RareAcumen posted:

I wish there was a remedial comic book thread to catch people up on all the stupid decisions people have made, because the trainwrecks you guys have been mentioning so far sound very interesting.

OldMemes posted:

BSS has several!

RareAcumen posted:

Man, you're seeing some dumb people then. All I've ever seen of it is that it's a good thing mainly that she's not in the abusive relationship anymore. Like the one comic part where she's fighting Black Canary and she has to stop because she's got morning sickness and Harley goes into how she left to have her kid and the Joker didn't even notice she left.

RareAcumen posted:

Could you give me a few links or name the threads? I'm kinda really interested in seeing how they messed up all the female characters over the years. Also, apparently Reed Richards is scumbag prime.

FreudianSlippers posted:

I think W's greatest triumph was that he actually got people to believe in that "simple country boy" persona of his. His supporters liked it because it made him a relatable guy you could have a beer with that wasn't tied up in all that fancy Washington bullshit despite being a Ivy League educated son of a president who was vice-president before that. His opponents bought it because LOL BU$HITLER IS A BRAINLESS MONKEY.

I mean I don't think he's any sort of genius but I think he's probably by far the smartest Bush brother.

Karma Monkey posted:

The way he just stood there nodding in silence that long was freaking me out. If he had peeled his face off to reveal an alien and bit the other guy's head off, it would have been completely unsurprising. Was he having a fit? I give props to the reporter for maintaining his cool and not backing away saying "Dude, seriously, you're creeping me the gently caress out."

RareAcumen posted:

Practical Demon posted:

The lesbian fantasy stuff with Harley Quinn and Ivy started during the loving cartoon specifically aimed at kids because Paul Dini is gross.

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females

sticklefifer posted:

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females

SpliffClavin posted:

trickybiscuits posted:

I want to know what Heidi will do if she's on a date and the guy tries to rape her.

Subjunctive posted:

Sure don't want kids knowing about them homos, no siree bob.

Practical Demon posted:

Yeah, that was my point. Not that Paul Dini really likes to draw sexy pinups of all the female Batman villains, and took the opportunity of turning his show into a weird, sanitized 60s pulp lesbian fantasy for a few episodes.

Subjunctive posted:

Glad we're on the same page. (Why does it matter that it was a lesbian fantasy, and not a heterosexual one?)

SpliffClavin posted:

bleughmacaroni posted:

iPhone Conservative? I don't get the naming of this page.

Also what's with the
this is ____
____ is smart
be like _____ meme?

It's just popped up over the last few days for me and I don't get it

Subjunctive posted:

Glad we're on the same page. (Why does it matter that it was a lesbian fantasy, and not a heterosexual one?)

Henchman of Santa posted:

I don't know but I hid posts from that app and improved my day immensely.

trickybiscuits posted:

I want to know what Heidi will do if she's on a date and the guy tries to rape her.

SpliffClavin posted:

Arctic Baldwin posted:

so it's really N1**ER

paradoxGentleman posted:

"Defend Italy: Stop Strangers"

It hurts real bad to see this racist bullshit coming from fellow Italians.

paradoxGentleman posted:

"Defend Italy: Stop Strangers"

It hurts real bad to see this racist bullshit coming from fellow Italians.

paradoxGentleman posted:

"Defend Italy: Stop Strangers"

It hurts real bad to see this racist bullshit coming from fellow Italians.

spog posted:

“Best You’ve Ever Seen Class of 2016"

I am sure you can get better words out of that sentence

"Best rear end" seems an easy one to start with

Brawnfire posted:

Could be "BEST N1**ER" which somehow seems toothless and sort of fun in comparison.

EvilGenius posted:

Change.org email me petitions every now and again, and my God are some of them retarded.

https://www.change.org/p/simon-robe...urated_trending

TLDR - Boots' pricing is sexist because women's products are more expensive than the male equivalent!

No poo poo, that's because women are willing to pay more, not because the CEO hates women (who are the majority of his customers). Read a little into market forces before getting on your high horse. If women want to pay more for pink razors, then people are going to sell overpriced pink razors.

EvilGenius posted:

Change.org email me petitions every now and again, and my God are some of them retarded.

https://www.change.org/p/simon-robe...urated_trending

TLDR - Boots' pricing is sexist because women's products are more expensive than the male equivalent!

No poo poo, that's because women are willing to pay more, not because the CEO hates women (who are the majority of his customers). Read a little into market forces before getting on your high horse. If women want to pay more for pink razors, then people are going to sell overpriced pink razors.

Eponine posted:

Women's personal care products average about 15% more than men's over the entire market. It is kind of bullshit because I actually think men are the ones who would pay more to avoid using pink razors.

Eponine posted:

Women's personal care products average about 15% more than men's over the entire market. It is kind of bullshit because I actually think men are the ones who would pay more to avoid using pink razors.

EvilGenius posted:

Change.org email me petitions every now and again, and my God are some of them retarded.

https://www.change.org/p/simon-robe...urated_trending

TLDR - Boots' pricing is sexist because women's products are more expensive than the male equivalent!

No poo poo, that's because women are willing to pay more, not because the CEO hates women (who are the majority of his customers). Read a little into market forces before getting on your high horse. If women want to pay more for pink razors, then people are going to sell overpriced pink razors.

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These are hard times to be a female shopper. Whether you spend your money on pens, razors, designer fragrance or plain old Marks & Spencer vests, you will pay a surcharge just for being a woman. In theory, men and women enter stores equal – but, in practice, the shelves each gender browses, the aisles each chooses, lead them down very different paths to the cash register. Products marketed specifically at women routinely cost more than similar or identical products marketed at men.

A pack of 10 twin-bladed men’s razors by Bic is on offer at £1 at tesco.com, while Bic’s pack of 8 twin-bladed lady razors is on offer at £2.

The extent of the discrepancies is staggering: an analysis of hundreds of products by the Times found that where equivalent products were priced differently, they cost 37% more for women. It is hard to imagine, for instance, why a single-blade razor made by the same manufacturer should cost more to produce in pink than orange. They are made by Bic, which also charges more for its Bics for Her biros than its Bics for everyone, a strategy that has seen the Bics for Her brand repurposed as the title of comedian Bridget Christie’s standup show. I’m not saying that the French penmaker is sexist, but it once advertised its feminine, pastel-barrelled writing tools with the slogan “Look like a girl / Act like a lady / Think like a man / Work like a boss”.

Women have long worn men’s 501s. Levi’s original version starts at £75 for men in a mid-blue wash, and £85 for women.

Factor in the tampon tax and the pay gap (19.1% across all workers in the UK) and it becomes clear that, whenever they reach a till, women are effectively paying three times, once in their salaries, once in their spending, and once in a surcharge on any women-directed products in their shopping baskets. “We earn less and we’re charged more. How many more times do you want women to be ripped off?” asks Sam Smethers, chief executive of the Fawcett Society.

A man can moisturise with Clarins cream for £29/50ml. A woman using the same brand will pay £44/50ml.

So, what to do? Women could buy Gillette’s sensitive shaving gel for men, instead of its Satin Care sensitive shaving gel for women and save 50p. The downside is that it will make you smell like a cheap man. Is it too radical to look for a fragrance-free shaving gel? Or to expect companies to market a unisex line? After all, it works at the higher price points for brands such as Dermalogica and REN. Smethers thinks the equivalent of a supermarket value brand – plain-speaking, no-frills packaging – could work for skin and bodycare products. “There is a massive opportunity here to create gender-neutral lines – why not? I think that’s a really interesting proposition for retailers.”

A plain 100% cotton women’s vest costs £6 at M&S (if you can find it among all the overly ornate ones), while men get three pure cotton equivalents for £12.50.


Fashion stylists have often shopped in the men’s department for women’s basics – plain-cut vests or T-shirts, sweatshirt and sweaters, watches – on the grounds of taste rather than price. Manufacturers routinely overdesign products for women, complicating necklines, adding unwanted tucks or tat, embellishing packaging. “We carry that with us throughout our lifetime,” Smethers says. “We create this norm that a women’s product has got to have extra presentational baubles on it, and then it can be charged more for. This is a massive issue that goes over generations of women.”

This Kurve balance bike by Kiddimoto looks a bargain at £49.99, compared to the flowery Kurve model aimed at girls

Girls start paying for the differences at an early age – it costs an extra £10 in Halfords for a Kiddimoto balance bike decorated with flowers rather than skulls. Surely it is time to end the tyranny of pink, which makes girls pay by delimiting their tastes according to gender stereotypes, and then charges their parents for the privilege.

Tom Ford’s Black Orchid eau de toilette spray costs £64 at mrporter.com and £75 at its sister company, netaporter.com.

Why women are perceived to have more fanciful taste baffles me, but these design discrepancies make the surcharge legal, as does the fact that these products are available to men to buy, too (unlike cheap women’s car insurance, which was ruled prejudicial to men, although somehow men’s haircuts are permitted to undercut women’s). Sometimes, even where products are marketed as unisex, price discrepancies remain. Who can say, for instance, why a Tom Ford eau de toilette should cost £75 for 50ml at Net-a-Porter and £64 for 50ml at Mr Porter, the women’s and men’s luxury shopping sites both owned by the Yoox Net-a-Porter Group? (Not Net-a-Porter, who wouldn’t comment at short notice.) Or why a woman logging on to Nike’s website to buy football boots would face a selection starting at £125, while her male counterpart can buy a pair for as little as £29.99? Pity women footballers, who must take the social and commercial one-two of being taunted for their lack of femininity, and then made to pay girls’ prices.

Nike’s studs aimed at women have a starting price of £125. Its range aimed at men starts at £29.99 in the sale.

The problem isn’t limited to Britain. In December, the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs released a study of 800 nearly identical products with male and female versions. The report, entitled From Cradle to Cane: The Cost of Being a Female Consumer, found that, on average, female versions cost 7% more than the male.

Women, the shops are laughing up their sleeves at you! It is time to make careful choices about where and how to spend that hard-earned, partially docked money, to find a way to make the sexists pay. (No Bic was used in the writing of this article.)

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Aren't a lot of the products almost exactly the same except they smell different?

There seems to be a ton of things that are "X for girls *tee hee*" which is just X except painted pink and more expensive. Granted the worst tools I ever had the misfortune to handle were ones that were labelled "tools for women." The things were made of flimsy pink plastic, obviously cheap steel, and were double the price of actual tools. I was like "what is this crap?"

EvilGenius posted:

Yup, but my point was that the products and the prices reflect what people want and are willing to buy. Only in the same way that Nurofen is 5x more expensive than generic ibuprofen, because it's in carefully designed packaging.

I find it funny, the idea that a misogynist CEO has gone 'gently caress women, I'm gonna charge them 15% more, MWAHAHA'.