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Hana Maru
11/14/08

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Those slutty, slutty political campaign head shots! If those women weren't suck skanky sluts, they wouldn't be running for office.*snort*

Why are these dudes offended by the sight of women but not by violence and vandalism? I guess it's a question for the ages.
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Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka
11/14/08

@HanaMaru: Maybe if we require guns and other weapons to have a fake pair of boobies attached to them, or nipples, the men will stop using them?!
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mbprice
11/14/08

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Attention crazy asshole religions of the world! Since you like modesty so much, I have a very modest proposal for you: fuck off and die.
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Brigit
11/14/08

@mbprice: rAmen.
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musicpup
11/14/08

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Haredim are really rare here in Germany, so I'm glad I don't have to deal with them. However, at my prom, we were loitering about outside in flimsy/revealing dresses and tuxes because the place we'd ranted hadn't opened yet. And lo! Through the mass walks a man in full-fledged Haredim-wear. I still wonder if all of that was like porn to him.

Back on topic: Haredim need to get over themselves. There is nothing shameful about a woman's body and you are not animals who need to be protected from our womanly wiles.
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Sukie in the Graveyard
11/14/08

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oh, NOW photoshop has some real potential!

Can we photoshop Bill O'Rielly out? Let's photoshop him out of everything.... and replace him with a teddy bear.
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LucilleMcGillicuddy
11/14/08

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I am so sickened by the view of women as hyper-sexualized, shameful creatures who should be hidden away and stripped of their brains.

Thanks a lot, organized religions. At least I can hate you all equally.

Lucy

PS FUCKING FUCK OFF! I will not be ashamed.
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Laulau
11/14/08

@LucilleMcGillicuddy: And the lame excuse that it's all just to protect the men, cuz they can't possibly control their wild sexual impulses.

If you can't control yourself, you get behind the damn screen at shul!
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ZenScout
11/14/08

@Laulau:

Exactly. I've never been able to understand, in these fundamentalist sects where men are undoubtedly "in charge", why they also admit (through their actions) of being so weak that they can't catch a glimpse of hair or a slice of arm above the wrist without going nuts.

Maybe the men that are having such control issues should start wearing double eye patches - then everyone would be happy. I could walk around in a short sleeved shirt and they wouldn't be driven crazy with desire.
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LucilleMcGillicuddy
11/14/08

@ZenScout: We could just lock the men up in the house and go about our business.

If they can't control their impulses when they catch a glimpse of ankle, why should we entrust them with anything!
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Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka
11/14/08

@ZenScout: I hate it even more when their lack of control is blamed on some supernatural, malicious, or evil attempt/power of women.
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BlondeGrlz
11/14/08

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If only I could photoshop Fergie out of my brain.
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morninggloria
11/14/08

@BlondeGrlz is having a BlondeBoyz!: I'd totally do that, because I'm personally offended by her.
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battleaxonista...is a humorless bitch
11/14/08

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I'm not surprised. Those buses will at the very least be defaced if they loiter in Ultra Orthodox neighborhoods at all. I would not want to be the driver at that time.
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BeckySharper
11/14/08

@battleaxonista: In which case, the bus company should have the option of not running the bus through those neighborhoods. Jerusalem makes way too many concessions to the Haredi and their fanaticism.
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battleaxonista...is a humorless bitch
11/14/08

@BeckySharper: If they were actually forced to serve like the rest of Israel, maybe they would come to appreciate the value of a woman as a comrade, rather than resident sheet ironer.
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KillMeNow no longer has a future in journalism
11/14/08

@BeckySharper: Or maybe they could actually arrest the haredi who break the law.
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BeckySharper
11/14/08

@battleaxonista: OMG, don't get me started on that.

@KillMeNow has a stalker named Yolanda: I would pay good money to have them send a couple female police officers to snap on the cuffs.
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KillMeNow no longer has a future in journalism
11/14/08

@BeckySharper: And for once, I'd like those female cops to be in mini-skirts! With cleavage! And singing out loud!
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HereComesMyBaby
11/14/08

@BeckySharper: Yes! I hate how Haredi the country has gotten. It's all because of Ben-Gurion and the original concessions he made to the community. Israel was built by secular Jews, damn it! This is why I will never live in Jerusalem.
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Brigit
11/14/08

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WHAT'S WITH ALL THE NEWS OF 'WOMEN CAN'T BE SEEN OR WE'LL GET VIOLENT'? Seriously, I'm gonna have a stroke from anger overload.

I'm *this* close to starting a global female militia, in which we go around the world armed to our teeth, kicking asses and taking names of violent, misogynistic a-holes.
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Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka
11/14/08

@Brigit: The Femi-Nazi Boner Killers were supposed to ride awhile ago .. but BAngieB left the site and she was our driver. You want to drive? I'll take shotgun .. literally.
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JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing!
11/14/08

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I kind of want to start calling everyone Jerusalemites. "What's crackin, my Jerusalemites?"
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KillMeNow no longer has a future in journalism
11/14/08

@JessicaLovejoy is confused by this feeling of pride: Jerusalemites are delicious on toast with tea.
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morninggloria
11/14/08

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Press release for extremely out there crazytrons of all faiths-

Too. Fucking. Bad.
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ineffable.me
11/14/08

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Before I get up in arms about this, can someone please tell me what the deal is? Are women not allowed to be photographed?
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BeckySharper
11/14/08

@ineffable.me: The Haredim (ultra-Orthodox to you and me) get all freaked out by depictions of women that aren't sufficiently modest. Of course, by their standards Hilary Clinton in a pantsuit would be immodest.
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ineffable.me
11/14/08

@BeckySharper: ok i see.

that shit is bananas.

i mean.

B A N A N A S
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BeckySharper
11/14/08

@ineffable.me: If you ever spend any time in West Jerusalem, you have to learn which are the Haredi neighborhoods because they will literally stone you--as in, pick up a rock and chuck it at your head--if you wander in dressed in pants or with any bit of skin revealed. I absolutely LOATHE them. They're like the Jewish Taliban.
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RocktheDebit
11/14/08

@BeckySharper: Has anyone set up a Hollaback Jerusalem for photographs of the stone-throwers? And is there any chance of getting the assault and battery laws enforced?
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BeckySharper
11/14/08

@RocktheDebit: It would be tough to get the laws enforced--you usually have due warning when you approach one of the enclaves. Outside Me'ah Shearim, the best known of the Haredi neighborhoods, there's a large, prominently placed sign warning people not to enter unless they conform to the dress/behavior code (for example, it's offensive for men and women to have any physical contact at all).

Also, much of Jerusalem is controlled by the ultra-Orthodox, and the mayor is Ultra-Orthodox, so the Haredim can get away with behavior that would not fly in other Israeli cities.
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nagumi
11/14/08

@BeckySharper: the mayor is NOT ultra orthodox. We had elections on tuesday!
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BeckySharper
11/14/08

@nagumi: True! I was thinking of Lupolianski. Did Barkat take office already?
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