The Gender Equality Checkpoint

[xoxoxoBruce]

At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, medal winners John Carlos and Tommie Smith gave the raised fist salute during the American national anthem as a sign of black power, and as a protest on behalf of the Olympic Project for Human Rights.

Wrong, raised BLACK GLOVED fist salute.

Watch out for mercury toxicity, it can make you do crazy things like trying to play the race card to deflect attention from an issue.

You're confused, it's John Burk playing the race card, saying because these cadets are black, they must be giving a black power or black lives matter salute.

That's what's expected of LEADERS. When their actions create controversy, the onus is on them to take the initiative and (situation permitting) explain themselves in the interest of organizational cohesion.

Respond to every shit stirrer outside the organization(Burk), for cohesion within the organization? If that were true the chiefs in the Pentagon wouldn't have time for anything else. There is absolutely nothing any person can do that can't be twisted into a controversy.

Military academies and the conventional military reflect society in general.

Piss poor example of leadership.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The new US $20 bill.

[sexobon]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Wrong, raised BLACK GLOVED fist salute.

You're confused, it's John Burk playing the race card, saying because these cadets are black, they must be giving a black power or black lives matter salute.Respond to every shit stirrer outside the organization(Burk), for cohesion within the organization? If that were true the chiefs in the Pentagon wouldn't have time for anything else. There is absolutely nothing any person can do that can't be twisted into a controversy.Piss poor example of leadership.

Yes dear.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Real leadership...

[sexobon]

Real leadership is holding everyone to the same standard and not making exceptions for small groups of the same race, religion, gender...etc. because it becomes politically incorrect.

In your depiction of real leadership, everyone who needs to have their thoughts about race changed is white. You probably didn't even notice because ...

You're brainwashed.

Probably pussywhipped too; but, that's OK 'cause you're a short-timer.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Of course they're white, the black, brown, yellow, beige, plaid, and red people can't be prejudice, they told me so.
But when that was drawn, it was white people keeping black people out of the military.
Brainwashed? Yes, I have a clean mind.
Pussywhipped? Not a chance, that's why there's none in my life.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Menstrual Panties from Bloody Mary's have a detachable heating pouch, and a large selection of faces in the crotch you can bleed on.

[DanaC]

That's a genius idea

[infinite monkey]

That's kind of, um, disgusting and offensive. imho

[DanaC]

Oh, absolutely. But also genius.

[xoxoxoBruce]

From the home of a giant porn industry.

A Japanese artist who made a kayak modelled on her vagina has been found guilty of breaking the country’s obscenity laws, in a case that has invited widespread ridicule of attitudes towards images of female genitalia.

Megumi Igarashi, who works under the pseudonym Rokudenashiko – or good-for-nothing girl – was arrested in July 2014 after she distributed data that enabled recipients to make 3D prints of her vagina.

The 44-year-old was fined 400,000 yen (£2,575), half the penalty demanded by prosecutors, at the Tokyo district court on Monday after she was convicted of distributing “obscene” images. She was cleared of another charge of displaying similar material.

Igarashi distributed the data to help raise funds to create a kayak inspired by her genitalia she called “pussy boat”.

link

[DanaC]

From the country that brought you restaurants where food is eaten from the naked body of a woman, and where the most sexualised imagery is of childlike teens.

[DanaC]

The other side of the gender coin...

We talk an awful lot about, and indeed society has historically been very interested in defining, femininity, both in terms of setting and policing those definitions, and breaking down and challenging them. In recent years, there has been an increase in the conversation around defiing masculinity, or more properly, masculinities. Certainly as an area for historical and sociological study, it is a rapidly growing and developing field.

I really love the study of masculinities - having first encountered it via the historical study of gender and femininity, it really struck a chord with me. When 'women's studies' first started to take hold, and then 'gender studies' grew out of that, there was a tendency to see masculinity as somehow natural and unchanging, with femininity differentiated and imposed. Likewise, in the period I study (18th and early 19th centuries) there was a huge amount of discourse about 'the Sex', i.e women. Hundreds of thousands of words were published attempting to define womanhood, often in direct counterpoint to manliness. And historians for a long time, took as read that manliness had always been more or less the same, with only minor distinctions between one period and another. Men were the constant against which the shifting face of woman was measured. In recent decades that has changed and more and more academic discourse focused on how men conceive of their own masculinity, and how masculinity is perfomed and understood. The contextual and often contested nature of gender has now been expanded to include masculinity. I find it utterly fascinating.

So, I was quite excited to see Grayson Perry's new documentary series exploring modern masculinities. I highly recommend it, if you can find it. It's called Grayson Perry: All Man.

Here's a nice interview with Perry about his new series: (am hoping this plays outside the uk)

[Undertoad]

It does, I watched it, very interesting stuff.

On the things that our cultures are different on, it's interesting how they are damn near identical on how age 13-14 goes for boys. A biology that somehow you need relief from. Yes you have to be a level of macho, yes it's practically policed. I don't know anywhere this doesn't happen, does anyone else?

It's like, y'ever watch animals fight, for no particular reason? It's always when the rut begins.



BTW this is also why men can fuck each other up and then say good game at the end of it. Hey we had to get into it. It's the rut. But you're a good guy. That was some good antler spiking you got in.

[classicman]