MalibuChloe
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Sun Aug-28-05 09:37 PM
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Hurricane Katrina has done one good thing... |
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She's gotten rid of that stupid freeper rumor that liberals insisted that hurricanes no longer be named after women.
Anyone else heard that one?
Idiots.
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Siyahamba
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Sun Aug-28-05 09:42 PM
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1. Let's call the next one Hurricane Ann |
petronius
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Sun Aug-28-05 09:47 PM
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2. That's a new one for me |
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In the past, they were all named for women, but I doubt the inclusion of men was some sort of 'librul' crusade...
Still, there's no accounting for the freeper "mind".
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sandnsea
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Sun Aug-28-05 09:49 PM
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It was feminists that insisted hurricanes not be named after women, which is why we have the male/female system we have now. Seems like that happened back in the 70's some time.
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SheilaT
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Sun Aug-28-05 10:31 PM
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4. 1979 was the first year |
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men's names were also used.
As a female, it made me crazy growing up that hurricanes only had female names. It certainly felt to me as if there were a subtext of women being this violent and crazy.
Speaking as a feminist, of course.
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