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@august said:

@Zomgfruitbunnies said:

@august said:

@Zomgfruitbunnies said:

@august: I've thought about that. Frankly, a mutilated, dismembered corpse, regardless of biological sex, draws more disgust than a perfect pair of boobs.

You're not really answering my question. Combining an idealized female form with extreme, nauseating violence and then selling it to young men to put on their mantle adds context beyond just the gore.

I'm not sure I understand your question. Are you asking about the combined effects of intention and product? If so, I can't really give an answer, because I don't know what their intentions are regarding the statue. I can only comment on the physical statue and its physical properties.

I'm not sure what possible contribution you could make to the converstaion unless you are at least willing to speculate on what the intentions of this product were. A robot could describe its physical properties.

I don't believe we're talking about describing the statue's physical properties, but rather how its depiction relates to the larger issue of sexism.

In the absence of intention, I can only pass comment on the situation based on what is physically observable.

I agree that knowing the intention here would make a world of difference, but simply making assumption based on practically nothing isn't something I'm comfortable with.

@august said:

@Zomgfruitbunnies said:

@august: I've thought about that. Frankly, a mutilated, dismembered corpse, regardless of biological sex, draws more disgust than a perfect pair of boobs.

You're not really answering my question. Combining an idealized female form with extreme, nauseating violence and then selling it to young men to put on their mantle adds context beyond just the gore.

I'm not sure I understand your question. Are you asking about the combined effects of intention and product? If so, I can't really give an answer, because I don't know what their intentions are regarding the statue. I can only comment on the physical statue and its physical properties.

@august: I've thought about that. Frankly, a mutilated, dismembered corpse, regardless of biological sex, draws more disgust than a perfect pair of boobs.

You give me a lady statue with exaggerated proportions, I call you silly.

You give me a statue of a dismembered torso, I ask you "What the FUCK?"

Well, this is a better article, I guess. At the very least it's a step in the big, generally right direction for approaching a subject like sexism.

Still, how boobs remain the main topic of debate completely baffle me. How the celebration of extreme mutilation and gratuitous violence is less offensive than exaggerated depictions of normal human anatomy is beyond me. If both issues are treated with an equal amount of focus, I would be totally fine with all of this, but it all inevitably circles back to the boobs and that's depressing.

Can we all just grow the fuck up?

So, Prince Harry said something that was perhaps not the most considerate. Taliban took it out of context and said some things in order to appear sympathetic for propaganda purposes. New outlets report story without any sort of clarification.

Oh, I dunno, maybe someone should have, y'know, reminded potential readers about what the Taliban does on a regular basis in their articles.

My Earth internet memes are better than your lame Martian internet memes.

Eh.

Videos games are for jerks, and you guys are all jerks.

You guys think North America's bad? Come on over to Asian and you'll know real bad.

It sucks so bad.

Rapists.