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There is a story going around on the nerdnet about men being responsible for the elimination of big pussies.

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So, who were the losers, the ones who more neatly compare to trump? Ford, Bush 1, Dole, McCain, and Mittens. I'm not sure I know before that. Well, Nixon, once... that other senator from Arizona--does that add up to the entire set?

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Isn't it funny how if you have big bewbs, random dudes feel able to mention it to make you feel like a worm... if you have small bewbs, random dudes feel able to mention it to make you feel like a worm... and I'm pretty sure that if you have medium-sized bewbs, random dudes probably feel able to mention it to make you feel like a worm.

I wonder what the common thread in all this is?

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Which is why they are called wood ducks.

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Vous êtes mallards, m'sieur.

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Yeah, it doesn't matter. I've been random-dude-commented at while I was very obviously pregnant.

"Mmmmm....healthy!"

What the actual fuck?

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None really compare to Trump. He is in a class by himself. While he is the legitimate successor to Reagan and the Bushes. None of them collaborated with hostile nations to win an election... wait Reagan's deal with Iran to be sure the hostages were released on his watch. OK, Trump has no clue how government works.... Bush the Lesser was the low watt frontman for Cheney and Co. Let's see, likely to get us involved in a war in the Mideast for personal glorification... right, just like Bush the Bigger. But Trump is an anomaly.

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Jeezuz guys. This shit has to stop.

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I think we'd judge her tits as cancerous.

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Danke, ich denke.

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For what it's worth at this point, I understood what you meant, took no offense, and didn't think you sounded flippant at all.

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Dude, I'm writing to apologize for above non-comment. I was too tired and pissed and busy to write what I meant. Which is, we wimmenz are Just So Tired of being judged on our looks. I believe you believe your non-comments here today are oksey doksey, but, in fact, I deeply resent having to listen to some dude's opinion of what size tits should or shouldn't be wearing whatever.

So I'm probably being really stupid for following an apology with a full-throated aaaaargh at you, so again, sorry, but when you really grasp the lifetime of unbelievable bullshit that wimmenz put up with about how we look, act, smile, be sexy but don't be a whore, etc, etc, etc, maybe you'll cut me some slack about being a Bitch at you right now. I'm sure you're nice.

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Gawd... that's... that's on a par with the little old lady in the grocery store who, when I reached up to get something off a shelf, screamed "DON'T LIFT YOUR ARMS OVER YOUR HEAD!! YOU'LL STRANGLE THE BABY!!"

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A feature, not a bug.

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I'm pretty sure that before my time, when men went to work with men and didn't see a woman who wasn't a waitress or a secretary, that shit would get Lord of the Flies pretty quick. One of my first office jobs was with a bunch of ex-submariners, who used to regale my adolescent self with stories of what men could get up to when the nearest woman was thousands of miles away.

Like getting the new sailor back to the machine shop and have two shills do a little game where they put their thumbs in a vise and turn it whoever lasts longest wins. Then they invite the mark to play, who realizes after his thumbs are in the vise that he's pretty much immobile. And helpless. And about to have his pants yanked down and be given an enema with the grease gun. It did not entice me to join the Navy, oddly enough.

The point is that men untethered by civilizing influences will keep allowing worse and worse shit to be the standard of behavior. I really think it's taken the entry of women into workplaces to start really taking that behavior seriously.

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As a matter of fact yes. I have also grabbed nads when groped, run my hand over butts to point out that a guy's not wearing a strap when he helpfully points at (by feeling) that I'm not wearing a bra, and I have stomped on my share of insteps, too.

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