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The theme of this particular outrage fits a pattern I see each time a complaint about something like this is issued. The offended party looks at an isolated moment and not the context of the story that moment is encased inside. Take Sleeping Beauty, for instance. On the outside looking in the moment could seem the equivalent of a man kissing a woman who is not aware of him in a coma or deep sleep, which is most certainly creepy. When you actually lean on the context of the story, however, things change. The prince isn't some sexual creep sneaking a kiss, he's a man who is helping to lift a sinister and debilitating curse from a woman and literally saving her life from an existence of oppression that she'd have suffered under forever without him. If anything the Sleeping Beauty story is about liberation and not a man's desire to objectify or disadvantage a woman and I wouldn't mind having kids pay attention to that message.
But those who are too dim or lazy to look at the context of the story and the kiss itself are doomed to look at the gender politics of it that they are blurring in their delusion in order to convey that they have an actual argument where there is none. I just hope this woman was able to find a safe space before she had a mental breakdown.
That's the biggest load of ballcocks I've seen in a long time.
My best friend is an Elementary School teacher and you wouldn't believe the bullshit he has to put up with-- all from these kids parents!
Quite, @barryt007, and I'm personally near sworn against the idea entirely. Brings the phrase "the sin of parenthood" to mind.
What abour her Schuberts?
US-Air-Force-Base-in-West-Germany clowns.
EDIT: Whoops, meant to say, anti-clownist! :)) Just throwing labels out there, not to make myself feel self-righteous or anything!
I'm an in transition clown. I wear the silly wig and nose but I just don't have the time like Rog when a nuclear bomb is ticking down to do the full makeup. But hopefully soon I'll get the full operation to cut my nose off and have a red one grafted on and have my face permanently tattooed white.
Are you sure you want to do that, @TheWizardOfIce? A large portion of those who undergo clown reassignment surgery regret it in the end and wish they'd stayed with the temporary regalia of the non-committal party clown. Besides, which bathroom would you use if you got the surgery? No party clown wants to take a leak and find a clown in full transition at the urinal next to them, and those who were born as clowns certainly would look down on a party clown who surgically modified themselves to be one of them. It would be tantamount to trespassing, beyond being odd and offensive.
If you don't think this decision through I'm afraid you'll end up with more than pie on your face.
Not to mention Pat Fearing...
Once it starts they'll all be coming out of the woodwork:
Tania - slap round the chops.
Dink - see above.
Pussy - forces himself on her with no consent.
Pat - forces himself on her with no consent.
Marie - Attempted strangulation.
Tiffany - slap round the chops.
Rosie - threatened with a gun.
Solitaire - conned into sex as much as if he'd given her rohypnol.
Andrea - smacked about and arm nearly broken.
To be fair he has largely reformed himself in the last few decades but that makes no difference really. Bond is an absolute monster.
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I fear a nightmarish time when, on dates between aspiring lovers, men will only be afforded a five foot pool with which they can gently scrape the top of a woman's hand as they sit the mandatory 6 feet away at the table (you know, to avoid any actual contact), during which the man is only allowed to say, "You look...interesting" lest he use any actual adjectives that were overly positive or even generally affirmative in nature that are considered too sexist or harassing to employ in any kind of romantic setting without coming off as a serial rapist.
I think we're now so suffocated by these petty gender wars and double-standard issues of sexism and PC focused language that we've actually begun to think like the dingbats who chose to be outraged at the start simply because we're drowning in it day in and day out with little relief. While people are busy protesting a kiss in ""The Sleeping Beauty" and labeling the kind comments of men towards women as objectifying we've got actual Harvey Weinsteins out there doing actual harm to women physically and psychologically. I dare say the fight for female empowerment and against abuse and harassment in all its forms should be more focused than it has been. Less on the trivialities or innocuous parts of life, and more on the earnest and harmful.
I consider the human species very lucky that those of much tougher generations didn't have the liquid intellect and weak stomachs or tolerances (and a deficit of a sense of humor) as we've seen in those of the current age. I fear our species wouldn't have gotten very far at all otherwise. The colonial Americans would've been too tearfully upset about what King Georgie was doing to them to revolt, and the leaders in actual feminine empowerment like Susan B. Anthony would've foregone earning women important human rights and instead satisfied themselves with man hating and playing the victim like it was their occupation. Greater people have faced much sterner and riskier conflicts to give us the kinds of freedoms and world we live in today, and we're really squandering it.
I have felt this too in discussions with people. Basically that a lot of people I know avoid even saying anything about certain topics because they know what they'll get in reactions or looks, etc. Not to say that their views are controversial, it's just that we're now in a time where you run the risk of being called sexist for so much as telling a feminist-minded girl that she has beautiful eyes. Where college campuses are attempting to outlaw words like "crazy" or "lame" for their devastatingly offensive (?) nature. Where the words of so many people are micro-analyzed for hints or subtext of sexism, racism or bigotry where none ever existed in the first place by all likelihood.
If these people took their heads out of their asses long enough their brains could get the vital oxygen they need to function properly and employ rational and critical thinking. Maybe that's why so many of their outrage-filled complaints come off as brain-dead ramblings of madmen and women for those of us who have held on to sanity and common sense by whatever miracle through it all.
If that is the list of offences leveled at Bond, and we are in 2017, then just the allegation from Tania alone, would be enough to destroy Bonds career.
*in the voice of Richard O'Brien* "Would you start the witch hunt, please."