The constant attempt to portray things as balanced.
Last week a big story broke about a dentist who pulled out all of her ex's teeth in a fit of revenge or something. It was posted on DU more than once I'm sure. Anyway, it turns out it was a hoax.
Meanwhile this story was barely mentioned.
http://news.yahoo.com/cornwall-man-admits-gouging-girlfriends-eyes-005409274.html
Not at all on DU, and I didn't hear about it until just now, when someone on another feminist board mentioned it.
But of course violence against women is so commonplace, isn't it? So, I guess that makes it somehow less newsworthy?
I don't know. I'm pissed off now thinking of all the 'but men get raped too!' shit, and all the other similar crap.
We know, guys, and who is raping men the vast majority of the time? Who causes most of the violence towards men? Who is *usually* the one demeaning and berating a man for not being manly enough? OTHER MEN!
Fuck.
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especially men, with the ads i brought up. but even at that, you are right. it is not the same. but personally, i feel the men are uncomfortable and is an example that they may be able to use as a point of empathy. and that was more my purpose of the thread, was to explore that. as i replied to a poster, the thread certainly has not gone in the direction i expected. lol. 
I wasn't assuming you were doing it for any other reason. I can't imagine you would.
Ya gotta admit there is a little of that in the "newsworthiness" aspect of it. A woman serial killer, say, is the real deviant in the crowd (doubly deviant, as a woman and as a serial killer), so she makes the news bigger time.
But yes, sigh, nobody then goes around saying "See? Men bite dogs too! Dogs are victims of men! Just as much as men are victims of dogs! This proves it!", blah blah blah. It's newsworthy precisely because that isn't the case. And yeah, dogs still bite dogs a whole lot more than men bite dogs.
Speaking of fuck, for y'all's amusement:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/117237951#post43
but I just don't have a clue what your subject line is saying.
Oh, it's about the post about the leader of that liberation front in the Philippines dying? I saw the link to that here. You know what was really appalling in that thread?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014113257#post5
And nobody said a word.
By the time I saw the link from this forum it was too late to go dredging that one back up again.
just not directly. it was noticed. though it did make the duzys kinda reinforcing and validating the behavior.
we pretty much know our place when tit threads flourish, milf threads on dead people get 
, and.... well, cant even go further what i watched last night on du.
People just run around DU with their hair on fire making shit up left and right.
I trashed a couple threads that were especially heinous and spent the rest of the night practicing pole dancing and checking my tits and ass in the mirror to make sure I look hawt enough to catch me a man. (Right after I got done shopping for push up bras and false eyelashes and scheduled my bikini wax.)
Again, fuckity fuck.
You caught me right after I finally got around to changing out of my nightgown (had to get up at 6 today to finish a job due at 9 and didn't have time for primping) and putting on my support stocking (you need to be an 18-yr-old body-builder to do that without ripping your fingernails off and needing a lie-down after) before hobbling to the bathroom on my cane to don my stretchy pants and floppy top and fuzzy socks ...
Of course I'm not actually old enough to need the support stocking and cane permanently, they're just the sequelae of the snapped fibula, but hey, it's good practice.
Oh, and I'm with Clinton: I've got my long straight (thick and shiny) hair skinned back in an elastic, which is an especially unflattering look for me, but hair on my neck gives me some kind of pain/stress when I'm tired and working, and I no longer actually give much of a crap what the co-vivant sees when he looks at me. It's not like he's shaved all winter. Or maybe he has by now. I tend not to notice.
I admit, though, I dyed my eyebrows last week. I'd let them go while I was too short to look in the bathroom mirror, being in a wheelchair for 8 weeks, and I realized that one had gone almost totally white in the meantime. When your hair is still its original golden dirt colour, mostly, and your other eyebrow is still largely its original dark self, that just offends nature, I figure.
So now I'm all fixed for going out to that demo to call for all porn to be outlawed and most men to be sentenced to have big scarlet Ps tattooed on their, uh, foreheads.
Do you know you don't seem to be able to buy eyebrow dye anymore? A clever drug store cosmetics clerk suggested I try men's beard dye when this batch I have eventually runs out. Beauty tip of the day!
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