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MrScorpio

(73,630 posts) Tue Jan 21, 2014, 01:40 PM Jan 2014

Someone's gonna get the Spatula Treatment...

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Someone's gonna get the Spatula Treatment... (Original Post) MrScorpio Jan 2014 OP

It's the 'Aunt Jemima treatment.' onehandle Jan 2014 #1

I know what it's was called MrScorpio Jan 2014 #3

Well... It wasn't either of us that wrote the script from decades ago. nt onehandle Jan 2014 #4

What sick, twisted, degenerate pervert LiberalEsto Jan 2014 #2

onehandle

(51,122 posts)

1. It's the 'Aunt Jemima treatment.'

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Tue Jan 21, 2014, 01:44 PM

Jan 2014

I know my Stripes...

MrScorpio

(73,630 posts)

3. I know what it's was called

Reply to onehandle (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 21, 2014, 01:50 PM

Jan 2014

However, I decline to use that particular name because of the racist, sexist connotations.

I'm pretty much tired that use of a Black woman's image as a mascot for "mammies."

"Uncle Ben" gets the same consideration.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)

4. Well... It wasn't either of us that wrote the script from decades ago. nt

Reply to MrScorpio (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 21, 2014, 01:52 PM

Jan 2014

LiberalEsto

(22,845 posts)

2. What sick, twisted, degenerate pervert

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Tue Jan 21, 2014, 01:49 PM

Jan 2014

advocates putting lemon bars or buttermilk pancakes in panties?

Don't they know that normal people use blueberry pancakes?

What is this world coming to?

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