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Subject: Re: Feminists Mon Aug 09, 2010 10:39 am
I think he means women are already thought of by many as sex objects, guys like to fuck, they always have, it isn't hugh hefners fault, its just supply and demand. Not that I agree women should be thought of as sex objects. That dude must use a lot of viagra.
Johnny99 Ninja Warrior
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Subject: Re: Feminists Mon Aug 09, 2010 2:10 pm
every time i hear the word feminist i think of the crazy broads in P.C.U.
Pants Ninja Warrior
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Subject: Re: Feminists Sat Aug 14, 2010 5:34 pm
ThusSpokeYourFace wrote:
Well, I would've expected him to come up with a more eloquent way to defend his objectification of women.
I don't get why he gets to be so ugly. I mean, I know he's old but still...
I guess I just find it hard to care when it's obvious, the last comment about the lipstick and the short skirts gets to me but the rest is definitely like eh. I'm not even surprised about the short skirts comment, and to be honest that is pretty much where lip stick started, isn't it?
Maybe it's like Blake said, that seems pretty likely
Kam Drinkin' Irish tonight!
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When you think about how children are treated, like when a little boy wants to play dress up or dolls or anything that is typically considered a girl thing a lot of parents freak out ( read fathers) but when a girl wants to do boy things it's much more acceptable. Nobody freaks out because a girl wants to play with cars or bugs, or anything that is stereotypically figured as a boy thing.
I mean, any insult that includes 'Like a girl' is as immature as it gets. It's an insult that requires no thought because growing up if you're a boy (or tomboy) you've either used it or been subject to it countless times.
ThusSpokeYourFace Ninja Warrior
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Subject: Re: Feminists Sat Aug 14, 2010 6:15 pm
Its true. These days I think men tend to catch a lot more flack for being feminine than women do for being masculine. I grew up hanging out with boys all the time and playing sports and shit, and no one said much about it, but if a little boy does the opposite of that it raises a lot of eyebrows.
Kam Drinkin' Irish tonight!
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Subject: Re: Feminists Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:51 pm
I wonder how parents feel if they're son plays with a lot of girls.
I mean, I was like you and I don't remember any of the parents finding it odd, there was only the one of me most of the time though, would it have been different if there were more girls, or was it just the fact that they knew we played basketball/games and were overall being violent and I wasn't their child?
I think it all really goes back to the definition of feminine looking a lot like weakness. Most things that are considered masculine also show some sort of strength. would you want to raise whiny, little babies who wouldn't be able to grow up and take care of themselves? (but this is okay for girls because they can always get married)
hyperballad Ninja Warrior
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Subject: Re: Feminists Sat Aug 14, 2010 10:41 pm
Kam wrote:
II think it all really goes back to the definition of feminine looking a lot like weakness. Most things that are considered masculine also show some sort of strength. would you want to raise whiny, little babies who wouldn't be able to grow up and take care of themselves? (but this is okay for girls because they can always get married)
Exactly
StoolPigeon Ninja Warrior
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Subject: Re: Feminists Sun Aug 15, 2010 4:06 pm
Well, that, and because women have been fighting for decades to prove that lady-like doesn't necessarily mean what convention says it means, while very few have pushed for the same for men.
hyperballad Ninja Warrior
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Subject: Re: Feminists Sun Aug 15, 2010 6:34 pm
I think that's because men have had the upper-hand in society, because they've had most of the power and didn't feel the need to fight for anything. I do believe that both sexes should express their gender identity however they choose though.
StoolPigeon Ninja Warrior
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Subject: Re: Feminists Sun Aug 15, 2010 8:04 pm
Oh, definitely, and again if they were fighting to change that, they'd be viewed as weak.
hyperballad Ninja Warrior
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Subject: Re: Feminists Sun Aug 15, 2010 10:02 pm
I say we all should be whoever we want to be, without fear of being too masculine or feminine. I still think there will be differences between the sexes, just because of biology, but I think people won't be scared of defying rigid gender roles and we'll all be happy.
That's my utopia, at least.
Ross Ninja Warrior
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Subject: Re: Feminists Mon Aug 16, 2010 6:34 am
That sounds a lot like my borderless-world/world-peace utopia. :/
hyperballad Ninja Warrior
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Subject: Re: Feminists Mon Aug 16, 2010 2:15 pm
That is also part of my utopia.
Kam Drinkin' Irish tonight!
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Subject: Re: Feminists Tue Aug 17, 2010 7:25 am
I'm with both of you, both gender's have their inequalities, and both perfect forms of femininity and masculinity are impossible and actually detrimental.
But how do you fight against something when the whole population is struggling for it, (business masculinity, which is just masculinity minus the belching)
laurendelore juicebox romeo
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Subject: Re: Feminists Fri Aug 20, 2010 11:32 pm
I sell electronics at a retail store and myself and other female co-workers have seriously had customers ask if they could talk to a dude about televisions or computers. I never had this problem when I worked in my hometown, which is pretty urban. Once I started working in this super wealthy area though I realized that most rich white people over the age of 40 are assholes. My store has 100+ employees and only 19 women work there. I guess women aren't expected to know shit about electronics in 2010.
WWD4D? Baby, I'm an Anarchist!
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Subject: Re: Feminists Sat Aug 21, 2010 6:23 am
Aaron Ninja Warrior
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Subject: Re: Feminists Sat Sep 04, 2010 11:32 am
Me: What's that smell? Wife: I can't smell anything. Me: That's what I thought. Now get that fucking cooker on.
Spoiler:
THEY SEE ME TROLLIN'.
raptorsaurus Ninja Warrior
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Subject: Re: Feminists Sat Sep 04, 2010 2:30 pm
reminds me of this david caruso meme
Spoiler:
ThusSpokeYourFace Ninja Warrior
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Subject: Re: Feminists Sat Sep 04, 2010 2:36 pm
Can someone explain to me why people's posts say 'spoiler' under them?
Tim Ninja Warrior
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Subject: Re: Feminists Sat Sep 04, 2010 2:39 pm
ThusSpokeYourFace wrote:
Can someone explain to me why people's posts say 'spoiler' under them?
Click it.
ThusSpokeYourFace Ninja Warrior
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Subject: Re: Feminists Sat Sep 04, 2010 3:14 pm
Aaahh. I see.
raptorsaurus Ninja Warrior
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Subject: Re: Feminists Sun Sep 05, 2010 4:52 am
I was watching Goldfinger the other day... is this sexist?
blake Untouchable
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Subject: Re: Feminists Sun Sep 05, 2010 4:57 am
Ahhahaha waow, i had no idea.
StoolPigeon Ninja Warrior
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