There's still the issue that, at a certain size, nothing you wear looks "appropriate," so at that point, you're telling the person that their body is not appropriate for a professional setting.
There's still the issue that, at a certain size, nothing you wear looks "appropriate," so at that point, you're telling the person that their body is not appropriate for a professional setting.
Lindy you continue to do God's work and are with the angels. I have to say though, watching the debate video, something that finally clicked with me is that the problem is not that the rape joke apologists don't understand how horrible rape is, its more that they don't realize how common it is. Like I think most…
I love Louis CK; I think he's hysterical, pun intended. Someone elsewhere brought up the difficulty of making a rape joke from a position of privilege, giving Louis CK as an example of it being done acceptably. What he did in that video is a privileged position parallel of Ever Mainard's "Here comes my rape" joke.…
I thought your debate with Jim was really interesting. You both presented intelligent arguments - but after reading the article you wrote in July of last year, (where you link to four rape jokes that you think are actually funny) it seems like what you were really unhappy with were BADLY CRAFTED jokes that discuss…
Logical Fallacies and GIGANTIC Flaws in Jim Norton's Argument*
Criticism is not the same as censorship. Comics know how to respond to criticism. Rape is triggering shame in these comics. They are coming back with censorship because they are paralyzed. They feel the shame and are trying to make it an issue of oversensitivity. Jokes that make rape funny are not jokes. They…
Badgers are true and valiant warriors and wise beyond their years. Stop spreading your slanderous lies about the noble badger!
I love it when some loser who's never seen a woman naked in real life, let alone ever got laid, prattles on about how repulsive some woman's pubic hair is.
Saying that poor white men who didn't own slaves that fought for the Confederacy fought to 'keep slavery' is about as naive as saying that young Muslim men fighting the US in Afghanistan are fighting to "keep women out of school." Sometimes there's more to it than that.