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Drinking alcohol reduces the attractiveness of the opposite sex and makes no difference to a man's ability at guessing a woman's age, according to a study in the British Journal of Psychology.
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In Soviet Russia Something Something Something!
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Date: 2009-04-22 11:12 am (UTC)Why the hell is it in fingerquotes in the article?
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Date: 2009-04-22 11:17 am (UTC)Presumably because nobody has been found guilty yet. I assume at some point they will be.
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Date: 2009-04-22 11:21 am (UTC)I know at first glance it's, "haha, funny switcharound" but it's really not funny, and giggling at this stuff is just taking the piss when issues such as abuse of men (including sexual abuse) are real, massively undereported and largely made fun of.
Yes, yes, I'm "humourless feminist commentator" yet again, but seriously, think about this one a bit more...
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Date: 2009-04-22 11:25 am (UTC)Yes, I'm probably going to hell. I guess I'll have to live with that.
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Date: 2009-04-22 11:13 am (UTC)Olga complained. “Yes, we had sex a couple of times. But I’ve bought him new jeans, gave him food and even gave him 1,000 roubles when he left.”
So that makes it OK? Can you imagine the reaction if a bloke had said that to try to justify his treatment of a woman?!?
It's up there with domestic abuse against men as one of those things that no-one takes seriously.
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Date: 2009-04-22 11:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-22 11:41 am (UTC)I have to admit, like
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Date: 2009-04-22 11:46 am (UTC)Luckily, I'm capable of realising that just because something if amusing to me doesn't make it ok, and that the actual event is something abhorrent. I'd like to think that other people reading this would feel the same.
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Date: 2009-04-22 04:02 pm (UTC)That said, I found it comical on the face of it too, but my mental image was certainly a cartoonish caricature of events, possibly involving a female protagonist similar to Julie's icon demanding snoo-snoo (I saw the icon just before I clicked on the link).
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Date: 2009-04-22 04:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-22 04:15 pm (UTC)Nazi 'super cows' shipped to Devon