Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

you quoted me and then spoke to someone else. i dont get it.

unless of course your are saying that to agree with modern medicine that both trying to be too skinny or not taking care of yourself and being too fat is actually making people be unhealthily obsessed with image. i guess you could say that. you would of course be wrong.

Cognoscente wrote:...you know who ELSE loved romantic gestures in the springtime?

I guess now, to find out what you are talking about, I'll have to find an Internet connection where youtube is not blocked.

Wait a minute, you aren't still trying to kill this thread by invoking Godwin's law, are you? Aren't you aware of Quirk's Exception?

Nanti-SARRMM wrote:I was trying to be sarcastic, and failed apparently.

" </sarcasm>," " ;) " and even the old-fashioned " j/k " have been useful to many in this endeavor.

The debate about Twilight=porn (aka Godwin's Law II) rages on. I don't deny that trashy Harlequins can verge on pornographic, but I think there'd have to be a lot more bodice-ripping for Meyer's work to qualify. It reminds me of these campaigns against faux porn (the Gold's Gym cardio cinema protests come to mind), which somehow seems to minimize the effects that actual pornography can have on either gender. I don't see the point in declaring anything that might be merely distateful "pornographic," except to make yourself seem more righteous, I suppose.

Portia wrote: " </sarcasm>," " " and even the old-fashioned " j/k " have been useful to many in this endeavor.

Yes, yes it can.

As far as the whole twilight/porn issue, I don't see it as pornographic (not unless girls start fantasizing of Edward seducing them...) just that it is crappy writing, with a crappy plot that has received far too much attention than it deserves.

Portia wrote:

Nanti-SARRMM wrote:I was trying to be sarcastic, and failed apparently.

" </sarcasm>," " " and even the old-fashioned " j/k " have been useful to many in this endeavor.

The debate about Twilight=porn (aka Godwin's Law II) rages on. I don't deny that trashy Harlequins can verge on pornographic, but I think there'd have to be a lot more bodice-ripping for Meyer's work to qualify. It reminds me of these campaigns against faux porn (the Gold's Gym cardio cinema protests come to mind), which somehow seems to minimize the effects that actual pornography can have on either gender. I don't see the point in declaring anything that might be merely distateful "pornographic," except to make yourself seem more righteous, I suppose.

I agree. The word is overused, and that weakens the word. Like the word "abusive." A woman might not like it if her husband refuses to buy her a mink coat, but that doesn't make him "abusive."

That is SO totally emotional abuse...

Men should buy their wives whatever they want whenever they want!