Cras wrote:
At the risk of being a guardian quoting PC monster, this is a rather good article, I feel.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... estigationQuote:
It's no secret that the Sun is part of the sexism problem rather than the solution. But what I read into its latest "investigation" – or if we call it what it is, its latest medieval public shaming of a young girl – is a stark warning.
What it says is: we get to police your sexuality. We choose what is sexually pleasing, what is provocative, where the lines lie and when they are blurred. When you're airbrushed and squeezed into a Wonderbra on a billboard in a train station, you're within our boundaries. When you're drunk or sexually aggressive or blase or, God forbid, a combination of all of these, then you're outside. You're a disgrace to yourself, your father and your country.
If you don't learn to play the game and let us tell you what you can and can't do with your hands, your mouth and your vagina, then we'll come for you. It won't be any of those men who you performed sex acts with on the dancefloor who everyone on social media is denouncing in the strongest language possible. It will be you alone who is the subject of a discussion about how British women have gone too far.
Seriously - and anyone is most welcome to disagree - I've never read such utter,
utter pish, in all my many years. This really *is* 'PC claptrap' (and yes, I know the term is oft over-used). But honestly, what else would one expect from
The Guardian?Sexism? Nope, I'm sure
The Sun would've been just as keen to report, had it been some guy going down on 24 women in a public bar, in Spain, for the princely sum of a cheap bottle of Cava.
"Shaming of a young girl" - maybe should've thought about that one before blowing two dozen random blokes, in public, in a busy bar, whilst being filmed? Amazingly, it went public.... who knew, eh?
"police your sexuality" - what the
fuck has sexuality got to do with it? No-one is getting hung up on a hetero woman giving oral sex to men - just 24 random men, in public, in someone else's country, while being filmed, for a £3 bottle of plonk. It's called minimum standards of acceptable behaviour; not acting like a total tramp in public (same goes for the guys also, though as Gnomes quite rightly points out, each of them is "only" guilty of accepting public oral sex off a single woman, not 24 of them on the bounce). Once again, the crass, sordid rep of the Brit Abroad takes yet another pasting.
"When you're airbrushed and squeezed into a Wonderbra on a billboard in a train station, you're within our boundaries. When you're drunk or sexually aggressive or blase or, God forbid, a combination of all of these, then you're outside."
Only the fecking Guardian could seriously term something like this with crass, laughably inadequate euphenisms such as "sexually aggressive" and "blase" (LOL). 'Sorry, chodding those two dozen guys in that bar, in front of all and sundry was, upon reflection, a little
blase of me'
"If you don't learn to play the game and let us tell you what you can and can't do with your hands, your mouth and your vagina, then we'll come for you."
NO ONE IS SAYING THAT, YOU BELLENDS. No one gives a toss what consenting adults may, or may not do with their parts, limbs, holes and appendages, least of all people like me. Just, um, don't do it in public bars, whilst being filmed, ideally when not staying as a guest in someone else's country, yeah?
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