Women are not objects "to be allowed" to do ANYTHING.

For fuck's sake. You're not my daddy. You're not my master.

I am ALLOWED to do any fucking thing I want. Maybe some of it is illegal, but I do not need some fucktwitter to tell me what I am ALLOWED to do or not to do.

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I just realized what your avatar is. I am slow, I know.

RAM has some good lyrics and I'll take the last stanza to be what you found similar to my feelings.

post?

That caught my eye too, if it's the one.

Words matter.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5481908&mesg_id=5481908

...thinker, evidently. :)

It could be taken in the way that you suggest but attitudes toward women are just not far enough out of the Dark Ages, for us to rest easy. In other parts of the world, and among many here in the West, we are--or should be--mere sexual resources, expected to behave only as men allow.

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We need to call out this BS wherever and whenever we see it--whether its aimed at women; LGBT people; ethnic, national, or religious minorities; or any law-abiding individual who, somehow, doesn't look or behave precisely as the dominant culture believes she or he should.

For understanding. Geezus is this place middle school or what?

There are so many laws these days that I doubt there is such a thing as a completely "law abiding" adult..

I break the law every day, my home is technically illegal in the county in which I reside, if I were forced to follow the law to the letter I would end up homeless since I have literally nowhere else to go.

"Law-abiding" was as close as I could get without including a laundry list of perpetrators of crimes against people.

Oh, and I don't know why your home is illegal but I won't turn you in. ;)

If we were in a subdivision I'd have been busted a long time ago, someone would have dropped the dime on me to the code enforcement people.

But since we are on relatively secluded acreage with two family homes and several other outbuildings there is no one to complain, but the fact is it is just as unlawful for me to be living as I do where I am as it would be in a subdivision.

"Law abiding" just has too many caveats to use in the way you wish to use it, IMO.

And besides, there is a great deal of disagreement on just what constitutes harm to others as well, as I have been strongly reminded today by reading the threads about the airline charging passengers who cannot fit in one seat for an extra seat in some circumstances, the flame wars there were considerably more intense than I would have guessed before reading the thread.

I explained my thinking.

I don't have much of it.. and my prospects for getting significantly more are pretty dim right now.

You may have heard, the economy is not doing well right now and a lot of people are struggling. Well, I'm one of the struggling ones.

I'm one person with two quite small dogs and not very much stuff, I don't *need* a whole damn house even if I could afford it.

I agree completely! I am so sick of patriarchal society and it's strict rules on all but the dominant males, it is time to rid the world of that crap. I feel guilt sometimes because I can leave my house alone and not be beaten or arrested; while so many women in the world can't. I didn't get acid thrown in my face when I was a little girl for daring to go to school. And my father didn't set me on fire for having sex with my boyfriend in college.

And even in our free society I was threatened with arrest a few years ago at a college football game for yelling loudly about a bad call (as so many men in my section were blatantly doing), and yet I, completely sober, was picked out of the screaming crowd to be harassed and threatened by a cop? Maybe I wasn't acting like a "proper" little southern girl a a football game??? You think? And then the cop stood off to the side and stared at me for the next quarter to the point that I didn't even cheer for a touchdown for fear of being hauled off to jail. While men could yell as they pleased all around me.

So sick of all this crap. But at least I cannot legally be beaten by my husband for burning his toast. Nor can he legally slit my throat because I curse over bad calls in sports and cause a "loss of honor". And my five year old niece won't be sold by my brother-in-law to some old man when she is 8 or 9 to rape to death for fun.

Sometimes I think men just hate us. Then I think religion makes them hate us, if they don't hate us enough they will go to hell. A friend of mine thinks men are afraid of women, and she says they have good reason after all they have done to us throughout history. And another friend says the dominant males feel threatened by anything they perceive as "feminine", and they lump gay men in with the women in the "feminine" group (though I have known some gay men I wouldn't exactly refer to as feminine).

If only these dominant male bastards could be secure in their sexuality for God's sake!
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for breast feeding her baby in a booth in the back of a restaurant. She quoted the law to the restaurant manager that specifically permits women in our state to feed their babies in public and not be bothered. And the restaurant manager said people were complaining because of her "exposure" and she had to cover up or feed her baby in the bathroom.

When breasts are seen as only sexual objects for the pleasure of MEN to the point that some poor woman is threatened to trying to be a good mother, you have to wonder. Maybe allowing women to go shirtless just as men are allowed would end the insanity over the frightening sight of said body parts.

http://kywomen.typepad.com/kentucky_women_power_pass/2007/08/august-is-world.html

for those who agree but are quite confused and wondering...:wtf:

are just superior at it.

Snow melts, so whats the point?

Er, what kind of business are you in?

intriguing characters in cinema?

Or am I reaching?

I always found her to be one fascinating movie character, and I think that "Alien" is about cancer and how to fight it. But I'm strange.

Yeah, I signed up here in 2002 using Ellen Ripley's last name. Admire her quite a bit.

However, You would not believe how many people assume and reply to me as a male, heh.

Interesting take on the movie, Mike. Me? I just think it's about hostile beings we may encounter in outerspace. The alien creature was actually based upon wasps and their habits. I'm an artist, so I also loved the dark and scary work of HR Giger upon which the alien creature as well as the offworld alien landscape was designed.

Damn. But I am ALLOWED to do all that!

I actually collect the tarot cards.

His vision of the world is so repulsive but so irresistible.

I would love someone to explain his work to me. I can't resist it, but I can't stand it at the same time. But I collect it. How nuts am I?

Hey Mike, what the hell are you talking about? I find it odd that anyone would find Giger their "hero."

And tarot cards? What does that mean?

I cannot speak for Giger, but I know he lived through bombing of WWII and was a heroin addict for a long time.

reason whe won that fight. She had some quality none of the other astronauts had.

Maybe one day this so-called progressive website will catch up to a 1979 movie which allowed that yes, indeed.

a male character. Like, can't Hollywood ever write strong women on purpose? But at least the end product was fantastic. I wonder if we'll see something similar for the upcoming (2010) "Salt"...it's a spy movie that had originally cast Tom Cruise. After he dropped out, they gave it to Angelina Jolie, and reportedly aren't making any script changes.

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Let's hope he reads this thread and learns a lesson.

IMO, some constructive criticism would have been adequate for this one. Sheesh.

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I ain't touching that thread with a ten-foot pole, specially not in my emotional state right now, don't want to get yelled at by fellow males that think it's OK to treat women as objectified sex objects.

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Ha. Good one.

I will make a better effort to watch your posts.

It was nice to meet you, Ripley.

The person would need you on board first. Not that you would want or need to be or that it would be in any way appropriate, wise, or instrumental to your health, safety, or psychosocial functioning.

I think such traditions are silly and need to be fully antiquicated.

K&R

High five.

"You're not my daddy. You're not my master."

That's not what you said to me last night ;)


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