenario of calling the kettle black. And I do donate money to The Girl Effect every month, at least what I can as a univeristy student and mother of two, so yeah. Also, I am studying social movements so I can hopefully make more of a contribution to either The Girl Effect or similar organizations someday.
wow, how mean. why would you make fun of people actually trying to make a difference? maybe you are one of the sick people who are abusing these women?
wow, how mean. why would you make fun of people actually trying to make a difference? maybe you are one of the sick people who are abusing these women?
@MsSuperREDhead They're making fun of Nike, using the girl effect as its packaging since the girl effect is obviously a very well done and popular piece.
@MsSuperREDhead 99.4% of all the money donated does not go to the people in need,insted it goes to the people that made the group and steal evey bit of it to build his mansion ,buy expensive cars and bullshit like that
Well, first of all they aren't really making a difference.
Secondly, parodies aren't mean, they are works of art.
Thirdly, about 90% of women-abusers in poverty stricken countries do not possess a computer, or if they do, they lack desire, talent, and skill to produce video parodies of other videos. To do so requires non-poverty.
I HAD to look up "The Girl Effect" on Youtube after seeing the website, because I truly hoped there would be parodies. All I can say is THANK YOU. See? There -is- hope for the world.
rivenrock, I'm well aware they're empowering women in societies where women aren't given equal opportunities, and there isn't anything objectionable about that. I'm saying I disagree with not giving loans/assistance to anyone unless they are a female. What if there was a poor little boy who needed to be given a chance to succeed?
I don't dispute that women are treated like shit in other cultures, and I'm glad that it isn't like that in the States.
Why would you parody something as serious as poverty and dying and the future of humainty? Fine if you don't like their campaign but that's a bit sad that you want to take the mickey out of it and put it on youtube.
I just don't understand how someone could laugh at matters like this..
Pandering to one specific gender is bullshit. All this feminism bullshit needs to end. Women aren't any less violent or nice than men are. One example: women in the Mongol society were warriors who were just as violent and cruel as their husbands.
Give equal opportunity to everyone and you will see equal opportunity flourish. Give opportunity only to a specific gender and you further promote inequality.
@wookieeassassin How true.. Equality works both ways. That's what being alive means, equal living creatures who eat, breathe and sleep . Thank you, wookie!
@wookieeassassin This organization isn't giving loans to mongol warrior women. It's giving resources to women who would otherwise be forced to have children, sold into marriage, or refused an education. No one is saying that women aren't violent or more nice (which statistics show that women are less violent and are more polite to strangers than me) they're saying that these girls are at a extreme disadvantage. And what the hell do you know about feminism?
@RebelAngel25 Is it the organization doing this or is it the sweatshop workers ? meanwhile feminism is a rhetoric argument like saying i'm against breeding and wasting livestock but eating it anyway. Women, who are really emancipating themselves are plainly doing it, every reticule of life has some form of oppression, the feminists are just the ones who keep telling everyone they do, rather than overthrowing it's oppression through action.
@wookieeassassin The Girl Effect IS about giving opportunity to everyone you clot. That's the point. It is directed at girls who are disempowered in their societies to the point where they have no real opportunities to be educated or to make decisions for themselves about their own lives. They live in contexts where one gender (males) are pandered to all the time.
@wookieeassassin And for your one, way-back-in-history example of strong women in Mongol society, there are hundreds of examples of societies where women were (and relevantly, ARE RIGHT NOW) devalued and disempowered.
@rivenrock --Whilst the girl effect made sense, it is also an ass backwards way to do it. In many parts of the world where women are disempowered, it is not so easy as buying here a cow.
There are barbaric religious and cultural influences which turn such a progressive western concept into a waste of time.
Surely, the girl effect can`t do shit for the girls of Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, etc. Too many other issues there to think that a little loan will change one damned thing.
LOL - enuf said
XSonyo 2 weeks ago
I LIKE THE VIDEO, I THINK IT's FUNNY!!! SO OTHER PEOPLE SHUT UP! I don't care who made the damn organization. Nike is a hypocrite sure but again, eff them right? The real priority is that everyone's eyes is open, and other NON PROFIT organizations are doing something unlike the ignorant commenters. The "I Dare You" video on the girl effect is accurate, and places like E.U., Japan and America KNOW this. Because they don't have discrimination on their women (as extreme as a third world country)
jjbenevolence 2 weeks ago
Girl effect is only sponsored by Nike, it was created by a number of charity/human rights organisations, don't really think you have a right to take the piss out of it.
TheCKboom 3 weeks ago
Bastard. this insulting piece of shit does not deserve to exist.
libbykime10 1 month ago
A paradoy of charity....
At least some people are trying to chance the world, make it better. Even though it takes some time. And what do you do .. make fun of them.
Those kind of people should be ashamed...
Rlly the rude people nowadays -.-'
swolvetang 2 months ago 2
@KateSimpson93 Agreed! Nicely said Kate. :)
ReadingRhinoPress 3 months ago
I have reported this to the youtube website and truly hope they take counter measures against such hate videos and the standing they recieve. I personally find this disgusting and encourage all to boycott Nike products, they evidently care nought for the majority of their workers who would be women stuck in factories producing mass products to be sold to the materialistic 1st world.
KateSimpson93 3 months ago
um i actually think this is fu**ing funny, no offence to you sensitive people who are saying 'oh but thats sexist, get a life stop making fun of charities' uh well im a girl and i dont think this is sexist at all, this video is meant as a joke and ONLY as a joke, and all u haters r doing is trying to get some attention by saying this video is offensive, its obviously not so why dont u go and stop putting people who put hard work into videos down? stop being so god dam fu**ing sensitive!
peegedeege121 3 months ago
parody of a charity?
that's just offensive-
and then to go on and make fun of women?
that's just sexist-
so GROW UP and get a life-
at least SOME people try to make a difference instead of just sitting around on their butt all day being sexist and rude to those TRYING!!!!
msgreenaama 4 months ago
a parody of a charty thing? no offence, but thats really rude..... :( charity is somethingserious thatcan have a good affect on any people..... :)
AmyBlueRandom 4 months ago
what a pile of shite
horseboy9 4 months ago
I realize this is a parody but it is sort of rude no offense
HanyFortin 4 months ago
perpetuating the idea that violence against them is ok. As a male, I find it sad that anyone would use these words to create a positive image of their product, which is what an ad is meant to serve as. I will personally find other products to use besides Nike and use my connections to friends and family to encourage them to withdraw their support of Nike. I will utilize my contacts through facebook and other social media to do the same.
wattsc08 4 months ago
says something about the viewpoint of that company and creates an image that they simply want money. To refer to women as cows and being able to whore them out is inappropriate and using those terms in such a calloused manner would make it seem ok. This suggests seeing women simply as things, pieces of property. This is a result of a patriarchal society and it serves no one positively. This would make women feel as if they are only good for their bodies and their offspring....
wattsc08 4 months ago
I am a 21-year-old college student involved with the Movement, a group for ending sexual violence. I have generally used Nike products for sports and going to the gym. I have a number of friends that also utilize the selection Nike Offers. Looking at this video and the enthusiasm that was expressed when viewing it made me sick. I find the language used to describe women here utterly appalling. The fact that Nike thinks it is ok to use such language as a tactic to sell their product...
wattsc08 4 months ago
Looking at this video and the enthusiasm that was expressed when viewing it made me sick. I find the language used to describe women here utterly appalling. The fact that Nike thinks it is ok to use such language as a tactic to sell their product says something about the viewpoint of that company and creates an image that they simply want money. As a male, I find it sad that anyone would use these words to create a positive image of their product, which is what an ad is meant to serve as.
wattsc08 5 months ago
@wattsc08 you realize this is a parody right? ;)
hildigunnurr 5 months ago
@hildigunnurr that still does not make the simple use of the language ok in any manner. It perpetuates ideas that are honestly unacceptable.
wattsc08 4 months ago
@wattsc08 Nike did not make this video. They have absolutely nothing to do with the video or the language used in it. Someone else made this video in an attempt to make fun of Nike and its Girl Effect charity.
devancook 1 month ago
To be honest regardless of the reasons for why NIKE are doing it, the girl effect is a legitimate thing and it does work...the parody's clever but it's probably also reducing people's belief in a system that could massively help the poor
you probably wouldn't laugh if you were born in a third world country
sebastianratcliffe 5 months ago
Promoting the well-being of one population is not inherently an attack on the other. Men shouldn't feel threatened here. The fact is, the MAJORITY of the world's poor are female. There's an oppountiy here. Invest in a girl and she will re-invest in her community. Nowhere in this equation are boys being threatened, quite the opposite. Healthy women = healthy mothers, wives and sisters. Why all the hate?
Jennfolee 6 months ago
@deathcoresucks1 I know that there are many boys that are in poverty and even raped too. And I'm sorry that I made my comment sound like it didn't matter. But all I'm saying is that the situation is that more girls are in poverty and more girls are raped, and that this is a REAL situation and shouldn't be mocked like I felt this video did. That's all.
WaitingToFade 6 months ago
Do research on NIKE and you'll get it LONIEL2!!!!
lulich22 7 months ago
I bet you don't know how serious this situation actually is. I bet you think that this situation is a hoax...or even that girls deserve to live in poverty and be raped. Read "Half the Sky" if you know anything. You might understand the situation afterward...or you might not. Well, I hope that we can someday eliminate your thinking since it's videos like these that's preventing the situation to be solved.
WaitingToFade 7 months ago
@WaitingToFade so what you're saying is only boys deserve to live in poverty die and be raped
deathcoresucks1 6 months ago
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This is wrong.
You people don't understand how serious it is.
RandomBubblehh 7 months ago
@XoXoSakuraKissXoXo a monetary profit system is sustained by the wrongful idea that competition leads to motivation, growth, and wealth. the reality is the opposite. competition leads to unethical throat cutting actions and eventually to corruption. studies are revealing how performance/reward motivation isn't even the way the human brain works (search for: dan pink on motivation). check out the venus project, or the resource based economy . com for some thought provoking material. :)
thejustineaster 7 months ago
@devantej2011 that's a very optimistic way of looking at it, but say you were hungry, you wouldn't drink lots of water, you'd eat. if you were eating, you'd use a fork, not a knife. if we want to live in a better world, we'd be a resource based society instead of a monetary based society. if a system isn't functioning at full capacity, we don't just say "well look at the good parts!" we fix the parts that aren't functioning. that's what i'm trying to suggest in all this, that we can do better.
thejustineaster 8 months ago
@devantej2011 the concept of money is a sin, not acquiring it. let's all work for at least 60% of our lives doing things we don't want to do so we can get pieces of paper with numbers on 'em, sound like a good idea? no, it doesn't. we have to rent ourselves out so we can get little bills in order to SURVIVE. that's ƒµçked up. it's not a sin to attain money, the monetary system itself is the true evil. we're perpetuating a system thats ultimately just a distraction from anything humanly important
thejustineaster 8 months ago
YES!
bulls-eye! nike says, "let's start a hugely ambiguous campaign for something extremely general to help our public appearance.. how'bout boys? ah nobody'll go for that. girls! DONE."
then they make an oversimplified video about aids and babies and poverty, and everyone's heart throbs.
no one cares who sends the message, and everyone's upset at curroptvideo1 for posting a parody. that's exactly what they want! an emotional response, NOT an investigative response.
wake up sheep! WAAAKE UP!
thejustineaster 8 months ago 32
@thejustineaster Over 70% of children out of school are girls. Nike isn't gaining any profit off of GirlEffect, it's a charity channel. Why are you trying to promote socialism by comparing it to a charity campaign? WTF.
XoXoSakuraKissXoXo 8 months ago
@XoXoSakuraKissXoXo woa in no way am i promoting socialism. i'm promoting investigative response. nike is gaining. they're gaining in their public appearance - that's what you happen to be defending right now, whether you're aware of it or not. the charity campaign is ambiguous. that's what i am criticizing. these are the points the video is trying to make for you, using to over-the-top humor. your drawing of drastic conclusions from my comment is a perfect illustration of an emotional response.
thejustineaster 8 months ago
@XoXoSakuraKissXoXo you were right that choosing girls wasn't just a random choice, that i didn't understand well enough to comment on to begin with. but over 70 million children are out of school and roughly 60% to 70% are girls, not over 70% as you'd said. exaggeration never helps an argument.
thejustineaster 8 months ago
@thejustineaster It's not an emotional response, it's you saying that our money system is corrupt and the way we work to attain money is fucked up. So I don't see your point unless you're trying to promote socialism, but whatever. I didn't even know that Nike was sponsoring it until everyone pointed it out in the comments. They explain how they donate on their webpage and on other videos.
You literally just said 60 to 70. So it's not an exaggeration if I went with the higher stat. Peace yo.
XoXoSakuraKissXoXo 8 months ago
@XoXoSakuraKissXoXo you said o v e r 70%. not trying to be redundant, but thats an exaggeration. we should be a resource based society, not a monetary based society. just because someone's not into the monetary system doesn't mean they're into socialism. for thousands of years we've had no ideas but money, and it's exclusive by design. in the end it creates interest, puts bankers and elite class ahead and leaves everyone else to perpetuate a system that is inefficient for the whole of mankind.
thejustineaster 8 months ago
@thejustineaster Ohh, excuse me hahah I actually didn't see that I said over. And what do you mean by resource based? Just flat resources, like nourishment and stuff, or do resources also include flat screen televisions? Hahaha
XoXoSakuraKissXoXo 7 months ago
@XoXoSakuraKissXoXo this isn't really a concept that would fit easily into a 500 character comment box, but we would definitely have to prioritize what's actually humanly important. nearly all of business today is focused on things we don't need - clothes, accessories, entertainment, fine dining, weaponry, etc. - which isn't a bad thing, unless you put it above people starving on the street. we pay athletes millions and spend billions on stadiums while the hungry go hungry.
thejustineaster 7 months ago
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@thejustineaster Oh my god you fucking idiot. That is all.
Igm3rdart 6 months ago
@thejustineaster What ever you may find funny may be considered by others to be despicable. We who dislike this encouragement of patriarchal dominance within societies across the world are not sheep, in fact we are the rising minority, it is you who is the follower of traditional opinion. Wake up Justine Easter, we have a life which we can define as our own, do you? or are you just somebodies chattel?
KateSimpson93 3 months ago
@KateSimpson93 blabla, blablabla.
you know i was in a mood when i wrote that comment, i don't feel so passionately condescending now but i still feel like nike plays on your emotions to get donations for young girls when in reality it's primarily an attempt to improve their image - given the years of sweat shop damage they've taken. they very recently have gone under investigation in honduras for the same thing.
do i have a life of my own? wtf?
someone call the waamulance for kate simpson.
thejustineaster 3 months ago
@KateSimpson93 wait wait wait.
you want us to boycott nike, but you're mad at someone for making fun of a nike charity video?
you do realize this video is a joke, right?
you do realize it's making fun of nike, right?
i mean you must be really confused.
besides, if this is offensive enough to you to report then you must report videos day and night 'cuz this is extremely weak on the provocative/controversial scale.
i would ask if you have a life but obviously you wouldn't know it if you didn't.
thejustineaster 3 months ago
@thejustineaster Beautifully said.
Pyretix 1 month ago
This is fucked up go die in a fuckin hole you bitch
RaeNotBae 8 months ago
nonsense
Ryan0123ify 8 months ago
im a guy i think its funny buy at the same time ofensive towards women
blooyboy1 8 months ago
Money is a sin. The sin is taking you over. Its greed and not caring for an actual human life. You retard. GO GIRL EFFECT!! Us girls can only trust some men these days..... What has the world come to?!
gymnasticsgirly5 9 months ago
Loser! The font isn't right, and the whole purpose of the of the girl effect is to help the world not buy stupid sneakers! Ur a total disgrace! If u wanna mess with the girl effect then do it right or don't do it at all! -.-
TheLizzybear1234 9 months ago
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Who ever made this has poor communication skills and got too carried away with being a smart ass bigot. The message is all over the place and once again ego and pride has gotten in the way of credibility. Someone who makes a video to pick holes in an organisation trying to help women contribute to society deserves zero respect.
PS: You didn't even use the right font, it looks likes a middle school media student made it.
NowTumbling 10 months ago
Who ever made this has poor communication skills and got too carried away with being a smart ass bigot. The message is all over the place and once again ego and pride has gotten in the way of credibility. Someone who makes a video to pick holes in an organisation trying to help women contribute to society deserves zero respect.
PS: You didn't even use the right font, it looks likes a middle school media student made it.
NowTumbling 10 months ago
I LOVE IT xD LAUGHED MY ASS OFF
NomNomfulProductions 10 months ago
RIP Corrupt.org
bumzurvaj 11 months ago
Oh my god.......
urstraitjacketluvsu 11 months ago
This is disgusting - feel free to promote your commercial, consumerist values parodying something that doesnt try to actually make the world a better place, I am horrified that people woud have made this !!!
anaforjaz92 11 months ago
This is disgusting, only somebody who has never really seen the effect of poverty and illiteracy on girls can make fun of a video like the girl effect.
Loniel2 11 months ago
@Loniel2 and this kind of tougths, are another strain before change
myfairletty 7 months ago
@darkeve1963 If you understood more about anthropology, you would understand the the girl effect: women invest more in the family than men, so investing in a girl is more effective to get a change. Men usually don't like to invest in his family. It happens in the same way all over the world. For example, my mother-in-law wants to invest the family's savings in my brother-in-law education, but my father-in-law wants to spend it on a new expensive car on a whim (he bought a new one two years ago).
aguinisis 11 months ago
dude how much of a douche do you have to be to make a jerk parody on a good project to sell stupid shoes??? I'm never going to buy nikes again....besides they're hideous. that's so unprofessional...
JunoHart 11 months ago 2
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It's Nike making a cheap attempt to solve problems while holding a logo (pssst buy our shoes). Does this offset the cheap Chinese labor and pollution? No.
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TheNubbbler 11 months ago
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TheNubbbler 11 months ago
Haha! I love it. Corrupt, Come back :)
Slangnegativ 11 months ago
If you think the girl effect is racist then you are stupid. The world has been sexist towards girls since forever! Even today, girls are concidered inferior and men rule. And anyways, not every girl is a mindless barbie clone.
YTFun10 11 months ago
This is so fuuny
prefrogprincess 11 months ago
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@prefrogprincess your a disgrace to human kind if you think this is funny
anaforjaz92 11 months ago
lol all i have to say to the top comments is, Haters gonna hate!
mscm1995 11 months ago
wowo babies falling off the world that musthave been china
antioxcidity 11 months ago
Internet. Serious business
Creeperz0rz 11 months ago
i lol'd
mcburger6 11 months ago 12
123 libtard feminist cunts disliked this video.
the video was winrar.
godoftech13 11 months ago
I got bored by this video so I masturbated..
Stevii3Dicks 1 year ago
This is retarded just like the girl effect. Lol.
ChargersRock13 1 year ago
I love how "Jizz In My Pants" is a suggested video from this... so girl effect to parody of girl effect to Jizz in my pants.... cool :)
quik2post 1 year ago
wow....
this is not cool.... seriously its not actually funny.. its just mean..
JenIloveAR 1 year ago
@ajalufka: there are many different ethical decision making models. Consider that by supporting a multinational company that potentially supports child labour does not exactly help the situation of children, nor does it support your local economy.
Be a skeptic. Do you really think you can trust corporations, where their end goal is making money?
chessnut1134 1 year ago
@chessnut1134 I never said that I trusted large corporations. I am a huge skeptic and I am aware of the effects such organizations have on other people. Believe me, I'm not uneducated. All I simply believe is that the creator of the video used a terrible method to convey their message. It was disgusting. You don't agree with me, then that's your own prerogative.
ajalufka 1 year ago
well then YOU do something to change the world!! it's so easy to criticize, right?
SnowQueenKCL 1 year ago
Haha this is so evil.
...
... ...I LOVE IT!
connibonni 1 year ago
They should make a video on the Extra-Terrestrial Intellgince Effect.
rakanzrib 1 year ago
Indigestion?
GarrettSnowTV 1 year ago
:))) I think that this vid rocks.People should stop with the excessive drama already.
wisejackass 1 year ago
Who has a computer in the kitchen?
darthgarfield 1 year ago
Ladies ladies :P this was a JOKE ^^ And this was making fun of capitalism and actually cherishing women. I loved this :D
atr222 1 year ago
Ahahaha she can become a cow lmfao.
And every complaining female on this video needs to get the FUCK back in the kitchen.
RyuOhisama 1 year ago
@RyuOhisama whoah I understand that it's a parody and all, but dude, that's sexist.
bluegreenplanet89 1 year ago
@RyuOhisama do you know how offensive that is to so many people!
crazychick152678ad 1 year ago
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ajalufka 1 year ago
THIS WAS HILARIOUS.
I could make as much of a difference as the "Girl Effect" videos by filming a video running around in a chicken suit screaming "AIDS IS BAD, AIDS IS BAD!". The core logic of the girl effect campaign is:
People do bad stuff to girls so someone should 1. Buy them a cow or 2. Put them in school. This will solve all our problems, it's so simple.
It makes no sense, and THAT'S what this video brings to light. I support REAL solutions to problems, not flashy feminist ad campaigns.
m0rl0rd 1 year ago
ppl are tightasses
first of all i watched the real video and while it did make me think.. i didnt find any sort of solution... just information
secondly there is no need to get a bitchy and offendd by this video, it was a harmless parody
im from nigeria, ive seen girls in destitution, its hard, and its sad
but im not even up in arms about this
and the ppl who are complaining? wat the fuck have you done to solve anything?
probably nothing.. ppl are so stupid on their high horse for no reason
nigeriababygirl 1 year ago
BLAH man. the song's too nice for this
MRpiranha1996 1 year ago
Your dickheads , obviously selfless men that have nothing better to do , get life you cow
teddies66 1 year ago
I didnt even know the original was about nike, the girl effect is kinda retarded. How does me buying shoes get a woman onto city council again (just cuz she bought a cow). Men in those countries won't respect women any more than they have, why do i even care again, next video please
TrucksNBikes 1 year ago
This is ridiculous that you decided to make a "parody" of a charity video for a good cause. You have no respect for women and I suggest you go and find some.
Niccyyy 1 year ago
All the people missing the point of this seem to be actually just proving (one of) the point(s) even more powerfully, namely that people seem to prefer flashy animations that make everything simplistic for them instead of using their heads to actually think a little. Good grief, isn't one of the aims of 'The Girl Effect' to exalt the value of education? Or is it just to demonstrate that we don't actually need education at all when we have slick, arty campaigns to do ALL our thinking for us?
CriticallyPropelled 1 year ago
@CriticallyPropelled The point of the video is to raise awareness and to educate on a basic level. And the 'flashy animations' are also known as Graphic Arts and Design, a fast growing industry in modern times. I really doubt the artists creating this video or the people who found/hired them had in mind 'just make it flashy, with minimal information, so they'll buy our shit.' Go to their website, for gods sake! I think you're the one who's missing the point.
Jadziadax46 1 year ago
@Jadziadax46 Maybe I did miss the point because as I posted on the original videos elsewhere on YouTube, I couldn't really find any clear point in them. If they had one, they didn't get it across, in my opinion. Was it that all girls have uniquely potent entrepreneurial powers waiting to be unleashed? Or was it that girls are generally more at risk and need to be particularly helped and protected from abusive situations? The videos just bothered me a little for smoothing over a number of issues.
CriticallyPropelled 1 year ago
this is actually hilarious, a charity cant make a video about ONLY helping girls without getting made fun of.... gotta love society
Frzenhotdog 1 year ago
Wats the song? I like it.
spikergolden234 1 year ago
@misskristigirl
Hahhahhahahahaha no it's Not it's All true except that they do Not have better taste In anything !
MarkSKristensen 1 year ago
It may be 'presented in a horrible way' but atleast it's presented at all!
I found this really humorous. (:
squeeky95 1 year ago
to the people upset: before you become over-emotional and irrational in your responses, i urge you to think. you may not know all of the facts.
to the people who found this amusing and may have even smiled: i agree.
to those who intend to start arguing about this: there are greater things to debate about.
acornsonbroadway 1 year ago
dear god. CALM DOWN. its a PARODY. im a girl and i thought it was clever, not offended by it at all. it isn't meant to attack the cause, it's just for entertainment.
CelestialHei 1 year ago
@CelestialHei Just because you are a female and it didn't offend you does not mean that other females were not offended. And just because something is for entertainment does not mean that it is harmless.
ajalufka 1 year ago
@ajalufka Everything and anything in this generation has the potential to be offensive, whether that was the intention or not, because of people who are so adamant on being politically correct. The Girl Effect and this video have two entirely different concepts. This was meant to be entertaining(NOT to bash the entire female population as you are making it seem), and The Girl Effect was meant to be informative on a very serious topic. What is baffling me is why you have been on this video for
CelestialHei 1 year ago
@CelestialHei for the length of time, people have responded to my posts from four months ago. I received an email notification today and responded. And I was attacked first, being told that my feminist perspective was shallow and implying that I was uneducated. So, that is the context of me stating that person's perspective was meaningless to me. I respond to constructive criticism, not insults like I received. Also, no where on here did I claim that everyone was a chauvinist!
ajalufka 1 year ago
@ajalufka 4+ months attacking people, calling their own OPINIONS meaningless(and just why are YOUR opinions any more meaningful?), hinting that if they don't agree with your OPINION that they automatically horrible, horrible chauvinists that everyone should shun and disregard. Nice. Equality for everyone you say? Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and opinions different than yours don't deserve to be ripped apart and thrown back into their faces.
CelestialHei 1 year ago
@CelestialHei As a social scientist, I am aware that everything can be interpreted as offensive to any certain person, and in my case, as a very firm advocate of The Girl Effect, I found the video extremley offensive. While you maintain your prerogative about the video, I will maintain mine. However, when the video decided to make a parody of The Girl Effect, you cannot claim that there is no overlap in meaning. I found it in no way entertaining. And to answer your question about me being on
ajalufka 1 year ago
@CelestialHei And I do stand for equality for all, so maybe before you take my one comment I made to you (without insults might I add) to the length that you did, you should check out the context first off and not put words in my mouth.
ajalufka 1 year ago
It's funny, but I hate Nike. They're over priced shoes. You spend $100 on a new pair of Nikes and only 10% is needed to make the shoe. Even less!! And the people working their butts off in foreign factories don't even get 10% of that. Nike is worthless...
acotooychic101 1 year ago
everyone needs to calm their balls. im a girl and this doesnt offense me. it's funny and i dont give a fuck what people consider steretyping. everyone's so touchy
cusa123xyz 1 year ago
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU!?!?!
SaxophoneDeBlue 1 year ago
hehehe gimmie a hi five
makavelishaman 1 year ago
this is just disgusting.
misskristigirl 1 year ago 11
we absolutely need less human beings, but not by allowing some to die, but by not allowing more birth, its fcking insane that we still allow more than one child per couple, one child means better education, less time invested in children, less annoying babies crying in the middle of the night..
And we save the world..
stop having children pls..
JollSSteR 1 year ago
@JollSSteR i'll stop having children as soon as you become less of a fucktard
cusa123xyz 1 year ago
@cusa123xyz DEAL!!!
JollSSteR 1 year ago
@JollSSteR Do you know that in China thats what they do? In some places they let you try once more if your first child is a girl or if the kid dies, some towns are 'kind' enough to let you APPLY for a PERMIT to have another. If you hide your pregnancy and have an illegal child, well, its CHINA. you'd be in deep shit. If you accidentally get pregnant again and the government finds out, its abortion time. And its not as if you can just up and leave, either. So I suggest you reconsider that plan.
Jadziadax46 1 year ago
@Jadziadax46 yeah the govornment usually fuck everything up i know, the best way to make people get less children is actually to educate them, not why children are fucking annoying but just educate them about anything, just so they have a life and can support themselves financially without needing 20 kids.
So yeah, if the govornment is going to force us not to have children it will get really bad..
But PLS USA EDUCATE YOURSELF!! americans are really uneducated.
Fuck you media, you suck.
JollSSteR 1 year ago
Yes, this video is so horrible. How dare you deviate from what the Feminazi Thought Police approve? You should totally have to surrender your free speech because you don't adequately glorify the female supremacists, nor worship at the altar of sexist narcissism. Forget that! It is the duty of every Free Thinker to mock every entity that destroys freedom, including feminazis and corporations. Mock governments, religious monopolies, political "correctness," etc. More power to you.
Lachdenan 1 year ago
@PurfectPeach You know, I agree with you. What is funny is funny haha! I am a big fan of comedy myself. Like you said, "different strokes". I guess it boils down to how capable one is to disassociate oneself with the content of the joke. Thank you for your fresh perspective....I get caught up in my own sometimes.
ajalufka 1 year ago
@ajalufka Glad you did not take that as an insult, I just think that when we lose the ability to laugh at ourselves, we lose something really important... =)
PurrfectPeach 1 year ago
how sick. you shold be helping, not dont this. absoutly sick
ilovbooks1 1 year ago
I feel disgusted.
soaddictedtoyou 1 year ago
sooooo funny man!!
nabilinho 1 year ago
May you can use your talents for better! Think about it!!! Just a thought
stanfordnjuguna 1 year ago
Very bad taste.
Chocklit 1 year ago 3
how could u!!!!
Qwenessful 1 year ago
@PurrfectPeach - I am a woman also...I am a feminist. I understand your point, but I found it to have been presented in a horrible manner. If someone wanted to make fun of the effects of capitalism, then they shoud not have done a parody on an organization that is supposed to advance the interests of girls in developing nations. The parody was disgusting...just saying.
ajalufka 1 year ago 36
@ajalufka I am also a feminist, but I thought it was funny anyway. I would never hurt a child but I like dead-baby jokes. I try not to let my beliefs short-circuit my sense of humor. Different strokes, I suppose... =)
PurrfectPeach 1 year ago
@ajalufka quite frankly, you're a pretty shallow feminist if you think this parody is anti-feminist. it's the nike advert that ought to have you riled - but if you take the feminisation of poverty discourse (where female 'empowerment' ought to be replaced with female 'obligation) as a positive moment for feminists, than perhaps you need a refresh on what womanhood, the patriarch, and contemporary feminism looks like.
zacjtaylor 1 year ago
@zacjtaylor and, to be clear, i don't agree with many of the claims here (reducing population? how about reducing western consumerism, where - in some cases, those of us in the west consume 1000x more than those in the global 'south'). but it is important to be critical of the nike campaign, and its 'brand' of feminism.
zacjtaylor 1 year ago
@zacjtaylor There are multiple messages within the video. You are narrow minded if you only see one perspective in the video. As a woman, I felt personally offended when I saw it. And where did you get the notion that I am against female empowerment and pro-female obligation from? And believe me, I don't need a refresher course on womanhood because I am a woman or patriarchy because I experience the effects of it on a daily basis. But thanks for you meaningless opinion.
ajalufka 1 year ago
@ajalufka I'm not a woman, but I do know this: you're an idiot. Ever heard of satire? No really. Imagine it!
Now let us fix that. Give a girl a book. Then she might grow up knowing what satire is. The world is now a better place. You're welcome.
Cammera532 10 months ago
@Cammera532 I have heard of satire and do love the genre but not under certain circumstances about an organization I am really fond of. I just find it disappointing that people have time to make satire comedy videos of an organization that is trying to do good for others. You have your opinion (which is that I am an idiot, but calling me names does little for your argument by the way) and I have mine. And I have read a few books or two so just fyi.
ajalufka 10 months ago
@ajalufka The question is, you care about the organization, but what have you done to contribute to the cause? While you sit on your computer preaching your opinion, I started a small business at my school that annually raises around $5,000 and gives aid to people in Africa with the proceeds.
If you'd like to actually do something, please contribute some money to Charity: Water.
Cammera532 10 months ago
@Cammera532 Well congratulations for what you have done. I really do think that's awesome. And I think by you telling me that I am sitting on my computer preaching my opinion is the classic scenario of calling the kettle black. And I do donate money to The Girl Effect every month, at least what I can as a univeristy student and mother of two, so yeah. Also, I am studying social movements so I can hopefully make more of a contribution to either The Girl Effect or similar organizations someday.
ajalufka 10 months ago
this isn't funny-and with the material it easily could have been.
jambox27 1 year ago
It appears some people's masculinity is severley threatened. Oh well. We have come this far and we will not regress.
ajalufka 1 year ago
@ajalufka I'm a woman and I personally interpreted the intended point of this parody to be anti-corporate, not anti woman.
PurrfectPeach 1 year ago 6
@PurrfectPeach Yay, a non-retarded non-cunt girl ;D
Wanna go out? xD
Btw i might sound douchy.. but im not D:
MackABeenY 1 year ago
@MackABeenY LOL it's cool =)
PurrfectPeach 1 year ago
@PurrfectPeach No seriously, let's move in together and become one.
I want my flesh on your flesh.
I want to taste anything of yours, food and flesh wise. <3
I love you, I'll always protect and cherish you.
Btw, my name's Peter. what's yours? xD
MackABeenY 1 year ago
@MackABeenY LOL, well I *am* an excellent cook, but I'm afraid my food and flesh are spoken for. I'm sure you'll find a great woman soon, Peter =)
PurrfectPeach 1 year ago
@PurrfectPeach I like Tuna sammiches.
MackABeenY 1 year ago
nothing good in this to be honest !
I mean it might show some funny idea but surly not for any good after ....!
SkyBlue4bluesky 1 year ago
Created by douchebags for douchebags.
yourmadwackyo 1 year ago 9
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wow, how mean. why would you make fun of people actually trying to make a difference? maybe you are one of the sick people who are abusing these women?
MsSuperREDhead 1 year ago
wow, how mean. why would you make fun of people actually trying to make a difference? maybe you are one of the sick people who are abusing these women?
MsSuperREDhead 1 year ago 25
@MsSuperREDhead They're making fun of Nike, using the girl effect as its packaging since the girl effect is obviously a very well done and popular piece.
PeaceUdo 1 year ago
@MsSuperREDhead 99.4% of all the money donated does not go to the people in need,insted it goes to the people that made the group and steal evey bit of it to build his mansion ,buy expensive cars and bullshit like that
kevobum 1 year ago
@MsSuperREDhead
Well, first of all they aren't really making a difference.
Secondly, parodies aren't mean, they are works of art.
Thirdly, about 90% of women-abusers in poverty stricken countries do not possess a computer, or if they do, they lack desire, talent, and skill to produce video parodies of other videos. To do so requires non-poverty.
BlueBlade777 1 year ago
lol niiice hahah
K1aun4JustM3 1 year ago
Pure Genious!!!
cheepnis44 1 year ago
I HAD to look up "The Girl Effect" on Youtube after seeing the website, because I truly hoped there would be parodies. All I can say is THANK YOU. See? There -is- hope for the world.
EnglandBeat 1 year ago
rivenrock, I'm well aware they're empowering women in societies where women aren't given equal opportunities, and there isn't anything objectionable about that. I'm saying I disagree with not giving loans/assistance to anyone unless they are a female. What if there was a poor little boy who needed to be given a chance to succeed?
I don't dispute that women are treated like shit in other cultures, and I'm glad that it isn't like that in the States.
wookieeassassin 1 year ago
@wookieeassassin
It IS like that in the states, just not the pretty bit that you live in.
MultiParsnip 1 year ago
Why would you parody something as serious as poverty and dying and the future of humainty? Fine if you don't like their campaign but that's a bit sad that you want to take the mickey out of it and put it on youtube.
I just don't understand how someone could laugh at matters like this..
SurfsupChelsea23 1 year ago 6
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lilsoccagirl96 1 year ago
Sweet, a pile of Babies!
DocUnsane 1 year ago
really really GAY! I hope YOU die
GleeFreak321 1 year ago
Pandering to one specific gender is bullshit. All this feminism bullshit needs to end. Women aren't any less violent or nice than men are. One example: women in the Mongol society were warriors who were just as violent and cruel as their husbands.
Give equal opportunity to everyone and you will see equal opportunity flourish. Give opportunity only to a specific gender and you further promote inequality.
wookieeassassin 1 year ago
@wookieeassassin How true.. Equality works both ways. That's what being alive means, equal living creatures who eat, breathe and sleep . Thank you, wookie!
Amrithril 1 year ago
@wookieeassassin This organization isn't giving loans to mongol warrior women. It's giving resources to women who would otherwise be forced to have children, sold into marriage, or refused an education. No one is saying that women aren't violent or more nice (which statistics show that women are less violent and are more polite to strangers than me) they're saying that these girls are at a extreme disadvantage. And what the hell do you know about feminism?
RebelAngel25 1 year ago
@RebelAngel25 Is it the organization doing this or is it the sweatshop workers ? meanwhile feminism is a rhetoric argument like saying i'm against breeding and wasting livestock but eating it anyway. Women, who are really emancipating themselves are plainly doing it, every reticule of life has some form of oppression, the feminists are just the ones who keep telling everyone they do, rather than overthrowing it's oppression through action.
Philoniusq 1 year ago
@RebelAngel25 He knows nothing about feminism; that much is clear.
rivenrock 1 year ago
@wookieeassassin The Girl Effect IS about giving opportunity to everyone you clot. That's the point. It is directed at girls who are disempowered in their societies to the point where they have no real opportunities to be educated or to make decisions for themselves about their own lives. They live in contexts where one gender (males) are pandered to all the time.
rivenrock 1 year ago
@wookieeassassin And for your one, way-back-in-history example of strong women in Mongol society, there are hundreds of examples of societies where women were (and relevantly, ARE RIGHT NOW) devalued and disempowered.
rivenrock 1 year ago
@rivenrock --Whilst the girl effect made sense, it is also an ass backwards way to do it. In many parts of the world where women are disempowered, it is not so easy as buying here a cow.
There are barbaric religious and cultural influences which turn such a progressive western concept into a waste of time.
Surely, the girl effect can`t do shit for the girls of Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, etc. Too many other issues there to think that a little loan will change one damned thing.
MAJS444 1 year ago