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ok heres the thing. i know this topic has been discussed many times under various headings, but this one thing occurred to me this morning as i looked at a poster my mate got for me. it was purchased at 'the womens bookstore', and is a poster with much writing on it specifically designed to appeal to 'women of today' giving many affirmations and bla bla...it is actually a really cool poster, thats not the issue. what i was thinking is " how come there isnt a 'mens bookstore' with man stuff in it?"
there is a mens section, but it only relates to gay issues.
isnt this a tad unfair?

― donna (donna), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 19:42 (twenty-three years ago)

mybe i will open one for you all :-) i can stock it with lots of macho books like "mechanics weekly" or something.
no?

― donna (donna), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I guess the idea is that "they" have to go out of "their" way to provide affirmation to women, gay people, and so on, because everything else ultimately affirms straight men. That or we just don't deserve anything.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 20:06 (twenty-three years ago)

We get everything we deserve. And more.

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

"how come there isnt a 'mens bookstore' with man stuff in it?"

I think there is...look under XXX in the phone book!

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 20:50 (twenty-three years ago)

There is the goodbastards movement. Which is for men to be men and drink beer and talk about hunting and fishing and tanks and war and such forth.

― isadora (isadora), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

no, XXX is for men, women, animals, straight, gay, other

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 21:20 (twenty-three years ago)

men's bookstores = barnes and noble, borders, etc. = most bookstores

― Josh (Josh), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Real men don't read.

― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 21:43 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

- Why can't blondes count to 70?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, July 8, 2009 9:40 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

- Because their mouth is full after 69.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, July 8, 2009 9:41 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

LOL! blondes!

― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 12:44 (sixteen years ago)

i'm sort of impressed that blonde jokes are a thing in Scandinavia

― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 12:46 (sixteen years ago)

He didn't say blonde ladies, silly.

― My Slow Descent into Assholism (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 12:47 (sixteen years ago)

xpost lololololol I didn't think of that

― My Slow Descent into Assholism (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 12:47 (sixteen years ago)

blonde with an e means lady, blond with no e means dude /pedant

― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 12:49 (sixteen years ago)

I was aware of that but we are native English speakers.

― My Slow Descent into Assholism (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 12:49 (sixteen years ago)

i think the T man doesn't include Finland in Scandinavia /pedant

― The Sorrows of Young Jeezy (jim), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 12:49 (sixteen years ago)

I mean we shd probly report this to the Head of Women's Studies at the University of Oulu or whatever just to be on the safe side, but it's probably an innocent mistake.

― My Slow Descent into Assholism (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 12:51 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

http://jezebel.com/5312545/ask-men-thinks-youre-fat--wants-your-boyfriend-to-tell-you-so

― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 00:41 (sixteen years ago)

also file under: fattism, jerkism, terrible relationship advice

― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 00:42 (sixteen years ago)

Oh, I saw that!

― bamcquern, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 00:44 (sixteen years ago)

i'm shocked that askmen.com would promote such attitudes

― velko, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 00:46 (sixteen years ago)

arf arf

― bamcquern, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 00:46 (sixteen years ago)

After you loosen a few screws or remove some important slats of a chair in which you know she'll sit and subsequently break, sit back and watch the guaranteed dietary transformation that ensues. It will profoundly amaze you.

just...wow

― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 00:47 (sixteen years ago)

is this to "commemorate" cankles' banning?

― my other display name is a controversial mod edit (sarahel), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 00:47 (sixteen years ago)

eh yeah let's pick on askmen for being a bunch of frat assholes, must have been a slow day

xp velko otm

― cank yankers :( (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 00:47 (sixteen years ago)

chair trick belongs on sight gag thread, or is that slapstick?

― velko, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 00:48 (sixteen years ago)

maybe it belongs on the fetishes thread.

― my other display name is a controversial mod edit (sarahel), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 00:49 (sixteen years ago)

Chairs Missing thread.

― bamcquern, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 00:50 (sixteen years ago)

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