See my previous posts on feminism\equality.
I am, normally, solely an egalitarian but this smacks of the need for radical feminism in the form of a severe telling off if you ask me.


*By telling off I mean a poke in the eye and by poke in the eye i mean a thorough ramming with a broken glass covered pole.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Wed 21 Apr 2010, 11:45, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

As in all things, we need to surge towards the other end of the scale before we slowly settle back to what is right and just.
I suggest they are pelted with stones every time they deem to look at a woman.
( girlinthehole, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 11:48, Reply)

hm actually I don't think the scales have actually drifted that far
David Mitchell (who I don't even really like) made an absolutely excellent point in a paper I don't even really like. In key things women are still disenfranchised www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/18/students-pole-dancing-david-mitchell
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 11:59, Reply)

I think what they mean is ......
By taking something sexually demeaning like pole dancing in a club and turning it into a fitness routine then you turn the act itself into something empowering.
( girlinthehole, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 12:06, Reply)

Well I don't want to start an argument (lies)
It's a fitness routine all well and good, keep it as that. It's most definitely not empowering and attempts to brand it as such are cynical and anti-woman. But my actual point was women still face discrimination in key areas like equal wages for an equal job, and that the media focus less on that than abnormal once-off cases where women have it better
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 12:14, Reply)

yeah
'cos like, two wrongs totally make a right. If you want an end to predjudice you don't get it by introducing more predjudice but in a different direction.
( djtrialprice, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 11:52, Reply)

No,
But I would take great satisfaction in kicking that cleric up the arse.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 11:53, Reply)

If it wasn't for the extremes some people go to to express their anger at their subjegation then nothing would change.

( girlinthehole, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 11:54, Reply)

tell that to
Mohandas Gandhi
( djtrialprice, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 11:55, Reply)

He's dead.
I don't think he could hear me.
( girlinthehole, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 11:56, Reply)

deadist!

( djtrialprice, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 11:57, Reply)

I know.
Bloody dead people coming over here and lying in our graves.
( girlinthehole, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 11:58, Reply)