Posts by Bart Janssen
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to BenWilson,
No I can jump, I just can't keep time.
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Emma Hart,
Dude, I fucking LOVE Wham!
You must be trying to get drunk enough to watch Black Swan
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to BenWilson,
the tapping must be in time
No worries then ... I can't keep time with anything.
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Emma Hart,
I think we benefit from highlighting how unusual the attitude is
Which is probably the most irritating part of the argument for me, because it's simply lazy thinking. It isn't based on real data and it doesn't progress the discussion.
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Jacqui Dunn,
I wasn't sure who made the comment Russell quoted, whether it was a he or a she hence the neutral they.
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to Emma Hart,
“Turns Thomas the Tank Engine into Porn”
Really don't want to think about John Key and porn at the same time.
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Russell Brown,
men want their women sexy, but not TOO sexy, and there really is no balance a woman can achieve because the goal posts are forever shifting.
Critique the media and society by all means -- but could you not insist on informing me what I "want"?
It's even worse than that. Not only are they telling all men what they want, they are also telling all women to give up and that the only point of the effort in the first place was to satisfy men!?!?
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When I was working at The University of Arizona it happened to be the year after the wildcats had won the NCAA. The stadium was always packed for the games and as a very very special going away present my lab got me one ticket to see a live game.
The same year the UofA had an awesome women's volleyball team, my wife and I would wander down to the gym after work and stroll in to watch one of their games along with about 100 other folk.
It was the same at Texas A&M where the 77000 seat stadium would be packed to watch their quite average football team and the women's basketball team played to 500 people on a good day.
My guess is there is simply something primal about watching testosterone loaded boys and men compete in feats of strength and skill that just doesn't resonate the same way when it's women competing, despite the fact that the skill level can easily be as high or higher. I can't think of anything else that makes sense. Because really we don't live in a society that is as sexist as the sports reporting would indicate, sport seems to be several orders of magnitude more sexist than the rest of society.
However in NZ we have the added factor that to get a job reporting sport in NZ you must have the personal cell phone number of at least half of the All Blacks and must submit at least two All Black stories per week, regardless of whether they are actually playing.
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
they’re too fucking spineless
They're not spineless, it's just that they want power and they know that open honest opinions will offend some people who might otherwise vote for them.
We select politicians based on popularity so we get people who become expert at being popular with the largest number of voters possible. They will say whatever needs to be said at the time and if necessary will say the exact opposite the next day. The not being spineless, that's politics in NZ.
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to giovanni tiso,
he has opinions
No he doesn't - not until there is a poll that tells him which opinion is most popular. Which doesn't make him much different to any other politician it's just he's more obvious/unsubtle about it.