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Voted : It's thought-provoking.
"When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun."
- John Lennon
Voted : It's thought-provoking.
very much so
B.S. voters, can we see your thoughts?
by mojo on Tue Feb 19, 08 2:41pm
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Voted : It's thought-provoking.
I never heard these words. But they do parallel strongly some beliefs I have. We say women don’t like to look at men in the same way that men like to look at women. But we there are almost exclusively lesbian images in women’s magazines. There are almost no sexy men in women’s media for then to GET turned on by. Or we show women goofy men or fat or unattractive men and then when there are not aroused we say, “See? You are not turned the same way when you look at men.” Men would not be turned either if they were shown almost exclusively unattractive women. Or all gay images in their magazines.
It is just like Sports Illustrated that refused to create a swimsuit issue for their many female readers who wanted one, with the castrating and defeminizing excuse that women do not like looking at men—basically calling their female viewers liars and denying they have a sexual identity. Or that their sexual identity is merely an imitation or undeveloped male one.
When a woman exhibits a strong personhood, we say they are trying to be like men because the words man and masculine are the proprietary words we used for personhood. Like JELLO for gelatin deserts. Or Scotch Tape for tape. Or Band-Aids for adhesive strips.
The difference is:
The Blacks of the slave days did everything they could to get out of their dehumanizing situation. It is very sad that so many women of today will sell their very personhood down the river to "get a man".
Voted : It's thought-provoking.
There was a very old Chase & Sanborn ad that showed a man spanking his wife for buying the wrong brand of coffee. I think things are moving in the right direction, though.
I've always had this special respect and amazement toward women, I look at them in awe.
The terrible way they were and still are being treated, even more so in some parts of the world. I agree with Lennon
Voted : It's thought-provoking.
Spot on, lady. Five and five, if I were able to give it.
Had a thought about this, when I was parked in the Land of Nod and too tired to wake up and put them down.
Recently, I've rediscovered Anthony Bourdain, residnet cook-slash-loveable-cynical-bastich, traveling the world in search of himself and a good drink-and-meal combo. A few weeks ago, he went to Uzbekistan. While there, he attended a wedding, at which women did all the cooking and preparation for the ceremony, but couldn't sit down with the men at the pre-wedding meal. (Had to throw themselves one.) And the wedding itself- did I fail to mention that it was pre-arranged? Or that the bride looked as miserable as she was radiant?
John Lennon's songs used to be good before he met that awful witch Yoko Ono.
I don't agree with that song at all. I mean "We make her bear and raise our children." Are you sure Yoko, I mean John?
The wrong person died out the front of the Dakota that December day in 1980.
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