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[Katorok]

Woah lets back up here guys. Don't jump to the word sexism so fast, it only further reduces the actual meaning of the word. This is by no means sexism, it's simply an accurate demographic. Well over 90% of the shopping channel networks audience is made up of women. Same thing with sports channel, overwhelmingly male dominated. Men do shop, but they don't watch the shopping channel, which sells things marketed primarily to women anyways..

[ThirdProjectJuno]

It's not sexist, it's true. You don't have to look at rating statistics to see that the large majority of people who watch these channels are women. Like Lifetime and Oxygen, they're marketed towards women and primarily watched by them. If you're a guy and you spend more than 10 minutes in your life watching the Home Shopping network, you're probably just a woman in a mans body. Pull this off the air as soon as you pull "Television for women" because it's sexist to think a guy wouldn't watch it

[MrJohnny56789]

1 more thing: "...Childrens channels, and you dont have any kids..". Is this going to be ageist now? Like discriminatory in the same way as people think this is sexist? Because that what you're saying.

[MrJohnny56789]

@GoodReasonNews Nice! I totally like how you disregarded that I said quiet a few males do watch the HSN in order to spin it as me marginalizing women. Way to go on looking like an idiot.

[43Coda]

@Katorok Sorry, but he clearly says "or shopping channels"--its not a proper noun that is specifically aimed at The Shopping Channel or a specific network. And yes, for those of you out there that have satellite, you wil know that there are 24 hour shopping networks catered towards men, too.

And I understand what you mean by differentiating between "shopping channels" and "shopping in general"...but lets get real, it is clear that this commercial employs a stereotypical view beyond that.

[Katorok]

@43Coda

The shopping channel sells things deliberately aimed at women, the shopping CHANNEL, not shopping shopping.

[43Coda]

@ThirdProjectJuno there's a difference in having the commercial say "one of the many guys who doesn't enjoy shopping?" versus having it imply that all men don't shop. Since the latter was said, YES, it is a sexist commercial...it's turning fact into stereotype. That's the issue: society tells us to blend the two together, when really, they are two very, very different things. This commercial is one of many things that shames our visual culture.

[GoodReasonNews]

@MrJohnny56789 You're stupid. You're stupid because of your 'WET' argument, you're stupid because you believe in the existence of 'white people,' you're stupid because you don't realize how you've marginalized women by saying it's OK to say they're 'stupid and obsessed with buying products' and you're stupid argument ends in an unexplained ad hom.

[MrJohnny56789]

"Public opinion, private laziness" - Nietzsche

get some intelligence people.

[MrJohnny56789]

I dont watch BET, Im white male and it doesnt speak to me. BET is all blacks, right? Wheres the WET? Oh right, THAT would be racist... I dont watch the shopping networks, but not because im male, quite a few males do, but Im not stupid and obsessed with buying shitty product over the TV.

Most women dont watch sports channels. Is it sexist to say that because its true? Or is it just a fact? People love to scream sexism and racism just because they're braindead jerry springer fucks.

[iLoveMeSomeBacon]

@ThirdProjectJuno I'm a guy and I watch shopping TV because, while there's funny cartoons and shit, there's nothing more hilarious than sales shows when you're high as shit.

[Frondrick]

"You have sports channels, and you're a girl!"

No one would scream sexism at the sound of that.