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Author Topic: Chill and Relaxed Progressive Irritation and Annoyance Thread  (Read 876955 times)

Bauglir

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« Reply #1755 on: July 18, 2011, 07:21:50 pm »
My only question is this. Does it make them smell of roses and mead? Because just about everything is better if it smells of such. I would endorse such a product meant for any application, with the possible exceptions of deadly poison (just isn't a safe idea) or roses and mead (kind of redundant, if you ask me).

Then again, given that the commercial is clearly structured as "You're worse for not doing this" instead of "Hey this'd be a nice choice", and the lack of any discussion of the product's actual merits... I expect there are no redeeming qualities here. Just standard, "Change your genitalia or be forever a lesser person for not meeting some arbitrary standard that doesn't make any kind of sense" bullshit.
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« Reply #1756 on: July 18, 2011, 07:25:04 pm »
Actually, there's a long history of making women ashamed for being smelly and dirty, and this is just the next installment.  You know that women weren't allowed on the altar of churches in the past because their genitalia were considered filthy, right?

I know that I, too, was warned extensively about keeping myself really clean or else "men would smell me."
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« Reply #1757 on: July 18, 2011, 07:29:13 pm »
What. The. Fuck.
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Jackrabbit

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« Reply #1758 on: July 18, 2011, 07:30:19 pm »
Women should be seen and not...? no, I can't follow that train of logic, it's completely ridiculous.
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« Reply #1759 on: July 18, 2011, 07:34:54 pm »
Folks also sell some sort of dye or other repigmentation scheme to recolor the labia to the "right" shade of pink.

Pretty cool, huh?
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« Reply #1760 on: July 18, 2011, 07:39:14 pm »
Yeah, I'm aware of that. This is by no means new bullshit. It's just bullshit masquerading as non-bullshit by superficially "empowering" women ("Hey, your vagina gives you power over men!").

Also, in response to that last post, is there a man alive who actually cares what color are the labia of the woman he's having sex with? Seriously? What the hell, hypothetical dude? There have got to be more productive uses of your complaining powers!
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In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky. “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.
Minsky then shut his eyes. “Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.
“So that the room will be empty.”
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

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« Reply #1761 on: July 18, 2011, 07:50:32 pm »
Well, some people in porn get their assholes bleached so...

People are weird.
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« Reply #1762 on: July 18, 2011, 07:51:24 pm »
To be fair, one of the arguments I've heard in favor of circumcision is that it makes the penis smell better.  Still bullshit IMNSHO.  Nothing can really top that commercial though.

Quote from: Bauglir on July 18, 2011, 07:39:14 pm
Also, in response to that last post, is there a man alive who actually cares what color are the labia of the woman he's having sex with?

I am reminded of:

Quote from: Benjamin Franklin
All cats are grey in the dark

Granted, he was talking about age rather than labia color in the original text, but I think he would stand by this too.
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« Reply #1763 on: July 18, 2011, 07:52:09 pm »
Quote from: KaelGotDwarves on July 18, 2011, 07:50:32 pm
Well, some people in porn get their assholes bleached so...

People are weird.

... But that's porn, not real life =/  I expect porn to be weird.
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« Reply #1764 on: July 18, 2011, 07:57:19 pm »
Quote from: Vector on July 18, 2011, 07:52:09 pm
Quote from: KaelGotDwarves on July 18, 2011, 07:50:32 pm
Well, some people in porn get their assholes bleached so...

People are weird.

... But that's porn, not real life =/  I expect porn to be weird.

I interpretted it to be more about the expectations people have about the human body.  It's actually interesting what bodily functions we consider gross, and which ones we're more okay with.  It's not consistent from culture to culture either.
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« Reply #1765 on: July 18, 2011, 07:59:02 pm »
Coloring the labia? I didn't know this stuff was a thing until recently. A few days ago I heard about vijazzling. I didn't know it existed until recently, but it did not make a good first impression. As a female friend explained to me, it's the result of a man getting down there and pausing to think "this could do with some redecorating..."
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« Reply #1766 on: July 18, 2011, 08:02:31 pm »
Eh, I checked out the official site and it seems that it's something a woman decided to do after a breakup.

"Officially."

Is there some way I can pass my Google search history some brain bleach?  I think it should really need it by now.
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« Reply #1767 on: July 18, 2011, 08:05:54 pm »
Quote from: Jackrabbit on July 18, 2011, 07:59:02 pm
As a female friend explained to me, it's the result of a man getting down there and pausing to think "this could do with some redecorating..."

I think I speak for all straight men everywhere when I say this is a product marketed specifically towards women with insecurities.  "We" are baffled by the very idea.
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« Reply #1768 on: July 18, 2011, 08:09:07 pm »
I can't see how it wouldn't be off putting for all involved. It's not an arts and crafts market.
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« Reply #1769 on: July 18, 2011, 08:09:33 pm »
Yeah, what I'm sort of suspecting happening was

ignorance + misogyny mostly from a long time ago -> feeling of dirtiness passed into matriarchal line + "eew cooties" stage in dudes -> insecurity in certain women -> THIS -> modern guys: "... uh, WTF?" and modern ladies who aren't doing it: "IT'S THE MEN'S FAULT AS USUAL" and companies: *corrupt giggling*

Something like that.

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