Fight like a girl...

[one_voice]

Given the climate right now, I thought this was very appropriate.


cross post here http://www.democraticunderground.com/1266519

[cyberswede]

2. K&R

[randome]

3. Like this?

(Ouch.)
[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.[/center][/font][hr]

[ismnotwasm]

4. Only if you get in a solid good first shot

There are other techniques.

[niyad]

5. k and r and thank you.

[littlemissmartypants]

6. Kicking. Thank you. nt

[FailureToCommunicate]

7. Fight like a girl... that's been pushed too far:

Enough!





thanks, one voice.

[AAO]

10. How about "fight like a woman"?

That personally scares the breath out of me. I'm a pacifist. I'm old. My heart can't take much excitement anymore.

[doxydad]

8. You go, girl!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. Every time I've seen girls fight there's always blood.

[mountain grammy]

11. Women must take charge of this situation.

We have the numbers to stop the anti women bunch dead in their tracks. Every woman running for office who believes in women's rights should be elected. Every woman who doesn't believe in women's rights should get a damn clue.

[one_voice]

12. This part..

Every woman who doesn't believe in women's rights should get a damn clue.

YES!!!

[Ghost Dog]

13. Girls, eh? What are they like?

Interesting, well-written, apposite, I thought...

... Girls, eh? What are they like? To address this issue, a sanitary towel manufacturer has commissioned the Dove-like Always Campaign. In this advertisement – which, as I write, has been viewed 32.5m times – subjects are invited to run, fight, and throw "like a girl". All flail arms and drop balls in slapstick, Keatonesque fashion. As a participant remarks, deploying the phrase "like a girl" sounds like you're trying to humiliate someone.

When a posse of pre-pubescent girls is asked to do the same thing, they simply, awesomely, do their best, in a way that anyone who spends time around such paragons will immediately recognise. In the light of this, "like a girl" is recast as not wet or comical, but strong. As the film's closing voice asks: "Why can't 'run like a girl' also mean win the race?" It is cheesy, to be sure, but no less powerful.

Girls – how we worry away at them. Too fat, too thin, insufficiently sexually empowered, too hyperbolically sexually active. And, yet, from birth, boys are eminently and demonstrably more vulnerable. In an article in the British Medical Journal published in 2000, consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, Sebastian Kraemer, posited the notion of "the fragile male". Here he showed that, contra to patriarchal propaganda, it is the male not the female of the species that is the weaker sex.

In his precis, he argued: "The human male is, on most measures, more vulnerable than the female. Part of the explanation is the biological fragility of the male fetus … A typical attitude to boys is that they are, or must be made, more resilient than girls. This adds social insult to biological injury."

/... http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/11/oh-how-we-fret-about-girls

[madokie]

14. One of my friends

who I must admit I haven't seen in a long time, went on a date, this was when she was maybe 16 YO, with a real dick, a guy with a chip on his shoulder. Anyway the dick took her to the country and stopped the car and said F or walk, Needless to say she had to drive his car back to town and dump it and him. She just literally whipped his ass and good. Little girl but wasn't going to take any shit from an asshole. I love her and always will.
Reminds me I need to find her and say Hi.