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No. freedom. in. your. world.
I get it.
Special groups, get special consideration.
Saying "gay" = killing Matthew Shephard in your mind.
You are a sad case and have to edit everything you say when in mixed company.
No diversity in your world. No freedom of speech. Sad.
My First Amendment rights (by the way, that's an amendment to The Constitution, PC boneheads) and those of everyone else are threatened by PC speech codes and other laws and procedures curtailing free expression.
My gay friends aren't a bunch of pussies. They're just regular people who try to get along with everyone else. That means eschewing special treatment and restrictions on everyone's right to freedom of expression.
http://tinyurl.com/4zm8op
http://www.khou.com/news/state/stories/khou081008_ar_porntext.f31234e3.html
The latter link is about a boy in prison because he was on the receiving end of a girl's photo.
...anyone ever hear about it?
I'm sure the Language Police are not far behind the PC Brigade.
Just the boys get punished, as in "Romeo and Juliet" cases of underage consensual sex.
About time a girl gets treated with the full letter of the law, like everyone else.
Equality bites.
Dear Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan
BBC reports that you have recently called on women in Saudi Arabia to “wear a full veil, or niqab, that reveals only one eye.” You say that “showing both eyes encourage[s] women to use eye make-up to look seductive.”
I believe, sir, that showing only one eye will make matters worse. You see, whenever a woman and a man are together and the woman blinks, the man might think that she is winking. Is the hidden eye open or closed? If it is assumed to be normally open, then a momentary closing of the visible eye could be assumed to be a wink. If it is assumed to be normally closed, then the woman may be considered to be perpetually winking, which is equally problematic.
I have an alternative solution to your problem. I suggest that you introduce veils for men that cover both their eyes. That way it will make no difference if the women are winking, blinking or, heaven forbid, naked.
Good idea, no? You’re welcome.
Regards
Amit Varma
Good points. More and more, government and schools are acting in loco parentis, and that is misguided.
Perhaps this is both a cause and an effect of the growing loss of the American family.
It is an equal opportunity problem.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5519a3.htm
"The results indicated that 8.9% of students (8.9% of males and 8.8% of females) reported PDV victimization during the 12 months preceding the survey and that students reporting PDV victimization were more likely to engage in four of the five risk behaviors (i.e., sexual intercourse, attempted suicide, episodic heavy drinking, and physical fighting)."
George is running low on toilet paper...
I understand the intelligence of someone who believes everything he reads in just about any newspaper.
The Sun is there....
Keep up with the rhetorical gymnastics - a common feminist effort. We've seen this linguistic subterfuge before...
http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/michael-duffy/much-ado-about-a-small-segment-of-the-global-sex-industry/2008/06/13/1213321616701.html
"Claims are often made that large numbers of migrants are trafficked around the world for sex. Laura Maria Agustin has looked closely at the evidence for this and concludes that the figures are exaggerated. She says that the West's obsession with migrant sex workers is a moral panic produced by concerns about immigration in general."
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/counterpoint/stories/2008/2235858.htm
"Fears of World Cup sex trafficking boom unfounded."
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673606689848/fulltext
We live in a country where adult females almost daily seem to be molesting young boys and girls, and receiving minimal sentences from our courts when caught.
Where women commit paternity fraud on a widespread basis, forcing innocent men to pay for children who are not fathered by them.
Stop with your sexism, stop with your bigotry. Female sexual crimes are widespread in America, and women like you, who refuse to look at the problem, are a large part of the problem.
Stop the feminist, solipsistic denial that prevents women from looking hard at their own problems, the same denial that causes them to demonize men.
Your sexism is showing. Let's hope you don't have any children to poison with your bigoted opinion of men.