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I've absolute nae idea what feminism is

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CoupleOfPushBacks · 18/05/2018 19:27

Uneducated?? No.

Ignorant?? Maybe

I just have 0 idea. I read about it a lot but most goes over my head because I've never really read into it to understand it enough.

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AngryAttackKittens · 19/05/2018 00:34

I've absolutely no idea which biscuit to dunk in my cup of tea. Hob Nob? Or chocolate chip digestive?

They make digestives with chocolate chips in them now? Damn, the old country sure has upped its basic biscuit game since I left.

thebewilderness · 19/05/2018 00:22

I'm surprised to the anger and aggressiveness displaying on this thread.

Refusing to engage, and being dismissive with chocolate biscuits and tea, being characterized as anger and aggressiveness is a tell.
You might want to keep that in mind the next time you enter a nest of Feminazgûls.

ErrolTheDragon · 19/05/2018 00:18

Bugger, fat thumb at a bad point... dislike of being used.

ErrolTheDragon · 19/05/2018 00:17

I thought people would jump at the chance to give their own personal view/opinion on the matter.

A few people have. You've been given a couple of good links. Trouble is, this sort of thread appears with tedious regularity, mostly the OP is a bloke on a wind up mission, but its not really much better if it's a woman who CBA to 'really read into it to understand it enough.'. You're not seeing 'anger and aggression' ... you're seeing dislike

AssassinatedBeauty · 19/05/2018 00:00

I think your post at 20.13 yesterday probably went down badly.

Slapdasherie · 19/05/2018 00:00

Yes, now now ladies, be nice to the sincere seeker after knowledge.

CoupleOfPushBacks · 18/05/2018 23:57

I'm surprised to the anger and aggressiveness displaying on this thread.

I thought people would jump at the chance to give their own personal view/opinion on the matter.

I'm definitely Female! I have the reproductive organs to prove it.

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ErrolTheDragon · 18/05/2018 23:49

Best biscuit for dunking is a ginger nut. Choccy bikkies with tea, not in it.

I was pondering 'Where I go to educate myself is my choice. The OP seems to have somehow mistaken a chat board for an educational establishment, but given that people (mostly men, weirdly) keep making this mistake, maybe we should establish some entry criteria and course fees - after all, as many of us who are parents know, you can't just choose any school or college and demand education.

BettyFloop · 18/05/2018 22:59

Personally, I'd go for a custard cream Lang Cleg

LangCleg · 18/05/2018 22:50

Yanny, yanny, yanny. Oi, oi, oi!

I've absolutely no idea which biscuit to dunk in my cup of tea. Hob Nob? Or chocolate chip digestive?

BeyondPink · 18/05/2018 22:35

I was sure you never used to be able to lift on a line out, thought I was making things up!! Shock

thebewilderness · 18/05/2018 22:29

This is the first one I ever saw but youtube has lots of others now.

MIdgebabe · 18/05/2018 22:27

My values are that mentally at least women and men are just people who are broadly the same ( social conditioning excluded ) and to discriminate agaiant one group because of sterotypes is wrong.

An Day to day example would be getting a 10% pay rise when hr realised that women were paid way less than men at the same grade and with the same performance mark

Another example would be getting raped becausba man is happy to use their physical strength to get what they want, whilst always showing men respect.

An example would be always calling someone bubble brain because once they they made one mistake in a sum , even if they were on average streets ahead mathematically

An example would be being told off for speaking in a meeting because it was unseemly for a women to speak

An example would be always being the person school contacted for everything even when the exh was unemployed ( and so reducing maintenance payments)

Hope that helps

MrsDeltaB · 18/05/2018 22:16

Think op, either male or female is getting a slightly raw deal.

I think the question maybe more along the 'what values do you hold that would make you/appear feminist, what do you, as a feminist, find offensive/sexist.

A more sweeping generalisation as opposed to political views etc. A day to day kinda example maybe?

Onemorning · 18/05/2018 22:13

Chip, anyone?

IdentifiesAsMiddleAged · 18/05/2018 22:10

thebewilderness

The McGurk Effect? Pray tell? My googling finger is hampered at the moment

thebewilderness · 18/05/2018 22:09

Kinda like the McGurk effect, eh?

Cwenthryth · 18/05/2018 22:09

Sort of like men assaulting women

Well that better not be made bloody legal just because it’s happening anyway.

IdentifiesAsMiddleAged · 18/05/2018 22:03

Because players were just lifting and it was hard to police, they just decided to make that part of the rules.

Sort of like men assaulting, oppressing and generally talking over women. That there is a bloody metaphor

IdentifiesAsMiddleAged · 18/05/2018 21:58

Cwenthryth

I know! They literally just jumped up. Now It's like human caber (?sp) tossing

Cwenthryth · 18/05/2018 21:57

Years ago you couldn't pick people up in the line out.

Really? So they all just jumped up and hoped?

Well. Every days a school day on MN. Look at us learning, OP Grin

IdentifiesAsMiddleAged · 18/05/2018 21:55

Re: Yanny/Laurel

I hear Yanny. Every time. Which apparently means I'm a young man

I knew it!!!

IdentifiesAsMiddleAged · 18/05/2018 21:54

Oh, and one minute they sprinkled little hills of sand, and the next it's cones to prop the ball on

AllyMcBeagle · 18/05/2018 21:52

Doesn't work all that well for me AllyMcBeagle, I hear either one or the other at different viewings/listenings. Just started a thread in Chat about it since I was reminded of it here and haven't seen a thread about it yet.

I only hear one at a time but it changes depending on which one I'm thinking of.

IdentifiesAsMiddleAged · 18/05/2018 21:51

Rugby is difficult. They keep changing it. Years ago you couldn't pick people up in the line out.

They'll be wearing shoulder padding next and calling it American Football

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