There is nothing so ludicrous as the National Football League wearing pink for breast cancer awareness month.
There is nothing so ludicrous as the National Football League wearing pink for breast cancer awareness month.
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Ya know what weirds me out? Men that have shaped and waxed eyebrows. Neat and trim is one thing but shaped??
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Originally Posted by papayahed
Yep. I can't even bring myself to dye my hair after going more than half grey. Even that's too girlie for me. Waxed eyebrows?
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This brings to mind a great Brad Paisley song:There is nothing so ludicrous as the National Football League wearing pink for breast cancer awareness month.
These days there's dudes getting facials
Manicured, waxed and botoxed
With deep spray-on tans and creamy lotiony hands
You can't grip a tacklebox
With all of these men lining up to get neutered
It's hip now to be feminized
I don't highlight my hair
I've still got a pair
Yeah honey, I'm still a guy
Oh my eyebrows ain't plucked
There's a gun in my truck
Oh thank God, I'm still a guy
"...if you weren't smart enough to get a pedophile in a dress to put a small amount of water on the child’s forehead, then what the eff did you think was going to happen?
What is female - I don't think what we see as "female" was seen as female, lets say, 200 years ago, in the sense that I don't think some practices were practiced in the sense they are to day.
Take for instance the fascination with materialized appearance - a totally new invention that pervades amongst both genders - it's just capitalism, and has very little to do with "femininity" in my opinion.
Or are you implying the notion of "bravado" is somehow fading - if so, in a sense, it isn't the most lamentable of things to go.
You could perhaps argue though, of a "masculization" of the US, with women playing sports now, showing their legs, working in the work force, etc. But again, such a binary doesn't really hold any weight - it is merely that gender has been flipped upside down, and is starting to (about time I think) disappear in the traditional sense, and be replaced with a) commercialism, and b) perhaps some form of equality - albeit in baby steps.
Well JBI, my first thought, when I was watching the Sunday games, was how successful the women's movement was in constraining machisimo. My second thought was that angry Third World women had a point in saying that western feminism had failed to achieve parity, because the pink color could be seen as nothing more than a pean to placate women.
The media may practice some slight progressive tokenism by putting female correspondents down on the field to interview, but how many women have positions of power within the various team franchises? Very few. I am not saying I want to watch female footballers, American or European, go up against male players. But female coaches, general managers, that would be nice. I think I've just given myself a decent article idea and now I'm excited. I have to copy this to file.
Who really cares...
they're raising and bringing attention to a very important issue of which people, including people in my family, struggle with daily.
Pink is the colour for "breast cancer" awareness. Whose to say a man wearing it for that purpose isn't as much affected by breast cancer than a woman? e.g wife, sister, daughter
lets not forget that men also can get breast cancer.
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I am going to be horridly callous. People, at least thus far, have to die. If I turn on a football game, I want to see the Patriots get their lunch by eating turf; I want to see Dallas disgraced. I do not need to be reminded about diseases that require removal of body parts and lethal dangerous drugs circulating in my blood stream. I doubt there are very many people who aren't aware of cancer, but what you are ignorant of is truly matriculating those who live with diseases and chronic conditions.
When I came back to Philly in the 80's, I was told my wheelchair was my job security. By 2k that became a joke, and it remains a joke because Americans really don't care, don't want to see, and actually like social segregation. The NFL should stick to football and not social policy peans.
yeah! they should stop all that volunteer work like visiting hospitals, training camps for kids, or helping build houses.
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
I've never heard of waxed eyebrows either. Whatever next? Powder puffs for men? The French have the answer to this sort of nonsense "Vive .la difference!
Ive gone completely grey now in hair, beard & eyebrows. Do you think its time for a few black highlights?
Pink is also, coincidentally, the color of sex, and prostitution in Japan - ultimately, the gesture, no matter what they are wearing, i justified in that it seeks to bring an audience to an issue of importance.
Don't forget to wax the eyebrows.
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