Why is the patriarchy recently telling us incontinence is not normal, but funny? Bullying women?

Question

A SKETCH IN BBC ONE COMEDY LITTLE BRITAIN WHICH SHOWED A WOMAN URINATING UNCONROLLABLY HAS BEEN CRITICISED BY AN INCONTINENCE CHARITY.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4460876.stm

"People with incontinence are often ridiculed, but it is not a joke, and the condition can be life-destroying for many older people."

Here is a disgraceful UNFUNNY clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs1kgFFrfUI

One half of women suffer from incontinence at some point in their lives and one third will develop a "problem".

IT IS NORMAL PEOPLE.

Why are women being laughed at for something that is normal?! Do men just need to get over this, just because patriarchal beauty standards involve a woman that has control of her bladder (what some sixteen yr old?!) it doesn't mean that incontinent women have a problem.

Is this sort of joking about non-conformity to what men want just bullying women into accepting the patriarchy?

Answer 1

When are you going to stop impersonating the real Baba and post as your own insignifient self. Are you afraid that if you don't ask under the guise of this person you will have to be ignored?

Answer 2

i think of it relies upon on the situation... For starters, notwithstanding, there are actually not any constitutional amendments holding adult males from something or giving adult males the acceptable suited to something exceptionally. Now this could mean that adult males are the dominant element and could be saved "in examine" or it may mean that there is a psychological element at play in society that announces women everybody is "weaker" and choose secure practices. i'm prepared to guess, you pays attention the two sides of the argument with various caveats to accompany those arguments. we've a close-by newspaper (The Westword) that these days printed an editorial some guy suing nightclubs over the fashionable women folk' nighttime that often happens on Wednesdays. His declare became into that girls people get loose beverages from adult males as that's, so why is there discrimination against adult males on Wednesday nights allwoing women people to drink loose and not pay a conceal fee. (The bonehead is yet to win a case...) there is relatively different components to learn: payscales, gender-particular careers, maternity vs paternity flow away, and so on. i think of we live in a greater equivalent society than everybody is prepared to confess, yet on a case via case diagnosis, i think of you will see the two genders dealt with unfairly.

Answer 3

I have to disagree a little, Wendy G. If the icon doesn't do it for you the statement inside generally will. This one WAS admittedly a little weak, but there's always plenty of room for improvement. Furthermore, the ideas come so often they can't particularly be "the bottom of the barrel," as you put it.

It all depends on your perspective.

Oh, yeah, to answer the question, YES. The patriarchy is against the glorious wimmin of our day and seeks only to ridicule, harass, and embarrass them. Is it any surprise that they view incontinence as a laughable failing?

Answer 4

I really wish I understood what you are getting at, but I'm afraid you have got to the point where you are just rambling on.

Lots of people find Little Britain to be 'controversial', but considering it is almost cartoonlike and extremely over the top for the most part, people shouldn't take offence. It could be considered offensive to homosexuals, transexuals, older people, overweight people, common people, poor people, stupid people, disabled people, people of different races, the list goes on and on. But you have to realise that the makers of the show aren't racist, homophobic, ageist or prejudiced in any way and a lot of the time, they are making fun of themselves and looking pretty ridiculous in the process.

Thanks for the clip though, I was pissing my own pants watching!

Take care : )

Answer 5

I think there's a point somewhere but I'm not sure.

I'm in Canada,older women's incontinence isn't really viewed as funny over here.

Both men and women can suffer from incontinence so I don't think it's really just a women's issue.

Just look at it as the immaturity of the people writing it , they haven't progressed emotionally beyond age four when bathroom humor is at its height.

Answer 6

Happy Bullet, you are really scraping the bottom of the barrel now, aren't you?

EDIT: 'wendy g'
Your answer had me howling: thanks for making me laugh.