or an unnatural selection challenge: breed a smaller camel
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Or puree the camel and then pour it.
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This whole thread has devolved into a black-vs-white shouting match, with absolutists on both sides and it stinks.
The best summary could be: ham-fisted statements met with mockery and mean-spirited attacks, which in turn begat belligerence. Who could have predicted THAT?
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Unicorn break:
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a gendered product - nearly on-topicā¦
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If itās ājuniorā sizing, the XL will barely fit an average-size woman (where I am counting myself as average-sized, at 5 foot 5 and about 150.)
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I donāt think this is a good characterization or a good summary of the thread.
Let me reiterate the series of events we started with:
- A guy came into the thread to complain that this problem which pertains to essentially only women was not a real problem and should be ignored.
- A woman responded to say that since he is not a woman and therefore not affected by the problem that his opinion on it probably doesnāt rate.
- The guy recognized the privilege-based argument and tried to forestall it by derailing into a debate about the concept of privilege in general.
Then that guy and a few others doubled down on the āprivilege arguments are always invalidā bandwagon by insisting, despite all evidence to the contrary, that men are being āderided for being menā.
I think a fairer characterization of the thread is: a man objected to discussion of a feminist issue, and then objected to arguments from male privilege in general, and then threw a temper tantrum when he was challenged on it. Others backed or opposed him according to their pre-existing biases.
Maybe I am also an āabsolutistā, but Iām willing to listen to why my characterization is not accurate.
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I think you overestimate the capabilities of early 1st century CE technology, especially in a small, backward state like Palestine.
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Depending on how you decide what a āneedleā is, itās not necessarily that hard. Some British aristocrat made this needle to ensure his place in heaven (or win a bet, or something).
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Please see @anon15383236 's post above. Hint; it isnāt intended to work quite like that.
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Itās funny, the first time I heard this phrase I was on a date with a girl who wanted to reassure me that she ājust had resting bitch faceā and wasnāt disinterested in the date. I told her that I had never heard that phrase before and asked it it was a Thing. She informed me that it was more than quirky personal slang. I told her that in my opinion the vast majority of men have this, but itās not a Thing because men donāt have to smile for no reason if they donāt want to. I still hold to that idea.
I propose not naming it at all.
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Wait, I thought the purpose of the BBS was to miss the point and pull in side-topic digressions as often as possibleā¦
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I do too (and thanks for getting things back on topic).
The only reason it is a Thing for women is because their natural state in public is supposed to be a cheerful one. Which is why so many men think itās perfectly okay to tell them to put on a smile (baby!), turn that frown upside down! and so on.
Itās hilarious to see how a lot of men react when a woman turns the tables and tells THEM to put on a smile. (And please, no missing the point, guys, by telling me that you smile all the time in public, that you tell both guys and gals to smile, and so on).
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This whole thing is getting me down. Itās like someone poisoned the well but everyone would prefer to talk about how mean it is for the people who drank from that well to throw up on that guyās nice shoes.
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āYou are such an ass/idiotā faceā¦
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FWIW, there is actually a purpose to gendered t-shirts, because the womenās version has a more hourglass shape instead of being a straight drop.
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I meant something different: only female sizes are sold at all.
I didnāt get Amazonās list - the light grey looks as if it not selectable. untrue. oops.
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Making the phrase gender-neutral is one thing, but isnāt the whole premiseāthat oneās face should be reassuring to the viewer at all timesāin itself pretty stupid?
(And, come to that, isnāt that premise at least a little gendered, since we put so much more pressure on women and girls to appear conventionally attractive?)
Meanwhile, since I am a prime example of the phenomenon, I submit:
āSour Default Faceā
and
āPhysical Reality Is Inherently Irritating Faceā
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