That sounds like a good way to weed out folks you’re not going to gel with anyway, and encourage those who will pun along with you.
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This isn’t about you, but about how there is a normative view on beauty and that such things have consequences for women.
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Would it be too much to spoiler-tag dog-pictures?
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Are you referring to the puppies?
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Yes.
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I honestly feel like I have seen so much coming (and not been believed about it) that I should change my name to Cassandra.
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On the other hand, I don’t bigger harder penises, or the idea that 1/2 or 1/3 of the population should want them, are an innate drive:
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/05/23/what-was-that-about-patriarchy-hurting-men-too/
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I can ignore that, though I sometimes have trouble with larger avatars on some other sites.
A product of Freud and Bernays, taken to the logical extreme. *sad head shake*
Read the whole thread. We can’t let the focus keep getting shifted to “poor, beleaguered men.”
This is how propaganda works: opposing views are “allowed” so long as they’re unreasonable or untenable. Especially when you’ve already got the stereotype firmly planted in people’s minds. Ijeoma Oluo saw through it, but will everyone? Especially someone in more desperate a state, needing a gig?
That’s what is scary.
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At my work, bits are plugged and screwed together in a cleanroom. Everyone looks like a hooded white nylon Oompaloompa wearing stylish and multicolored not-a-hardhat-bump-caps. Maybe 80% male on the floor, 60% elsewhere and no place to hang up any cheesecake. We all make fun of the sexual harrassment training, yet there still seems to be some need for it.
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You’re overthinking it and making it someone else’s problem? Overthink for yourself.
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When I was growing up, I never noticed how much my father favored boys over girls. It was only when he was in his old age that I started to see how extreme it was in him. Of course it had long been a frustration to me that my brother had all kinds of time consuming and money consuming activities - choir from a young age, Boy Scouts - with two trips to Philmont, chamber choir, special SAT prep program. And once I was older than 7, never had any activities at all, despite begging for art lessons.
But there was so much more to it than that, and it was so clear when I got older that this bias was so strong in him, and it made me wonder a lot about how it affected me to be raised with it.
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probably true
Saw this on testosterone use:
If they’re not wired for such high testosterone levels, then doesn’t this make them dysphoric and dissociative? @#$#% social pressures.
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Getting back to to the topic at hand:
Sometimes, I really want to clone that man…
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Canada is so lucky, in some regards.
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