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02 Sep 2021, 8:13 pm

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowit ... -women/amp

Edit: Oh wait, I think this was a tongue and cheek article. My bad! :oops:


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02 Sep 2021, 8:28 pm

If there is going to be a dress code, I would prefer either the artsy hipster or anarcho-punk look.


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02 Sep 2021, 8:36 pm

I'm not sure what era look I would prefer? I kinda have a thing for Victorian fashions but forcing women to wear those rib-crushing corsets again would be horrible!


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02 Sep 2021, 8:49 pm

If so, the Texas Legislature should pass a strict dress code for men:no more t-shirts and dungarees that sag and show their ass crack. Punkishment should be an automatic death penalty! :evil:



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02 Sep 2021, 9:02 pm

MuddRM wrote:
If so, the Texas Legislature should pass a strict dress code for men:no more t-shirts and dungarees that sag and show their ass crack. Punkishment should be an automatic death penalty! :evil:


Knowing Texas, they’ll only seek the death penalty for offenders of color.


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02 Sep 2021, 9:13 pm

Texas needs to pass a law changing it's name to the Lone Stupid State.

Is Fnord on vacation?


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02 Sep 2021, 9:43 pm

old_comedywriter wrote:
Texas needs to pass a law changing it's name to the Lone Stupid State.

Is Fnord on vacation?





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03 Sep 2021, 9:51 am

old_comedywriter wrote:
Texas needs to pass a law changing it's name to the Lone Stupid State.

Is Fnord on vacation?
Was.

What is the problem?  The cited article was indeed satirical, and gives no cause for alarm.

Women would be better off to move out and stay out of Texas until  the Democrats take over  Hell freezes over.


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03 Sep 2021, 2:13 pm

Like the article says, it will free woman from having to decide what to wear. I think that's a good thing!


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03 Sep 2021, 2:21 pm

Fnord wrote:
old_comedywriter wrote:
Texas needs to pass a law changing it's name to the Lone Stupid State.

Is Fnord on vacation?
Was.

What is the problem?  The cited article was indeed satirical, and gives no cause for alarm.

Women would be better off to move out and stay out of Texas until  the Democrats take over  Hell freezes over.


But I thought Texas already suffered a terrible blizzard? :mrgreen:


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03 Sep 2021, 2:53 pm

Nobody complains about the Middle Eastern countries who do this. Why the selective outrage?



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03 Sep 2021, 3:40 pm

If this article is real it's sexist and communism (controlment). I'm glad I don't live there.


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03 Sep 2021, 3:42 pm

Mr Reynholm wrote:
Nobody complains about the Middle Eastern countries who do this. Why the selective outrage?
I have relatives in Texas.  I have no relatives in the Middle East.


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03 Sep 2021, 3:44 pm

Mr Reynholm wrote:
Nobody complains about the Middle Eastern countries who do this. Why the selective outrage?


In Texas, it's white Christians doing the laws. White Christians are bad because they represent the establishment, and are over-nostalgic for the 1950s--the worst decade in human history except the 1920s.


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03 Sep 2021, 3:45 pm

VegetableMan wrote:
Like the article says, it will free woman from having to decide what to wear. I think that's a good thing!


Casual sexism masquerading as humor :heart:


Mr Reynholm wrote:
Nobody complains about the Middle Eastern countries who do this. Why the selective outrage?


Because worrying about sexism on the other side of the planet before worrying about sexism in your own back yard seems unproductive and hypocritical. Like criticizing your neighbor for letting their kids fight while your own kids are actively in the process of beating the tar out of each other at that very moment.

Also there's the fact that people do in fact complain about it quite a lot. Though I'm sure it's beneficial to ignore that regarding the perspective you're trying to push. But again, even if it were true, the answer would still be "Because I live HERE, and not THERE, and it seems wise to fix HERE before I worry about THERE, for a multitude of reasons."



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03 Sep 2021, 3:50 pm

"You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren't doing it right." -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852)


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