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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Drop in the ocean

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notanumber · 19/01/2011 20:21

So Miranda Kerr and Orlando Bloom have released a (lovely) photograph of Kerr breastfeeding their newborn son.

The Daily Mirror have printed it under the headline, "Get out of the way, child, you're in front of the best bit" with a load hideous misogynistic shitty text to accompany it.

I just rolled by eyes at first. I mean who cares what the stupid Mirror think, right? But then I thought, well, about 1,133,440 do. Which is quite a lot of people to think that is amusing or "ironic" telling-it-like-it-is or whatever.

It makes me so depressed. This kind of shit is printed and consumed by thousands on a daily basis, while I fight tiny little battles centring on my switching genders around in my childrens' story books. What's the fucking point?

Don't know why I'm posting this. It has just disproportionately upset me.

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FlamingoBingo · 19/01/2011 20:56

OMG, how fucking annoying! Angry

Off to read your links now.

FlamingoBingo · 19/01/2011 21:01

Grr!

LadyBlaBlah · 19/01/2011 21:35

I think 3am is written by women. It certainly used to be

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