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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

just saw this on FB with over 20 'likes" so far. AM completely aghast

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Feckbox · 20/10/2012 23:27

"Girls are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the top of the tree. The boys don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they just get the rotten apples from the ground that aren't as good, but easy. So the apples at the top think something is wrong with them, when in reality, they're amazing. They just have to wait for the right boy to come along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree"

words bloody fail me. this was posted by a woman.

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TiggyD · 20/10/2012 23:32

They forgot to mention that the older damaged ones attract wasps.

ATourchOfInsanity · 20/10/2012 23:33

Are any apples kicking the boy or hitting him on the head?

Yama · 20/10/2012 23:37

Dear God, I hope you teach your children critical thinking skills so that they stay away from knobbers like this.

WereTricksPotter · 20/10/2012 23:42

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Feckbox · 20/10/2012 23:47

absolutely incredible.

So we all have to hang around like apples on a tree waiting to be "picked"? And if we get picked first it is because we are rotten and easy?

You would be absolutely shocked to hear what this otherwise lovely woman does for a living. She is a highly educated professional person

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EduCated · 20/10/2012 23:48

We used to have a rat that climbed the apple tree to get the apples from the top. It'd chew through the stalk til it dropped to the floor.

Where does that fit in?

Feckbox · 20/10/2012 23:48

Ha, EduCated, shall I post that?

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Sagelyhaunting · 20/10/2012 23:50

What an utter pile of shite! Where is that thread about awful drivel sayings people use and put on FB??

tethersend · 20/10/2012 23:50

So where does this leave Isaac Newton?

WereTricksPotter · 20/10/2012 23:50

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Feckbox · 20/10/2012 23:51

utter shite exactly. And so many people agreeing.
I despair.

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EduCated · 20/10/2012 23:53

I've heard it before, so presume she didn't make it up. Feel free to add the rat into the mix. It was a daft sod, never worked out that it could've have chewed through more than one apple at a time to save running up and down the tree so much.

We never saw it again after my DM chased it down the garden

Feckbox · 21/10/2012 00:04

yes, she was quoting some one else .
worse I think.
Means there is a chain of people peddling shite

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ATourchOfInsanity · 21/10/2012 00:05

Let me guess - she is broody and desperate to find 'the one'?

WereTricksPotter · 21/10/2012 00:06

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TiggyD · 21/10/2012 00:09

She will probably join a dating site with the title "High up apple seeks picker with ladder or some kind of device on a long pole."

Feckbox · 21/10/2012 00:21

she is married, no kids, happy

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Sagelyhaunting · 21/10/2012 00:39

Tiggy! "Seeks male with claw like device and good apple-catching skills"

I also assumed she was single.

Feckbox · 21/10/2012 00:41

not sure whether she feels she held out for a "brave boy" or is an easy rotten apple

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stinimefdar · 22/10/2012 03:23

Some women remain for ever the foot soldiers of the patriarchy and participate in their own denigration and then pass it onto the next generation of young women.........grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

MoleyMick · 22/10/2012 03:51

I've seen this one, also was at the thought of waiting to be "picked" but also at the insinuation that those who are in relationships are easy and rotten!! Such an odd analogy on many levels.

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TotoroOnTheCatBus · 22/10/2012 13:46

This does seem the sort of shit you'd expect from a 14 year old with low self esteem..not an adult woman

blackcurrants · 22/10/2012 15:48

I've never hung out in an Orchard looking fresh ... and now i feel like I've missed out. I did once proposition DH in a sheep barn, though ... is that the kind of thing she means?

aaah, romantic Yorkshire courting days!

[goes misty eyed
[cross eyed]
[gives up]

Seriously, this kind of drivel is so annoying. I was one of the first in my gang of friends to get married, and whenever someone said "how on earth did you find him?" I would very seriously say "well, we met online, and it was really just a sex thing at first..." and watch their heads explode.

Waiting to be picked? Bleurhghgghghghghgh! If we spent as much time inculcating health self-esteem and a large dose of 'fuck your bullshit moral standards, it's my body and I'll do as I please' as we did shaming women for being sexual/frightening women that no one will want them, we'd actually give ourselves a chance at happiness.

talkingnonsense · 22/10/2012 15:51

Could she be trying to cheer up a boyfriend less teenager?

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