Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz
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@jegga You do have to admire that an editor has managed to encapsulate the entire story in the headline.
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@antipodean story?
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@antipodean said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
You do have to admire that an editor has managed to encapsulate the entire boring anecdote in the headline.
@booboo - fixed.
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apparently a gender equality group is calling for there to be gender neutral stores, so people are not confined to shopping for boys clothes for their boy and girls for their girl....
Was on Breakfast this morning, Hilary Barry at least thought it was pathetic, as did all on the show bar Jack Tame, who the others pointed out doesn't even have kids, seemed about 80% of viewers agreed...
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@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
apparently a gender equality group is calling for there to be gender neutral stores, so people are not confined to shopping for boys clothes for their boy and girls for their girl....
Or one could simply buy whatever they wanted in normal stores and not be hamstrung by notions of gender based clothes.
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@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
apparently a gender equality group is calling for there to be gender neutral stores, so people are not confined to shopping for boys clothes for their boy and girls for their girl....
Was on Breakfast this morning, Hilary Barry at least thought it was pathetic, as did all on the show bar Jack Tame, who the others pointed out doesn't even have kids, seemed about 80% of viewers agreed...
@antipodean if there is a market for such then someone will start a business
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@booboo or any parents who are that concerned with their child being gender neutral should encourage their boy to wear sparkly pink dresses and their girl blue tee's with rocket ships on it, or maybe just buy white stuff?
I mean aren't we now being colourist, how do we know pink wants to be a girls colour. maybe it wasn't to be a boy colour but genderists have assigned it as a girl colour?
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I hope the people pushing this bullshit realise that the second their child walks into Day Care or School they will have their gender "assigned" by the other kids. We never specifically taught our boy how to tell girls and boys apart, it's something that comes naturally to everyone. But people pushing this crap don't like that thing called "reality", it gets in the way of their narrative.
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@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@booboo or any parents who are that concerned with their child being gender neutral should encourage their boy to wear sparkly pink dresses and their girl blue tee's with rocket ships on it, or maybe just buy white stuff?
I mean aren't we now being colourist, how do we know pink wants to be a girls colour. maybe it wasn't to be a boy colour but genderists have assigned it as a girl colour?
Only since 1927 apparently.
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There was this doco on tv some years ago regarding the nature vs nuture thing
Some poor guy in the 70s had his cock burned to a crisp as a newborn. Think it was a circumsison gone wrong
Anyway this looney dr decided it was a chance to see if he could be raised as a she. The mom was in on it too.
Fair to say it didn't do well, she/he was fucked up big time. Didn't like playing with dolls wearing dresses etc
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@Virgil said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
There was this doco on tv some years ago regarding the nature vs nuture thing
Some poor guy in the 70s had his cock burned to a crisp as a newborn. Think it was a circumsison gone wrong
Anyway this looney dr decided it was a chance to see if he could be raised as a she. The mom was in on it too.
Fair to say it didn't do well, she/he was fucked up big time. Didn't like playing with dolls wearing dresses etc
In the end commited suicide sometime in his/her 20'sThe shrink that said it was a good idea to raise Reimer as a girl was a kiwi, Reimer killed himself around the same time Money opened an art gallery in his home town I think. The press were pretty merciless at the time, they asked him about the suicide when he thought they were going to ask about art. Not sure what they'd do now though.
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It is absolutely astounding that people still think that differences between males and females are purely social constructs. Obviously a persons environment plays a role in shaping who they are, but to deny biological differences is beyond absurd.
This is a fascinating read for anyone interested - I'd certainly encourage people to share this type of work with any of the "social construct" crew they know.
In a study of 34 rhesus monkeys, for example, males strongly preferred toys with wheels over plush toys, whereas females found plush toys likable. It would be tough to argue that the monkeys’ parents bought them sex-typed toys or that simian society encourages its male offspring to play more with trucks. A much more recent study established that boys and girls 9 to 17 months old — an age when children show few if any signs of recognizing either their own or other children’s sex — nonetheless show marked differences in their preference for stereotypically male versus stereotypically female toys. -
@No-Quarter and in other news the sky remains blue.
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@booboo the sky being blue is a social construct developed by the patriarchy as a way to keep women oppressed #skyispink #deconstructthepatriarchy
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Was listening to a podcast about Russia when it all turned to shit and the communist took over, anyway when the reds seized power they got all the diplomatic cables , secret defence treaties etc and made them public to embarrass the former government they were still fighting with and their allies. The only newspaper in the Uk that really got into publishing the leaks was the Manchester Guardian which eventually became the Guardian we all know and love. Sometimes you wonder if they've developed a degree of self awareness like to parody themselves with opinion pieces like this
Why not fund the welfare state with a 100% inheritance tax? | Abi Wilkinson
We need to overcome the convention of passing on our accumulated wealth, says Abi Wilkinson
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Boy, I love the Guardian. In a single minute of scanning headlines after reading the link @jegga posted above:
Ivanka Trump's art collection is dominated by male artists.
What's inside Ivanka Trump's male-dominated $25m art collection?
The businesswoman-turned-presidential adviser and her husband have accrued a high-value set of pieces that showcase an unlikely penchant for the rebel
Leftist darling Justin Trudeau once had a celebrity boxing match with a fellow politician - an indigenous man - and beat him. But that triggered the Oppression Olympics clause , so it was gleefully reported that Twitter went nuts:
“So ‘privileged white guy beats up Indian’ was the ‘right kind of narrative?’ Seriously?” wrote one person on Twitter, while another noted: “White guy in power & entitlement looks 4 an #Indigenous human to beat up so he looks like a strong white dude. How precious & colonial supreme.”
'Privileged' Justin Trudeau accused of colonialist attitude over boxing match
Account of how 2012 match against fellow politician Patrick Brazeau came about doesn’t square with vows to repair Canada’s relationship with indigenous people
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Violently stabbed? Is that worse than a non violent stabbing?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11896842
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@jegga on the movies where they quietly and gently push the knife into you as opposed to an angry agressive stab.
https://www.facebook.com/Breakfaston1/photos/a.444980022718.243928.337418942718/10155465764507719/?type=3&theater
John Money - Wikipedia
How men's and women's brains are different
