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By greenhatcat • 16 years ago

Twix Presents: How to lie your way into her bed

In my search to find out what candy is vegetarian, I stumbled on Twix’s website. Imagine my delight when I saw that their main attraction was not delicious chocolaty goodness but an instruction manual for how to “Get The Girl”. I was straightaway impressed with how quickly they were able to use the branding-women-as-property bit, but Twix soon showed me that they have their sexist stereotypes down pat!

Their “Interactive Love Story, Sort of” is about getting Our Guy (a lughead who clearly exemplifies that all men have only one thing on their minds) to get past Bruce and Francois (who, as other men, pose a terrible threat) to win over Deborah (A politically inclined yet gullible woman).  The fun all starts at a party, where Deborah is talking to Our Guy about her political views while Our Guy hardly looks at her above the neck and nods along with whatever she’s saying. Deborah, mistaking his agreement for actual comprehension, starts to seem interested. This is, of course, when Our Guy asks her to go to his apartment (Surprise! All men want is sex!) and Deborah gets offended.
By greenhatcat • 17 years ago

Abstinence always works?

Hi, all. This is my first post 😀 (though I’ve commented on things a few times). Part of me hates to make it a rant, but part of me loves it.

So, a few days ago I saw something that really made my blood boil. I was in the car, coming back from Costco, when I saw a giant orange billboard with nothing written on it but "Abstinence always works" in huge block letters. I normally don’t get riled up too much by things like that, but for some reason I was really infuriated this time. It seemed so ridiculous to me, this billboard put up on a random urban street somewhere that was spewing this… lie. I can’t think of ...

Hi, all. This is my first post 😀 (though I’ve commented on things a few times). Part of me hates to make it a rant, but part of me loves it.

So, a few days ago I saw ...