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Post by Captain Annie on Sept 14, 2005 14:27:21 GMT
its awful
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Post by wilderbeest on Sept 21, 2005 19:40:13 GMT
About the whole more women than men thing; that's due to genetics. Women have longer life expectancy because thay have two X chromosomes, while men have one X and a Y so if there is a mutant gene on the man's X chromosome there is no back up copy so the mutant form will be expressed and may cause genetic disease such as haemophilia (much more common in men than women for this reason) or others. That's a simplification, but it works.
I think that because in most of the developed nations women now do have pretty much equal status with men, many men think that feminists are pushing the sexism in the opposite direction (i.e. trying to make women more powerful than men) and so tend to ignore them even when they are speaking up for women in countries where they are mistreated and given much lower status than men.
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Post by terfle on Sept 22, 2005 15:07:44 GMT
religion gets distorted by men who want power
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Post by terfle on Sept 29, 2005 16:55:15 GMT
'The King of Swaziland has just chosen his 13th bride, the poor sod. The lucky 17-year-old student was one of 50,000 virgins who all lined up bare chested so the king could take his pick.
I’d like to see Prince William do the same thing, but first he'd have to find 50,000 17-year-old virgins in the UK.'
what does this tell you about traditional society around the world?
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Post by wilderbeest on Sept 29, 2005 17:28:49 GMT
That's awful.
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Post by Flick on Sept 30, 2005 18:17:34 GMT
It says that girls in developed countries have sex for fun younger and younger and that's why we, here in the UK, have one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the world!
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Post by terfle on Sept 30, 2005 19:51:22 GMT
yeh, and then most of the fathers of those babies leave them
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Post by wilderbeest on Sept 30, 2005 22:32:47 GMT
I got an e-mail recently which kind of almost fits into this thread. I'm sorry if its a bit of a slightly nonsensical in places rant; it was from a friend of my parents who (probably) has huntingtons disease and he tends to waffle. Its concerning the whole "religion gets distorted by men who want power" thing. Raisins to be cheerful Pass this on as it's a danged good laff about a well nasty subject and we all need one so there!! Remember that stuff about the old bible being full of mistranlations etc etc?? As in the famous one about camels and eyes of needles - it's either a camel & a narrow gate, or a rope and a needle it seems. Well there's also some in the Koran too it seems (nowt to do with Mr Rushdie either) The origin of that book is it is supposedly God's message to mankind, via Mohammed's dreams, and which were dictated by him later etc. He was illiterate, but most people were then anyway, so he had to use a professional scribe or clerk. (poss his wife too) Now the kicker is this ! Remember all those 9-11 nuts etc etc who supposedly go off to Paradise A S A P and get 70 virgins each plus wine and roses?? Odd, I know, it sounds a bit too precise (well what do the girls do?)- but apparently a lot of actual muslim scholars say it's all wrong. It's a simple mistranslation of an Arabic word they say- and is not brown eyed virgins at all - it actually is white raisins! Yes, muslim martyrs are due 70 raisins - quite a treat for desert people you see... sigh, the mind boggles. You see I've been having a good laff all week thinking about all those mad eyed twits doubtless still up there in a large angry queue at the Pearly Gates ranting away with a bag of raisins each, reduced no doubt to chucking them !!! Doubters can check this too - it's from one Irshad Manji - a female muslim journo with a brain - at www.muslimrefusenik.comThen pass it on!
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Post by terfle on Oct 1, 2005 14:24:50 GMT
now there's a woman with a brain
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Post by Flick on Oct 1, 2005 18:47:54 GMT
Pmsl! Love that!
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Post by terfle on Oct 10, 2005 17:32:15 GMT
there are some disgusting guys in my year, one of them telling me he'll mark my answer right when i didn't, saying he;s nice, he's gonna give it to me. all the boys thought he was sooooooo funny
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Post by Flick on Oct 10, 2005 18:04:02 GMT
That's foul!
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Post by terfle on Oct 10, 2005 20:48:03 GMT
thats not even half of it
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Post by terfle on Oct 11, 2005 16:49:08 GMT
now there's a guy that objected to my view that we are all equal and told me that women are objects, always have been, always will be. i'm so pissed off!
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Post by wilderbeest on Oct 11, 2005 17:04:31 GMT
Grrr!!!!! !!!!!! !!!!!!!
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