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.
#46795 Sexism
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I guess now, to find out what you are talking about, I'll have to find an Internet connection where youtube is not blocked.Cognoscente wrote:...you know who ELSE loved romantic gestures in the springtime?
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?
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" </sarcasm>," " ;) " and even the old-fashioned " j/k " have been useful to many in this endeavor.Nanti-SARRMM wrote:I was trying to be sarcastic, and failed apparently.
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.
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Yes, yes it can.Portia wrote: " </sarcasm>," " " and even the old-fashioned " j/k " have been useful to many in this endeavor.
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.
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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."Portia wrote:" </sarcasm>," " " and even the old-fashioned " j/k " have been useful to many in this endeavor.Nanti-SARRMM wrote:I was trying to be sarcastic, and failed apparently.
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.