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[willie wonka]

I have a friend who is often asked 'are you a feminist?' i.e. euphenism for 'lesbian' and her standard response is 'well, YOU'LL never find out!'
Rock on all women, no matter where you come from!

[valley_girl]

Feminist is a euphemism for lesbian? In what part of the world?

[dagi]

Definately an euphenism in the Netherlands.

[jd]

jeddahteacher

Most white women are lefty sluts???? Who have you been hanging around with? Most white women would be equal to more than 50% of all white woman. Have you really come in contact with that many women in order to make such a statement??????????????

[AsiaTraveller]

jeddahteacher is, alas, no longer with us...

[SueH]

No longer with us... where is he pray tell.... Broadmoor? (Sorry, UK allusion). Or has he just changed his name?

[AsiaTraveller]

I think he had gender-reassignment surgery last month and is now living as a white lesbian in Riyadh.

[moonraven]

I hope he was banned for being a vile racist crackpot.

[ContemporaryDog]

[Tong Dawei]

Two television ads I’ve seen here in Shanghai that are absolutely haunting.

1) Like a slap in the face of what to expect when I go back to America, if ever...

The ad features that young blonde American woman who does a great job on CCTV 9 with her minidocumentaries about explaining Chinese culture to us. She is also fluent in PuTongHua. BUT, since she’s so popular someone thought they should use her in a commercial and she went for it...

Scene: Office copying center, young curvy office woman walks into picture with tight, revealing miniskirt/dress thingy with open toed heels. She definitely would have been turning heads in a meat market bar setting with that get up on. So she wants to retrieve a ream of copy paper piled up high on a shelf way over her head so she "wheels” an office chair over and stands on it in her heels (unsecured chair could roll sending her plummeting to the ground in unconscious miniskirted spread eagle panty revealing pose??). Not high enough, so she kneels one knee onto the glass top of the copy machine with her entire weight, (Could plunge her leg through the glass cutting deep into her knee requiring immediate attention to the leg of the miniskirted one potentially causing another to get an announced glimpse of Monday's panties, but didn’t). Not high enough, so she gets the other knee on top of the glass (do you hear it starting to crack?) and accidentally her first knee up hits the copy button and she proceeds to publish copies of her panties as they are just piling up in the bin which is public space when anyone is not "using the machine". Viola, it works and she has retrieved the 5 lb. fresh ream of paper. But with the good comes the bad and in this case it is in the form of some stupid, sex crazed, whimpering, office attire clad male idiot who also works in the office and happens upon some pictures of the panties (crotch shot) that someone has left in the bin of the copy machine. Being the stupid (I should add at this point, white) male that he is he instinctively notices exposed panties and though unsure at the first moment picks up one copy to confirm his instincts when it then dawns on him that it is a picture of the scantily clad woman kneeling on top of the copy machine with her panties now staring at him in the face, wink wink. Now we quickly go from a free spirited, scantily clad office woman in charge of her own fate who don't need no man's help, to the victim once again of being appreciated only as a sex object, to a seething feminist cauldron of vengeful emotions shooting a horrific and venomous glare at the man (a glare that us guys all know so well to the point where it has lost some of its fright importing edge because its now so common place) followed immediately by a powerful and deliberate physical assault on the man's person with a swift two handed, downward crushing blow to his cranium with the fresh ream of copy paper. She then leaves chair where she didn't find it and storms away probably to go whip up a riot in the office on account of such an intimidating and aggressive sexual display on the part of the otherwise stupid sex crazed idiotic and moronic white man.

Just another day in America...

2) "Girls, Its not the man, its what the man has"

Ad features a wooden male mannequin spying from behind the window dressing of his store front perch on a new car. The car is left unattended so her jumps in for a joy ride.

As he's tootling down the road he (the car) catches the eyes of a young woman (Chinese and coiffed hair, tight shirt and short shorts). So he stops to let her in. She happily jumps in with the strange piece of wood and lets him take her to where ever. She is pictured as just sooo happy and the piece of wood guy has the smirk bespeaking, "Yeah, dig me!" They go on and on in this manner until they get to the beach, she gets out, he zooms around her amidst smiles. Ooopps he is falling in love with her as he used the card to inscribe a heart in the sand around her. She acknowledges his feelings with further smiles and laughter without running away in schock and horror after an inanimate, automobile operating piece of wood just made a pass at her. Nope, she's cool, calm, collected and in complete control.

Sickening...

[cujobytes]

Just remember these rules, girls, and you'll be ok.

The Guys rules.

These are our rules! Please note... these are all numbered "1" ON PURPOSE!

1. Learn to work the toilet seat. You're a big girl. If it's up, put it
down. We need it up, you need it down. You don't hear us complaining about you leaving it down.

1. Sunday sports. It's like the full moon or the changing of the tides.
Let it be.

1. Shopping is NOT a sport. And no, we are never going to think of it
that way.

1. Crying is blackmail.

1. Ask for what you want. Let us be clear on this one: Subtle hints do
not work! Strong hints do not work! Obvious hints do not work! Just say
it!

1. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every
question.

1. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it. That's
what we do. Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.

1. A headache that lasts for 17 months is a problem. See a doctor.

1. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument. In
fact, all comments become null and void after 7 days.

1. If you won't dress like the Victoria's Secret girls, don't expect us
to act like soap opera guys.

1. If you think you're fat, you probably are. Don't ask us.

1. If something we said can be interpreted two ways and one of the ways
makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one.

1. You can either ask us to do something or tell us how you want it
done. Not both. If you already know best how to do it, just do it
yourself.

1. Whenever possible, please say whatever you have to say during
commercials.

1. Christopher Columbus did not need directions and neither do we.

1. ALL men see in only 16 colors, like windows default settings.
Peach, for example, is a fruit, not a color. Pumpkin is also a fruit. We
have no idea what mauve is.

1. If it itches, it will be scratched. We do that.

1. If we ask what is wrong and you say "nothing," we will act like
nothing's wrong. We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle.

1. If you ask a question you don't want an answer to, expect an answer
you don't want to hear.

1. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is
fine...
Really.

1. Don't ask us what we're thinking about unless you are prepared to
discuss such topics as baseball, the shotgun formation, or monster
trucks.

1. You have enough clothes

1. You have too many shoes.

1. I am in shape. Round is a shape.

1. Thank you for reading this. Yes, I know, I have to sleep on the couch
tonight, but did you know men really don't mind that? It's like camping.

[AsiaTraveller]

cujobytes,

You might provide a citation for where you found these "rules". They have been circulating on the Internet for a long time.

Or are you claiming that these are your original thoughts on the battle between the sexes???

[cujobytes]

I might. Then again I might not.
There's a battle? Who's winning?

[extoere]

Cujo: AsiaTraveler, henceforth known as "The Tart of Darkness," is always right. Whinning ... er "winning" is his game. Expert in things re: Western Wimmen. He's been lashed by many. Oooooooooh ... Do It Again!!!!!

cheers,
ex
Hey! See you in late January!

[justcolleen]