Anna Rawson

Tiger said:
CH think about it this way. Men use flirtation as well it's just that you only notice women doing it.
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Definitely made me think Tiger.

One key difference is that I rarely see men flirt in a self-degrading way, as some women tend to do. I fully accept that this may be as you point out though, in that I notice women doing it a lot more than men!
 
CheltenhamHacker said:
One key difference is that I rarely see men flirt in a self-degrading way, as some women tend to do. I fully accept that this may be as you point out though, in that I notice women doing it a lot more than men!
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It doesn't really work the same way for men, so we tend to try to look 'cool' instead of 'sexy'.

Surely you've seen a guy with a knobby haircut and a pair of Ray-Bans? :mad:
 
Tiger said:
FD you know I've always got your back on this one. Keep raising ths issue :thup:
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Fighting injustice one post at a time, got your back:confused::D like a virtual Dempsey & makepeace (one for the kids):thup:

The David beckham analogy works in microcosm, never really taken seriously as a footballer, because he sold shirts/pants etc.

It does fall down on a sport to sport comparison, but other factors feed in that have been covered before.

As one who never looks for casual sexism (or racism) I'm genuinely interested in hearing what you experience on a daily basis, and how these pics reinforce it.

To me the negative is that it turns grown men into dribbling idiots.
 
therod said:
Fighting injustice one post at a time, got your back:confused::D like a virtual Dempsey & makepeace (one for the kids):thup:
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LOL. On a serious note there was an interesting experiment conducted in the US in the 60s where a school teacher wanted to teach her class about racism.

On day one they picked on the brown eyed children, made them wear collars and treated them like black people were treated under segregation laws. On day two she flipped it and they picked on the blue eyed kids instead.

The fascinating thing was she gave both groups of children a test on both days. In both groups the children performed worse when they were the 'lesser' class.

What it demonstrated was that when they felt they were second class citizens that wouldn't achieve anything their attainment levels dropped.

So everything in our society from imagery to figureheads and attitudes to populist opinion will serve only to reinforce that stereotype.

So yes in your face sexism, racism etc is less prevalent but the signs are there to see it hasn't gone away.

51% of the population are women but they are under represented in positions of leadership because of our patriarchal society. Whilst a quarter of footballers in the top four divisions are black I think Paul Ince is the only black manager.

So yes IMHO pictures like this are part of a wider societal reinforcement of current gender imbalance
 
Tiger said:
LOL. On a serious note there was an interesting experiment conducted in the US in the 60s where a school teacher wanted to teach her class about racism.

On day one they picked on the brown eyed children, made them wear collars and treated them like black people were treated under segregation laws. On day two she flipped it and they picked on the blue eyed kids instead.

The fascinating thing was she gave both groups of children a test on both days. In both groups the children performed worse when they were the 'lesser' class.

What it demonstrated was that when they felt they were second class citizens that wouldn't achieve anything their attainment levels dropped.

So everything in our society from imagery to figureheads and attitudes to populist opinion will serve only to reinforce that stereotype.

So yes in your face sexism, racism etc is less prevalent but the signs are there to see it hasn't gone away.

51% of the population are women but they are under represented in positions of leadership because of our patriarchal society. Whilst a quarter of footballers in the top four divisions are black I think Paul Ince is the only black manager.

So yes IMHO pictures like this are part of a wider societal reinforcement of current gender imbalance
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Chris Houghton[or is he dark brown]
 
Perhaps it's pro Chrisist rather than racist?? :)

I like that feminist timeline - unintentionally funny. Btw the bloke on the bus was not masturbating, he was apply some soothing lotion ;)
 
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