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by Thundercloud on 01:13 PM April 12th, 2006 EST (#1)
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Yes, I agree that the term "girl power" has the same connotation as the Arian nation's "White power".
As a person of color, I get the same ominous, hair raising feeling from "Girl power" as I do "White power".
Two different groups but with the same agenda. Empowerment beyond their own constitutional rights and the subjugation of others.
As far as Pink is concerned, She is just another vapid, empty headed American female that has been fed a bill of goods and has a "Liberal" message.
She is cheap, trite and as banal as they come.
She demands that women "think for themselves" but apparently from her message she does not practice what she preaches.
I wish American females WOULD start thinking for themselves. We'd all be a lot better off, if they did. But alas, they tend to let feminists, "celebrities" and the mass media do their thinking for them.
Thundercloud.
"Hoka hey!"
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by TachyonMale on 03:47 PM April 12th, 2006 EST (#2)
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Some extracts:
The 15-year-old said she often feels the pressures to emulate Hollywood beauty.
But she acknowledged the girls would have a tough time in today's world
When is it going to occur to women that Hollywood exerts equal pressure on males. Sure, girls feel they have to be skinny, like celebrities, but what about boys? Surely they are pressured to look like the typical Hollywood hero.
On the topic of boys, Pink told the students to force them "to deal with our minds before our bodies."
I'm sure they will, once women decide to deal with our rights too.
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by Thundercloud on 12:04 PM April 13th, 2006 EST (#3)
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I have no problem with Pink saying boys should deal with girl's minds before their bodies. As long as girls are told to do the same with boys.
And yes, boys are also pressured to look a certain way by Hollywood, just as girls are.
As I've said before; how many "soap opera Hunks" do you see with reseeding hair lines and pot-bellies?
Oh, yeah, that would be NONE!
How many "Hunks" on romance novels are overweight and suffering from rosacea?
Again,: NONE!
Who are the "Male sex symbols" that women swoon over? They are the likes of Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Ben Affleck, etc. NONE of them are balding or over weight, are they?
In fact men who are balding and over weight are nearly ALWAYS depicted as "less worthy" and as buffoons. Over weight women are usually treated sympathetically.
Men suffer from the same pressure as women (Maybe more). We men just generally don't get so all bent out of shape over it. (no pun intended)
Thundercloud.
"Hoka hey!"
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by Thundercloud on 11:55 AM April 14th, 2006 EST (#6)
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scudsucker-
Thanks. That T-shirt is both disturbing and funny.
Or maybe disturbingly funny?
Thundercloud.
"Hoka hey!"
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by oregon dad on 12:45 AM April 14th, 2006 EST (#5)
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We need to get VAWA updated with definitions supporting this fact.
In many cases, it is the NAGGING that is the emotional abuse.
Also, charging items when there is not enough money in the bank acount - this is also Domestic Violence in the form of FINANCIAL ABUSE.
Time for hardball boys!!
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by khankrumthebulgar on 11:46 AM April 16th, 2006 EST (#7)
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When I was in High School we did not have Brain Dead Attention whores from the Entertainment Industry speak to us. We had a former Decathalon Champion, an Astronaut, A Scientist at NASA, a Martial Arts Demonstration, etc. Seems education is so debased now that we must put Cartoons in our Textbooks, have idiots in the Music Industry lecture our children. Or brain Dead idiots like Cameron Diaz who spoke at Stanford.
I had the privledge of Speaking withe Moshe Dayan Defense Minister of Israel, Dr. Kissinger, Dr. Eward Teller all due to the fact my Father was the President of a National Management Association group for a Defense Contractor. A close Family Friend was chief of Staff for J.Edgar Hoover, Special Agent Bill Hurley with the FBI.
Who I found out recently was Associated with the Majestic 12 program. Yeah that program. All I knew about Mr. Hurley was he liked to raise flowers and his wife Elsie was very sweet.
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by Thundercloud on 12:20 PM April 18th, 2006 EST (#8)
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I got to meet the Lone Ranger when i was a kid.
I'm serious. I actually met Clayton Moore. We were friends for some time after that. I talked to him on the phone just before his death several years ago.
He always taught to do the right thing and never give up.
And what do people like Pink teach? Nothing even close to the values ol' Keemosabe taught.
Apparantly the only thing Pink, and others like her, teach is discrimination towards males.
Thundercloud.
"Hoka hey!"
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