They burn their bras!” No one has ever burned their bra. Young girls will be like, “I don’t want to be a feminist. It’s always, always trotted out, but I’ve never, never met anybody like that and I doubt you have.Īnd you have to deal with it in conversation sometimes, and be like, “Yes, I’m sure somebody ruined your life, and she was exactly like this, and it went down exactly that way, and I’m sorry it hurt.” It’s kind of a bogeyman in a different way, because not only have I never met any of them but it’s an image that legitimately scares young people away from the idea of feminism. Those man-hating, dick-chopping feminists exist, and in fact, one ruined my life.” And you’re like, oh, OK, well, I have to address this. And it’s one of those things where, even if you want to ignore it, you can’t, because people will say, “Well, those people exist. Usually when you talk about feminism, this image shows up, whether you like it or not, of the kind of militant, horrible, awful characters. They came from having a lot of conversations about feminism online. Speaking of the magic of the internet, can you tell me where the Straw Feminists (a pair of hairy-legged, bra-burning misandrists) came from? But the magic of the internet is that people can find out. Do you ever decide not to include something because it’s too obscure? There are a lot of jokes in Hark! A Vagrant that come from small, ironic incidents from Canadian or American history.
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The prisoners languish in horrifying conditions in their cells, with only their strength of character and thoughts of their loved ones to save them from madness. As this is going on, families are destroyed by the random imprisonment of young and old for supposed crimes against the state. A surplus on the garlic market ensues, and the farmers must watch as their crops wither and rot in the fields. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket, and government officials mistreat even those who have traveled for days to sell their harvest. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed. The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. Summary: This stunning work of historical fiction illustrates the harsh realities of modern China by the nation's first Nobel Prize winner in literature. 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In fact, a new study in American journal Science shows that men and women actually speak the same number of words a day, around 16,000. It is pretty annoying that people like him have made millions peddling this nonsense." She says: "I'm afraid I think that John Gray comes from Uranus. She has attacked author John Gray's famous theory that men and women argue because they are genetically unsuited to communicate with each other. That's according to Professor Deborah Cameron, of Oxford University, who has written a book claiming that it is simply nonsense to say that men are from Mars and women from Venus. LATEST research reveals men and women share the same planet after all. |