WASHINGTON — A new video from New Zealand comedy pair Jono and Ben that parodies a BBC interview interrupted by the guest’s children that is lighting up the internet — but not everybody’s laughing.
In the video (below), a woman, instead of a man, is shown giving an interview to the news network.
She remains unfazed as one child “videobombs” her, and even puts the girl on her lap and gives her a bottle full of milk.
Things continue to escalate from there.
Next, another child arrives. Then the woman is shown making dinner and cleaning a toilet.
Eventually, a SWAT team shows up and the mother has to diffuse a bomb.
While the skit was created in the spirit of good fun, users on the group’s public Facebook page are calling the TV3 entertainers out for alleged sexism.
One top comment with 3,415 “likes” reads, “Imagine if the original situation had been a woman and then you made this video with a man. You’d all be screaming sexism. Just a prime example of sexism being socially acceptable if it’s men shown in a bad light.”
Another, with 2,088 “likes” reads, “I know this video has been made in good spirits and I support this a 100% (sic) but … I’m a woman and I find this unfair to the original interviewee, and definitely sexist. Must women put down [all] men, all the time? Even for being human? There’s a limit to Feminism. And Feminism isn’t Feminism anymore. Feminazis aren’t fighting for equality anymore, but women supremacy, tbh.”
