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History of Feminism

LanternWaste

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19. If the best you've got is criticizing an academic book you've never read

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Tue Jul 22, 2014, 02:34 PM

Jul 2014

If the best you've got is criticizing an academic book you've never read and your own anecdotal experience, you don't really have anything substantive at all... let alone an answer to (again) what specifically leads you to believe more men are being objectified in advertising than women.

Though I will commend you for answering many questions that were neither asked nor relevant to the OP, as it seems your Freudian slip is showing...

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What If Fashion Ads [View all] mercuryblues Jul 2014 OP

Ah but the "whataboutthemenz?!" chorus here insists men are just as objectified! redqueen Jul 2014 #1

spoken like a classic sociopath = Tuesday Afternoon Jul 2014 #2

Good lord ismnotwasm Jul 2014 #3

let that company just keep falling falling falling into the garbage heap. nt seabeyond Jul 2014 #4

what if women quit being slaves to fashion and ignored the ads? nt msongs Jul 2014 #5

How about you read the article ismnotwasm Jul 2014 #6

When the light-bulb idea hits someone vis-a-vis how to ignore subtle advertising LanternWaste Jul 2014 #7

Wow. Really? redqueen Jul 2014 #8

Message auto-removed Name removed Jul 2014 #9

So your perception is that men and women are equally objectified or ismnotwasm Jul 2014 #10

Message auto-removed Name removed Jul 2014 #12

**whoosh** cyberswede Jul 2014 #13

in media discussions, one must recognize the discrepancies in numbers to discern a trend LanternWaste Jul 2014 #11

Message auto-removed Name removed Jul 2014 #14

what specifically leads you to this belief? LanternWaste Jul 2014 #16

Message auto-removed Name removed Jul 2014 #17

If the best you've got is criticizing an academic book you've never read LanternWaste Jul 2014 #19

"a pose like a woman" cyberswede Jul 2014 #15

Message auto-removed Name removed Jul 2014 #18

That's ths point. cyberswede Jul 2014 #20

Message auto-removed Name removed Jul 2014 #22

Honey, have you ever ridden a SUBWAY???? Warpy Jul 2014 #21

Heh. ismnotwasm Jul 2014 #23

I hope he saw that before MIRT swatted him Warpy Jul 2014 #24

He came right back ismnotwasm Jul 2014 #25

I'm wondering whose sock it is redqueen Jul 2014 #26

they giggle and high five over at discussionist at being disruptors.... that site feeds it. nt seabeyond Jul 2014 #30

Ok, well, we'll just take them out more quickly, then. cyberswede Jul 2014 #32

There may be a small group or the same person of anti-feminist trolls ismnotwasm Jul 2014 #31

They're amateurs compared to LG... cyberswede Jul 2014 #33

LoL! ismnotwasm Jul 2014 #34

I had to do mercuryblues Jul 2014 #27

He was the anti-feminist, racist homophobic troll we think ismnotwasm Jul 2014 #28

oh mercuryblues Jul 2014 #29