Letters to the Editor
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It's not being synonymous with arousal, but the mincing, indirect referall to arousal that's bothersome
Wet is good. It's unambiguous. It's whole-hearted. It's not defined by what it's not - e.g. wet doesn't mean 'not dry', it means, wet!
Moist is a whole 'nother thing. It's not wet and it's not dry. It suggests, to me, a stupid Victorian notion of female sexuality - where the women glow vs. sweat, suffer from vapors and megrims instead of anxiety, and get moist instead of wet. It's all very ladylike in a way that suggests ladies just don't really know what they want. It's sort of passive, rather than being active. It's a state that's neither here nor there - not dry and uninterested, not wet and ready.
THAT is my objection to 'moist'. Ugh. But thanks for the article - I howled, literally. I thought I was the only one who hated 'moist', as well as 'panties'. And wtf is with the word panties? Why can't I wear underwear, like guys? Why does it have to be diminutized AND sexualized just because it's female? It sexualizes the clothing, for sure - that's why the redneck in Deliverance says "Take down them panties" to the guy he's getting ready to shtup. James Dickey's word choice was meant to signal the humiliation and powerlessness of the scene.
Moist and fudgy - that cracked me up.
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Vandalism as racial slur?
Huh? How many Vandals do you know? I hate to be the one to break the news to you, but they don't, you know, exist anymore. Their language is extinct and there hasn't been a King of the Vandals since the 6th century.
I looked it up and apparently the use of the word vandalism refers to the sack of Rome in 455, although it wasn't used in that sense until the French Revolution. So by the time the word was used, the people it referred to were already long dead. In other words, it never has been a racial slur.
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Would someone please take Sandra M's comment down as it contains a racial slur against
Yiddish and Yiddish speakers? (That is, Yids, Us Jews?)
The Cajun from Dickey's novel was not going to schtup anything, and I take extreme exception with your inappropriate use of yiddish to somehow project your blame of the Jews on the Cajun rape.
Why is it that Feminists that can't stand to hear the word moist, feel so free to blame others, and blame the Jews in particular.
Carol? Please delete Sandra M's comment.
Thank you.
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Victoria Secret's Store gets blasted by women for their displays
http://www.azcentral.com/community/gilbert/articles/1029gr-secret1029-ON.html#comments
Gilbert mall goers irate over lingerie store display
the pictures resemble "soft porn" and have made the mall unfriendly to families.
"It was just very upsetting to us," said 28-year-old Gilbert resident Michelle Bentley, who made a trip to the outdoor mall Thursday night with her husband and two young kids
My guess is that they showed women in underpants.
OPPRESSORS!!!!!
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Allie, I said ethnic slur, not racial slur
We're talking a people, not a race, whatever a race is supposed to mean.
But c'mon. If using the name of a people as a slur isn't an ethnic slur, nothing is. Are you suggesting that if someone exterminates or forcibly assimilates a group, then people *should* repeatedly libel the group and people *shouldn't* condemn libel against the group?
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Earlier tonight Allie slurred the entire Japanese culture, so I am not sure you should
be looking to her for guidance on this.
Remember the first rule of Broadsheet Feminism: I can do it, but you cannot.
HTH.
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To Allie
My wife, and I went through all of your letters, and we couldn't find anything that my wife, who is Japanese, would consider as a slur toward her entire culture or nation.
You pointed out the problem that Japanese women have on public trains, but every Japanese person themselves will point out that there is a problem with groping on public train.
Anonymous (on October 29, 2007 09:03 PM) does not speak for the Japanese people.
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First of all PetBoy, no one believes you are married
but even if you were, neither you nor your wife speak for all of Japan either.
Allie's smear? That Japanese women would permit themselves to be raped in a public train without making a fuss about it. That Japanese men and women would permit Japanese women to be raped in public trains.
Anyway, we all understand that though while you may have tied the knot, since you are a sockpuppet, that only means you are tied to another, similar sock, and you probably have the same puppet master's hand up your butts.
I do think that Allie should either prove her charge and produce evidence of these train rape videos or retract her smear and apologize to the Japanese and to Broadsheet readers.
And I think you PetBoy should take a bleach bath.
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To Allie from fetboy's wife.
電車の中で痴漢に遭うのは、そう珍しい事ではありません。朝夕のラッシュアワーともなれば、隣の人とべったりくっつき合って電車に乗るのが普通です。30分以上も身動きの取れないそんな状況の中で、ムラムラきてしまう男性は理性を押さえきれずについ出来心で目の前の女性に触ってしまうのでしょう。
私も何度か経験あります。思い出すだけで気分を害し、何も出来なかった自分にも腹が立って仕方ありませんが、何せ一瞬の出来事ですし、ましてどの人が犯人なのか分からないのです。運良く捕まえる事が出来ても、あまり警察沙汰になる事はありません。なので犯人も「犯罪を犯している」という認識はほとんど無に等しく、むしろそのスリル感を楽しんでいるところがあります。
でも数年前からようやく女性専用の車両が確保され、むさ苦しいおじさま達と肌をふれあう事もなく、通勤できるようになりました。
To Anonymous on October 29, 2007 11:01 PM, from fetboy.
My wife's speaks for herself.
And yes, the Japanese AV videos Allie described do exist, but I am not going to provide links to them.