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Crasscrab posted:Pretty sure there weren't as many bombs involved as there were guns, grenades, and RPGs... Also I didn't realize they had Starbucks in Libya. Ever since the regime change opened up the country to American business interests they have been enjoying a number of American freedom institutions like Starbucks, Cinnabon etc  
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 "Welcome to the first day of math class. Before we begin, I'd like to address all of the boys in this room. Now that you're 14 years old and your hormones are completely raging, have you ever noticed a funny feeling you get when you see girls wearing very short shorts, especially if they're very tight and accentuate the buttocks? You should be ashamed of this feeling, and never admit that you feel this way. Now, onto trigonometry..." PepeSilvia fucked around with this message at 17:39 on May 10, 2013 |
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I went to a Christian middle school, and some of the girls wore really short shorts during the summer. They got in trouble for it, naturally, and I being 12 and not really getting what the big deal was, said I thought it was stupid. Another teacher over heard me and made me go apologize to the teacher who got the girls in trouble. I get that back in the 40's or whatever that "gams" were highly sexualized but it seems that in modern times a woman's legs just aren't seen as sexualized as other areas. That's why it's kind of funny to me that Fox makes a huge deal of showing off it's female anchors legs, just shows how old and out of mainstream social thought they are. 
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lancemantis posted:That guy What am I looking at here? Context is always nice. 
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Crasscrab posted:What am I looking at here? Context is always nice.
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Boys are going to be seeing a lot of attractive women and the outlines of their body parts in their lives and they should probably be taught it is in fact their job to be able to not think about sex for 10 minutes vs telling women to cover up which has been the norm for 4,000 years. 
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Pobama posted:When I saw this picture, I thought to myself "no, there is no loving way, the non-parody of this is the cover of TIME" but I just had to go and check. This, from the same magazine that gave us this:  But no matter. In the interests of "Grand Bargains" or some such poo poo they have marching orders to turn the politically-awakening millennials against their baby-boomer parents and vice-versa. Instead of against the microscopic pool of millennials, X-ers and boomers that hosed over everybody else, regardless of age.
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zeroprime posted:Someone was diverting streams in Oregon to fill up ponds/lakes on his property, leaving the streams either dry or only at a small % of normal capacity downstream. Due to the media being complete and utter poo poo, headlines such as "Man jailed for collecting rainwater" have led people to believe this is a case of government regulations gone mad, when the reality is that conserving water with rain-barrels is encouraged and building fuckoff huge dams across jurisdictional waterways is understandably very illegal.  for ballgag
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Amused to Death posted:Boys are going to be seeing a lot of attractive women and the outlines of their body parts in their lives and they should probably be taught it is in fact their job to be able to not think about sex for 10 minutes vs telling women to cover up which has been the norm for 4,000 years. Trying to shame pubescent teens into not thinking about sex is different from teaching them to treat everybody like human beings deserving of respect. People can think about sex. Sex and attraction are not necessarily derogatory. It's how people can act on them that is. 
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zeroprime posted:Someone was diverting streams in Oregon to fill up ponds/lakes on his property, leaving the streams either dry or only at a small % of normal capacity downstream. Due to the media being complete and utter poo poo, headlines such as "Man jailed for collecting rainwater" have led people to believe this is a case of government regulations gone mad, when the reality is that conserving water with rain-barrels is encouraged and building fuckoff huge dams across jurisdictional waterways is understandably very illegal. Water rights are a big loving deal and will only become more important as populations grow and water sources dry up. 100 years ago water flowed easily into the plains and farmers never worried, now there are millions of people along the way from the mountains to the plains using the water and the farms are running dry. Fortunately for the farmers, they owned the water rights first so they get first dibs, even on the water that falls onto your property.  
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If I'm reading this correctly, is it claiming that Calgarians, Vancouverites, and Torontonians sound the same? The vowels are similar but this chart doesn't take into account rhythm at all, which is a very distinct feature of Canadian Prairie speech.  Protestors outside the White House last month.
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NathanScottPhillips posted:No, actually, it is illegal to collect rainwater in a lot of places because of local water rights. For instance it's illegal to collect rainwater in Aurora, CO because the rainwater belongs to the city of Denver, CO according to the water rights from a hundred years ago. Aurora has to wait for the water to fall onto its ground and naturally collect in basins and then buy it from Denver. withak posted:Disney has updated Pixar's Merida character to be skinnier, paler, and bustier. They gave her a lower-cut dress and took away her bow and arrows in favor of a glamorous belt.  Here's a pic with the other ones beside her. I especially like that the only ones not wearing the "Princess" style dresses are Mulan, Jasmine and Pocahontas which are kept to the sides and back. Though if you were expecting something without regressive gender politics from Disney proper I don't really know what to tell you. Came here to deliver different types of awful though:  
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PepeSilvia posted:"Welcome to the first day of math class. Before we begin, I'd like to address all of the boys in this room. Now that you're 14 years old and your hormones are completely raging, have you ever noticed a funny feeling you get when you see girls wearing very short shorts, especially if they're very tight and accentuate the buttocks? You should be ashamed of this feeling, and never admit that you feel this way. Now, onto trigonometry..." Tell us more about the evils of political correctness and the death of manhood in America. SlipUp posted:Trying to shame pubescent teens into not thinking about sex is different from teaching them to treat everybody like human beings deserving of respect. That's a very liberal interpretation of the poster itself. I don't see where it's shaming individuals who think about sex. It's definitely saying that a woman's body is something greater than the sum of its sexual attributes, but saying people shouldn't "over sexualize normal body parts" is a critique of the sentiment illustrated in the lines _right above it_, the ones about shaming girls for their choice of clothing.  Confrontation erupts in Israel between ultra-Orthodox men and uniformed police sent to protect a group of 100 women, near the Western Wall. The disturbance came about after a court ruled last month that women should be allowed to wear prayer shawls and sing aloud at the wall.
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Angry Boat posted:That's a very liberal interpretation of the poster itself. I don't see where it's shaming individuals who think about sex. It's definitely saying that a woman's body is something greater than the sum of its sexual attributes, but saying people shouldn't "over sexualize normal body parts" is a critique of the sentiment illustrated in the lines _right above it_, the ones about shaming girls for their choice of clothing. To begin, I have no issue with the first part regarding slut shaming, and I feel that abides with my previous post regarding how people act on their sexual attraction. My issue is regarding the term "over-sexualize". What is the difference between sexualizing and over sexualizing? How do you teach people the appriopriate level of sexuality? Furthermore, I disagreed with the poster that people "shouldn't think about sex". Is thinking about sex "over-sexualizing"? Ultimately my issue is that puritan values demonizing sexuality as a whole have become conflated with feminist ideals of gender equality especially in North America. 
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Pobama posted:When I saw this picture, I thought to myself "no, there is no loving way, the non-parody of this is the cover of TIME" but I just had to go and check. I was curious how my apparently worthless generation is going to save everyone, but I can't read it unless I pay to subscribe. That feels like an even bigger gently caress you to millenials on top of the article itself.  .
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SlipUp posted:How do you teach people the appriopriate level of sexuality? Furthermore, I disagreed with the poster that people "shouldn't think about sex". Is thinking about sex "over-sexualizing"? The content of that letter was it was either a school assembly was called just for the girls or an announcement was made over the PA(i forget which, but it doesn't really matter which it was) that said the girls need to cover up more in how they dress at school because it was distracting to some of the boys and the men. It's bullshit, considering girls in high school aren't showing up to class in nothing their best lingerie or something, it comes down to the fact men can't stop sexualizing women for 5 minutes(not literally 5 minutes, but both students and teachers seem not to be able to stop doing it even in a school) so instead they need to slut shame them. It's not like its an isolated incident http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/06/1969001/slut-shaming-dress-codes/ Also the Merida thing seems like good as any a time to post this again 
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Amused to Death posted:The content of that letter was it was either a school assembly was called just for the girls or an announcement was made over the PA(i forget which, but it doesn't really matter which it was) that said the girls need to cover up more in how they dress at school because it was distracting to some of the boys and the men. It's bullshit, considering girls in high school aren't showing up to class in nothing their best lingerie or something, it comes down to the fact men can't stop sexualizing women for 5 minutes(not literally 5 minutes, but both students and teachers seem not to be able to stop doing it even in a school) so instead they need to slut shame them. It's not like its an isolated incident I agree with you regarding slut shaming and specifically outlined my objections, so you're only preaching to the choir on that issue. With you I'm specifically taking issue that you believe people need to not think about sex at all which ties back to the idea of conflating puritan values with gender equality. I alluded to this, then overtly said it and yet you conveniently ignored it completely when making your response. Just thinking about sex is not slut shaming. 
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Amused to Death posted:Also the Merida thing seems like good as any a time to post this again I would argue that Ariel not speaking is extremely problematic for her as everyone thinks she's a moron and it greatly hinders her quest to get laid. 
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On 5 December 1982, Ronald Reagan met the Guatemalan president, Efraín Ríos Montt, in Honduras. It was a useful meeting for Reagan. ‘Well, I learned a lot,’ he told reporters on Air Force One. ‘You’d be surprised. They’re all individual countries.’ It was also a useful meeting for Ríos Montt. Reagan declared him ‘a man of great personal integrity . . . totally dedicated to democracy’, and claimed that the Guatemalan strongman was getting ‘a bum rap’ from human rights organisations for his military’s campaign against leftist guerrillas. The next day, one of Guatemala’s elite platoons entered a jungle village called Las Dos Erres and killed 162 of its inhabitants, 67 of them children. Soldiers grabbed babies and toddlers by their legs, swung them in the air, and smashed their heads against a wall. Older children and adults were forced to kneel at the edge of a well, where a single blow from a sledgehammer sent them plummeting below. The platoon then raped a selection of women and girls it had saved for last, pummelling their stomachs in order to force the pregnant among them to miscarry. They tossed the women into the well and filled it with dirt, burying an unlucky few alive. The only traces of the bodies later visitors would find were blood on the walls and placentas and umbilical cords on the ground.
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ChipNDip posted:My high school's dress code existed more or less to tell girls to cover-up and stop dressing like whores. Boys could wear basically whatever they wanted without repercussions. Counterpoint: gently caress you, Got yours. (I drink your milkshake, slluuuurrrrp!) Thanks for the imminent Mississippi River-Arizona water pipeline, big government collectivist thugs. Score another one for freedom.
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SlipUp posted:To begin, I have no issue with the first part regarding slut shaming, and I feel that abides with my previous post regarding how people act on their sexual attraction. My issue is regarding the term "over-sexualize". What is the difference between sexualizing and over sexualizing? How do you teach people the appriopriate level of sexuality? Furthermore, I disagreed with the poster that people "shouldn't think about sex". Is thinking about sex "over-sexualizing"? Totally agreeing with this, puritanism =/= gender equality. I can think a woman has nice legs and also respect her as a person. 
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