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February 4th, 2015 - 11:57 am § in Hypocrisy

South Korea debuts new parking spaces that are wide, pink, and really sexist

(Marshall Astor/Flickr) What better way to promote gender stereotypes than to paint them all over the ground in a city of 10 million people? South Korea has a message for the women of Seoul: you are bad drivers, but we care about you, so here, enjoy these new parking spaces that are wide enough to [[...]

October 29th, 2014 - 1:50 pm § in Hypocrisy, Schools & Colleges

Sex, Sexism and Soccer

Ladies football not ‘sexy’ enough for the media One paragraph with the match result – that’s what a well-known news agency devoted to the Euro 2013 semi-final between Germany and Sweden. The Local’s Patrick Reilly looks at why the women’s game doesn’t get th[...]

September 20th, 2014 - 3:06 am § in Uncategorized

Why the NFL has a problem

Society bloomed with gentler personalities and more feminine faces Modern humans appear in the fossil record about 200,000 years ago, but it was only about 50,000 years ago that making art and advanced tools became widespread. A new study appearing Aug. 1 in the journal Current Anthropology finds [...]

June 1st, 2014 - 8:57 am § in Misc.

A Response to Anthony

 Anthony, blaming Euros for responding to the hoodie is unfair. The way ANYONE chooses to dress is a form of speech.  The hoodie is no different from the Pope’s costume, an Al Quaeda face mask with Arabic,  a French maid costume, a nun’s habit, or the black coats of a radical Jew.  T[...]

February 24th, 2014 - 11:52 am § in Hypocrisy

Promoting Child Pornography in a Beauty Pageant

American Fans of These Pageants Seem Blind to The Implications For Pornography[...]

February 20th, 2014 - 1:19 pm § in Misc.

Comparing Child Beauty Pageants to Genital Mutilation

Which is Worst .. Premature Sexualization of our Girls or Muslim Traditions of Purdah and Genital Mutilation? America has developed some bizarre traditions for treatment of young girls that rival the worst of any culture.  Where once little girls were kept in costumes that restricted any sort of bo[...]

February 18th, 2014 - 11:13 am § in America, The Ave Scene

Public Child Pornography, South Carolina Style vs Northwest Style

Are there many beauty pageants, for toddlers, in Washington State? from a Yahoo Post by  Drama Mama, 4 years ago We moved from Texas and are use to doing pageants. Are there any toddler pageants in Washington State? Also, what about out of state pageants? Anyone live in Washington and are in the [...]

February 17th, 2014 - 2:41 am § in Misc.

More Kid Porn: This one from NY

What Can I Say? I am a firm believer in both the first amendment and parental authority,  Yet, in an era where we are so judgmental about child pornography read in private, what can one do about this sort of sexploitation in public? I have been pretty nasty to folks in the South, where my […[...]

December 17th, 2013 - 8:45 pm § in Misc.

How White Men Count Coup, Part 2

The Swifts Find Wives A few days ago I related the odd story of Will and Tom Swift, twin brothers greatly divided by the effects of their father’s death.  Will became “The Great Avenger,” determined to kill as many Indians as he could in revenge for the death of father Swift at the hands of [[...]

November 27th, 2013 - 12:09 pm § in Misc.

DRUDGE’s Bizzare Hypocrisy

β Award: Drudge … a site that poses as a Republican version of Huff Post has just posted this disgusting leed .. The ass holes of the right who regularly market far right pornography are calling out the NY Times for an article on the all to deadly threat of breast cancer in Jewish Women! SHA[...]