An example of contemporary satire is the Amy Schumer sketch Girl Vision in which a co-worker gives Amy a set of “Guy-gles” after seeing her business proposal ignored by a male co-worker. These absurdly large goggles tell their wearer what type of woman the man standing in front of them needs them to be. As Amy goes around the office, the goggles tell her how each man needs to perceive her in order to take a look at her business proposal. These needs range from, “needs to know you’d f**ck him” to “needs you to laugh at his jokes like it’s your f**king job.” The sketch ends when a black woman puts on her goggles after making an office-wide announcement about cupcakes. As she scans the room with the goggles taking account of every man’s need for her to be a specific type of black woman, the goggles malfunction and her head explodes.
This sketch uses the hyperbolic idea of “Guy-gles” to show how women constantly feel, and are expected by men to be, a specific type of woman just to be taken seriously. For the men it the sketch, and many men in reality, women don’t exist outside of a few strict stereotypes which are usually some type of mother figure or over-sexualized object. As seen in the sketch, the stereotype men needs a woman to be is further tightened by the factor of race, as men now don’t just need a woman of color to be his specific type of woman, he needs her to be his specific type of black woman.
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