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"o>-<|= for messages of interest to women" I'm glad we are past that.
by minivan 10y ago
"o>-<|= for messages of interest to women"
I'm glad we are past that.
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- grenoire 10y agoI don't see it, anybody care to explain?
- junke 10y agoWe are?
- dhimes 10y agoFunny. I'm just a couple years removed from that thread (I was an undergrad then) and I don't even "get" that emoticon. A person standing on a platform with her arms in the air? Edit: nevermind. Was explained while I was typing.
- jaywunder 10y agoWhat does it represent? I doubt understand it
- ino 10y agoIt's a skirt
- kenbellows 10y agoIt represents a person (presumably a woman) wearing a dress/skirt. o>-<|= o head > arms raised - torso <| skirt = legs
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- c0achmcguirk 10y agoIt's a woman on a pedestal, like the expression: "women should be placed upon a pedestal." The phrase is usually understood to mean that men should treat women with respect, treating them as if they are more important than themselves.
- c0achmcguirk 10y agoWow, that's a lot of downvotes. Mind telling me why?
- hueving 10y agoWell first, that's not an expression that anyone uses. If there is one, it's the opposite of that. Also, your interpretation of that is incorrect. Putting something on a pedestal is bad. It's pretending that it's perfect. If you put a person on a pedestal, you remove their humanity and flaws and aren't treating them like a person.
- kbart 10y agoPast what? Topics interesting to women? Though I agree that this emoticon is ugly and it took me some time to understand what it symbolizes.
- kenbellows 10y agoPast the point where we thought that ideas should be or even can be segmented into those interesting to women vs those interesting to men, which is a rather silly idea rooted in gender unfounded stereotypes and possibly a bit of sexism.
- hueving 10y agoWe're not even close to past that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women%27s_magazines https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women%27s_magazines https://m.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes https://m.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes It's still acceptable to categorize clothing stores by sex as well.
- 3chelon 10y agoTsssh. Toilets too. :-)
- semi-extrinsic 10y ago"The new fragrance, for her" "Manpurse" (as in, saying "purse" implies "woman") Razors for men and for women, exactly the same thing but one is pink, one is blue Bicycles for women with different frames (because they always wear skirts, y'know) Running shoes for women (pink) and men (blue) I could go on...
- throwanem 10y ago> Bicycles for women with different frames This one in particular I never quite grasped. I mean, there've been a couple times, when I stopped short and came off the seat and pedals, that I really wished, in an extremely immediate and visceral fashion, that my bike's top tube wasn't quite where it was. On the other hand, I suppose the "women's bike" design probably lacks something in rigidity by comparison, so I suppose there's an argument either way.
- laichzeit0 10y agoVirtue signaling much?
- 3chelon 10y agoI can't understand the confusion here - which bit is hard to follow, the graphic or the sexism?