Selfies are an inherently feminist act

[Nick Young]

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[kNIOKAS]

Your posts are a desperate cry for attention. Stop looking for GOATs, alphas, feminine acts and whatever garbage you post, always trying to prove these are that and shmese are shmat.

[BlackWhiteGreen]

At least everyone replying in this thread can read

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[HarryCallahan]

They're inherently submissive to the idea that women only have looks to offer the world. Instead of sharing a profound thought, they primp and pluck for a few hours so that someone will say "hawt" and click the like button.

[9erempiree]

They're inherently submissive to the idea that women only have looks to offer the world. Instead of sharing a profound thought, they primp and pluck for a few hours so that someone will say "hawt" and click the like button.

I am 100 percent agreeing with this.

When I see my female friends post picture of themselves, I am waiting for some random creepy dude, post how beautiful they are. Then comes the many others stopping by, telling them how beautiful they look.

Something that is deemed inappropriate in the outside world, like telling a girl, "Hey you are beautiful and gorgeous" is faux pas....to telling a girl "OMG, Damn! You look hot as hell and those boobs...!" are totally acceptable in social media.

Now women are looking for acceptance through social media. Go ahead and look up any friends you may have that took selfies and I guarantee you there are a handful of dudes and gals commenting how beautiful they look but these same people wouldn't be saying this in a face to face interaction. We just don't go telling women how beautiful they are in real life without sounding creepy.

Just like a person wouldn't let a stranger walk up to him and his girl and say, "damn, you're hot" to his girl but in social media it's deemed innocent.

[miller-time]

You know what annoys me about feminists? The fact that they completely ignore female on female competition. Collectively females could just say F it and stop engaging in all of the nonsense that patriarchal society desires. But they don't. Why? Not because they might lose jobs or they will incur violence. But because they like doing the woman things that they do. They engage in this behavior because they are competing with each other. In exactly the same way men do. Men don't strive to be the most powerful man because they want a big house and a flash car, they do it to maximize their potential female partners - that is to say they don't necessarily want 1000 women, they just want their choice of 1000 women. But men acknowledge that even though they do it for the women, they still like the things they attach themselves to (like the flash cars, and houses, and boats, and suits and shi...).

[Myth]

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[9erempiree]

I'd say that it depends on its use. Although it could be proud of who they are at that moment, it also seems to do the opposite of what feminists suggest, because it is objectifying themselves for how they look at that moment.

It is kind of like porn. Usually it is viewed as objectifying women, but some feminists suggest that it is a feminist behavior if they are the ones choosing to do porn as an expression of their sexuality.

yep. It's more like bulllsh!t.

I don't think even feminist can agree.

One will look at it, as objectifying women and the other will look at is as empowering women. Being able to control their sexuality and profit from it. Then they label those smart business women.:facepalm

Just a lot of contradicting beliefs.

Do we honestly think a man invented the term "selfies"? I find it hard to believe and if so, it must have been a homosexual man.

[Myth]

yep. It's more like bulllsh!t.

I don't think even feminist can agree.

One will look at it, as objectifying women and the other will look at is as empowering women. Being able to control their sexuality and profit from it. Then they label those smart business women.:facepalm

Just a lot of contradicting beliefs.

Do we honestly think a man invented the term "selfies"? I find it hard to believe and if so, it must have been a homosexual man.

Paul McCartney claims to have invented the selfie.

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/e6/92/1e/e6921e7dcd7fdab275c6738153018aef.jpg

And there is this:

http://www.allegiancemusical.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/medium/main-images/first-selfie_0.jpg

[9erempiree]

Paul McCartney claims to have invented the selfie.

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/e6/92/1e/e6921e7dcd7fdab275c6738153018aef.jpg

And there is this:

http://www.allegiancemusical.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/medium/main-images/first-selfie_0.jpg

I'm not talking about the actual act of taking a self portrait. That has been going on since cameras were invented.

I am talking about the term "selfie".

I consider "selfie" and the act of taking a self portrait as two different things. You must consider that society was different than it is now. Also, those are artists, where today, there are uglies and fatties doing it to get that cheap LIKES and "You look beautiful" kind of attentions.

P.S. You had to look it up because it's not common knowledge. :facepalm

[LJJ]

http://i.imgur.com/n8YZDRB.jpg

LOL. I always love the feminist "look at my armpit hair" pictures.




It's the equivalence of guys posting this on their social media:
http://i.imgur.com/hboK4vS.jpg

And then asking: Look at my beautiful back hair girls! Do you like it?

[niko]

More feminine than feminist. Also, I don't think selfie is a term just for women (although i wonder about men doing it).

[rezznor]

OP is a http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/19e6h538d87cvgif/original.gif

[JUDGE WITNESS]

looking at a woman is inherently feminist

[chosen_one6]

This thread is inherently feminist

[kentatm]

Let's be real, breathing is inherently feminine and beta.

:roll: :applause:

[ace23]

Let's be real, breathing is inherently feminine and beta.
This.

[Myth]

P.S. You had to look it up because it's not common knowledge. :facepalm

What does it being common knowledge or not have to do with anything? You suggested that a woman was most likely the person who came up with the selfie, so I showed that it wasn't :confusedshrug:

P.S. The Paul McCartney one wasn't looked up. He was talking about it on Jimmy Fallon a few weeks ago.

[Myth]

How dare you question his arguments with facts?

Actually we don't know if it is fact. It is just evidence. :D

[Swaggin916]

And then they cry in the corner when it doesn't get any likes. :cry: :cry:

[HarryCallahan]

I'd say that it depends on its use. Although it could be proud of who they are at that moment, it also seems to do the opposite of what feminists suggest, because it is objectifying themselves for how they look at that moment.

It is kind of like porn. Usually it is viewed as objectifying women, but some feminists suggest that it is a feminist behavior if they are the ones choosing to do porn as an expression of their sexuality.

At least strippers and porn-stars get paid for acting like objects.

[Myth]

At least strippers and porn-stars get paid for acting like objects.

Certainly.

[Al Thorton]

so is this pretty much what Nick Young does? just runs off at the mouth about every little thing that pops in his head and tries to make it sound like he's dropping knowledge or insight? And he's like 27 years old? Wow

[Nick Young]

so is this pretty much what Nick Young does? just runs off at the mouth about every little thing that pops in his head and tries to make it sound like he's dropping knowledge or insight? And he's like 27 years old? Wow
lol dropping knowledge? Its just an annoying ass quote I saw from a deluded "feminist" ho.

[MMM]

why do some get bothered by feminist
don't really feel like it has had any impact on my life at all.

[Dresta]

More feminine than feminist. Also, I don't think selfie is a term just for women (although i wonder about men doing it).
All mentally disturbed like that guy who took one before wasting his baby daughter.


I'd say that it depends on its use. Although it could be proud of who they are at that moment, it also seems to do the opposite of what feminists suggest, because it is objectifying themselves for how they look at that moment.

It is kind of like porn. Usually it is viewed as objectifying women, but some feminists suggest that it is a feminist behavior if they are the ones choosing to do porn as an expression of their sexuality.
I don't get this 'porn objectifies women' bullshit. If it objectifies anything, it objectifies woman (the individual) not women as a sex. To argue the latter is to essentially proclaim that all women are the same (and part of a whole), and that the bad actions of one woman reflect badly on all. That is sexist in my view, and yet it is a common view held by 'feminists.'

Long may they continue spewing their incoherent babble, so men and women can bond in laughing at their stupidity.

[Dresta]

why do some get bothered by feminist
don't really feel like it has had any impact on my life at all.
In the UK feminists are running a strong campaign to ban 'lads mags' from store shelves.

:facepalm

[Nick Young]

In the UK feminists are running a strong campaign to ban 'lads mags' from store shelves.

:facepalm
they proclaim them selves to be progressive liberals and yet they are calling for the banning of nudey mags just like their conservative 1950s Church of England Grandmas used to do.

[tomSR.]

All mentally disturbed like that guy who took one before wasting his baby daughter.


I don't get this 'porn objectifies women' bullshit. If it objectifies anything, it objectifies woman (the individual) not women as a sex. To argue the latter is to essentially proclaim that all women are the same (and part of a whole), and that the bad actions of one woman reflect badly on all. That is sexist in my view, and yet it is a common view held by 'feminists.'

Long may they continue spewing their incoherent babble, so men and women can bond in laughing at their stupidity.

if all this were true, why is there so many girls in porn......every video you see it

[Dresta]

[QUOTE=tomSR.]if all this were true, why is there so many girls in porn......every video you see it

[tomSR.]

Are you stupid? What about the gangbangs with like 50 guys that probably got paid a fiver a piece? Women get paid far more than men for porn (maybe feminists should complain about the unequal pay like they do with everything else?).

not many gangbangs with 50 men get put on pornvideos, those are more the fantasy of a sick woman.

your post actually only proves me more right, that there are girls sick in the head enough to let 50 men nut in/on them

[Derka]

Comments are all anonymous.

Could be this girl commenting on her own photos.

[Dresta]

not many gangbangs with 50 men get put on pornvideos, those are more the fantasy of a sick woman.

your post actually only proves me more right, that there are girls sick in the head enough to let 50 men nut in/on them
How does that prove you right? How if some women 'are sick in the head' does that have anything to do with women as a whole.

You've just agreed that you are wrong by saying sick 'woman'. If you were to make your ridiculous point you would have to say this means that all, or most women 'are sick in the head'

[oarabbus]

Let's be real, breathing is inherently feminine and beta.


:lol

[oarabbus]

http://i.imgur.com/eqznolU.jpg

Alpha Selfie :bowdown:

[Ass Dan]

Isn't the OP fvckboy OG of posting pouty lipped selfies with #swag below as the tag line when he was the Don of his little internet gang.

OP once again railing against his formally habitual behavior.

So fun watching you grow up Dick Sprung.

[Nick Young]

Isn't the OP fvckboy OG of posting pouty lipped selfies with #swag below as the tag line when he was the Don of his little internet gang.

OP once again railing against his formally habitual behavior.

So fun watching you grow up Dick Sprung.
dat never happened doe. I dont take selfies or post hashtags on things. Dont try to rewrite history broseph

[Blue&Orange]

We just don't go telling women how beautiful they are in real life without sounding creepy.

Well i'm creepy then. Just yesterday in the coffee break, new girl where i work, i asked her to bite her lip a little bit, which she did and then i proceed to say oh my god and got up and left.

Off course i had already socially interactions with her and it helps that i'm a crossover between Dicaprio and Johnny Depp, no seriously i'am. :bowdown:


And here you have it a incredible effective flirting technique from yours truly. It's like you can't stand so much beautiful\sexyness you have to leave.

[ILLsmak]

What does it being common knowledge or not have to do with anything? You suggested that a woman was most likely the person who came up with the selfie, so I showed that it wasn't :confusedshrug:

P.S. The Paul McCartney one wasn't looked up. He was talking about it on Jimmy Fallon a few weeks ago.

Yea we all know women were banned from using cameras for the first hundred years of their existence.

-Smak

[RidonKs]

Are you stupid? What about the gangbangs with like 50 guys that probably got paid a fiver a piece? Women get paid far more than men for porn (maybe feminists should complain about the unequal pay like they do with everything else?).
:rolleyes:

yes because in our wonderfully sophisticated and meritocratic porn industry, it makes perfect sense that fking a girl and jerking off for a few minutes and then shooting your wad in her face is worth just as much as having your asshole ripped apart for an hour and a half with virtually no recourse because the terms were already agreed upon. we absolutely must make the appropriate adjustments so that these two categories of work offer the same compensation.




and the selfie can certainly be an empowering act of femininity that has virtually nothing to do with desperately seeking attention and approval. i doubt it's usually that but i imagine the author of that quote hangs in circles that use it differently than the majority of girls who close their eyes and purse their lips. thus the selfie is meaningful in a different way for her.

i mean you get down to it and it's not much different from mean mugging, just adopted to the opposite sex. usually a cry to "look at me!!!" but occasionally authentic

its still stupid though lol

[HarryCallahan]

:rolleyes:

yes because in our wonderfully sophisticated and meritocratic porn industry, it makes perfect sense that fking a girl and jerking off for a few minutes and then shooting your wad in her face is worth just as much as having your asshole ripped apart for an hour and a half with virtually no recourse because the terms were already agreed upon. we absolutely must make the appropriate adjustments so that these two categories of work offer the same compensation.


You understand that he was being facetious right?

[RidonKs]

You understand that he was being facetious right?
in the first part maybe, in the parentheses though he's not the first person to make that sort of completely disingenuous analogy with regard to equal pay. whether he intended it facetiously or not, in my experience loads of people read that seriously and for that reason it warrants ridicule

[HarryCallahan]

in the first part maybe, in the parentheses though he's not the first person to make that sort of completely disingenuous analogy with regard to equal pay. whether he intended it facetiously or not, in my experience loads of people read that seriously and for that reason it warrants ridicule

In my experience, Dresta leans heavily towards free markets, so I can't see him arguing for the state mandating any kind of wage laws.

[RidonKs]

In my experience, Dresta leans heavily towards free markets, so I can't see him arguing for the state mandating any kind of wage laws.
its not about him, its about making bogus analogies re equality and specifically equal pay. i hear them all the time, the gangbang example was just an unusually shallow instance... i know it was sarcastic.

[HarryCallahan]

its not about him, its about making bogus analogies re equality and specifically equal pay. i hear them all the time, the gangbang example was just an unusually shallow instance... i know it was sarcastic.

So your problem with that post is that you believe that women deserve unilaterally equal pay to men?

[RidonKs]

So your problem with that post is that you believe that women deserve unilaterally equal pay to men?
lol no

[HarryCallahan]

lol no

lol what then?

[RidonKs]

lol what then?
i already explained why above lol. i mean i believe in equal pay in principle but in reality its much more complicated than just saying "women deserve unilaterally equal pay to men", whatever you happen to mean by unilaterally

[HarryCallahan]

i already explained why above lol. i mean i believe in equal pay in principle but in reality its much more complicated than just saying "women deserve unilaterally equal pay to men", whatever you happen to mean by unilaterally

Well, if you explained what was so offensive about that post, I must've missed it in my numerous readings. You said that:
in the parentheses though he's not the first person to make that sort of completely disingenuous analogy with regard to equal pay
even though the parenthesised remark was not an analogy, just a sarcastic suggestion. That was (and another post about the same sentence) all I could find of you being specific about which part of the equal pay argument you disagreed with.

By "unilaterally", I meant some kind of a wage law prohibiting paying a male more than female. I'm not sure how else you could have taken that statement, but I hope that this is more helpful in getting you to understand my ramblings than your "lol no" post.

[RidonKs]

yeah, not an analogy. a characterization. feminists are whiners who do nothing but pout and shout until their demands are met. that's an extremely common and in my opinion a very poor characterization of actual feminists. it's not a completely unreasonable take on shitty pop feminist websites and celebrities like jezebel and others, but thats not why i took objection.


I meant some kind of a wage law prohibiting paying a male more than female
i dunno, unilaterally i took to mean by the individual, thats why i was confused. just a weird word to use

but those already exist in most social democracies. in canada for like 40 years or whatever. its also bound by un declarations which underline the same principle. not sure if the united states has ratified any of those but obviously from the civil rights movement and into the 70s there are laws on the books that require equal pay. but its complicated and fraught with exemptions that are plain common sense; seniority, experience, merit, all that good stuff that factor into how much people earn. and then you have systematic gender divides by trade, customer service sectors dominated by women, trades finance bunch of other ones dominated by men. and in some countries, if under the same organization, you can prove that the work you do is as important to collective success as the word some one else does but they're paid more, you have recourse to the law. and that's enormously problematic as well, mostly because thats an almost absurd burden of proof to meet.

there shouldn't be any denying that those laws have played a significant role in undermining sexist workplace discrimination, but they have also caused a host of problems that obviously in certain cases discriminate against people with privilege. which isn't good either.

so its complicated lol