Has political correctness actually gone mad?

I thought this story was absurd. A monster thing grabbing some blue thing by the throat is suddenly degrading women? feck off.
 
You can't even call someone a dirty f***** stinking ***** ****** * **** anymore. Ridiculous
 
There is no context in the ad, just a woman getting strangled. The fact that no one flagged this is offensive and frankly, stupid. The geniuses behind this, and I use that term lightly, need to to take a long hard look at the mirror and see how they are contributing to society. Imagine if it were a black man being strangled by a white man, or a gay male being strangled by a hetero?
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Wow :lol: Too bad that Fox apologized, sets up a dangerous precedent, would've liked for them to caught her on the sheer ridiculousness of her arguments. Aren't all villains offensive?

Why does this shark threatening little fish? Isn't this a propaganda of violence and bullying?
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In our enthusiasm to show the villainy of the dragon we didn’t immediately recognize the upsetting connotation of this image in print form
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The problem is taking this one image out of context and having it be an image that is not fantastical in nature. Setting aside that Apocalypse and Mystique look like Smurfs, it's just an image of a big guy choking out a smaller woman

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Seems like a reasonable place for this. The Protein World uproar is back again.

Saw a nice comment on it..

'Those bodies are unrealistic!' say the women who've never actually made a real effort to attain them. Just because you can't attain a body doesn't mean other people can't. Can't help but laugh at these 'activists' and their self-defeating logic. 'feck your body image!' Well feck yours too darling.
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It's absolutely right that there's nothing wrong with showing a physically fit body that's been achieved naturally and healthily. There's so many girls that weight anyway because they watch what they eat (I know some that don't even do that), and with consistent gym work they can end up with a toned stomach and legs too.
 
VeevaVee said:
Seems like a reasonable place for this. The Protein World uproar is back again.

Saw a nice comment on it..



It's absolutely right that there's nothing wrong with showing a physically fit body that's been achieved naturally and healthily. There's so many girls that weight anyway because they watch what they eat (I know some that don't even do that), and with consistent gym work they can end up with a toned stomach and legs too.
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To be honest I think all this "It's not unrealistic, fat people are lazy" stuff is missing the point for me.

I don't really care too much about how it affects adult women but (as someone who works in the industry) I'm very wary of the effects of this type of advertising on young people so I don't mind the ban tube ban at all personally.

Off on a tangent slightly, we should be encouraging young people to aim for good health, not good looks - the latter can be very destructive and I strongly believe is actually a reason why a lot of people find it hard to get motivated to lose weight (because they want it for the wrong reasons).
 
VeevaVee said:
Seems like a reasonable place for this. The Protein World uproar is back again.

Saw a nice comment on it..



It's absolutely right that there's nothing wrong with showing a physically fit body that's been achieved naturally and healthily. There's so many girls that weight anyway because they watch what they eat (I know some that don't even do that), and with consistent gym work they can end up with a toned stomach and legs too.
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This body shaming stuff on seems to apply to women, I can't remember hearing any outrage over a muscular male body being shown in an advert.
 
horsechoker said:
This body shaming stuff on seems to apply to women, I can't remember hearing any outrage over a muscular male body being shown in an advert.
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its coming though... when you look at how many people in gyms and especially MMA classes these days are roided up its a matter of time before health concerns kick in and people start to blame adverts (rather than the insecure idiots)
 
Shamwow said:
To be honest I think all this "It's not unrealistic, fat people are lazy" stuff is missing the point for me.

I don't really care too much about how it affects adult women but (as someone who works in the industry) I'm very wary of the effects of this type of advertising on young people so I don't mind the ban tube ban at all personally.

Off on a tangent slightly, we should be encouraging young people to aim for good health, not good looks - the latter can be very destructive and I strongly believe is actually a reason why a lot of people find it hard to get motivated to lose weight (because they want it for the wrong reasons).
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Yeah, I'd agree to an extent, definitely. Those protesting by standing in front of it with their slubby bodies are doing it for selfish, self righteous reasons because they like being annoyed at stuff and feeling like they're doing something important though.
 
horsechoker said:
This body shaming stuff on seems to apply to women, I can't remember hearing any outrage over a muscular male body being shown in an advert.
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It should probably that we talk about the issues for men more, not the issues for women less. There is a metric feckton of blokes out there with body dismorphia. Steroid use is growing massively in recent times and that is not a good thing.
 
horsechoker said:
This body shaming stuff on seems to apply to women, I can't remember hearing any outrage over a muscular male body being shown in an advert.
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These kinds of things never apply to men. We have no problems.

VeevaVee said:
Yeah, I'd agree to an extent, definitely. Those protesting by standing in front of it with their slubby bodies are doing it for selfish, self righteous reasons because they like being annoyed at stuff and feeling like they're doing something important though.
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Agreed. I think not body shaming people is a good idea but that doesn't mean celebrating people who clearly aren't taking care of themselves. And this coming from a guy whose only excercise is connecting my laptop charger.
 
Lots to say about it but I know better than to get drawn into this one... hahaha
 
Jippy said:
Golliwog row rocks Purbeck Art Festival

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"It would seem that the lessons of Paris have not filtered down to this sleepy corner of Dorset.

"Freedom of speech is about persuading others to your way of thinking by robust and reasoned argument through any medium - my medium was words on a tea-towel with a golliwog motif."

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Point of this is to ironically showcase attitudes toward racism and freedom of speech (if we're to believe the artist). Very ironic, then, that she's been disqualified from an art competition for demonstrating freedom of speech.

Nothing wrong with the picture at all - provocative, but that's it.
 
Mciahel Goodman said:
Point of this is to ironically showcase attitudes toward racism and freedom of speech (if we're to believe the artist). Very ironic, then, that she's been disqualified from an art competition for demonstrating freedom of speech.

Nothing wrong with the picture at all - provocative, but that's it.
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Evoking the spirit of Paris seems a bit overblown though.

Green_Red said:
Yea, I was pissed so probably better to keep it zipped
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Wish I had that self-control sometimes!
 
They claim that they were targeted for ejection because of their hijabs, though the cafe denies that, claiming that they were violating a policy which limited seating time to 45 minutes, and have also claimed that there were other women wearing headscarves present who were not thrown out.

I'm assuming cafe's claims are easy to prove? Let us know of the resolution!
 
Mrs Smoker said:
They claim that they were targeted for ejection because of their hijabs, though the cafe denies that, claiming that they were violating a policy which limited seating time to 45 minutes, and have also claimed that there were other women wearing headscarves present who were not thrown out.

I'm assuming cafe's claims are easy to prove? Let us know of the resolution!
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So sitting-in-headscarf for 46 minutes is civilisational Jihad?
 
Don't want to offend a woman while she's shooting some other person to bits.
 
Sick to my stomach.
 
Being called 'Marine' is better than being call 'man'. Infantry Marine sounds like some bad ass whereas Infantryman sounds like you are so far down the pecking order they will use you as a sandbag if they run out.
 
The neutral gender assignment of various terms has been taking place for about a century now (starting with suffrage). Women disagree that progressive societies should be formed and maintained along patriarchal lines, and it's hard to argue that they're wrong.

The only defence against this argument is one which reverts to tradition for legitimization.
 
Classical Mechanic said:
Being called 'Marine' is better than being call 'man'. Infantry Marine sounds like some bad ass whereas Infantryman sounds like you are so far down the pecking order they will use you as a sandbag if they run out.
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I always thought you were a tail-gunner tbf.
 
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