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Amazon removing a shirt that they deem offensive is not censorship. Amazon is a retailer - every single thing retailers do is directed at selling products their customers want. When they found out that a significant portion of their customers were offended by this, they took it down. It's called the free market system, not censorship. Amazon did not have to remove the t-shirt. I'm sure there's plenty of products people have complained about that they haven't removed.
You people getting all up in arms about how the world is too PC are naively off base. This is how every retailer operates every day and always has. Anyone else can sell that t-shirt, there's no law against it. Now if the government got involved and said it was too offensive to sell, that would be censorship and then you'd have an argument. Right now, all you have to complain about is that Amazon is too sensitive to it's customers.
Would you guys really prefer a world where the a huge corporation like Amazon could do whatever the hell they wanted and customer opinions were not allowed?
I am actually surprised they pulled this shirt
Bottom line - the complaints must have far outweighed the sales.
Despite her assets, Obama can not pick Sebelius. In the eyes of the general public, the one thing McCain has over Obama is foreign policy "experience". He has to pick someon strong on the front, say, Joe Biden. Six Kansas electoral votes and being a woman is not enough to overcome the lack of foreign policy chops the two of them would present to the voters.
I'm not saying they couldn't do it, mind you, I'm just saying it doesn't look good and it's what the press and the McCain campaign would seize on.
As a 26 year old, the LW doesn't see how significant this is, but if you've lost interest in your sex life at age 24 after a year of a relationship, it's big red flag. LW, don't settle for a relationship based on a great friendship and no sex. Maybe if you guys break up she'll see what she lost, but maybe not.
You do have to work on keeping the fires lit in a relationship but it shouldn't be that much work. Especially after one year.
Not exactly good traits in an interview candidate nor a good face of Jezebel. Jezebel should be embarassed, Winstead (who did indeed handle it fairly well) should take more care in who she chooses to interview. Never mind that the girl's name is SlutMachine, who wants to interview a drunk subject?
Who knew that Williamsburg produces such narrow sheltered people along with no rapists?
To the person who said that this generation has decided that that sex is something that they are going to do just for fun and physical pleasure, welcome to the 1970's, kid. That will last for a few years and then people (especially women) will get tired of it. Everything old is new again.
Let's take this one step further with this newsflash: when I was in my 20's in the 80's and early 90's, people (women!) slept around. Sex with strangers, sex with men they just met in a bar, sex with people they never intended to see again. The only difference is we called it a one-night-stand and didn't try to couch it in political empowerment. Sexual empowerment maybe, but it wasn't touted as a feminist issue.
And not one woman I know who was promiscuous in her 20's wasn't desperately looking for someone to give her love, attention, a father figure, or something. Ultimately, there was no empowerment happening. Samantha Jones is a fictional character. You can change what you call it, you can change how much you talk about it, but sex hasn't really changed.
There are much bigger problems to be outraged about in this world. But I do agree that the jokes weren't appropriate to the occasion. I thought they vetted these guys better than that. And it's not all that funny, either. Obama's campaign needs to wake up.
You didn't like him because he was a cheater until "he confessed to me that he liked me"? That's all it takes? You might think about raising the bar there a little.
If the LW is older than 16, she's got serious problems (and I'm not holding out much hope if she's under 16, either). You have very poor self-esteem, you're a bad friend, a bad judge of character, you have self-destructive tendencies (do you think this can possibly end well?) and you are selfish. Good luck with that. I predict a long life of being dumped by losers and wondering why you have such bad luck with men.
I doubt anyone who would write this letter would take advice from Cary or anyone else for that matter. She knows what any stable person would suggest - she didn't really need to write the letter and read Cary's answer.
Another great video that makes you feel happy for no tangible reason is the Sony Bravia Balls (type that in at YouTtube). It's older so you may have seen it but it never fails to give me a happy peaceful feeling.
(Yes, Sony produced it, but it's not an ad)
If the plan to get her to the therapist fails, why not get her GP to prescribe meds? Talk to the GP about how bad it is and that she won't go to a therapist. He/she can prescribe something just as easily.
Just because two women allege that they weren't hired for wearing the hijab, doesn't mean that it's really the reason. If Broadsheet is going to run an article on this, don't they need to find out the other side of the story? Isn't that basic journalism?