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ccharles000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-10-09 11:04 PM Original message |
Sexing Up Abstinence |
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Cant trust em (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-10-09 11:09 PM Response to Original message |
1. This sends a mixed message at best. |
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reflection (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 02:03 PM Response to Reply #1 |
36. I think you nailed it. n/t |
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noamnety (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-10-09 11:23 PM Response to Original message |
2. they show it on the cosmogirl cover |
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cynatnite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-10-09 11:27 PM Response to Original message |
3. I have no problem with women using their sexuality to empower themselves... |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 12:45 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. That is disempowerment. Totally subjugated to the Male Gaze and approval. Empowerment doesn't pander |
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cynatnite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 06:11 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. Just because a woman wants to be sexy doesn't mean she is pandering to males... |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 10:42 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Agreed. However, every one of those images is pandering to the Male Gaze, to sell something |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 01:14 PM Response to Reply #16 |
24. How is it so easy to conflate personal sexiness with sex used as a marketing tool? |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 01:33 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. I looked at the photos again before replying to that post, to try to get that, too...... |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 02:03 PM Response to Reply #28 |
35. Yeah, I still don't get it. |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 02:19 PM Response to Reply #35 |
45. back to that misogynist fishbowl, the medium we're swimming in |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 10:44 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. . |
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Scout (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 02:00 PM Response to Reply #14 |
33. define sexy |
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abumbyanyothername (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 11:53 AM Response to Reply #3 |
59. Do you have a problem with men who |
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TlalocW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-10-09 11:27 PM Response to Original message |
4. I hate to say it but... |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-10-09 11:36 PM Response to Original message |
5. I am pro-abstinence |
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Monk06 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-10-09 11:37 PM Response to Original message |
6. How about, "BLUE BALLS FOR CHRIST" or "COMPULSIVE MASTERBATORS FOR ABSTINENCE" |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 01:55 PM Response to Reply #6 |
30. or a Carl's Jr. logo: 'EAT A SEXUALIZED BURGER INSTEAD' |
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deaniac21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 05:37 PM Response to Reply #6 |
55. Mrs. Elders, so good to know you are on DU! |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 12:43 AM Response to Original message |
7. "Sexy enough" to be a male dominated tool, objectified, subjugated, fucked up. |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 01:25 PM Response to Reply #7 |
26. What are you getting at? It is her choice isn't it? nt |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 01:28 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. No |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 02:13 AM Response to Original message |
9. maybe i'm old fashioned but |
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Chemisse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 04:27 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Indeed. |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 05:13 PM Response to Reply #10 |
54. no, it doesn't work. or it works for awhile with major consequences: ala bristol palin. |
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Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 11:19 PM Response to Reply #9 |
56. +1 |
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comtec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 04:59 AM Response to Original message |
11. I'd bet cash money not ONE of those models is abstinent |
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armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 05:03 AM Response to Original message |
12. Thanks for taunting me assholes... |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 01:54 PM Response to Reply #12 |
29. What? |
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Scout (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 02:01 PM Response to Reply #29 |
34. i need a new keyboard, you stinker!! :-) n/t |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 02:06 PM Response to Reply #34 |
40. LOL |
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lukasahero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 02:05 PM Response to Reply #12 |
37. And so the George Sodini's are born eom |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 02:06 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Born? Huh? |
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lukasahero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 02:10 PM Response to Reply #38 |
41. You're going to argue semantics? |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 02:12 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. I didn't want to get the reference... |
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lukasahero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 02:18 PM Response to Reply #42 |
44. Just the opposite |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 02:22 PM Response to Reply #44 |
46. Ah, ok... |
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lukasahero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 02:42 PM Response to Reply #46 |
48. Yeah, sorry |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 02:48 PM Response to Reply #48 |
49. Ah no... of course not... |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 11:50 AM Response to Reply #49 |
57. Maybe it is "all about the woody" |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 02:06 PM Response to Reply #12 |
39. Are you dating one of these women? |
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Scout (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 02:24 PM Response to Reply #39 |
47. he's a boy, with a penis! OF COURSE it's about him, silly |
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Realityhack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 06:03 AM Response to Original message |
13. This is what confuses the heck out of me: |
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ieoeja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 10:57 AM Response to Reply #13 |
18. That jumped out at me too. But then it occurred to me ... |
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Realityhack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 12:05 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Ahhhhh.... |
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TokenQueer (762 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 06:41 AM Response to Original message |
15. Candie's Foundation? Non-profit? |
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chatnoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 11:09 AM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Yep, this Candie's |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 12:08 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. WTF?! |
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TokenQueer (762 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 04:17 PM Response to Reply #19 |
50. I had forgotten about that ad! |
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Iris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 01:21 PM Response to Reply #15 |
25. hey! you can be sexy and not have sex? dontcha know? |
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TokenQueer (762 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 04:22 PM Response to Reply #25 |
51. Lol |
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krabigirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 12:18 PM Response to Original message |
22. Bleh. Not sexy at all. Plastic, future Stepford wives. |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 01:56 PM Response to Reply #22 |
31. who talk in voices like they're being strangled or have throat cancer. VERY sexy & empowered |
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Evoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 01:11 PM Response to Original message |
23. Someone should start christianizing birth control. |
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BlueIdaho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 01:59 PM Response to Original message |
32. I'll see your slick ad campaign and raise you raging teen hormones... |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 02:15 PM Response to Original message |
43. Gee - I can't foresee anything going wrong with that... |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 04:28 PM Response to Original message |
52. Typical double standard -- same old ancient bullshit. |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 04:57 PM Response to Original message |
53. because clearly women never want to have sex |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 11:52 AM Response to Reply #53 |
58. just want to be objectified and used as dehumanized props for marketing and trophy purposes. |
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
60. Abstinence is over rated. |
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