These posters have been plastered around my school for the past week now. Am I the solution?

femdelusion · 2013-09-28T20:21:30+00:00

Violence against women is telling sexist jokes, controlling and belittling her, judging her by how she looks.

By that standard, 83% of 'violence against women' is carried out by women's magazines.

I don't understand why these people expect to be taken seriously. You can call a tomato a 'bassoon' if you want, but if you blow it, you won't get Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B-flat Major; you'll just get pips flying everywhere. Imagine the embarrassment if you at the Royal Albert Hall, and you covered the woodwind section in pips. I'm only thinking of you guys here. You need to be saved from yourselves.

2013-09-29T01:33:59+00:00

So... 75% (or 66%) of men have never, ever, in their entire lives, judged a woman by her looks?

God damn. Men are fucking saints.

EvilPundit · 2013-09-28T20:21:29+00:00

The 3rd one really does expand the definition of violence. I'm almost surprised sticking your tongue out isn't on there.

SentientRobot · 2013-09-28T23:14:26+00:00

Poster 1 says 25% chance. Poster 2 says 1 in 3. Which is it?

Ding_batman · 2013-09-29T00:33:10+00:00

They don't understand stats at all. They put a qualifier at the beginning, it says,

For most guys...

So by that I take it they mean 50.0001% (or maybe they mean 90%, but seriously who the fuck knows?) of guys have a 25% likelihood of committing violence against women. Meaning they believe 1 in 8 men will commit violence against women, I guess that is better than 1 in 4 which is supposedly what they are peddling.

As for sexist jokes = violence against women, seriously? This pretty much means "why did the chicken cross the road?" jokes are out, as all chickens are female. From now on it must be "Why did the non-gender-specific poultry cross the road?" (A) "To get away from these shitty posters."

katorce · 2013-09-29T09:40:03+00:00

99,9% of traffic accidents the driver wasn't wearing driving gloves.

EvilPundit · 2013-09-28T20:03:32+00:00

You are the solution if you print sticky labels with counterpoints, and put them on the posters.

notnotnotfred · 2013-09-28T20:40:50+00:00

is this high school, jr high, or university?

Funcuz · 2013-09-29T01:29:43+00:00

At the very least , see if you can get somebody in the math department to provide a solution to what is clearly a failure on the part of the system.

1/3 isn't quite the same as %25. Yes...they're close but not the same.

HolySchmoly · 2013-09-29T05:32:48+00:00

"Judging her by how she looks is violence against women".

Let's consider that. She presents herself in a way that is clearly designed to draw the male gaze. Then she complains that anyone judging her by how she looks is committing violence.

When you wake up from this nightmare remember to get angry.

2013-09-29T01:06:05+00:00

That last one is capital 'R' retarded. I know full well what word I used.

hierophage · 2013-09-29T03:24:44+00:00

If saying mean things to someone is violence, then there is a worldwide epidemic of violence against all people at an unfathomable scale. But let's just focus on mean things said to women by men.

Ivan_Fackoff · 2013-09-29T06:01:12+00:00

Yes I would post some corrections if I ware you. Especially that last one. It begs for correction.

vi·o·lence

Behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something

WodensEye · 2013-09-29T14:12:17+00:00

It`s a misdirection to say that if 1 in 4 women are assaulted by their partners, that 1 in 4 men (25%) will assault their partners. This is to assume that every man who is abusive is only abusive to one person. Are abusive men that monogamous and committed to their relationships?

***This is just taking their stats as they are, not bothering to challenge them.

M4Strings · 2013-09-29T16:46:37+00:00

Oh look, posters that throw around statistics without any study to back them up.

Violence against women is telling sexist jokes, controlling and belittling her, judging her by how she looks.

So even if I tell a joke that's sexist against men, it's still violence towards women? Fuck that, I'll tell sexist jokes all I want when I want, because for a lot of people, jokes are the only way to openly deal with otherwise taboo topics, like sexism, racism, rape, ect... If someone is being stupid I'm going to say "Hey, stop acting like your momma dropped you", but I suppose that's "belittling" them. And of course if a woman dresses in shorts that her ass hangs out of, her tits are falling out of her top, and she's painted up like a whoreish clown then I'm going to think "yeah, she's a hoe". If she doesn't want to be thought of or treated like a hoe, then she shouldn't dress like a hoe.

2013-09-28T21:40:38+00:00

Hell, when I first started college, that whole Proposition 8 thing in CA was going on. Some people started posting 'Yes on 8' posters all over campus, which was infuriating.

So what else does an angry bisexual do, but color that shit Skittle-style with some rainbow paint? Yeah, I also left behind some custom posters detailing Yes on 8's misinformation campaign, but with posters like the ones at your school, sometimes a step further really is required.

SamTheEnglishTeacher · 2013-09-29T18:48:19+00:00

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Title	These posters have been plastered around my school for the past week now. Am I the solution?
Author	brasscaribou
Upvotes	85
Comments	57
Date	September 28, 2013 7:57 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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