tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post5664446622170564494..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: Fat, Idle Pukers are Okay by MeBryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-56135527524183369682010-03-13T03:09:56.387+00:002010-03-13T03:09:56.387+00:00Perhaps you should retitle this blog "misogyn...Perhaps you should retitle this blog "misogynistic thoughts"... let's stop stereotyping and start seeing others as human beings instead of identifying each other by gender. It's gotten really old.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-8450459024199006932009-02-11T23:49:00.000+00:002009-02-11T23:49:00.000+00:00Given that my love for women is entirely blind I h...Given that my love for women is entirely blind I have nothing to say on that part. On the general offendee problem I think there's a much more important example today in Lord Ahmed and allies and the decision <A HREF="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7882953.stm" REL="nofollow">not to allow</A> Geert Wilders into the UK. <A HREF="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3369102968312745410&Richard Drakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10005416556432927671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-19645124672837032142009-02-11T22:26:00.000+00:002009-02-11T22:26:00.000+00:00I agree with your post, Bryan, but not with some o...I agree with your post, Bryan, but not with some of your commenters, who seem a touch mysoginistic.<BR/>The kind of thing that women of intelligence and discernment DO get cross about, and correctly so, are things like the fact that there has never been a female president of the Royal Society, whereas there have been several hundred men. I think approximately one British woman has ever won a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-22247609095992523692009-02-11T19:51:00.000+00:002009-02-11T19:51:00.000+00:00Most adverts on tv use beautiful women and men to ...Most adverts on tv use beautiful women and men to sell products. People as meat. Beauty without soul. Empty pouting faces. Wish the world wasn't like this. This is negative for both men and women. Everyone wants to be loved for who they are, not what they look like or for what they do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-1697927988711392462009-02-11T17:40:00.000+00:002009-02-11T17:40:00.000+00:00Men will think they've been most negatively portra...Men will think they've been most negatively portrayed and women will think they've been most negatively portrayed. We're all biased and so all of our opinions on this are effectively void...<BR/>It's felt especially keenly by those of us who don't fit into the stereotypes whatsoever (which actually is probably almost everyone). Though Philip I don't agree that it's a woman's world in the west - Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-5635942401301772562009-02-11T10:35:00.000+00:002009-02-11T10:35:00.000+00:00The hopeless man, no more worldly than a child, wa...The hopeless man, no more worldly than a child, wandering wonderingly into a supermarket as if it were some sort of alien spacecraft and buying The Wrong Thing is a critical motif for advertisers.<BR/><BR/>If we take that away from them, all they'll have left is their Other Idea. (This, of course, is the conceit of the man dressed as a giant cigarette/muffin/glass of wine/coldsore chasing the Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-8783143771008838672009-02-11T09:44:00.000+00:002009-02-11T09:44:00.000+00:00As somebody once said, women are like elephants to...As somebody once said, women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-62870844262034256482009-02-11T09:41:00.000+00:002009-02-11T09:41:00.000+00:00Most telly adverts now seem to be based on ridicul...Most telly adverts now seem to be based on ridiculing men (and even boys in some I've seen recently).<BR/>Make no mistake, it's a woman's world in the modern west.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com