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Thursday, September 11, 2008 06:09 PM
Original article: A pile of Palin sexism

I demand to know

whether she wears boxers or briefs...er..huh, how she looks in a bikini before I vote.

Thursday, September 11, 2008 06:05 PM
Original article: A pile of Palin sexism

Forget whether...

the naughty librarian Palin can handle being VP and mother, I want a freakin' DNA test to prove trig is her son. I don't believe a word this woman says.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 02:45 PM

It will be interesting to watch if white women...

slit their own throats. If healthcare, equitable tax policy, social services, legititmate regulation of markets and industry, infrastructure and a belief in "We The People," gets trumped by Palin's vagina, I will laugh my ass off, in order to prevent myself from crying.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 02:40 PM

Woo hoo!

Yay! for our side.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008 02:50 PM

Agrarian soceity is not the human default.

I would like someone smarter than me to explain how this fits in with the most primitive types of social constructs: hunter/gathers. For instance, the Yanamamo Indians beat their wives regularly, and the women in that society expect to be abused. When I say abused, I don't mean the expansive definition of upper class white woman of abuse, but abuse in the form of being chased out of your house with a machete. Warfare is common in the society, as is raids for stealing women.

Monday, September 8, 2008 07:13 PM
Original article: Wanna be on top?

Yay!

Now that women have made in roads into traditionally male jobs, it is time for us faux girls to make in roads into traditionally female activities.

Sunday, September 7, 2008 01:18 PM
Original article: What do we want? Firepits!

What really should offend you...

is that 80% of all purchasing decisions are made by a population that purporedly earns only 78 cents per dollar. Isn't it shameful that a particular part of the population spends so much money in such a frivilous way? I mean really. Rampant consumerism is repugnant.

Sunday, September 7, 2008 01:10 PM
Original article: Britain to ban sexist ads?

Attention George Orwell...

your needed in G.B. Big Sister wants to make sure that the little girls aren't offended. Revolting.

Thursday, September 4, 2008 03:47 PM
Original article: Sexism and Sarah Palin

@The Nortorious W.E.S.

"magdelyn

Come on over tonight and I'll show you my fetish."

Hmmm, baby. Do tell.

Thursday, September 4, 2008 01:12 PM
Original article: Sexism and Sarah Palin

Ah, yes...here is some sexism.

The pomposity of Obama. With his elite family background in which his father abandon's his mother. Being raised a black child by a single white mother, then by his maternal grandparents. What nerve...how dare you attend Ivy league schools without a famous or rich lineage.

Too bad gay marriage wasn't around back when he was younger. He could have married Bill Clinton to get his political credentials.

Of course, maybe you enjoyed watching Obama being taken to the shed by the "Naughty Librarian" Sarah Palin. Maybe that is a fetish of yours.

Sunday, August 31, 2008 02:32 AM

Reading over some of the letters to this post...

it just reminds me; God, I find male feminists annoying.

Sunday, August 31, 2008 02:18 AM

Redefining Masculinity

It makes me want to vomit, this movement to redefine masculinity into something unrecognizable as being associated with men. Michael Kimmel, Michael Flood, and Jackson Katz, not to mention women feminists attempts to define masculinity as something other than maleness is revolting.

Or course, the one virtue this study had was that it asked men themselves about masculinity, as opposed to a polemic study done by the women's study department somewhere.

I wrote about masculinity, and its evolution in a rather tongue and cheek post on my blog. "The term “wussapalooka” (borrowed from Ted Rall) is redefined here to mean the “neo-male.” The wussapalooka is manufactured by the mildly upper-middle class society. In the process, physical aggression and a masculine presentation have been replaced with a kind of a male version of “queen bee and wanna be” social behavior."

Sunday, August 31, 2008 02:02 AM
Original article: What's that smell?

Strippers Rock

and they smell good too, from what i remember back when i was in the marine corps. not only that, they prolly smell better than your average lady, being that they have the fresh, breezy scent that comes from airing out.

Friday, August 22, 2008 09:37 AM

99 out 100 women?

No, I'd say 80/20, with the 20 being gay guys. Gay guys are actually more catty than the gals. Look at the fashion or entertainment industries.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 12:58 PM
Original article: A chick-less ticket?

Hillary is a war monger.

Why would any moral person vote for her? I guess 1.2 million dead Iraqis for Oil and Israel isn't enough.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 03:13 PM

I can't let go of the "ladies' night" thing.

What if the women who get into a bar for free are lesbians. How would that benefit guys? And what about the situation where a lady was not admitted free because she was too "butch?" (Tang, Sherann (4 November 2005). "Female, but not welcome at a Ladies' Night?"). Is that alright? That is to say, as you are perpetuating one form of discrimination, you actually perpetuate another, by keeping butch broads out. Interesting question, I think. When does it become "real" discrimination?

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 02:40 PM

Ladies Night

In California, under the Unruh Act, a man can bring a civil action for being treated differently at a bar, and be awarded up to $4,000. He doesn't have to demand that he be treated equally before he files suit. (See Angelucci v. Century Supper Club.) In Washington State, the high court let ladies nights stand in a lawsuit against the Sonics. New Jersey courts against ladies nights, but I believe there is some legislative action to allow them.

The problem with the argument that "ladies nights" are good for men is hetero-sexist and dicriminatory against men of limited means. What if I am a gay guy that want's to go get a drink at my neighborhood bar on ladies night? What if I am a straight guy, in a committed relationship, who wants to meet with some of my other married friends at the only neighborhood bar? What if I am a man of limited means, who is required to pay the cover?

"In the end, it doesn’t really matter if it’s a win-win situation, because it’s important that the laws be applied consistently, and it has consistently been held that sex based discrimination in the sale of alcohol is unconstitutional." (http://www.calicocat.com/2004/06/ladies-night-is-unconstitutional.html)

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 01:36 PM

Not that there is anything wrong with that.

@cacrawford99:

Mary Magdalene was not a prostitute.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:40 AM

RD to men..."Man up."

@RD

Interesting perspective minimizing men from a women who "...foresee[s] a future when women dominate government again."

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