Re: BBC says 'male babies' and 'girls'
- From: dg411@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Andre Lieven)
- Date: 11 Jan 2006 20:12:28 GMT
(greg1199@xxxxxxxxx) writes:
> Andre Lieven wrote:
>> GL Fowler (kmas@xxxxxxxxxx) writes:
>> > On 10 Jan 2006 23:37:40 GMT, dg411@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Andre Lieven)
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >>"ls" (loosends@xxxxxxxxxx) weasels:
>> >>> LostInFrance wrote:
>> >>>> The BBC has a news item on
>> >>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4592890.stm which reads
>> >>>> "for every 1,000 male babies born in India, there were just 933
>> >>>> girls".
>> >>>>
>> >>>> If you can see the anti-men sexism in those words then visit their
>> >>>> site and leave your comments in the box provided. Numbers count in a
>> >>>> protest so do while it's still fresh in your mind.
>> >>>
>> >>> Did you read the whole article? There are many more boy/girl
>> >>> references thoughout than this one male/girl reference.
>> >>
>> >>Irrelevent: ONE use of " males/girls " *proves* misandry.
>
> Agreed. It's a slip of the pen that reveals how the writer really
> thinks.
Exactly. Most people can usually cover their various prejudices, but
give 'em enough rope, and they will slip out.
> [...]
>
>> Once was more than enough for them to fall upon Larry Summers at
>> Harvard, was it,
>
> You know, I wish his speech had been _more_ offensive. Hopkins said
> she was on the verge of getting sick, so I wish Summers had taken it a
> step further. I wish Hopkins had lost her breakfast right there in the
> auditorium. I wish the sight of this had sickened other feminists, in
> combination with Summer's remarks, so that they too lost their
> breakfast, and then others, and then others, to the point of sickening
> non-feminists, until the room was just one huge mess, and Summers
> himself lost it at the podium.
That'd be good on pay-per-view, too. <g>
> This would easily have rivaled Augusta in press coverage, and the
> ladies would have been so embarrassed that they wouldn't have dared
> draw more attention to it with all of their dainty antics after the
> speech. The Monty Python Players would have had to make a comback, as
> it would have been the perfect material for an absurd British comedy.
>
> American feminism would have been an absolute joke. Even Jon Stewart
> would have dogged them. What comic could resist?
>
> This must somehow be made to happen. Dr. Nancy Hopkins, of MIT, must
> be set up to do this at the next gathering of this or that debating
> society. Of course, she should be kept unaware, and perhaps some
> antifeminist women could be recruited to take her for Chinese food
> before the event.
>
> I know it's underhanded, but the gloves have to come off sometime.
I've got no problem with that.
> [...]
Andre
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