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by Hermit » Fri Jan 08, 2016 2:39 am
Brian Peacock wrote:What? A woman highlighting the plight of women in Africa when she should be knitting, doing the dishes, and thinking about kittens?
Boglarka Balogh deleted the relevant page, so we can't read the comments ourselves, but I doubt any of the critics said or implied anything of the sort.
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This article saved seven comments before they vanished in a puff of upset. The artist is accused of racism, arrogance et cetera, but no sexism is discernible among the jibes.
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by JimC » Fri Jan 08, 2016 4:01 am
rEvolutionist wrote:JimC wrote:rEvolutionist wrote:She's raising awareness of them. Not denigrating them. As you say, if someone from the tribes in question was offended, fair enough. But they aren't as far as I know.
There was a quote from a Turkana woman in the article you showed as a link saying that she should mind her own business...
"Claims to be a Turkana woman"...
True, it may have been a teenage boy in Alabama...
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by pErvinalia » Fri Jan 08, 2016 4:30 am
It was probably DaveDodo...
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by rainbow » Fri Jan 08, 2016 7:36 am
Brian Peacock wrote:What? A woman highlighting the plight of women in Africa when she should be knitting, doing the dishes, and thinking about kittens? What is the world coming to?

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by Brian Peacock » Fri Jan 08, 2016 3:41 pm
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by Forty Two » Fri Jan 08, 2016 3:57 pm
.... deleted...addressed wrong thread by mistake.
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by pErvinalia » Fri Jan 08, 2016 4:23 pm
Have you heard about the #wastehistime2016 hashtag on twitter? By fuck those feminazis are asking for a whooping!
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by Forty Two » Fri Jan 08, 2016 4:44 pm
rEvolutionist wrote:Have you heard about the #wastehistime2016 hashtag on twitter? By fuck those feminazis are asking for a whooping!
LOL -- I had never heard of it, but I googled. It's hilarious. It's like another breed of Tumblr feminist...
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by pErvinalia » Fri Jan 08, 2016 4:54 pm
"side hug him"...

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by Forty Two » Fri Jan 08, 2016 5:10 pm
rEvolutionist wrote:"side hug him"...

I like how that's presented as an 'ooo snap!" moment, as if it's unheard of for women to go on dates for free dinners and end the date with a hug and friendship. Women wasting men's time on dates and getting free dinners out of the deal? Wow! What an inventive way to "destroy" teh menz. Nobody ever thought of that! What would be far more freakish on a date would be -- "Go out to dinner and at the end when the check comes, pick it up, take out your credit card and pay for the dinner. When he offers to pay the tip, politely decline and say it's your pleasure."
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by Brian Peacock » Fri Jan 08, 2016 9:41 pm
No... tap him on the knee, and then say, "My pleasure. I earn more than you anyway."
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by pErvinalia » Sat Jan 09, 2016 2:18 am
Forty Two wrote:rEvolutionist wrote:"side hug him"...

I like how that's presented as an 'ooo snap!" moment, as if it's unheard of for women to go on dates for free dinners and end the date with a hug and friendship. Women wasting men's time on dates and getting free dinners out of the deal? Wow! What an inventive way to "destroy" teh menz. Nobody ever thought of that! What would be far more freakish on a date would be -- "Go out to dinner and at the end when the check comes, pick it up, take out your credit card and pay for the dinner. When he offers to pay the tip, politely decline and say it's your pleasure."
That's what my last date did. She said I could pay for the next dinner

. We never went out again...

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by laklak » Sat Jan 09, 2016 4:47 am
I don't care about any of it, as long as they make me a fucking sammich. I know I just finished dinner but I want a goddamned sammmich. And there's no bread. Do you think she'd go out to the shops in the dark to get me some bread? Not a fucking chance, matey, if I want a sammich I'll have to go get my own goddamn bread and make my own goddamn sammich. That's what the world has come to, boys, a man has to make his own goddamn sammich. My Daddy didn't fight his way across Nazi Germany so I'd have to make my own goddamn sammich, I can tell you that for free.
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by DaveDodo007 » Sat Jan 09, 2016 5:19 am
JimC wrote:Brian Peacock wrote:The second just encompasses the advocacy of active discrimination against anyone justified on nominal group membership: skin colour, ethnicity, geography, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, income, political persuasion, taste in music, whatever.
That would mean that I can't call English people whinging pommy bastards!

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by DaveDodo007 » Sat Jan 09, 2016 5:24 am
rEvolutionist wrote:The thing is he has a history of wanting certain speech shut down. So there's a pattern developing. Our interpretations are not necessarily wrong.
Really, how about showing the links.
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