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The Central Scrutinizer said:
Looks like SJW hero (and functioning alcoholic) Elyse Andrews is on the warpath over pockets: https://www.facebook.com/ElyseMofoAnders/posts/10153020825409104
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You know, I have to hand it to The Patriarchy. There's no pie they don't have their fingers in, no social trend they don't influence or outright control. From deciding who will and won't be a corporate CEO down to the size of pockets on womyns' pants. Is there anything it can't accomplish? Hats off to them for at least being damned effective.

The Patriarchy : It Just Works(tm).
 
I assumed that it was a joke. The comic looks like it's joking. The comments sound like they're not.
Is this really an issue? Seems... odd.
 
Dissolution said:
I assumed that it was a joke. The comic looks like it's joking. The comments sound like they're not.
Is this really an issue? Seems... odd.
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The comic is joking, that does not stop the people who are always looking for things they can take offense to from using it as their latest *important* issue.

I love how they will blow the nonsense out of all proportion but things like reproductive rights that are being stomped on all over the country are completely ignored. They love to get all up in arms about stuff that does not actually require them to DO anything. As long as they can scream patriarchy and misogyny all over facebook, twitter and blogs, incite trolls and whine about people attacking them for their stupidity they are happy campers.
 
Dissolution said:
I assumed that it was a joke. The comic looks like it's joking. The comments sound like they're not.
Is this really an issue? Seems... odd.
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My favorite thing about winter is having large coat pockets (and I am male). So I can relate to wanting more/bigger pockets. And it's true that clothes designed for women often has small pockets or no pockets. That said, I don't see what patriarchy has to do with it.

The most disturbing thing about that thread to me is not that people think womens' pockets = patriarchy, it's the way they react to reasoned arguments from Katy.
 
cornsail said:
My favorite thing about winter is having large coat pockets (and I am male). So I can relate to wanting more/bigger pockets. And it's true that clothes designed for women often has small pockets or no pockets. That said, I don't see what patriarchy has to do with it.
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Women's clothes are designed for appearance and not for utility. Pockets spoil the line of garments, especially pockets large enough for you to put useful things in them.

Patriarchy has nothing to do with it at all. It is all about fashion. If women stopped buying clothes that lacked utility, the industry would change. The garmentos are all about making money, if it doesn't sell, they don't make it.
 
I assume that a lot of these clothes are designed that way because they're purely for fashion and the designers assume that this is the main objective.
They also want to sell handbags, so they create a problem and solve it.
 
Dissolution said:
I assume that a lot of these clothes are designed that way because they're purely for fashion and the designers assume that this is the main objective.
They also want to sell handbags, so they create a problem and solve it.
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Kochanski said:
Women's clothes are designed for appearance and not for utility. Pockets spoil the line of garments, especially pockets large enough for you to put useful things in them.

Patriarchy has nothing to do with it at all. It is all about fashion. If women stopped buying clothes that lacked utility, the industry would change. The garmentos are all about making money, if it doesn't sell, they don't make it.
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Oh dear. I'm a guy and I hate the way carrying a cellphone, wallet and keys in my pockets makes my jeans look. So I carry a manbag with all my stuff in it and keep my pockets empty, so that my clothes look better on me.

Perhaps in 20 years pockets will be a quaint little custom from the 20th century. Who knows.
 
Octavo said:
Oh dear. I'm a guy and I hate the way carrying a cellphone, wallet and keys in my pockets makes my jeans look. So I carry a manbag with all my stuff in it and keep my pockets empty, so that my clothes look better on me.

Perhaps in 20 years pockets will be a quaint little custom from the 20th century. Who knows.
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Let me get this straight - you don't like how carrying a phone and wallet make you look, so the solution is to make everyone assume you're gay?
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
Let me get this straight - you don't like how carrying a phone and wallet make you look, so the solution is to make everyone assume you're gay?
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For a non-gay solution, just have your penis replaced by a pocket. You'll always have somewhere for your phone and your clothes will look terrific. For extra storage possibilities, have some breast implants fitted. You'll be able to keep your bank cards, and maybe your house keys in the dairy, again without ruining the line of your clothing, or looking gay.
 
Octavo said:
Oh dear. I'm a guy and I hate the way carrying a cellphone, wallet and keys in my pockets makes my jeans look. So I carry a manbag with all my stuff in it and keep my pockets empty, so that my clothes look better on me.

Perhaps in 20 years pockets will be a quaint little custom from the 20th century. Who knows.
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Perhaps in 20 years women will all be wearing clothing with functional pockets and men will all be carrying bags?
 
Dissolution said:
Perhaps in 20 years women will all be wearing clothing with functional pockets and men will all be carrying bags?
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That would be just like the *********** patriarchy to make women carry things around in tiny little pockets, making them sit on their keys etc... while letting men use bags! Seriously, **** the patriarchy!
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
Let me get this straight - you don't like how carrying a phone and wallet make you look, so the solution is to make everyone assume you're gay?
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ahahahahahahahahahahaha no really, that's the first time anyone has ever made that joke to me before :cool:. Honestly, the convenience of never having to worry about where you keys or wallet is or if you left one of them at home is worth all the gay jokes.

shuttlt said:
For a non-gay solution, just have your penis replaced by a pocket. You'll always have somewhere for your phone and your clothes will look terrific. For extra storage possibilities, have some breast implants fitted. You'll be able to keep your bank cards, and maybe your house keys in the dairy, again without ruining the line of your clothing, or looking gay.
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Because appearing homosexual is a fate worse than death.

Dissolution said:
Perhaps in 20 years women will all be wearing clothing with functional pockets and men will all be carrying bags?
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Not if I have anything to say about it. We'll ALL be carrying bags! ALL OF US!!!!! MWAHAHAHAHA.
 
Octavo said:
Honestly, the convenience of never having to worry about where you keys or wallet is or if you left one of them at home is worth all the gay jokes.
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I never have to worry about either of those things. My keys are always in my left front pants pocket, my money and credit cards are always in my right front pants pocket (I don't carry a wallet. Never have).
 
Kochanski said:
Mykeru has done an excellent video on Blockbot, now it is long, but so worth watching, just don't drink anything while you are watching it. It is called The Block Bot and the Dumbification of the Beeb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WjSQ2kVyQc

Enjoy, it really is good.
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Looks like the Blockbot has some serious legal issues including possible libel, running a possibly illegal blacklist (leading to potential legal issues with the Gamejobsbot using such blacklists), and possibly breaking the UK data protection law:
BlockBot Busted? Front Page Rewrite and a Resignation for a Block Bot Team in Disarray

The Blockbot team claiming that the data is in the US probably does not make them immune to the legal issues in the UK (and also probably not in the EU): Aggravating Ignorance

If you have been entered to the blockbot list you can file a complaint, and you can do so even if you do not live in the UK:
Your author strongly suggests that anyone aggrieved by the Block Bot contact the Information Commissioner. The Deputy Information Commissioner for Data Protection Act supervision david.smith@ico.org.uk, his assistant angela.russell@ico.org.uk and the case work team at casework@ico.org.uk. You can explain you are backing the complaints made by others about ‘The Block Bot’ or you can lodge a complaint of your own and fill in the form here.
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It's been a while since we've had some lulz from the warrior contingent in our S/A camp so let's take a wee glimpse into the current antics of one of our more attention hungry members, Ms. Melody Hensley.

Ms. Hensley has decided to branch out, to finally get out of her bed and return to some semblance of active living by starting a blog to detail fashion on the streets of DC. Slight hitch though, she needs a high end camera to take her shots and doesn't have the disposable income to finance her new hobby. What's an activist to do when faced with such dire limitations on her aspirations ? Why, ebeg her fellow warriors for the funds, of course.

Slight problem though.

In order to give her Kickstarter page a modern edgy urban look, she seems to have somehow acquired and used an image that doesn't belong to her. The artist is, understandably, rather miffed about this.

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Nooooooooooooo

Not Sarkesian too,, say it isn't so.

Avicenna, Hensley, Sarkesian....Am I starting to notice a pattern of liberating other people's content for profit or am I hatching a conspiracy theory ?

This requires more time...more thought.
 
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