The feminization of America, continued

[skib]

There is nothing so ludicrous as the National Football League wearing pink for breast cancer awareness month.

How about the 'Tough Guys Wear Pink' that is present at every single rodeo event across the nation?

[Virgil]

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.

Spoken like a true Philly fan. Fans from Philadelphia seem to be the most brutal, mean fans in the country. City of brotherly love my a$$.

Hey I do object to your remarks about the Dallas Cowboys.

[Virgil]

How about the 'Tough Guys Wear Pink' that is present at every single rodeo event across the nation?

Oh no. Now that is going too far. Cowboys cannot be made to wear pink.

[Virgil]

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?

[kilted exile]

The NHL have been doing "Shoot for a cure" for years now and using pink sticks etc

[Android raptor]

IMHO, there's nothing with femininity itself. Gender isn't a black and white binary like society wants to think, and if a male feels more comfortable doing more stereotypically feminine things, it's all fine and good as far as I'm concerned.

However, I have noticed femininity being much more shoved in the faces of the masses within the last few years. What's especially concerning to me is that girls who aren't feminine seem to be the target of a lot of demonization and attempts to make them "girly". And it seems like whenever I catch a show my friend's kids are watching on the Disney Channel or whatever, all the female characters are a bunch of shallow, pop-culture obsessed idiots. I have yet to see a female character on Hannah Montana and the like with an interest science, math, literature, etc, and it makes me a very sad panda.


Sorry if that's a bit of a tangent. You've got a n00b aboard :P

[papayahed]

ohhh cripes!! I wore blue today and I think I'm growing a penis.

[Emil Miller]

ohhh cripes!! I wore blue today and I think I'm growing a penis.

You should be so lucky.

[papayahed]

You should be so lucky.

nah, there's too much ridiculousness that goes along with it.

[Jozanny]

Spoken like a true Philly fan. Fans from Philadelphia seem to be the most brutal, mean fans in the country. City of brotherly love my a$$.

Hey I do object to your remarks about the Dallas Cowboys.

If God said "It is the Apocalypse or Dallas wins the Superbowl," I'd pick the former

Seriously, it seems the league wants to get a little too streamlined and pretty, and I like a little of the old rough and tumble; but I did get a marketable idea off this chat, and if my guy hadn't eaten a block of my afternoon, I would have pitched some. He told me Ms. Magazine is going bankrupt, so I guess JBI is right and we're all going unisex.

[Virgil]

If God said "It is the Apocalypse or Dallas wins the Superbowl," I'd pick the former

Seriously, it seems the league wants to get a little too streamlined and pretty, and I like a little of the old rough and tumble; but I did get a marketable idea off this chat, and if my guy hadn't eaten a block of my afternoon, I would have pitched some. He told me Ms. Magazine is going bankrupt, so I guess JBI is right and we're all going unisex.

Ms. Mag is going bankrupt!!!!!!!!



There is a God!!!

[Jozanny]

Ms. Mag is going bankrupt!!!!!!!!



There is a God!!!

OOOooow, those are fightin words! Put up your dukes! Call Scher to referee!

[Zee.]

edit - nevermind, that was a poorly constructed point.

i wish there was a way to delete our posts

[Jozanny]

edit - nevermind, that was a poorly constructed point.

i wish there was a way to delete our posts

lima,

With all due respect, I am nearly 50 years old, turning into a crabby old biddy, the likes of which would have been anathema to me when I was 14 and dreamed of able-bodied authority figures who would rescue me and protect me from the hard knocks of my vulnerability.

I have flown off the handle and gone over the top more times than I can count in my online life, and was told more than once to get help, or that I needed it; maybe I did, maybe I still do, dunno, but there aren't many cures for the dose of circumstances I had to swallow.

All that given, say what you want to say. I don't take it personally with young people like yourselves, and to the degree that I have become comfy on this forum, that is fine and dandy, but LN is not life and death to me. If I am ever removed, I'll live, and if I remain for the length of time Admin keeps it running, then that is cool too.

[Zee.]

lima,

With all due respect, I am nearly 50 years old, turning into a crabby old biddy, the likes of which would have been anathema to me when I was 14 and dreamed of able-bodied authority figures who would rescue me and protect me from the hard knocks of my vulnerability.

I have flown off the handle and gone over the top more times than I can count in my online life, and was told more than once to get help, or that I needed it; maybe I did, maybe I still do, dunno, but there aren't many cures for the dose of circumstances I had to swallow.

All that given, say what you want to say. I don't take it personally with young people like yourselves, and to the degree that I have become comfy on this forum, that is fine and dandy, but LN is not life and death to me. If I am ever removed, I'll live, and if I remain for the length of time Admin keeps it running, then that is cool too.

I understand.
But i only deleted my comment because it was going off in to some other tangent that made no sense. It's funny. Sometimes i'll read a point that someone makes and my head is telling me it's logical, it makes sense, i understand what they're trying to say - but then another side to me, and i don't know which part, takes their point and twists it negatively..
in this case, i did that with what you were saying. So i had to stop, think, and realize that I was really dumbing myself down - because what i thought, wasn't your point at all.
I have a terrible habit of getting overly passionate about something, to the point it overrides logic and the person's actual point