There was an article on here a while back I bumped on by accident, I believe (not sure) it was about the objectification of football (soccer, for yanks) players. The general idea of article was that the objectification was fine because men had been doing it for so long that it was time to 'draw even'. I remember…
I got them both, they interlink many articles anyway, so I would have found them that way. But thanks!
Thanks for the links!
First of all, thanks for replying! I think its very interesting to have a discussion from the 'other' side. I think its pretty cool that you are a feminist why tries to understand other viewpoints as well.
I have quickly read it, his analogue about being a straight white male is good (I even love it, I game a bit myself, when I have the time), it has some major flaws. Now, I know a lot of women on this site will disagree, but in a certain way, women have the lowest difficult setting. Overall, white men get hired more…
But, what is your opinion on the whole 'men can be creeps, girls can't'? Focussing solely on the delivery method, whilst entertaining, does not further the discussion.
I, for example, also used to be an enormous, enormous comma addicted, who wrote extremely long sentences using commas as pauses, thinking a long sentence, however cumbersome, was much more beautiful than a short one was. Thank god my language teacher got that out of the way pretty quick by giving me low grades for…
I'll admit that you definitely have made me consider toning down on the quotation marks. Thanks for the lesson. (Oh how it is humbling to take the high ground, then be brought down in the process..)
So... by your logic, complaining about slut-shaming is dumb as well, because girls haven't really thought a whole lot about how the world works for nongirls? (e.g. being called 'a wild one' is not on par with 'not having easy access to sex')
Since you lot seem so hell-bent on derailing, lets do it!
Here the apostrophes are used because some might think sneaking in a look or a covert photo is not so wrong. For those, worse is too strong a word. If it were a conversation, you would say: "Worse.. well, not really (implying worse is too strong a word), but you know what I mean (implying you meant something that is…
I am not justifying anything. The problem is that men get called out for being creeps, and women don't.
Because most people don't literally drool when they see an attractive person of the other gender. Never had writing class, did you? To make sure you understand it in the future: You put something (usually a verb) between apostrophes when it is not literally so.
In fact, I just googled 'upskirts', and I'll be damned: the whole first page is only results of 'xvideos', 'ooo-sex', and 'fucked-tube'. I am sure there are 'real' upskirt sites, but they aren't nearly as big as you think.
However, those do not pretend to be anything else. They are full-on 'porn' sites. ('xxx upskirts here! huge sluts! €1,99 p/month!'. Meanwhile, TubeCrush seems to have a vibe along the lines of 'tee-hee, nothing wrong with snapping a few pics of this hottie, unbeknownst to him'.
*Sigh*.
