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mouse7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:38 PM
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Karl Rove needs to get laid. BAD.
Ever wonder how many lives would have been saved if Karl Rove had a remote chance in hell of ever getting laid? This faytbahstard
is intent on world domination because his has absolutely no sex appeal and a penis the size of an average brine shrimp.

What can be done to end this problem? Do we pitch in for cheap hooker for Karl? How about a blow up sex doll? A balloon can't run away from the bafoon's advances?
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madmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:39 PM
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1. Ewwwwwwwwwwww
Who'd lay that POS.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:47 PM
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18. Here ya go
http;//www.muttonbone.com
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Jack_Dawson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:39 PM
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2. Rove is a Hottie!
I'm sure he gets hooch right and left.

:puke:
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:40 PM
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3. Maybe he can get a hotel room with Neil Bush?
That way, women can show up at the door, give them sex and then leave... after all, don't all Asian women do that?
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:40 PM
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4. I think this is gonna get moved to the lounge, but...
Karl is exactly the kind of man ALL women find unattractive. He's a pig with the morals of a snake.
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kaitykaity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:40 PM
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5. Thanks, Mouse.

Great rejoinder on the Condi getting laid thread.

:thumbsup:
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qb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:40 PM
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6. I hear if the tip is good enough, Monica will deliver a pizza to him.
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:41 PM
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7. just so you know
Posting this thread doesn't make the one about Condi Rice any less sexist.
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Emboldened Chimp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:52 PM
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It's not sexist to say it about a guy
Yeah, it's a double standard, but it's true. When a guy says to a guy, "You need to get laid", it's a putdown. The only time a guy take offense to it is if its true.
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:55 PM
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28. That wasn't my point, but...
I think it is sexist too to say it about a guy. It implies that men think with their genitals which is an ugly stereotype.

And just so no one can accuse me of having a double-standard I alerted on this thread just like I did the one about Condi Rice. (whic was hard for me because I know Karl personally and hate his guts)
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Emboldened Chimp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:02 PM
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38. Believe me, it's not sexist to say it about a guy
Guys say this kind of thing to each other all the time. It's par for the course, actually. And like I said, we don't think of it as sexist, only a putdown. More than likely, we respond by saying, "Gee, you might be right."
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:05 PM
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43. Yes, but I think we both know...
that the guys on this board who don't "get it" about sexism are gonna use this thread to try to claim a double standard whether they were actually offended by the comment or not.
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Emboldened Chimp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:08 PM
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I understand your point
and you're right. It's happening on this thread already. But let them spew. They probably need to get laid anyway. ;)
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mouse7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:09 PM
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55. People who can't handle jokes with sexual content have issues
If someone can't handle threads with jokes with some sexual content, then they need to work out their personal issues with sexuality in counselling. The problem is personal in nature. The problem is not the thread content.
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:10 PM
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60. blah blah blah
Same sexist drivel. How many times do we women have to hear that it's not that men are sexist...we're just too sensitive or have issues or whatever other demeaning excuse it is you can come up with? :eyes:
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slinkerwink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:12 PM
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64. or stupid excuses like "oh, it was a joke, can't you LIGHTEN up?"
:nuke:
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:22 PM
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:29 PM
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96. Yes, but you seem to be a really bad judge...
of who is and is not repressed. Let's be clear here...it was not Condi you originally accused of being repressed. It was me. Not a neo-con member of the administration. A fellow DUer.

I know for a fact you are wrong about me. You might well be wrong about her too - never know what's going on under the surface.
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mouse7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:34 PM
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106. No... the thread was about Rice, not you
Edited on Thu Mar-25-04 02:35 PM by mouse7
Condi Rice is a repressed neo-con. She was the subject of the jokes about being repressed. You came onto the thread and started screaming at the people on the thread. Since you seem to be unable to understand satire when it contains sexual content, you made it clear you have issues regarding healthy sexual expression.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:29 PM
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:32 PM
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101. What makes your perception of the topic...
more valid than the perceptions of the women who found it offensive?

And btw, I would appreciate it if you would now stop calling me repressed given that you know nothing about me.

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slinkerwink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:33 PM
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103. trust me, she sure as hell ain't repressed, and neither am I
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Vladimir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:08 PM
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50. As a guy
Edited on Thu Mar-25-04 02:09 PM by Vladimir
I agree with you in practice and disagree in priciple. It is sexist, its just that most guys don't view it as such. Men are victims of stereotyping as much as women IMO, but the media does such a good job of teaching us that 'big boys don't cry' that we mostly keep our mouths shut about it.

V

PS of course I have made such jokes with my friends - I don't claim to be some paragon of virtue. I just think its a sad reflection on both myself and our society that us men accept subconciously that we are expected to think with our dicks.
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Emboldened Chimp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:12 PM
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65. I don't think it's so much of a media influence
as it is general upbringing. But I disagree on the principle issue. Personally, I don't mind that kind of joshing. In fact, it's fun. But that's just me. Sometimes it can be too much, but mostly I take part in putting my fellow brother down with gusto just like the next guy.
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Vladimir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:17 PM
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75. Fair enough
as I said, I ain't pretending my mates and I don't joke like that - thing is... I've been trying to pin down what disturbs me about this post, and I think its the fact that jokes like this don't belong in a public forum, which this board is. I wouldn't crack a comment like that in a room full of people who I mostly don't know.

we can agree to disagree on the priciple - differing views make life interesting.

V
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Emboldened Chimp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:24 PM
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86. That's a good point about this being 'public'
I hadn't thought of it that way. Hmm, there's something to that. It is a little different because we're not all facing each other, which gives us greater freedom to say what's really on our minds, for good or ill. In this case, more ill than good. But you're right. I don't think many people would make cracks about vibrators at a party. At least, I hope they wouldn't.
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bearfartinthewoods Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:23 PM
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84. how about juvenile?
do i get to think it's silly and juvenile and a symptom of the downsizing of the average age of DU posters?
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Emboldened Chimp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:27 PM
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92. What do you mean, "do i get"?
Are you suggesting that you're not allowed to express your opinion on the subject? Just asking.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:06 PM
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rumguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:07 PM
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48. watch out they'll try and get you deleted - nt
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:11 PM
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63. Oh no...I want this particular post to stay...
if only so I can send the link to my friends so they can get a huge laugh out of someone calling me repressed. *snort*
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:26 PM
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91. Dammit they deleted it
I was getting lots of milage out of someone calling me repressed. Pretty please mods...bring it back. :evilgrin:
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slinkerwink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:08 PM
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51. wtf? neo-con sexual repression? It's you, a LIBERAL, that is participating
in that by being blatantly misogynistic and sexist.
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mouse7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:15 PM
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No... it was a joke about puritanical repression...
...and what a mess being so puritanical makes one.

There's been plenty of similar threads about Jerry Falwell. However, becasue it's a puritanical WOMAN, you claim to have the right to put the subject out of bounds.

That's crud. People who are blatantly sexually repressed are reasonable tagets of satire, whether they are men or women.
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slinkerwink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:15 PM
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71. no, it was implying that she can't do the job without being fucked daily
Edited on Thu Mar-25-04 02:16 PM by slinkerwink
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mouse7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:24 PM
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87. No it was implying puritanical sexual attitude affects one's job
People who are badly sexually repressed do screw up other parts of their life becasue of that behavior.
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slinkerwink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:28 PM
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93. no, it was implying that condi needs a COCK to be happy and to work better
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:09 PM
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54. You obviously have NO idea who you're talking to.
Go talk to some of the regulars in the Lounge about me before you go assuming I'm some kind of repressed neo-con. Hell, I'm the biggest flirt on the board and I am a big part of the reason Skinner banned sex threads (along with Magic Rat).

That original thread about Condi Rice may have been a joke but it was the kind of humor that has been used to belittle women for a long time.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:23 PM
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83. You obviously don't know our Velma very well.
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mmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:41 PM
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8. he needs a hooker with AIDS!
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SpaceCatMeetsMars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:42 PM
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9. Well now you're just getting ridiculous
Even a blow up doll isn't going to do it with that weirdo.
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Florida_Geek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:42 PM
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10. Rove could be gay
:evilgrin:
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bearfartinthewoods Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:26 PM
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90. gee.....why did i know that this tack was coming
just more expression of the mindset, i guess.
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worldgonekrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:43 PM
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11. He does not deserve the pleasure of sex
Unless it involves a guy named "Bubba" and a prison shower setting.

(this is not a joke)
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bearfartinthewoods Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:29 PM
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95. and gay rape folloows...a lovely day in freepland!
i say freepland to try and draw some slight difference between this place and freepville.
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:43 PM
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12. Thanks a lot for that mind picture
just what I need to get me through the afternoon.
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:44 PM
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13. that's the only way Karl would get laid
Bad.
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dave29 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:45 PM
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14. Know your enemy folks
Rove is married with kids.
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Emboldened Chimp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:46 PM
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16. Exactly why he's not getting laid!
:evilgrin:
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:07 PM
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49. hey hey hey!
just cuz were married with kid(s) doesn't mean we aren't getting any!

wow how can that guy sleep at night!
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RummyTheDummy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:47 PM
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19. Yeah, so what's your point?
Because people never cheat on their wives and married people never get bored with their sex lives at home.
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dave29 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:51 PM
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25. I was just pointing out
no one here seemed to know Rove was married and had children. He may be an evil bastard, but he probably still gets laid. Hell, Viagra is practically free for Government officials.

Getting sex doesn't necessarily make you stop being an evil bastard, although I agree, it can be a pleasant distraction. ;)
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Emboldened Chimp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:01 PM
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36. Look at Clinton
Was he an evil bastard? Of course not! Why? He was gettin' some!
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rumguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:49 PM
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23. What does his wife look like? Anyone seen a pic? - nt
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Maat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:56 PM
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31. Well, I know he was ..
but I thought at least one wife left him.
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qanda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:45 PM
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15. If we *ever* want to be taken seriously
This thread should be moved to the Lounge.
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thebigidea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:48 PM
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22. taken seriously by whom?
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bearfartinthewoods Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:30 PM
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98. by anyone above the age of 15 eom
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:46 PM
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17. yuck!!
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:48 PM
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20. Couldn't we all chip in and buy him a vibrator?
n/t
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truthspeaker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:48 PM
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21. this girl might do it
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:50 PM
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24. Careful
The mods just locked the "Does Condi Rice Need to Get Laid" thread. I'm watching the clock on this one. If it doesn't get locked, they should be made to answer for the double-standard.
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Emboldened Chimp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:55 PM
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29. It is a double standard, but the fact is
saying this about a guy, especially from a guy, is nothing more than a putdown. The only time a guy takes offense from this if it's true.
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rumguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:51 PM
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26. Funny how the Condi thread got locked - evidently cuz it was "sexist"
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slinkerwink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:52 PM
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27. it WAS sexist!
I can't believe how you failed to see that.
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rumguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:55 PM
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30. uh no it wasn't
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Vladimir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:58 PM
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32. Actually
I think it was flamingly sexist - the obvious implication was that a woman is useless and/or incapable of doing a good job unless she gets cock on a regular basis. That's sexist.

V
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:01 PM
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kaitykaity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:03 PM
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39. It isn't polite to call people neurotic either.

:eyes:
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rumguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:06 PM
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44. I can't believe you guys alerted on that post - sad
But it's true you are taking other people's words and assuming things about them based on your own preconceptions...it's stupid...

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slinkerwink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:09 PM
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56. that post definitely merited alerts!
and so does this one! making copycat threads of the condi rice thread trivializes women's concerns about blatant sexism and misogynism going on here.
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kaitykaity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:10 PM
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58. Digging the hole deeper.
Edited on Thu Mar-25-04 02:22 PM by kaitykaity
Neurosis . . . stupid . . .

You do know, right, that Freud used the root word for the female organs to coin the word "hysteria" right? Please educate yourself about sexism before you lecture us about it, okay?

edit: Gawd I can't spell anymore. :shrug:

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noiretextatique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:10 PM
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61. that's just nonsense
Edited on Thu Mar-25-04 02:13 PM by noiretblu
the intent of words is a part of communication. that doesn't exist in a vacuum...it's a part of the culture we share. so...if your intent is not clear, it's your responsibility to explain it...and not just in your own mind, which no one can read. you should know that NOW.
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rumguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:14 PM
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67. you can't hold everyone accountable to your "sensitivities" - nt
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slinkerwink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:15 PM
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70. *excuse* me.....it's not sensitivities----it's our gender that is being
attacked here....and DOZENS of women protested that thread, and this one too!
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rumguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:20 PM
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79. let's mangle Bob Dylan while we're at it!!!! This is funny!
Education and social work are the fields in which the language police are busiest. My favourite example is from a new college textbook on human development that includes this statement: "As a folksinger once sang, how many roads must an individual walk down before you can call them an adult." This gruesome effort is some educator's attempt at a gender-neutral makeover to the classic folksong Blowin' in the Wind. In the original, it goes, "How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?"

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040323.wxwente0323/BNStory/Front/
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slinkerwink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:22 PM
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80. so?
this isn't related to this thread.
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:31 PM
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99. After reading this analogy, I can see that you really are not able to see
this issue for what it is. It is NOT about controlling thoughts or words, it is about respecting humans as people and individuals and not lumping them together because of race, sex or gender. The idea the Condi thread is based on is that a woman needs a penis (either on her or in her) to function in the workplace.
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rumguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:33 PM
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102. you're missing the forest for the trees - nt
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noiretextatique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:16 PM
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72. why was your post in this thread deleted?
Edited on Thu Mar-25-04 02:19 PM by noiretblu
it had nothing to do with MY "sensitivities". i assume it violated the DU rules...as did that other IDIOTIC THREAD that spawned THIS IDIOTIC THREAD. and...you need to worry about your own "sensitivities," mr.
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Vladimir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:11 PM
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62. I absolutely was not
assuming anything. The implication was obvious.

V
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 01:58 PM
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33. Well since there were a number of women...
who disagreed with you you might wanta reconsider your credentials for deciding what is and is not sexist.
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:08 PM
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52. It is nice that you have an opinion but how about showing us the reasons
Edited on Thu Mar-25-04 02:11 PM by efhmc
you think that it was not sexist.
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rumguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:10 PM
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59. the comment was directed at her humanity, not her sex
Edited on Thu Mar-25-04 02:11 PM by rumguy
you read into others' words your own agendas
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slinkerwink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:13 PM
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66. it was DIRECTED at her sex!
I can't believe how blind you can be not to see that thread was absolutely sexist!
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rumguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:15 PM
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69. I didn't take it like that - why is your impression of it automatically
superior to mine?
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:17 PM
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73. I'll flat out say it...
because you're a man. Because you have a vested interest in not seeing the sexism inherent in our society. It doesn't matter how progressive or enlightened you think you are...you still benefit from the patriarchy and are therefor not as inclined to see all the ways that men put women down every day.
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slinkerwink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:17 PM
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74. because DOZENS of women back me up!
so, when a large majority of the female gender protests a sexist thread, the LIKELIHOOD is that it IS a SEXIST thread!
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rumguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:18 PM
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76. dozens speaking for millions - nt
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slinkerwink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:19 PM
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77. yes......women found that thread offensive, and this one too, because
it trivializes our concerns toward the condi rice thread.
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:19 PM
Response to Reply #76
78. Oh but it's ok for you to speak for millions...
and say it wasn't sexist.

Try again.
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noiretextatique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:22 PM
Response to Reply #59
82. what does her humanity have to do with "getting laid?"
can you explain that please?
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rumguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:31 PM
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100. because sex is an important component to everyone's happiness - nt
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:24 PM
Response to Reply #59
85. If you mean by an agenda that I will alway call sexism what it is when and
where I see it, then you are correct. However this thread was SEXISM at its worst. It is especially offensive to me on a forum that should be about respecting all people. Please refer to posts #60 and #65 and you will see that when "love" was brought into the picture, it made the thread a different matter to me but nowhere else was that mentioned. It was added much later.
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:00 PM
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34. "Evidently?" What I really wonder is how any of this gets us where we
all want to be and that is with no bushies in the WH. Mean spirited and devisive nonsense does nothing to further that goal and seems pointless to me. I will, however, always speak out and try to educate those here on sexist issues and that thread was blantantly sexist.
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EV1Ltimm Donating Member (831 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:01 PM
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37. ...waiting for the "this is sexist" posts.
people were quick to defend condi... but what about poor karl?

i'd defend him myself, but i took an oath to never do such a thing.
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:04 PM
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40. I have already stated as much...
that I find this thread sexist and offensive. That I have alerted the mods on it. And I just posted about it in the Ask the Admins forum.

No double standard here.
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:05 PM
Response to Reply #37
41. Mostly a stupid mirror image to see how we feminist would respond, but
also sexist.
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noiretextatique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:05 PM
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42. don't VANITY POSTS belong in THE LOUNGE? eom
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Zorra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:06 PM
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46. My friend "Delilah" might be convinced to go there if we could
pony up the cash. Could be really expensive though.
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Ravy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:07 PM
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47. Just wondering how you know the size of his penis?
Edited on Thu Mar-25-04 02:08 PM by Ravy
Juvenile agruments deserve juvenile responses. I see you have gotten plenty.
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:08 PM
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53. Guys like Rove and Eichmann don't even want to get laid, I think
Their biggest hard-ons are Power and the Ruination of Enemies.

Nothing can get them more off than that.
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mobuto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:10 PM
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57. Karl Rove has a Wife - ewwwwww


Karl and Darby Rove
But which is which?
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historian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:14 PM
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68. let him have condi
they should fit together well
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:25 PM
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88. How do you know how much sex he gets?
ARe you peeking in his bedroom?
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sendero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:26 PM
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89. The thing that all too often...
... get's people's dander and righteous indignation all fired up is the grain of truth in the joke.

And there is a grain of truth in *almost* every joke, that is an essential element to its humor.

Some folks have to find a cause in every comment made, and that get really tedious.
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:29 PM
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94. i hope all of you who disagree
about the comments about condi has e`mailed the creator of "boondocks" seems he was trying to find condi a man/husband a few weeks ago....
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rumguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:34 PM
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104. yep - nt
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Moderator DU Moderator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-04 02:34 PM
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105. Locking
sexism is the same whether for Condeleeza Rice or Carl Rove.
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