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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAh... The Holidays... Nothing Says "Merry Christmas" More Than DU Gender Wars...
GReedDiamond
(5,299 posts)...that sounds like it could be the title of a "reality" show on A&E.
Anyway, Happy Holidays.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)And Happy Holiday to you and yours !!!
Sincerely!
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)If I get called for one more jury...
WillyT
(72,631 posts)BTW... I LOVED your pics on the Polar Jump for the Special Oympics !!!
Well done!
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)It's always a fun event and makes me really proud of my fellow Alaskans. Special Olympics is one of the few charities I still give to.
Harmony Blue
(3,978 posts)I will go behind my couch.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)redqueen
(115,096 posts)and the rates of which sex is abused, raped, and killed by the other to see who's winning.
I guess we should stop fighting the class war, too... just causes too much ruckus.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)Nor trying to shut down discussions of strategies that would help...
It's just that... so many of these discussions end up in a place where no solutions are agreed to, let alone offered.
More of a vent fest, than solution driven.
Hope you season is fulfilling.
redqueen
(115,096 posts)It's sad that people work so hard to ensure such discussions are more heat than light... but that's their goal, to shut discussions down. I don't intend to let them win.
I'm having my share of frustrations (ice storm delaying shipments, computer problems, etc) but my season is so blissful ... the best in years, I hope yours is the same.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)Especially if one is in a hurry. I think any subject where there is past pain involved is going to have a lower flash point.
The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)Did you see 'The Hobbit'? All white men who went on 'an adventure' to steal and kill. I stared at the screen for almost 3 hours (I mind raped the whole world of middle earth I guess) cheering on the terrorists who wanted to kill the poor dragon (paging peta - how was that dragon treated on the set?).
Bilbo finds a ring that makes him invisible. What that means is marriage to a woman, or so the author thinks, makes men invisible - but instead he made women invisible in the book/movie. Just like he did with Sauron. So he thinks women are evil and want to control men through a ring.
The ring drove gollum mad. Which means marriage is bad, which, as noted, is another reason for lack of women in the movie/book.
The only way to save Middle Earth was for two men to work together to destroy the ring (gay marriage?).
Life is really complex - I am grateful to those here who show us daily all the things we have missed.
Notice the only one wearing dresses were scary wizards? Someone said there was an elf lady in the movie, but I looked away to save her from my gaze (or part of me might have turned to stone).
I have my own 3d sexism glasses now and can better see it everywhere. And let's not forget Gandalf and how he wrapped his hand around that long, hard, staff. It held power and magic.
Harmony Blue
(3,978 posts)the female character felt more of the protagonist propelling the story then Bilbo himself at times. Nothing like the book.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Keep trying though.
Squinch
(50,774 posts)Just trying to help out.
SirRevolutionary
(579 posts)in celebration of Festivus?
Happy Festivus all!
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)If I squint my eyes and look at the Christmas lights, it looks like explosions.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)back when they had cooties.
Come to think of it, that was the last time... until I came to DU
Merry Christmas, Willy!
WillyT
(72,631 posts)Merry Christmas To You, LittleBlue !!!
madinmaryland
(64,920 posts)With the obligatory smoking and screaming kids.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)madinmaryland
(64,920 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)madinmaryland
(64,920 posts)rrneck
(17,671 posts)Hat tip to rug.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)Thank you for that !!!
marmar
(76,985 posts)....... I'm retreating to Good Reads, Public Transportation & Smart Growth, Socialist Progressives and Sports until this dies down.
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)Merry Crisis!
NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)What if gender issues are only being used by a specific, select group to bully their targets?
This is DU. This is a progressive community. By and large, despite gender, there is little gap between the way most of us think of gender issues and how we should treat each other. I think that the idea that there is some overall gender war on DU is just a myth (or at least contrary to my experience). To the outside observer or newcomer, sure, I understand why they'd think that. Stirred shit rolls downhill I suppose.