Feminism Catch-All (with FAQ)

realityhack wrote:
LarryC wrote:

In any case, it's not true that breadwinners are limited by money from leaving an abusive relationship. They have ultimate control over that, so it's usually something else.

Wait am I reading that right? We are expressing concern of the breadwinners ability to leave an abusive relationship?
Shouldn't the concern be over non-breadwinners leaving?

Sorry I am just confused.

We were talking about when the non-breadwinner has control over the finances. For example, my mother made a good bit more than my father, but he controlled everything, including finances. Sure, money wasn't the only factor; mere control over the finances does not constitute abuse.

We were expressing a traditional setup where the homeowner is a position contrasted to the breadwinner - one makes the money, but it belongs to the other as a matter of course.

As another data point, there is also another piece of advice many Filipino women receive in marriage - never be dependent on one breadwinner. That is, take the money, but also make sure you can live without it. This usually means a part time job, a small business, or both. It is traditional for most homeowners to have supplementary sources of income. The majority of small to medium businesses in the country are owned and operated by women.

This state of affairs reinforces the traditional view that women are more responsible with money. It is easier to get a loan for a small business if you're a woman.

Ladies, do you know when the STFU?

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DanB wrote:

Ladies, do you know when the STFU?

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6 Ways To Have More Confidence Right Now

1. Throw this magazine in the garbage.

DanB wrote:

Ladies, do you know when the STFU?

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This is a perfect example of how feminism helps women and men.

"Do you know when to shut up?" is a question we should be asking all of our children. And teens. And adults.

Gravey wrote:
DanB wrote:

Ladies, do you know when the STFU?

Check out these amazing boy's & girl's magazines!
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6 Ways To Have More Confidence Right Now

1. Throw this magazine in the garbage.

+billions and billions to that, Gravey!

I'll admit to having bought a few Teen Beat magazines when I was 12 and 13 (mostly for pictures of Wil Wheaton because I lurrrrvved him) but, those never had "Do you know when to shut up?" quizzes, or anything even vaguely Cosmo-ish when I was buying them. I can't believe sh*t like this is actually sold to young women, and it breaks my heart that these same young women are reading it and taking it at all seriously (and it angers me, too). "Be pretty with your date night hair and don't talk too much, mmmkay?"

I need to go vomit now.

Bloo Driver wrote:
DanB wrote:

Ladies, do you know when the STFU?

Check out these amazing boy's & girl's magazines!
http://whtbout2ndbrkfst.tumblr.com/p...

This is a perfect example of how feminism helps women and men.

"Do you know when to shut up?" is a question we should be asking all of our children. And teens. And adults.

Matrix Games releases a bunch of faction info for their new game Pandora: First Contact. It includes leader portraits and details for each of six factions.

Here are the first two responses:

Can you do something with Lady Vermillion's boobs? I cannot put my finger on it, but something about them is wrong. Perhaps you could spread them out and make them bigger, please. And while you are at it, you might as well jack-up the ecological gals also.

Oh and about the game, I am getting it.

I was about to post this. The boob divot is weird as hell. Also getting the game too btw.

I couldn't believe my eyes.

Haha. I see some forum user named "badken" fighting the good fight.

BadKen wrote:

Matrix Games releases a bunch of faction info for their new game Pandora: First Contact. It includes leader portraits and details for each of six factions.

Here are the first two responses:

Can you do something with Lady Vermillion's boobs? I cannot put my finger on it, but something about them is wrong. Perhaps you could spread them out and make them bigger, please. And while you are at it, you might as well jack-up the ecological gals also.

Oh and about the game, I am getting it.

I was about to post this. The boob divot is weird as hell. Also getting the game too btw.

I couldn't believe my eyes.

What the heck is a boob divot? Is that what you get when you swing a sex toy too hard?

Ego Man wrote:

What the heck is a boob divot? Is that what you get when you swing a sex toy too hard?

It's bad form to not replace your divots.

It looks like a UV mapping issue on the model, so it looks like her top is tucked into her cleavage. It is an actual bug and rather obvious, and I can see bringing it up. There's definitely a lot more about her to talk about than that, though, judging by reading her description.

The bit about how they should make the other gal more busty is really annoying.

Sounds like Matrix could learn from Crytek:

Male soldiers in Crytek's huge free-to-play online shooter Warface are depicted realistically but, comparatively, female soldiers are not. Their proportions are exaggerated, their clothing is revealing - they're sexualised.

They're that way because a male-dominated audience asked for them to be. And while Crytek recoiled at the "considerably more extreme" requests, applying an authenticity filter to rule out things such as high heels, impractical open-chested combat fatigues exposing plenty of cleavage were kept in.

And, thankfully, first comment:

How about a toggle between realistic and sexualised? The catch being that the toggle applies to both male and female characters.
Ego Man wrote:

What the heck is a boob divot? Is that what you get when you swing a sex toy too hard?

There is a weird divot in her chest. I think it's just a bad character model. Honestly, they all look really bad.

I don't see why that's a catch. That's a feature!

iaintgotnopants wrote:
Ego Man wrote:

What the heck is a boob divot? Is that what you get when you swing a sex toy too hard?

There is a weird divot in her chest. I think it's just a bad character model. Honestly, they all look really bad.

QFT. There are glaring problems with all of the renders/models, that silver scientologist lady's clothing divot being the worst.

And turning to the music industry, a danceable takedown by Lily Allen: "It's Hard Out Here (For A Female Doggo)"

First comment on Slate's article about this video - "I didn't know Lily Allen looked like a fat Mexican!"

It's like some sort of art, I just don't know what kind.

IMAGE(http://www.explosm.net/db/files/Comics/Rob/rolls.png)

Just when I got over my huge Lily Allen crush, she goes ahead and acts all smart and sexy and awesome in that videoclip.

DAMN YOU ALLEN!

dejanzie wrote:

Just when I got over my huge Lily Allen crush, she goes ahead and acts all smart and sexy and awesome in that videoclip.

DAMN YOU ALLEN!

IMAGE(http://i2.cdnds.net/13/21/618x436/lily-allen-alfie-allen.jpg)

Actually, I don't really dig Allen's music, but I loved that song & video.

Eva Earlong wrote:

Speaking of music videos exploiting black women's bodies.

Stephanie Phillips, a member of Blackfeminists.org wrote:

“Young women need to know what a relationship is really about and what respect is, which should be taught in schools at home.”

FTFH

Ideally, it would be taught both at home and in schools, but really, it should start at home.

Stephanie Phillips, a member of Blackfeminists.org wrote:

“Young women need to know what a relationship is really about and what respect is, which should be taught in schools at home.”

FTFH

Ideally, it would be taught both at home and in schools, but really, it should start at home.[/quote]
Sure Ideally. Unfortunately for many youth there isn't a good home environment to learn from, and in school you can control the message as opposed to entertainment media and crap people post online.
I would have scratched out "women" and replaced it with "people".

realityhack wrote:
sometimesdee wrote:
Stephanie Phillips, a member of Blackfeminists.org wrote:

“Young women need to know what a relationship is really about and what respect is, which should be taught in schools at home.”

FTFH

Ideally, it would be taught both at home and in schools, but really, it should start at home.

Sure Ideally. Unfortunately for many youth there isn't a good home environment to learn from, and in school you can control the message as opposed to entertainment media and crap people post online.
I would have scratched out "women" and replaced it with "people".

True.

Meet the Staff of "the leading communications provider to South East England".

BadKen wrote:

Meet the Staff of "the leading communications provider to South East England".

I was scrolling through that, wondering what it was I am supposed to "get" here, and then when I hit the bottom, I literally let out a low, sad chuckle and said "oh" out loud.

Slow sad facepalm.