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Rastien

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Well comparing MLP to adventure time isn't fair really.

*toss's incendary forum bomb and runs*
Adventure time has more developed characters and is far better written.

Jokes aside

Double standards is a bloody dangerous thing to discuss, but a classic example.

Why do men always leave the toilet seat up why can't they put it down!.

Why do women always leave the toilet seat down why can't they put it up!.
 

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Vault101 said:
when I was in highschool (all girls) the world of sex and all that because VERY confusing

being a "slut" is bad....but being "fridged" is also bad?

its ok for guys to sleep around but when girls do its bad?

wait...having sex is "good" but it can also be bad and somthing to be ridiculed for and can get you lebelled a slut? YOUR the slut not him?.

...waaaaaahhh?
The best thing I've heard to describe this was "A key that opens many locks is a good key, a lock that is opened by many keys is a shitty lock"
 

axlryder

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Jiffex said:
Vault101 said:
when I was in highschool (all girls) the world of sex and all that because VERY confusing

being a "slut" is bad....but being "fridged" is also bad?

its ok for guys to sleep around but when girls do its bad?

wait...having sex is "good" but it can also be bad and somthing to be ridiculed for and can get you lebelled a slut? YOUR the slut not him?.

...waaaaaahhh?
The best thing I've heard to describe this was "A key that opens many locks is a good key, a lock that is opened by many keys is a shitty lock"
There's also "To be a stud, you have to be witty, charming, well-dressed, have nice shoes and a fake job. To be a slut, you just have to be there". Really, I think society's whole view on sex is pretty off, but that's just me.
 

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fedefrasis said:
Doble standard: Atractive females can't rape men.
Yup, I'm guilty of this one too. I think we had a case with a hot nanny and a 14 year old we discussed here at The Escapist last year...
Also, [youtube]ejvyDn1TPr8[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejvyDn1TPr8

I don't understand the video tag here. Why couldn't this have a normal forum interface?
You know, with pretty buttons that trigger forum code inserts...
The tag here is:
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I wish it was the other way too, but not beyond that its fine.
 

MetalDooley

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Gender double standards are always stupid.For example..

Guys hire stripper - Sleazy and demeaning to women
Girls hire stripper - A bit of harmless fun

Guy hits girl - He's a bastard
Girl hits guy - He deserved it for being a bastard

Guy sleeps with underage girl - He's an evil Peado who should be locked up/castrated/killed
Girl sleeps with underage guy -
 

ToastiestZombie

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rhizhim said:
ToastiestZombie said:
So, we've all seen them and we've all HATED them. Double standards, the "I am fine with someone doing something, but I don't want another person to do the same thing" sort of logic. The ones that basically just piss you off at the stupidity of them, since well they are almost always just hypocrites and people who want to defend what them and them alone like.

Here's a controversial one to kick off the thread. How if an Adventure Time/Regular Show fan goes on a thread or post about ponies and say there show is better, nobody complains. Yet when a brony goes on an Adventure Time/Regular Show thread or post and says that they prefer MLP, then BAM they're a ****** brony shoving their shit down people's faces. It's also fine for people to come onto pony threads and posts, show the rule 34/my little holocaust pictures and denounce all bronies as pathetic lifeforms who should all die. When nobody ever goes on Adventure Time/Regular Show threads and post their rule 34/weird shit side and denounce all their fans as pathetic lifeforms who should die. This just pisses me off since well, the only reason I can think it happens is because they don't like seeing "girly" ponies. Also, I'll believe the argument that bronies shove MLP down people's faces WHEN people stop going onto purely pony related threads and posting hate, shoving it down the brony's faces. But alas, it's much easier to hate than to like something, that's what life is like something and you can't change that.
because everyone knows they are evil
Not only ponies are evil though... (Just having a bit of fun, I'm not taking this seriously)

 

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Main one i can think of is sentencing for drug related offences. Ordinary Joe from round the corner gets caught with a bag of cocaine in his bag - 5 years in jail. Celebrity Carl gets caught for the umpteenth time after passing out behind the wheel, ploughing into a wall and falling out the door with enough coke on his face he looks like he's been flour bombed - 6 months, out in 14 days.

Celebrities get away with blue murder when it comes to drugs. Was there not a celebrity that served less than 48hrs of their sentence before release? When famous people are not punished to the same degree as ordinary people it sends a message that drug use isn't that bad, and that if you're famous you get treated differently, that needs to change. Celebrities should receive the same length of time anyone else would, if not more to send the message that drug use will land you in jail for a long time
 

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ToastiestZombie said:
Sweet holy mother of god that's horrifying!
..........
Got any of Jake or Marceline? ^_^
 

ToastiestZombie

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anthony87 said:
ToastiestZombie said:
Sweet holy mother of god that's horrifying!
..........
Got any of Jake or Marceline? ^_^
Wait a sec, gonna do a quick google search. Funny how much creepy fanart gets done of the most innocent of things...



Also, to round it out, here's a creepy MLP drawing.
The art's very good imo, still horrifying though.
 

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Helmholtz Watson said:
Shawn MacDonald said:
Helmholtz Watson said:
Shawn MacDonald said:
Vault101 said:
Shawn MacDonald said:
really want you to see how guys can see it as being shameful. All guys don't think this way(myself included) but some do. Most of the time in porno, women are being degraded. Paying them to have sex on screen, but it is not always just that. After all there are pornos where the guy tries to to see how far he can shove his member down her throat as she gags for air. Really gross ones where all the men beat off into a cup, then the women drinks about a pint of semen. Don't think it's wrong for a women to enjoy sex, but the simple act of penetration is where guys start judging them. Of course it's not hard to see why. Some woman has had sex in every hole and some guy finds out about it, he tends to put her on a lower standard if he is not dating her.
but this has nothing to do with porn..I'm talking about real life...they are very different

yeah the natural reaction to somone who sleeps around and apears to have little self worth is negatve <-and mabye theres a correlation there (just going by anecdotal evidence)

but then people can be into all kinds of things, if they want to indulge whatever then thats their thing..regardless of gender
Really isn't that different. Alot of men have shaped their opinions of women through porno. Make it a point to tell me that we don't get influenced by what we see because it is not real life. Pretty much everyone on the planet has been influenced by some other means that may not ring true in the world around them.
.....I...I don't know what to say to somebody that takes their social ques from porno.
Really don't know what to say to someone who thinks I was talking about myself. After all, read what I wrote dumbass. Many people on this site keep doing this, I didn't say I felt that way know did I smart guy?
Then who are your referring to? Seriously, who are you referring to? Do you have friends that do this?
Porn and the affect it has on people can really be quite disturbing and may become a huge problem in the future.
This video goes over the effects very well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zif0_60b3WU

On topic: It annoys me when, in a videogame, after you're done genocideing the villains guards you get a moral choice about killing the main villain themselves.

Advance Wars Duel Strike must be the all time worst case of this, but I'm sure there are plenty of others.
 

ToastiestZombie

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Stemer said:
I agree, that annoys me as well. Here's an example I can think off.
All throughout ME2 and ME3 you kill hundreds of Cerberus soldiers who probably don't want to fight much. Yet when you finally get the chance to kill their leader, it's renegade for you to kill him. Dafuq!
 

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Muspelheim said:
Homosexuality is wrong, because it says so in the Bible. Abominable, even. Harrumpf!

It also says in the Bible that you're not allowed to wear clothes made out of two different materials. Oh, that's just a metaphore or something, don't bother...
I was thinking something similar along the lines of wanting the freedom to practice and talk about your religion openly, but for two men or women engaging in consensual intimacy to hide away/ change who they are/ die, etc. |:
 

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Came into this thread purely out of curiosity over how long it would take to derail into arguments about sexism/gender warfare.

Found it derailed into an argument about ponies almost immediately.

Should've seen it coming, really. All we need is some kind of Ponies/Sexism super post and it'll consume the website.
 

ToastiestZombie

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BloatedGuppy said:
Came into this thread purely out of curiosity over how long it would take to derail into arguments about sexism/gender warfare.

Found it derailed into an argument about ponies almost immediately.

Should've seen it coming, really. All we need is some kind of Ponies/Sexism super post and it'll consume the website.
Well, only a few posts were about ponies. The rest were good, OP abiding posts.
 

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"Hey, that is a double standard! Only women are allowed to get upset about double standards!" ~ Liz Lemon (30 Rock)
 

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That if a guy who is physically a lot smaller than me starts a fight with me and I punch him, the guy deserved it. If a woman who is a lot smaller than me starts a fight with me and I punch her, I'm basically a serial-killer.

Also, slut-shaming. That shit is irritating: if people enjoy sex and they're doing it in a safe environment and taking all the precautions that are necessary, what's so wrong about it? I understand that it's generally easier for women to get laid than men, but why does ease make it less acceptable?
 

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People take money out of their wallets all the time, but when I take money out of their wallets, they get all mad and punchy. SO NOT FAIR. If they can do it why can't I?
 

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malestrithe said:
the Kinect, it is called an innovative device
Has anyone ever really said that, though?

Oh Tea: My point is actually the same as yours, mate; when I was still at school, everyone looked down on people who played anything other than CoD or Fifa, because it meant that if you played anything other than those two mainstream titles, you were "addicetd", and had no life whatsoever. Then, these people went and either watched Television for hours on end, or played fucking CoD or Fifa!

Edit: It actually just occurred to me. A little while ago, before I deleted my Facebook Account, I a girl I had on my "Friends" List, for some reason, tried to argue with me. She said I was a geek who had no life at all, because I play Vidya and like Sci-fi. When you looked at her profile, though, for the last three weeks or so, she'd made over 50 updates a day.

I'm not kdding. I wish I was. That's over one thousand and fifty posts. In three weeks.

wat
 

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A Raging Emo said:
malestrithe said:
the Kinect, it is called an innovative device
Has anyone ever really said that, though?

Oh Tea: My point is actually the same as yours, mate; when I was still at school, everyone looked down on people who played anything other than CoD or Fifa, because it meant that if you played anything other than those two mainstream titles, you were "addicetd", and had no life whatsoever. Then, these people went and either watched Television for hours on end, or played fucking CoD or Fifa!
I've been a part of these pro kinect discussions before. Admittedly, my experience is limited and it could be called a hyperactive baby toy by most.

I was just reminded of something else that annoys me.

Star Wars for Kinect is essentially a officially licensed Star Wars fanservice project, but it gets shitted upon because Lucas gave his blessing for it. This is bad, but the same stuff can appear on Robot Chicken, youtube or a million other video sites and it is applauded.

I'm Han Solo is terrible, but not any worse than other things I've seen over the last decade.
 

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Buretsu said:
Everytime someone uses Freedom of Religion to force others to follow their beliefs.
Yeah this sort of thing.

This springs to mind:


And there are an absolute ton of double standards in the boss/employee dynamic.