Drivers say N.C. billboard is offensive to women

[Gefn]

This N.C. billboard is angering drivers, who say it is sexist

A billboard on Interstate 40 West near Winston-Salem is angering many who say its message is offensive to women.

The board reads: “Real men provide. Real women appreciate it.” The owner of a Winston-Salem women’s boutique called Kleur has organized a demonstration against the billboard’s message for Sunday at 11 a.m.

“We are NOT protesting that the sign is capable of existing, or the people who put it up, or the ad agency, or the right to put it up. We are protesting patriarchy and sexism, and that this antiquated way of thinking about women exists at all,” the group’s Facebook page said.

The protest takes place at the billboard’s location on I-40 West, headed into Winston -Salem from Kernersville. It is about 85 miles northeast of Charlotte.

The billboard belongs to Whiteheart Outdoor Advertising, and owner Bill Whiteheart said the organization that bought the space doesn’t want to be identified.



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[Gefn]

As a woman, I love this billboard. I cannot believe the comments on this news article.

These women make me ashamed to be a woman. I would gladly march to Washington for real men. 

[Suppressed]

I fail to see the problem with either part of this billboard.  If someone dooesn't like it, then he/she doesn't have to participate in such a relationship.

[Gefn]

I fail to see the problem with either part of this billboard.  If someone dooesn't like it, then he/she doesn't have to participate in such a relationship.

That's absolutely true, in a perfect world. But all these women getting their panties bunched up over it, I just wanted to put in my two cents and say not all women today feel like that.

Unfortunately I think more women think like that then not?

[andy58-in-nh]

Aren't these women going to miss time off from their jobs?

[Suppressed]

That's absolutely true, in a perfect world. But all these women getting their panties bunched up over it, I just wanted to put in my two cents and say not all women today feel like that.

Unfortunately I think more women think like that then not?

True.  It's getting more and more difficult to find a woman who appreciates a man.

[Suppressed]

Aren't these women going to miss time off from their jobs?

One thing many people fail to appreciate is how wonderful America is, in that it took a HUGE influx of the labor pool and still maintained prosperity. 

Another thing many people fail to appreciate is how the Gross Domestic Product artificially inflates productivity, by counting both a working mother and childcare worker as "product", versus neither for a stay-at-home parent.

[240B]

Weird.
The owner of a 'woman's boutique' is organising the protest? Really? What could be more sexist and gender specific than that? Her business epitomizes exactly what the sign is talking about.
Confusing.

[corbe]

True.  It's getting more and more difficult to find a woman who appreciates a man.

   It's also getting harder to find a woman who can make a good samich.

[Wingnut]

   It's also getting harder to find a woman who can make a good samich.

Or be barefoot and preggers while making it. 

What in the hell is this world coming to?

[IsailedawayfromFR]

These are the women that frown when a gentleman opens the door for them too.

Time to treat those who want to be treated like this the right way.  Let's say zero handouts then from anyone, including government subsidies.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

and perhaps they favor being more hospitably received by Islam.

http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,250801.msg1238865.html#msg1238865

[Silver Pines]

Weird.
The owner of a 'woman's boutique' is organising the protest? Really? What could be more sexist and gender specific than that? Her business epitomizes exactly what the sign is talking about.
Confusing.

@240B
@Freya


240B, I hope you don't mind, but I stole your idea.  I found the website for the shop (it's full of leftist feminist BS) and I sent them this email:


Hello,
 
I am a male who happens to be in the process of transitioning to female, and I saw your response to the billboard about women/men/providing.  I have some issues with it, if you will listen.
 
First of all, you call yourself a "women's boutique."  Personally I find this rather sexist and offensive.  Not to over-use the term "triggered", but I will just say that my personal life experiences have led me to prefer more gender-neutral language.  If I were to visit your shop, I would not feel comfortable in my own skin, as I have not yet transitioned fully.  I think you should take such human issues into consideration.
 
Also, providing is not always a negative thing.  My partner takes care of me because I am emotionally fragile.  There is so much prejudice against people who understand in their souls that they are NOT  really the sex they are born with.   I am male but I have always known I am really not.   I've  had to deal with so much baseless bigotry against what I know is my true sex, and so I do not find it possible to work anymore.  I have an emotional support animal, a spider monkey who is like a friend to me, but sometimes he is not enough to help me face the world.
 
I just wanted to let you know that sometimes we have unconscious prejudices of our own that are not always apparent,  that can be unintentionally unPC and hurtful. 
 
Perhaps some day I'll bring myself to visit your shop and we can chat about it.  Just wondering---I have not always received a helpful response when I travel with my monkey.  If I were to come there, would you allow me to bring him along?
 
Thank you.

[Oceander]

It is sexist, and I can see very well why people would find it offensive. 

[Suppressed]

@240B
@Freya
240B, I hope you don't mind, but I stole your idea.  I found the website for the shop (it's full of leftist feminist BS) and I sent them this email:

Excellent, @CatherineofAragon!
Please share any reply you get!   ^-^

[Hondo69]

One comment noted that they thought the billboard was designed to silence women.

I don't see anything pro-Muslim in that billboard at all.

[Silver Pines]

Excellent, @CatherineofAragon!
Please share any reply you get!   ^-^

Thanks, @Suppressed.  I will.   

[Hondo69]

Weird.
The owner of a 'woman's boutique' is organising the protest? Really? What could be more sexist and gender specific than that? Her business epitomizes exactly what the sign is talking about.
Confusing.

Here's an idea for those protestors that surely would be viewed as a win/win.  Stop using cosmetics.

Many portions of cosmetic formulas come from petroleum.  Save the planet, stop the rising tides, do it for the children and toss your cosmetics in the trash.  Put down the war paint that only debases women and save the planet in the process.  There's your win/win right there.

And as an added bonus those dirty rotten neanderthal men will find you less attractive.  You don't need them anyway, right?

[Smokin Joe]

It is sexist, and I can see very well why people would find it offensive.

Perhaps, but the argument could be made that real men (and real women) don't care.

[jmyrlefuller]

Why do I have a suspicion that the guy who bought this was a man whose ex-girlfriend didn't appreciate what he did for her?

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Here's an idea for those protestors that surely would be viewed as a win/win.  Stop using cosmetics.

And as an added bonus those dirty rotten neanderthal men will find you less attractive.  You don't need them anyway, right?

For most of these types, cosmetics cannot help.  Have you seen the faces of these feminists? (No, I won't post a picture of Madeleine to frighten people here).

[Gefn]

For most of these types, cosmetics cannot help.  Have you seen the faces of these feminists? (No, I won't post a picture of Madeleine to frighten people here).

I just ate breakfast. I thank you for this. :)

[GtHawk]

Ask her to point out where in the Constitution or the Bill Of Rights there exists a right to not be offended.

[Applewood]

So do these women not want men to provide for them? 

If so, then maybe they had better stop wasting time being offended and protesting, get to work and earn a living.  I don't know of any employer who would pay a woman who is too busy protesting to do her job.

[Smokin Joe]

So do these women not want men to provide for them? 

If so, then maybe they had better stop wasting time being offended and protesting, get to work and earn a living.  I don't know of any employer who would pay a woman who is too busy protesting to do her job.

Unless protesting is her job.