what really irritates me are the women that buy into the idea that being liberated means acting out MEN'S fantasies. "Look at me I am spread eagled on the hood of a car! I am empowered!"
My personal most hated is a video of a bunch of girls wearing underpants and chaps 'attacking' a man with a beer and a big ol s*** eating grin on his face...then one sits on him and 'rides' him.
Yeah, that right there is empowerment....that is what the ERA was fighting for.
The trouble with true equality is that the idea is for women to be free enough and equal enough to men to be just as good or just as bad as men without the entire gender taking the blame for any one woman's behavior.
This was readily shown recently where Paris Hilton and the rest of the skank pack were taken to task by some article/psychologist for being a bad influence on young girls and that their behavior should be reined in or censored somehow because they're bad role models.
Of course, no mention was made in the article of all the men stars/rockers etc., who've been boozing and whoring and tearing up hotel rooms for decades and how THEIR behavior should be curtailed. Another still engrained typical example of how boys will be boys, but girls had better be ladies.
This is a quick aside from the cowboy issue but what you said about videos kinda reminded me of this. There was a recent commercial for Axe for men's deoderizing spray. But the gist of all the commercials is that wearing/using this product makes men irresistable to women.
One particular commercial was yet another male fantasy, but I stared at it in horror. Guy is standing on a beach, spraying himself with this stuff with a big old "I've died and gone to heaven" grin on his face while all around him are gorgeous women in bikinis racing toward him, knocking each other down, climbing down the beach cliffs, running across the sands, swimming and running out of the water toward him - packs of blondes, brunettes, redheads. Thousands of them.
I looked at the women's faces. They were grim.
And this one guy, right in the middle.
The commercial closes right before they get to him, and all I could think of is - that guy - or a guys' fantasy is that - those women are suddenly going to come to a stop and turn kitten-ish? The guy is Orpheus. Those women are going to grab him and start pulling and pulling him, clothes are going to get grabbed, then parts he will wish didn't dangle so invitingly are going to get grabbed then ripped off, then his limbs are going to be.... The guy is going to get ripped to pieces. But he thinks he's in the middle of a sexual fantasy.