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SemperEadem

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5. well put

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Wed Jan 9, 2013, 07:33 AM

Jan 2013

when a woman is being called a bitch, slut or a whore because she dressed a certain way, or was out at a particular place, or she acted a certain way, those words are the mechanism to strip the humanity away in order to justify treating that woman like an object to be used and discarded... after all, if she isn't a human but a thing, then she doesn't have to be treated like a human.

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Dress code? [View all] ashling Jan 2013 OP

EXACTLY!! SkyDaddy7 Jan 2013 #1

K&R n/t JoeyT Jan 2013 #2

As a man, yes that offends me... Flying Squirrel Jan 2013 #3

problem is SOME ARE incapable of control that's why it happens in the 1st place and as a leftyohiolib Jan 2013 #4

Some choose not to excercise self control. N/t whopis01 Jan 2013 #8

well put SemperEadem Jan 2013 #5

Kick! Heidi Jan 2013 #6

Hear, hear! K&R! nt Mnemosyne Jan 2013 #7

OK, go to Riyadh, put on a Bikini, and enter a mosque. FarCenter Jan 2013 #9

That's a whole 'nother kettle of fish ashling Jan 2013 #10