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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 5 2014, 04:34 AM (1,595 Views) | |
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http://bemalleable.wordpress.com/2013/12/31/sincerely-one-of-many-girls-who-care/ This blog post made me really angry, and I'll briefly explain why. It's completely sexist. Sure, the media is full of half-naked, attractive women, but this girl is treating boys like they're sex-crazed demons who pop a boner every time they see anything remotely sexual. That simply isn't the case. I mean, I'm a lesbian, and I don't have a problem with any of this whatsoever. Does this girl know anything about men? Or sex? Or even women, for that matter? Also, to talk like men are the only ones tempted in this world is completely silly. The same can be applied to men in the media (although I will admit that this is a smaller percentage). While I agree with some of her points and do think that the media's portrayal of women can be negative, I don't agree with the way she worded those points and treated men like sex-crazed pigs. "Boys will be boys" seems to be her biggest point. That and "only God can save you from your sex-crazed minds." Everyone on my facebook is raving about how great this article is, but I fail to see the appeal. Thoughts? |
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| Buuberries | Jan 5 2014, 10:45 AM Post #2 |
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wot Hah, it always boils down to religion, doesn't it? She doesn't realise that sexual repression leads to a whole bunch of s*** and that religion causes that repression rather than being a cure for it. |
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| * Mitas | Jan 5 2014, 11:25 AM Post #3 |
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I always hate reading articles like this because they generalise the world so much. Of course there are examples of porn that can be viewed as negative and sexist etc, but there's also porn between two men, porn where the woman is shown to be in the dominating role, porn with storylines that objectifies neither men nor women but just 'tells a story' (albeit not one that's going to win any script awards). Heck, there's even spoof porn that's meant to be funny. And then there's the argument that for every woman that's degraded in the world of pornography, there are the women that are 'stars' that have complete control over what they do and make hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars. As for the 'pity party' the article threw for the world men live in, eh. I can see what she's trying to do (recruit men by appealing to their egotistical nature - 'hey, people always give men a hard time, but it must be hard to have all these temptations and options open to you), but I feel like if you're influenced by this article then you can't be that intelligent. I laughed when she mentioned something about pornography tyrants laughing as they take your money. Isn't that what church leaders do? |
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| Rockman | Jan 5 2014, 12:28 PM Post #4 |
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| * Ketchup Revenge | Jan 5 2014, 05:02 PM Post #5 |
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I simply scanned through, but this chick doesn't seem to realize that Orthodox Christianity is one of the most male-oriented chauvinistic religions that has ever existed. You can't just take a text that was considered "moral" a couple thousand years ago, and apply it to a completely different society. It would essentially be the same thing as using the Bible now to explain the morals of the cannibalistic tribes of New Guinea. Since the cultures and their understanding of "morals" are completely different, you need to cherry pick in order to justify or explain their behavior. If you actually read the old testament (which is valid in Christian canon), Women were pretty much barred from doing anything notable what-so-ever, in addition to rape not actually being considered as a crime against the woman, but more a crime against her husband or father. The immorality of rape had absolutely nothing to do with a woman's rights as a person, because since women were pretty much thought of as property, any tainting of the potential to use her as a bartering chip was considered destruction of property or stealing from her husband or father. That is the context in which our anti-rape moral was founded, and this is the context that the "good book" goes off of. The Bible hasn't been updated in thirteen hundred years (The first "Christian Bible" wasn't compiled until around year 700 AD), therefore the context in which it's used can't be changed willy-nilly to fit a clearly different society. There are ancient religions that are less male-oriented than Christianity, and these women blindly believe that they're looked at in the same context as a man is in the eyes of "God". Newsflash ladies, it's not true. Husbands in early Christian churches were instructed to keep their wives' heads covered and keep them silent. The problem with modern Christianity is that is is absolutely nothing like what it states in the teachings of the Bible. In the old testament (which is part of the Bible, mind you), it states that if a man rapes a woman, than he must take her as a wife. This has nothing to do with her rights as a human being, and everything to do with her value on a business level to her father. In addition to this, any lustful behavior was considered the woman's fault, because of the fact that she's there, and the guy gets a hard-on. So as a re-cap, I absolutely despise when Christians use a book that was written two thousand years ago to justify their behavior in modern society, when the book was clearly written in the context of the morals of that obsolete society. To me, it's the same thing as holding onto the carcass of your dead cat. The cats dead and doesn't serve a purpose in the world anymore, but since you grew to love the cat, you'll hold onto it because it makes you feel better. Edited by Ketchup Revenge, Jan 5 2014, 05:05 PM.
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| + Pelador | Jan 5 2014, 05:11 PM Post #6 |
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Lets not use this one person's ignorance to attack all of Christianity. I'm pretty sure there are plenty of Christians who would disagree with her arguements.
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| + Steve | Jan 5 2014, 05:24 PM Post #7 |
Greetings. I will be your waifu this season.
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It's rare to see an article like this that isn't completely ignorant... Imagine people actually did research before writing these? Imagine! Really though this is one of the most stupid things I've ever read. Yeah sure whatever but 2003, times have changed many couples watch porn together, women even suggest it and gosh women even watch it together! How decadent the mind control of media has got, people literally have no control over their lives, especially men we are all slaves to nudity. Not really. Not if you have a real relationship, not unless you force yourself to be with someone because that's what God would want. You know what I find really funny? By this kind of religious nut(I mean these kind only not that all religious people are this way) talk about the media like it's this way of controlling the population and making us all drooling slaves to TV and hot women and yeah, there is a slight validity to that, they do use hot women in adverts etc to keep men interested in what's being shown that is fair enough. However... "God will provide a way to escape." "Do not conform. God’s will is good and acceptable and perfect." "Sin will have no dominion over you." What about that isn't brainwashing material? That just sounds like the kind of brain washing things you hear in a sci-fi show. One of us. One of us. This isn't what the Bible does of course but certain people like this clearly try to do exactly what they say the media does to force the Bible's laws on to those who hold no belief in it. If I see some hot girl advertising a new flavour of crisps, I'm going to pay attention to it more than an ugly one of course and I might just buy a packet of said crisps but it is a choice I'm not going to waste my life's savings on them and build a crisp packet shrine to the woman that advertised them due to an uncontrolled enslavement to the media. Now again crisps, drop dead gorgeous girl advertising them "These crisps are s*** flavoured, honest to God they make me sick" I'm not buying them because a hot girl advertised them, who would? (well, some people would...) that's not how it works the media casts a line out with something of interest on the end and use beautiful women to dazzle it up but you're not going to buy it if it's not something you wanted anyway. Sorry for the long post but
^ What she should have wrote. Edited by Steve, Jan 5 2014, 05:27 PM.
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| * Ketchup Revenge | Jan 5 2014, 05:27 PM Post #8 |
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"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!"
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I'm not attacking Christianity, because it is what it is. I'm attacking people who blindly follow their own belief, but preach Christianity when they clearly have no idea what the religion entails. There's plenty of Christians who have never read the Bible, and don't know about the "less than questionable" morals in the old testament. Christians will say that the old testament no longer applies because of Jesus, but Jesus never stated that it didn't. In fact, he specifically stated that all the old rules still applied to his teachings. Edited by Ketchup Revenge, Jan 5 2014, 05:42 PM.
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| + Steve | Jan 5 2014, 05:41 PM Post #9 |
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Yeah it seems like a lot of people get the "Christianity in a nutshell" book rather than read the whole Bible. Not that the whole religion is whack, every respect for those who want to live their lives clean and pure and whatnot, but some pretty gruesome stuff happens in the Bible, by today's standards. Stuff that it is reasonable not to uphold in today's society but to act like Christianity is perfect and that nothing bad ever happens in the Bible is just entirely wrong. There's nothing wrong with believing in and only following the nicer teachings of the Bible but you can hardly say the whole thing is pure and wonderful and that if the whole world fully followed all the things in the Bible it would be a better place. This nice Christianity people follow isn't the full deal and it's people who don't understand that who make these kind of articles. |
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| * Ketchup Revenge | Jan 5 2014, 06:02 PM Post #10 |
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I agree for the most part, but I don't understand why you need to follow a book at all if you're simply going to cherry pick your beliefs out of it anyway. The only reason why people do this is because of social pressures and fear of the supernatural or unknown. To be entirely honest, there's not a Christian alive today who is a true Christian in the context of the Bible. I guess you could joke that every Christian is secretly an non-believer to some extent, but they're just too afraid to ever admit it, or simply they're not aware of it. Of course this is coming from a person who has a Satanic Pope as an avatar. I listen to this satanic band a lot, but it's entertainment only, and the band does the whole "Satanic gig" for entertainment as well. Life's so much more enjoyable when meaning isn't attached to anything. Edited by Ketchup Revenge, Jan 5 2014, 06:06 PM.
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| + Steve | Jan 5 2014, 06:18 PM Post #11 |
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Yeah the Christianity of today is really just people reading the parts they want to read it's not truly following the Bible. Do they ever read out the accounts of rape in the Bible in the Church or is it just the nice stuff? I think what Christianity actually is now should have a new name or it should be made clear that it's not true Christianity so that we don't get this kind of ignorance as much. I don't respect the way families can bully their kids in to the belief and bring them up saying God will smite them or send them to hell for every little thing but if they really want to follow the belief and be what they deem a good person without forcing it on others, I respect that. A lot seem to be like "My family is Christian, might as well say I am to not get looked down on" these days. I see the reasoning to that but you shouldn't have to live that way because your family says so, there's no point in it if you don't believe at all. If I have kids I'm just going to give them my two cents on belief when they get to an age they could actually understand the gravity of everything in religions and then let them believe what they want. So long as they aren't sacrificing goats to Satan in the living room or anything. |
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| petewentz | Jan 6 2014, 12:24 AM Post #12 |
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Christians claim the book is the inspired word of God yet it's a book that is interpreted by mere mortals. If it's truly God's holy word then slavery is permitted yet these theologians interpret that to mean any number of things. If it's truly God's word then it's written down, set in stone and as plane as the day. Yet people KNOW that it contains unmoral things yet claim it's the basis for all our morality...hmmmmm Like a guy said above me, people want to cherry pick stuff out of the bible and practice only what THEY WANT TO BELIEVE. Aye yai yai don't even get me started it's all such nonsense. "You believe in talking snakes?" "Human beings are animals and we talk, right, so it stands to reason a snake could"--literally an exchange I saw on HLN. No lie. Edited by petewentz, Jan 6 2014, 12:25 AM.
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| * Ketchup Revenge | Jan 6 2014, 05:27 PM Post #13 |
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I agree. And to top it off, even if the Bible was the word of God, it isn't even the full word of God. There were several books that were omitted when the Bible was compiled around year 700. One of them being the Gospel of Judas. Another one being the original account of Genesis, which talked about Adam's first wife Lilith. However, this book wasn't entirely omitted because the story is summarized in the first chapter of Genesis, which states that God created man and woman at the same time; while in chapter 2, it states that God created Adam, and then his wife Eve later on. In the first account of Genesis, Lilith was created from the Earth just like Adam, therefore she was equal to him. However, she refused to submit to Adam during sex, so Adam went to God and God told her to submit. She pretty much gave God the finger, and uttered his name three times, which gave her magic power. She was then able to fly away into the sky and away from the Garden of Eden. For obvious reasons that concerned radical feminism, this story was left out of the final Bible. This isn't the only book that was omitted, because there were several books and scriptures that were being followed by early Christians that never made it into the Bible when it was compiled around year 700. Back on topic, the institutions brainwash people by employing the people's fear of the unknown. "If you deny the existence of God, you're going to Hell." That's what these religions teach, and since people have never been taught to recognize any other different possibilities, in fact, they've actually deliberately been told not to think about those things. They've been convinced by these institutions that existence after we die is the only reality, therefore instead of coming into their own moral set, they compromise half way between their own morals, and the morals that are expected of them. Even Priests are 100% guilty of this. Edited by Ketchup Revenge, Jan 6 2014, 05:39 PM.
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| Zenet | Jan 6 2014, 08:08 PM Post #14 |
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In my opinion the main reason people think the bible is true is solely based on the education system. People are unaware that the bible contradicts Modern science. Example In the 17th century Galileo proved that the earth revolves around the sun. This fact is actually the reverse of the biblical fact which says that sun revolve around the earth. For this reason Galileo under went for trial. The Church finally admitted that Galileo was right and they had a wrong belief. |
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| Cal | Jan 24 2014, 03:35 AM Post #15 |
I may not deserve to live, but I will protect those in my reach with my reverse blade!
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Gotta admit though the one in the middle is a looker. -- I wonder if everyone here understands that people being 'progressive' as times modernize is completely subjective. |
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