Guns, Guns, Guns.
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Yanno, regarding that whole gender roles stupidity...
I've been very entertained by the saga of Miss McKenna Pope schooling the Hasbro company, and have been following the story.
http://consumerist.com/2012/12/04/eighth-grader-to-hasbro-your-purple-
easy-bake-oven-is-too-girly-for-my-little-brother/
http://consumerist.com/2012/12/17/petition-results-in-hasbro-introduci
ng-gender-neutral-easy-bake-oven/
And I was downright delighted when our local paper picked up the story too.
http://www.annarbor.com/news/toy-industry-being-asked-for-more-gender-
neutral-toys-this-holiday-season/
Being a male who cooks, and happens to be very damned good at it, I've been laughing up my sleeve more than a bit about this, especially since one holiday I sent my sister an Easy Bake Oven to *MOCK* her lack of cooking skills - I did take home ec, even back when doing so was "unmanly", although that did kinda break the wall since due to the amount of feminine attention that inspired the next year several guys signed up for the class, only to be much put out when they learned that in order to keep classes small enough to be effective, THEY were gonna be instructed by the grouchy male gym teacher...
I DO hope they learned useful life skills though - that whole macho-bs thing always annoyed me, cause due to their paucity of domestic skill they need a mommy more than a wife, yeargh.
Of course, while culinary skill is no longer considered the exclusive domain of the female gender, and I have to laugh at attempts to man-it-up...
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChefOfIron
My own methods and skills are far more suited to a different trope.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SupremeChef
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This chef may engage in Through His Stomach, but as a general expression of affection, or even a generalized benevolence, not a particular sign of deep passion. Your Favorite is similarly not a profound gesture when made by this chef.
Not QUITE true, that - sure, a quick breakfast or general meal doesn't really carry so much meaning beyond hospitality and general benevolence...
But if I crank out an eight course extravaganza specifically tailored to your own tastes and dietary needs, that's kinda... meaningful.
Speakin of which, apparently no one makes cakes or mixes that are both sugar free AND gluten free, looks like it's mostly one or the other, so a current pet project is PROJECT: SAFECAKE.
Having discard the idea of muffins (not cake-like enough) and regular cake (no logical way to get the frosting to come out well) this is gonna be an attempt to create a traditional style Pound Cake while remaining in the bounds of some very serious dietary restrictions and without resulting to chemical enhancement or dangerous food-like products (I've elected to go with Stevia instead of a chemical sugar replacement).
*IF* this works, I'll be happy to share the recipe.
-F
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Oh, I know for a fact that humans aren't harem species, and that men aren't like stags or elephant seals. I tend to think of humans as something like birds... baby birds as demanding as they are, both parents need to feed the chicks. So their males, and our males, share similar traits.
I have a different theory, as might be expected, but, that's fine, this is something we've disagreed about before. Men as a generally violent gender is just an interpretation/explanation that I can't really accept - for one thing there's not nearly the amount of sexual dimorphism in our species as there is in others - so I tend to look for something else going on.
Yes, I agree with this much. I think the harem ideas out there are mostly a product of wishful thinking. While I doubt humans are 100% monogamous, at the same time both genders seem to have equal capacity for jealousy and possessiveness (and violence stemming from both). I'm not sure those are emotional conditions that would exist for both genders if there were a much different prehistoric family arrangement than there is today.
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But male birds are still more expendable than females. It's the males who display while the females stay hidden. It's the males who defend territory. So there are some gender differences.... not huge, but there.
Also, in competitive individualistic cultures males DO have an advantage. I think that's why men tend to react with individual violence to perceived danger pretty much adding to the total level of violence, while women try to reduce violence overall. Again, something of a generalization.
Less sure about all this. In the very least it's possible that civilization, itself a sort of evolution, has negated the need for peacocking or general statements about expendability or levels of violence.
But I also doubt women just stayed hidden and passive even in cavemen times. I don't see how a lone woman would survive if that were her basic mentality, forced on her by gender.
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Speakin of which, apparently no one makes cakes or mixes that are both sugar free AND gluten free, looks like it's mostly one or the other, so a current pet project is PROJECT: SAFECAKE.
Having discard the idea of muffins (not cake-like enough) and regular cake (no logical way to get the frosting to come out well) this is gonna be an attempt to create a traditional style Pound Cake while remaining in the bounds of some very serious dietary restrictions and without resulting to chemical enhancement or dangerous food-like products (I've elected to go with Stevia instead of a chemical sugar replacement).
Hells yeah.
No sugar, huh? That is tricky... Pound cake is a good choice because various fruit slices can substitute for sweetness.
I've never done much with rice flour, you think it might be sweeter tasting than wheat flour? That might be an option if so, although the question is how well it might cook up. There's a certain kind called sweet rice flour or glutinous rice flour (it doesn't contain gluten despite the name). Though that might be more like a transparent dumpling than a cake.
Heh, you could always make a fruity sticky-rice haystack if it comes to that.
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Psst! Frem!
http://simplysugarandglutenfree.com/angel-food-cake/
:D
Have not located a devil's food cake, though, which seems more to your particular idiom.
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"Constitution is meant to be aliving document which is why it can be amended. That amendment has out lived its usefullness. It was written during a time of war and the writer couldn't see the future."
Lol at Brenda.
Either a troll, a 12 year old, or someone so stupid as to actually believe what it just wrote.
Either way... sweetie... shut the fuck up. Let the adults talk.
"None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you... YOU are locked in here with ME."
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Originally posted by HKCavalier:
Anthony stands naked with his gun in the mirror "stroking" it is fucking sick. It's completely grotesque. And, seriously, that "stereotype" is bullshit. How many men does anyone here imagine literally do this with the mirror?
Cheese and rice, HK. It's a metaphor. Look it up: MET-A-PHOR.
Of course I don't think he's literally stroking his gun, give me a little credit, HK. You've known me long enough to not go there. I'm saying that guns are fetish-ized, as in the first two meanings on dictionary.com:
fet·ish
1.an object regarded with awe as being the embodiment or habitation of a potent spirit or as having magical potency.
2. any object, idea, etc., eliciting unquestioning reverence, respect, or devotion: to make a fetish of high grades.
A whole lotta people in this country, and on these boards, are making a fetish of guns, and they aren't shy about it. They are flat out saying:
BIG GUNS = FREEDOM
Anthony is flat out, without hesitation, saying that. I have a problem with that stance. In reality,
BIG GUNS = VIOLENCE
and
BIG GUNS = THREAT
and
BIG GUNS = SCARING THOSE BAD PEOPLE OUT THERE INTO DOING WHAT *I* WANT THEM TO DO AND TO HELL WITH ANY OTHER LESS FUCKED UP WAY OF PROTECTING DEMOCRACY
Sure, it can be debated whether
VIOLENCE = FREEDOM
But I'll tell you straight up that that ain't the kind of freedom I'm interested in. That's not true freedom, it's just more of the same old same old that's made for centuries of abuse and bloodshed. It is the opposite of freedom.
Anyhow, I guess that debate won't be had because some folks are so incapable of recognizing that metaphor thing. So let's go with fetish: there is a gun fetish here. Some folks can't have a discussion about what is generally necessary armament and what is not, a handful of days after 20 children were gunned down, without going into the details of what they love most about their fetish-ized killing machines.
That, my friend, is sick. That is sicker than anything a man or woman does standing in front of mirror.
(Trying really hard not to add an obscene gesture regarding your inability to recognize a gorramned metaphor... Oh heck: F U too for taking it there.)
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Lol at Brenda.
Either a troll, a 12 year old, or someone so stupid as to actually believe what it just wrote.
Either way... sweetie... shut the fuck up. Let the adults talk.
Actually... That's one of the few things I give positive credit to the founding fathers for. They created a system of government on paper that could deal with something they could never imagine, like the computer or the internet, three hundred years ago.
Also, newbies are soft and tender, with little wet noses... Wait, no. Puppies. Puppies again.
But if you're going to invite them into your home and feed them from the porch, you don't yell at them until AFTER they chew up the carpet. It's being a good host!
I have the weirdest parties.
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Byte...
Hehehe.
Yes, the founders created a system that was flexible.. (NOT living, breathing, bowing to every whim). Well stated.
As to these silly puppies...
I've got a big roll of newspaper ready for their naughty little noses..
"None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you... YOU are locked in here with ME."
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Okay. Some of them do bite back though. Commence verbal gladiatory combat?
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I wonder how many here have watched "The Seven Samurai."
"None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you... YOU are locked in here with ME."
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