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So today Google's homepage is highlighting Ada Lovelace, probably the most overrated person in the history of computers. If she had been a man no one on earth would remember who she was.
So today Google's homepage is highlighting Ada Lovelace, probably the most overrated person in the history of computers. If she had been a man no one on earth would remember who she was.
I was going to post this here yesterday and make some of the comments you made. I agree, normally a very informative site, and enjoy reading it, but they miss the mark on this one. Yep, some very good comments by the readers.A conservative site that is very good on economic issues but still full-bore mangina/white knight runs an article called "22 Stats That Prove That There is Something Seriously Wrong With Young Men in America." The article is filled with the usual misandric crap about men being responsible for all the ills of society, while poor princess bears no blame for anything.
What's great is reading the comments after this article. Man after man lets loose against the assumptions of the article and the conservative form of man-hating feminism that it upholds.
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/...ing-seriously-wrong-with-young-men-in-america
Yes, so many ironies in the make-believe-world of feminist-land. One being that they feel taking on more masculine traits in demeanor and dress empowers them and another one being that in 20-30 years they'll most likely be wearing a burka.That article was linked on the Drudge Report today and I was gonna post it myself when I had the time. Interesting isn't it, that if the feminazis have their way, women will end up being almost as covered up as they are in the Muslim countries that the joyless, humorless, heterosex-hating, totalitarian-oriented feminazis despise so much.
Sorry Tom, I should've forewarned about the cuss words and some of his antics.Highlander, Pretty dirty stuff, but unfortuneately very accurate I think. I don't know how our young women have become as they are.
Tom Iron...
The opening this month of the first life-sized Barbie Dreamhouse in Europe may be the fantasy of many a little girl, but Berlin feminists are mobilising against what they call a sexist icon.
With her ironed-straight blond tresses, doe-like baby blue eyes, blinding smile and super-human measurements, the mistress of the giant Barbie mansion has become a lightning rod ahead of the inauguration.
Just a few steps from Alexanderplatz, the main shopping district of east Berlin, the 2,500-square-metre slice of Malibu lifestyle is nestled between a railway and old communist housing blocks.
Inside, young Barbie fans can pretend to bake cupcakes in a marvellous kitchen, rummage through her sequin-studded wardrobe in the blonde bombshell's "endless" walk-in closet, and lounge in her - pink, of course - living room while admiring hundreds of dolls on display.
"For 22 euros, you can have two careers - model or pop star! What kind of image is that presenting to young women?" grumbles Michael Koschitzki, the proudly feminist male leader of a grassroots group of opponents of the Barbie Dreamhouse, and a member of the youth wing of the far-left party Die Linke.
A Facebook faction called Occupy Barbie Dreamhouse, created in March with a wink at the New York anti-greed movement Occupy Wall Street, has drawn more than 1000 supporters since its launch in March when the Berlin plans came to light.
It regrets that "the vast majority of little girls play with a doll that, if she were real, would be anorexic and whose life would consist of waiting for Ken in the car", Koschitzki said.
An angry fist piercing adverts for the attraction was printed on 10,000 flyers to publicize the fight against such "sexist propaganda" in a country headed by a childless woman and in which battles of the sexes are being fought on several fronts.
Germany, where combining family and work is notoriously difficult, has a fertility rate among the lowest in western Europe and is debating binding quotas for female executives to diversify its overwhelmingly male-dominated boardrooms.
Having weathered half a century of feminist rage, US Barbie manufacturer Mattel notes that it has modernized the doll's image, moving beyond the beach beauty to create surgeon dolls and even a presidential candidate.
"Barbie has again become a tool for some to advance their own agenda," a spokeswoman for the company's German unit said.
The conflict is due to come to a head on May 16 (local time), the opening day, with a planned demonstration under an Occupy Barbie Dreamhouse banner.
"We will be very happy if we can bring together 100 people," admits Koschitzki, whose protest group includes several leftist organisations and the initiative Pinkstinks, which is fighting against the gender-stereotyping produced by the colour's hegemony in the little-girl universe.
Barbie's Dreamhouse, which was conjured up by Vienna-based Event Marketing Service with a license from Mattel and has a twin sister at a shopping mall in southern Florida, is already drawing curious families.
A 28-year-old Israeli tourist who gave her name as Lucy said all the pink caught her attention, as she pulled out her camera.
Having played with Barbies as a child, she did not see a problem with the Dreamhouse, although she admitted it could "influence a young girl so she thinks that everyone has to be blonde, tall and big-breasted".
"It's up to parents to explain that it's just a doll and not an example," said Emma, a 36-year-old Berlin mother of two girls, aged four and six, who shook with anticipation to get inside the doll paradise.
Barbie, for her part, will have to pack her bags on August 25. The Dreamhouse will then be dissembled, placed in moving crates and sent on a tour of other European cities.
Jaxvid said:Thank you for passing that on. I remember fondly the young years of my own daughter and my hopes that she would grow up to be a loving wife and mother and continue my genetic line into the future.
Jaxvid said:That gets me about these ridiculous protests is how serious people take these protesters. Can there be anything more pathetic then a grown adult complaining about dolls? These people claim to be all about nature and being natural, yet their whole lives are spent acting in an unnatural manner (homosexuality and hyper sexuality, not to mention socialism) and a never ending attempt to change human nature into something unnatural. Girls have been playing with dolls since the year dot. How can anything be more "natural".
Not to mention how petty and stupid complaining about kids toys and the color pink is. I try to take some comfort in the knowledge that these losers are not just losers in the real sense, but losers in the genetic sense. Their non-reproductive philosophy will extinct them eventually. Unfortunately they are the people that carry nearly the same genetic material as myself. So I can only feel anger that they are willingly surrendering the future to hordes of brown and yellow peoples who are not so smart that they have reasoned themselves out of existence.