By NINA FUNNELL
Ah Family Feud. Exposing the inherent sexism in Australian attitudes since, like, forever.
And this week, social media let fly after an episode aired, focusing on the question, ‘name a woman’s job’, with predictably sexist responses offered as the ‘correct’ answers.
Yes, this happened.
It’s moments like these, that I seriously wish some super sassy family were there to flip the script on that shit.
In my made-up-head-fantasies, it looks a bit like this:
Host Grant Denyer: Name a Woman’s job:
Contestant 1: Well Grant, every day women have to work really hard to clean up the damage caused by sexist attitudes which permeate the mainstream media, so I’m going to go with CLEANER!
Grant: Cleaner! Is it on the board! Yes! It is! For 17 points!
Contestant 2: Hi Grant! Well I’m thinking about women in politics, and obviously Julie Bishop is the minister for foreign affairs, but most of our top women in politics deal with various domestic affairs, so I’m going to go with DOMESTIC DUTIES.
One of the families on ‘Family Fued’.
Grant: Domestic duties! It’s on the board!!! For 5 points.
Top Comments
Twisting this question the way you have here, apparently in order to increase the outrage - and leaving that way after several people pointed out the "error" - is no different to claiming Mia Freedman said "gay people are paedophiles", just so you can pile on the outrage bandwagon.
Whatever answer was given would have been claimed to be sexist. If you put yourself in the mind of the people answering, they are trying to put down answers that are stereotypically women's roles. This doesn't mean they are trying trying to oppress women, it simply means they are recognizing roles that are representative of what women do, or at least what people think women do.