And what brings Americans together? The Superbowl, a very violent game (Reply #3)

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Fri Feb 1, 2013, 11:55 AM

flamingdem (39,202 posts)

3. And what brings Americans together? The Superbowl, a very violent game

that features sexist and racist advertising and after which the incidence of abuse of women skyrockets, depending on if the abuser's team wins or not

RAH RAH

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32 replies	Author	Time	Post
Mass Killings: Why American Men Are "Going Postal" [View all]	sinkingfeeling	Feb 2013	OP
The last paragraph really sums it up well ... and then people wonder why ...	RKP5637	Feb 2013	#1
Something seems missing...	Eleanors38	Feb 2013	#2
This sounds like a Fox "News" transcript	Doctor_J	Feb 2013	#6
Don't watch that stuff like some. Anything relevant, otherwise?	Eleanors38	Feb 2013	#25
No, if that were it non-whites and non-males would have been massacreing people for centuries (nt)	Recursion	Feb 2013	#8
I sure have noticed that DU's who claim male victimhood	BlancheSplanchnik	Feb 2013	#10
Plus a gazillion...	pkdu	Feb 2013	#30
Care to name some examples?	Blue_Tires	Feb 2013	#15
And what brings Americans together? The Superbowl, a very violent game	flamingdem	Feb 2013	#3
I'm not surprised	BlancheSplanchnik	Feb 2013	#9
"The decisions to export American jobs were based solely on corporate profit...	antigop	Feb 2013	#4
Where is Hate Radio/ Fox "News" in the equation?	Doctor_J	Feb 2013	#5
yes, they give 'permission' (by example) to be callous and angry	BlancheSplanchnik	Feb 2013	#11
Is the gun a God	Big_Harry	Feb 2013	#7
I read here that 203 people were shot yesterday, were the killers all white?	just1voice	Feb 2013	#12
Article is limited to mass murders and even defines it.	sinkingfeeling	Feb 2013	#13
Do they explain why the mass murders done by those who are not white males don't count?	Bluenorthwest	Feb 2013	#16
You obviously didn't even bother to read the first paragraph.	sinkingfeeling	Feb 2013	#17
Yes I did.	Bluenorthwest	Feb 2013	#19
Ft Hood, Palestinian/American. DC shooters, African American...	Bluenorthwest	Feb 2013	#20
Slightly more are black than white...	bobclark86	Feb 2013	#14
This thread was opened in 'good reads' to discuss the article. It's about mass murder.	sinkingfeeling	Feb 2013	#18
I have a simpler answer	Demo_Chris	Feb 2013	#21
I think you've summed it up.	alarimer	Feb 2013	#32
The white males who go postal are often highly intelligent.	undeterred	Feb 2013	#22
It is the definition of power	felix_numinous	Feb 2013	#23
What felix_numinous said.	love_katz	Feb 2013	#31
This sentence says it all:	Brigid	Feb 2013	#24
+100	lunasun	Feb 2013	#28
Women and minorities are disproportionately badly affected by the economy.	yardwork	Feb 2013	#26
Styx, "I'm just a prisoner in a king's disguise . . . "	patrice	Feb 2013	#27
Pieces of Eight	patrice	Feb 2013	#29

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