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Tuesday, September 19, 2006 12:00 AM

Digital dieting

Now you can make all your physical self-loathing digitally manifest in just seconds!

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  • Wednesday, September 20, 2006 07:51 PM

    RESPONSE TO DELUDED

    One of the most damaging tools in this structure is the obsession with appearance and its unequal application to one gender. That is what this camera, the fashion and entertainment industry, and the diet and beauty industry prey upon.

    Oh, and to the dancer, it isn’t the men’s preference for a certain weight that causes us to implicate them in the patriarchal structure, it’s the fact that they feel so entitled to women’s sexuality that they will pay for it.

    how mentally ill do you have to be to post such tripe?

    1. Men are judged on appearance by women all the time.

    2. Preying upon can only be done to stupid people.

    3. Women NEVER feel entitled to men's attention, love, sex?

    4. How does giving someone monetary compensation for something in return constitute anything but a FAIR EXCHANGE? Or are women somehow superior to us measly inferior men? do we just not measure up to your divinity, your highness?

    Women do not have to pay for sex from men, so men are at a DISADVANTAGE in relation to women in having to often pay for it. Women also often USE SEX as a tool to control men. Yet you posit that it is the women who are at a disadvantage in relation to men. YOU ARE EVIL like your feminist friends.

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