Somebody call Veet, because we have their new ad campaign right here!

I *love* putting together IKEA furniture! It's like a puzzle that you do with a hammer! What's not to love?

In that case, sorry about jumping on you... I was so confused!

I think you are baiting me, but I'll respond anyway.

I suppose that makes "sense" (as much sense as anything that has to do with child labor).

80%? Really? I imagined that at least 30% were children!

Protestants are not taught to take the Old Testament literally. I was raised Lutheran and we were taught that both creation accounts in Genesis are symbolic of different aspects of creation (seven days-creation of the physical, three days-the creation of man's mind) and the time scale is 100% metaphorical. I have…

He sounds like a character out of a Joyce Carol Oates story!

I don't think that they are worried that their kids will be weirded out or scared by a homosexual couple, I think they are shit scared that their kids will realize that there is nothing wrong with being gay. It's so much easier to demonize a group you don't come into contact with.

Yeah, that title is not okay for so many reasons...

Yup, my math teacher in high school in Denmark was a bully. My first year back from California (after eight years in the Cali school system) she asked me to do a proof in front of the class. I did the proof correctly, but I forgot the Danish word for it, and called it a "proof" in front of the class. When I was all…

There are centuries of bad blood between Buddhists and Muslims. It's hard to image because Buddhists are known for being peaceful and non-missionary, but when Islam grew intolerant of other religions, Buddhists started converting Hindus and Muslims too, and violence broke out. Buddhists and Muslims have basically…

Well... Not so nice to Muslims...

I can't edit my last entry, but I just want to add that part of my statement was protecting frustration aimed at my own country onto the US. The Danish metro and buses currently have an add for plastic surgery with a giant image of a naked lady with one hand sort of covering her breasts and her other covering her…

Indececent exposure? But I guess you're right. In my brain she was just wearing a bra, but I see now that it is actually a shirt. My bad. I just wish companies could be made to live up to some sort of moral obligation (to not profit off identity crises and body dysmorphia that they atære responsible for creating)

As far as free speech and freedom of expression are concerned, I think it is worth noting that individual citizens would not be allowed to dress like that in a subway. Why should companies be permitted to use a woman's body in the name of making a profit in a way that the actual woman isn't permitted to use her body…

Agreed. I think advertisements like this should be removed for being objectifying and detrimental to girls' body-image, not for being revealing.

It really is! And the Pepsi vs. Cola feud from ten years ago still works on me to such an extent that when I see a Pepsi bottle or the Pepsi logo, it makes me want a Cola.

I think the argument would be that it isn't worse for the victim but it is worse for society. I would compare it to cop killing. Killing a police officer is "worse" for society as a whole than killing a person who is not a cop because it shakes the authority of the police as enforcers. Similarly, an officer who abuses…

Free speech is supposed to protect speech against government and religious institutions, not to protect hate speech. I don't know what that song is if not a prime example of hate speech.