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aboxofchocolates



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 11:27 am    Post subject: Aww, my country!! Reply with quote

Thanks for keeping the double standards alive, Canada! There's nothing like keeping double standards alive to spark patriotism!!

http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/oh_noes_someone_forgot_to_tell_the_canadians_theyre_women/
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Olivencia



Joined: 08 Mar 2009

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 12:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Women acting like men again....this is why I didn't bother watching the Olympics (the female events anyway).
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aboxofchocolates



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 1:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Olivencia wrote:
Women acting like men again....this is why I didn't bother watching the Olympics (the female events anyway).


Are you perchance Canadian?
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Olivencia



Joined: 08 Mar 2009

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 1:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, but I visited twice Smile
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Street Magic



Joined: 23 Sep 2009

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 1:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My first impression of this story was sexism (although keep in mind I didn't experience any of it or the televised reactions to it firsthand since I find the concept of athletics to be a disgustingly popular retard circus show meant to facilitate that special kind of bonding where quasi-sentient primates relate to each other's failure to place the faculty of conscious reflection above impulses in the league of feces flinging, fur grooming, and territorial urination), but I've since remembered coming across stories about the NFL's strict touchdown celebration rules as well as the absurd media frenzy over Michael Phelps having toked a bong while sitting down calmly and doing nothing at a completely off hours party. I kind of hope it is more an issue of sexist double standards though because that would mean that people don't actually care as much about smoking and drinking and "think of the children" as issues in themselves anymore.
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mc_jc



Joined: 13 Aug 2009
Location: C4B- Cp Red Cloud, Area-I

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 1:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What's wrong with women having a few drinks and smoking some bud?

I see Korean women drink way more than these women and smoke like chimneys...so what's the difference?
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Olivencia



Joined: 08 Mar 2009

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 2:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's not so bad they want to drink beer but the way in which they did so.....really uncouth - and of course downright unfeminine. But I guess it goes with the territtory. They want to play these men's games so it is no surprise.
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.38 Special



Joined: 08 Jul 2009
Location: Pennsylvania

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 4:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Now Boxie, you know that I'm secretly in love with you and all (it's still a secret, even after publishing it on the net), but I think the article is missing the point: They were drinking and smoking out on the ice for all the world to see. Nothing wrong with that in of itself, except a substantial lack of modesty -- a virtue becoming of men and women.

But, Hell, I'd party with hockey players any old time. I dated a rugby player once. She was not one to be trifled with and a damned good woman to boot. But I just don't see anything positive in flaunting your victory on the field in such a way.

It's arrogant, a little tasteless, a bad example for young people, and definitely not a matter of gender (unless someone construes it as such in their terror of women smoking tobacco and wearing trousers). Shocked
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Moldy Rutabaga



Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 5:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The Canadian women�s ice hockey team have been forced to apologize for celebrating their Olympic gold by swigging champagne and smoking cigars, The Sun reported Friday.

They have to apologize for celebrating their win? What is this, the Victorian era? They let too much ankle show through their petticoats?
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peppermint



Joined: 13 May 2003
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 5:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

From what I understand, the celebration didn't hit the ice until about a half hour after the game, when the stands were empty except for a few media stragglers. The real class act in this story is the media outlet who caught a moment of joy and tried to turn it into a scandal.
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aboxofchocolates



Joined: 21 Mar 2008
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Olivencia wrote:
No, but I visited twice Smile


Sweet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSfl8vFNZdE

There's some men being men for ya.
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aboxofchocolates



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

.38 Special wrote:
Now Boxie, you know that I'm secretly in love with you and all (it's still a secret, even after publishing it on the net), but I think the article is missing the point: They were drinking and smoking out on the ice for all the world to see. Nothing wrong with that in of itself, except a substantial lack of modesty -- a virtue becoming of men and women.

But, Hell, I'd party with hockey players any old time. I dated a rugby player once. She was not one to be trifled with and a damned good woman to boot. But I just don't see anything positive in flaunting your victory on the field in such a way.

It's arrogant, a little tasteless, a bad example for young people, and definitely not a matter of gender (unless someone construes it as such in their terror of women smoking tobacco and wearing trousers). Shocked


What peppermint said, .38. Some reporter from the sun was hanging around for an hour and a half, and the crowds and the opposing team were gone by then.
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mc_jc



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