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delalluvia:
Finally all moved in.
I HOPE AT&T BURNS IN HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jeff Wrangler:
A small matter, perhaps, but I have decided that I hate the word bromance.
It's homophobic. It belittles the affection two guys may feel for one another out of fear that affection is gay.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 14, 2010, 09:34:57 am ---A small matter, perhaps, but I have decided that I hate the word bromance.
It's homophobic. It belittles the affection two guys may feel for one another out of fear that affection is gay.
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That's interesting. I've never perceived it at all as a belittling term, more a kind of celebratory or even affectionate term for male friendship -- particularly in movies, of course, where male friendship is one of the most popular and enduring themes.
It's flippant, of course, like "chick flick." That's a term I find offensive -- not so much the words themselves, but what they signify: a movie so trivial or silly (often merely because its main characters are women) that no male moviegoer would be interested.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 14, 2010, 11:23:20 am ---That's interesting. I've never perceived it at all as a belittling term, more a kind of celebratory or even affectionate term for male friendship -- particularly in movies, of course, where male friendship is one of the most popular and enduring themes.
It's flippant, of course, like "chick flick." That's a term I find offensive -- not so much the words themselves, but what they signify: a movie so trivial or silly (often merely because its main characters are women) that no male moviegoer would be interested.
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That's interesting, too. I never thought of "chick flick" as indicating that the movie was trivial or silly, just that its plot dealt with themes or subjects of more interest to women than to men--like relationship stuff, as opposed to car chases and explosions.
I guess either way it stereotypes both the film and the audience.
Marge_Innavera:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 19, 2009, 01:03:51 am ---People in the old days sure were tough ... :P :-X
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No kidding, and after the advent of photography, it was easy to see how fast people aged compared with today.
I spent 7 years working at a Living History museum; that's one of those reconstructed communities where people re-enact everyday life from earlier historical periods. (Williamsburg is the granddaddy of them all) In our case it was 1855, an interesting period in the US Midwest, as people were in transition between rural self-sufficiency and widespread use of manufactured goods. People used to ask me if I'd like to live in that era and I'd tell them no, I'd love to visit. Every historical era has its plusses and minuses but the "good old days" were rarely as good as we might like to think they were.
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