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Warpy

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4. And the backlash is getting stronger

Reply to seabeyond (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 15, 2014, 07:56 PM

Feb 2014

Look at the way they posed those thong clad women on the cover of SI. There had to be some serious photoshopping going on, that degree of lordosis is life threatening. The cover, with the models thong clad and topless, was porn. Soft porn, yes, but porn.

The better we do at being fully human, the more they try to objectify us into adolescent fantasy comic book women, Photoshopped into contortions the human body does not do while enlarging tits and especially ass and narrowing the waist to the point that internal organs would be bruised by it in real life.

At least there are real world men who get the point. If you know them, treasure them.

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Gender roles [View all] HockeyMom Feb 2014 OP

exactly hockey it is bullshit. and it is being sung loudly in every corner. all the time media seabeyond Feb 2014 #1

And the backlash is getting stronger Warpy Feb 2014 #4

exactly. this reducing a woman merely to a fuck is really the only thing that is left. seabeyond Feb 2014 #13

+ eleventy thousand! Squinch Feb 2014 #2

That's probably because they are kids LittleBlue Feb 2014 #3

In practice, "eliminating gender roles" means "no pretend guns, no running and no competition". lumberjack_jeff Feb 2014 #5

cause really, no girl plays with guns, runs or competes. makes me a boy. nt seabeyond Feb 2014 #6

Skyrocketing male suicide rates have everything to do with gender roles. NuclearDem Feb 2014 #11

If so, then it's reasonable to ask what we were doing right in 1955. lumberjack_jeff Feb 2014 #12

Or figure out what drove them to suicide in the first place NuclearDem Feb 2014 #19

actually, from what i understand is our girls attempt suicide more, the boys are more effective. and seabeyond Feb 2014 #14

Or at least Jamaal510 Feb 2014 #7

my son at 19 is finding that has very much changed. i hope so. agreed. these are learned, seabeyond Feb 2014 #8

I agree 1000words Feb 2014 #9

many people, especially a strong push from men, believe it is innate and they are not conditioned seabeyond Feb 2014 #15

My husband's a pro athlete in a sport that's completely gender neutral riderinthestorm Feb 2014 #10

i was raised as a person, not a gender. my challenge in adult life, seabeyond Feb 2014 #16

Oh sea... still holding my breath about my wild child but maybe there's light? riderinthestorm Feb 2014 #20

wowsers.... seabeyond Feb 2014 #21

I know you and your brother's story which is why I was so open riderinthestorm Feb 2014 #22

as always.... seabeyond Feb 2014 #24

BRAVO! redqueen Feb 2014 #17

I really don't have anything to add... one_voice Feb 2014 #18

A family after my heart :) nt arthritisR_US Feb 2014 #23

Im of the opinion LostOne4Ever Feb 2014 #25