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  1. Alceste

    Woman shot and killed for refusing to give man her phone number

    OK, folks who are not feminists, out with you. You know who you are. This is a purple DIR. To the OP, what a tragedy this is. :( I'm so sorry for her kids, fiance and family. I completely agree with your observation that male sexual entitlement played a part in this shooting, as it did for that...
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    Sex Object Test

    I don't think any of them are, to be honest. Once again, they're just ordinary pictures of women. I'm starting to wonder if our Badger actually watched the video. ;)
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    Sex Object Test

    I guess you never saw the ad I'm referring to, which attempted to market shampoo by having women make loud sex noises while washing their hair. I'm guessing that ad was created by a man. (A guess with a 97% chance of being correct, regardless of the ad). It sounds like you're getting worked...
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    Sex Object Test

    Sure, ad directors will try to come up with messaging that moves their target market. But what we have now is a culture of men marketing to women using depictions of women as seen by men. So, it would be like women trying to sell power tools or beer using almost nothing but soft focus images of...
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    Sex Object Test

    Exactly. The clients I worked for didn't bother trying to serve or analyze web traffic that never arrived. But one single complaint about a lack of racial diversity in our stock photos was immediately acted upon and permanently changed our approach.
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    Sex Object Test

    Sure I did. Social criticism is how we can influence other women, as well as men, and everyone else in between. It doesn't have to be dry and academic either. Literature, film, music and art can be even more effective. (And dance, right Heather?)That song "you don't have to try" is by a woman...
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    Sex Object Test

    It's not either / or. We don't have to decide whether men or women are to blame for a detrimental status quo, or whose job it is to fix the problem. We can simply acknowledge the fact that there is a problem and work together to fix it. Or work alone to at least fix whatever damage the...
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    Sex Object Test

    Here's the thing you're not getting. There is a difference between what men find sexually attractive in a woman, and what genuinely makes women feel sexy. As in, confident, capable, and beautiful, not "intellectually aware that men might want to sleep with them because they've got their baps...
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    Pediatric Association Recommends IUD Birth Control For Teens

    I think doctors should discuss all birth control options with their teenage patients, including IUDs, being completely candid about the benefits and possible side effects of each, then let the patient decide.
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    Everyday Sexism by Females

    Lol. :rolleyes:
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    Sex Object Test

    I was curious to see whether my hypothesis that the "you're too fat and terrible in bed" magazines are less profitable than mags catering more psychologically healthy women. I found this: Ahem, number 3. ;) I will deny that we are naturally inclined to objectify ourselves until the end of...
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    Sex Object Test

    I've never denied that many women have internalized the message that their personal value is contingent upon being sexually attractive to men. In fact, that's my own argument that many of the blokes debating me have denied. That's who is buying those rags - women who have accepted that the...
  13. Alceste

    The Ignorance of Atheistic Denial of God

    Yeah but if you pee with the seat down by accident, you don't end up dipping your **** in the toilet water.
  14. Alceste

    Why do people deny or have various doubts about God?

    I'm pretty sure someone already posted the wikis on the age of the earth, age of the sun, and age of the earth for you. St. Frank, maybe? But if you don't want to go back through the thread, just go to Wikipedia yourself and look it up. There's no "controversy" over what is older than what...
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    Answering a question with "google it" is self-defeating

    That doesn't annoy me half as much as people aggressively and stubbornly rejecting facts that two seconds on google can easily affirm. Who do they think they're fooling?
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    The Ignorance of Atheistic Denial of God

    It's more about the shock of falling into the bowl unexpectedly during a groggy midnight pee than about germs, at least for me. Maybe Treks is OK with turning the lights on and doing a dummy check first. Me, I prefer to pee in the dark.
  17. Alceste

    Sex Object Test

    Er, those are just pictures of women. What are you attempting to convey here? Maybe review the sexual objectification test in the OP and let me know which of the points discussed applies to these magazine covers. GQ would meet at least one of them I suppose, but it's a men's magazine. So...
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    What is Evolution Article

    If you don't believe radioactive isotopes decay at a predictable rate, how do you imagine nuclear power works? Just curious.
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    What is Evolution Article

    To contemplate it logically one must first understand it. I do understand it, and it is not a theory of origins. It is a theory of the expansion of biological diversity after self replicating life already existed. In this context, and in light of the overwhelming empirical evidence we have for...
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    What is Evolution Article

    Good, because we didn't. We are primates.
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