"These 17 Ads From The Past Will Probably Disgust You. Unless You Really Hate Women."

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24. I suppose you're right

They are wearing clothing which means they can't really be important. So these women haven't quite reached the height of their potential as women, becoming porn stars and existing as mere objects of lust and rage. So you're correct. It was premature of me to think anyone would take exception to a critique of these images as opposed to the elevated genre of rape porn. Clearly for a woman to be truly liberated, she must be violated, beaten and mutilated by multiple men. Then her "choices" (never mind if she actually made a choice) serve as a smokescreen behind which a few men advance their "right" to watch the rape, beating, and mutilation of women.

Joining in this century? Funny comment. I'm not the one at war with EEOC laws or who insists a woman deserves to be fired for filing a sexual harassment claim. I'm not the one who thinks the way to meet women is to offer them $10 for a BJ. I'm not the one who bemoans the fact that more women than men are in institutions of higher learning and that women are starting to close the wage gap on men. I'm not the one who goes into a state of outrage over an anti-rape or anti-street harassment PSA. I'm not the one who is angry that the WHO releases reports on violence against women or that there even exists an International Women's Day. I guess I'm just not hip enough to the current century to realize that all of these things are an outrage against the only half of the population that matters, men.

Excuse me for not being able to tell which posts the outrage brigade are going to be up in arms over. Earlier today it was because I commented that a man who called his son evil wasn't a good parent. My mistake, I learned, was not instead condemning the dead mother, who wasn't even mentioned in the OP or article in question. Other times it's because I had the nerve to post about violence against women or a serial killer in Juarez because they aren't about male victims and therefore should not be discussed in public. It isn't exactly easy to keep up with all the ways that I'm supposed to dutifully express the inherent inferiority of women to men.

The crap that goes on here, what people have actually said, is so much worse than anything I could possibly make up. It's pretty hilarious that you take offense at that comment, but then I know the real outrage is that women like me are allowed to speak.

FYI, hundreds of DUers have spoken out about the misogyny on this site. I am hardly alone. 183 recs for this thread alone, and there have been several others recently similarly rec'd. http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1255&pid=38236