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| Snaked_Snake:
Oh boy here we go again http://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/style/woman-complains-to-asda-over-boys-will-be-boys-jumper/ar-BBBeldB?li=AAnZ9Ug&ocid=mailsignout "A woman has accused Asda of perpetuating “damaging” stereotypes by selling a child’s jumper emblazoned with the slogan “boys will be boys”. She wrote - in an apparently now deleted Facebook post - that the jumper was problematic because it perpetuated the stereotype that men can get away with offensive or misogynistic behaviour by using the age-old slogan, reports the Mail Online. “Look I get it,” she wrote. “Most people say this and don’t mean any harm by it. But boys having their behaviour excused like this from an early age – this message of being above the rules, it sticks. " |
| Electrk.:
--- Quote from: Snaked_Snake on May 17, 2017, 01:27:49 PM ---Oh boy --- End quote --- excuse u |
| Alteration:
--- Quote from: Snaked_Snake on May 17, 2017, 01:27:49 PM ---the jumper was problematic because it perpetuated the stereotype that men can get away with offensive or misogynistic behaviour by using the age-old slogan, reports the Mail Online. “Look I get it,” she wrote. “Most people say this and don’t mean any harm by it. But boys having their behaviour excused like this from an early age – this message of being above the rules, it sticks. " --- End quote --- Oh yeah man. My legal defense after doing typical male activities like catcalling, manspreading, and raping women is "boys will be boys". Gets me off the hook every time. |
| Poliwhirl:
she articulated pretty clearly why she doesnt like the phrase due to its potential harmful effects while also acknowledging that they probably didnt mean any harm by it, im not sure what the problem is. at any rate, though, she's right. tolerating and excusing bad behavior from children on the basis that that's how other kids act too is explicitly a bad thing. |
| Maxwell.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFpYj0E-yb4 |
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