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In reply to the discussion: HOW did a generation of young men's brains get f-ed up enough to produce this bigotry about Jolie? [View all]mythology
(9,527 posts)You can see the stupid easily and it's hard to erase. But do you really think that nobody who isn't young enough to be on Twitter has similar thoughts. The internet lets people be stupid very quickly by pressing the send/post button before they finished thinking. It's nothing new to humanity.
Todd Akin is much older than the putz from Twitter and he said something that is, in my opinion, similarly offensive.
But I think there is a larger point we as a society need to discuss because we largely regard the development of breasts as one of the outward signs a girl is becoming a woman. I remember an episode of Law and Order from the early 90s that made the same point and when one of the detectives asked the lieutenant why a woman would choose to not have a mastectomy, she referred to the sign that breasts define the change from a girl to a woman and asked if there were parts the male detective would be adverse to having removed.