(It got cut off but it says "Every guy who is tired of hearing how cute and wonderful jgl is".)
I thought this was relevant to this blog's interests because "turning racist" (really misogynist) and/or getting involved with a racist band was obviously such a huge turning point, and was part of what created this blog and drawing everyone here. I also thought it was really funny.
But thank you JGL fans. For introducing me to a little movie called Brick. It was a masterpiece. I just watched Stop Loss recently and he was really good in that too.
Happy new year (sorry it's late) and I hope everyone is having a great year!
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«Oldest ‹Older 2001 – 2200 of 2256 Newer› Newest»You know what, 11:53? When someone acts stupid, I'm going to tell them they are acting stupid.
For instance, people defending Gerard are saying that we are expecting "special" treatment by not wanting men to call us cunts. Yet you turn around and use the argument that we should accept the beliefs and opinions of all "sister women" -- even when we think those opinions are stupid, just because they are the opinions of another female.
Don't you see the flawed logic and hypocrisy there? You are asking for special treatment, just by virtue of the fact that you have a vagina.
Think about it.
I wonder if chicken arm cared about the 'sting' in her band's music when she jumped about on stage grinning and playing along to a load of racial slurs and songs about child rape. I doubt it!
It really gets me how some of you act so informed and so outraged by the use of a word when there are countries where women are raped as a form of punishment for crimes such as not being home when her husband gets home or for going out alone.
When women in Africa still have their cunts butchered so sex will always be so painful that will make them less likely to cheat on their husbands.
In a world where governments still sanction gang rape and stoning women to death as a means of justice.
Get some fucking perspective.
Oh sure, we should respect Lindsey's opinion that she's a role model because she can hold a bass and do a backbend while her bandmate sings about child rape...because she is our sister woman. She can't possibly be wrong, because she has a VAGINA!
If you can't come up with something better than that, I suggest you go back to the drawing board.
Dstarpro, if you're going to log out, please learn to blend more.
Nothing like releasing the cheapshit budget video for your new single a week early to distract from the fact that your lead singer's just made a complete sexist idiot of himself over twitter!
Ah, the argument that there are "far worse forms of misogyny in the world, so you should let this one go".
Yeah. Heard that before. It doesn't hold water. Never has, never will.
Why don't you keep defending Gerard until he has another freak out and hits a girl next time? Then you can 'get some perspective' when you see his nasty-ass drunken mugshot all over the gossip media.
You know, guys, no one's as bad as Hitler was, so you should just shut up about anything else.
You are choosing the battle that will do the least good in the war.
Why?
Because of your personal hatred of some rock star?
Because said rock star let you down?
Not a good enough excuse.
Not by a long shot.
You're fighting a word when women are being brutalized and murdered all over the world every second of every day.
Do any of think those women would care about being called a cunt?
The women who are being gang raped in front of their children and being mutilated?
They don't care about words.
What they care about and what they want is action.
They want help.
They need help and here you are arguing about the offensiveness of a damn word.
What in the world makes you think this is the only battle we fight, 12:15?
And another thing, if you think this is such a stupid battle, then why are you here fighting with us?
You really haven't thought this through very well, have you?
Call them cunts. Call them bitches. Call them stupid. Call them idiots.
Belittle them in any way you want.
It won't work.
It won't ge them down.
None of those words can hurt them because they know they are so much more than the sum of their parts or what other people think of them.
So let me get this straight. If a woman objects to being called something vile, then she's somehow less worthy than the lot of you who think that degrading words are just fine? We should just 'suck it up" and take it?
I'd love to see you go up to a POC and tell them to "suck it up" and "just not care" when they get called degrading words. Or go up to a LGBT person and tell them "suck it up, you're obviously not strong enough to take those words."
Oh wow. It's times like this that I wish ignorance was painful. Like, that you could actually feel it, you know?
Typical VV responses.
Troll. Dstarpro. Jessika. MCRmy.
Nevermind the merits of the arguments.
What they care about and what they want is action.
They want help.
They need help and here you are arguing about the offensiveness of a damn word.
Oh, gosh, this is one of my favorites. "You object to women being degraded verbally, so by my logic, you must not care about anything else.
I don't even get how you go from one idea to the other. It must take some kind of logic short-out that I've just never understood.
No one was talking about people of color or the N word Kapunua.
Way to deflect.
That "word" symbolizes everything bad that has ever been done to women.
Now, why don't you stop talking about the use of the c-word and talk about a grown man acting like a teenage bully and threatening to smash in faces on the internet? Did you forget about that?
Actually 12:18, you've gotten a lot of responses that call out your lack of logic. You're just not acknowledging them because you know how it makes you look.
Deflect.
lol
Nevermind the merits of the arguments.
LMAO. Like any of your arguments have actually had any merit?
Get real. Like Kapunua said, too bad ignorant doesn't hurt. You would be in a world of pain.
And another thing, if you think this is such a stupid battle, then why are you here fighting with us?
Because I can see the big picture and I feel like wasting some time trying to point you in the right direction.
This is my charity blog duty of the week.
if you think this is such a stupid battle, then why are you here fighting with us?
Why haven't you answered this question yet, 12:15?
You would be so much worse off than me 12:22.
So would she.
Are you going to call me a cunt now?
I know you're thinking it.
Because I can see the big picture and I feel like wasting some time trying to point you in the right direction.
Big picture, my ass. You are so blinded by your loyalty to Gerard Way, I doubt you can see your hand when it's right in front of your face.
They need help and here you are arguing about the offensiveness of a damn word.
It makes it even more offensive that a man in his 30's made that comment to a young girl. I guess if someone called you daughter that , i guess it wouldn't bother you.
12:22 is so much better for thinking but not saying cunt.
No, I'm not going to call you a bad word, 12:26. I feel nothing but pity for you.
12:22 is so much better for thinking but not saying cunt.
I don't get angry over things people say to me on the internet, and I never even consider using the c-word. It's just not in my vocabulary.
Sorry to disappoint.
Or very strong, self confident, self assured women who just don't give a fuck about what anyone else thinks about them.
If that is the case and you are so very strong and confident, then why do you care what we say about you beloved Gerard? I'm sure he doesn't give a fuck.
To all of the MCR defenders on this blog, answer me this. What do you think of a 33 year old man threatening to "smash in" the face of a young girl?
I want to know what you think about that. Forget the c-word argument for a sec.
Off topic.
You know what i think is really funny in a sad way?
The MCR fangirls who follow 3 wives but not all 4.
Whether the 4th not followed one is Jamia, Lyndsey, Christa or Alicia.
That's just too sad and obvious.
Either follow all 4 wives or follow none of them.
What
does that have to do
with anything?
Seriously, can you please stop typing like that?
If you look at some of those @replies it's so obvious who wants to fuck Frank, who wants to fuck Gerard, who wants to fuck Mikey, and who wants to fuck Ray.
Okay. Wow.
I was coming here to say that I brought home a copy of Mysterious Skin today and I hope I don't regret watching it.
But maybe it's a bad time. :/
I don't really care who wants to fuck who. I never thought of the band that way.
Black.
People.
Should.
Just.
Suck.
Up.
Racism.
And.
Deal.
With.
It.
The.
Same.
Goes.
For.
Rape.
Victims.
And.
Anyone.
Not.
In.
MCR.
I.
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Pretending.
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Be.
Dstarpro.
By.
The.
Way.
LMAO. Good one, 12:47.
I don't think it was dstarpro, but I do think it was one or more of her South American friends. Probably _nathy or Yekith.
What do you think of a 33 year old man threatening to "smash in" the face of a young girl?
I thought it was a grown woman he said that to.
Siobhan.
I would say he needs to take some anger management and domestic abuse classes.
I can't get too mad at either of those girls. I do feel really bad for them.
Reading that type is just fuckin annoying.
Factual statement.
Gerard needs to go home, drink some green tea and have a wank. Then go back on tour and suck up whatever's set his little teenage temper tantrum off. He's making a mockery of himself with this horseshit.
Either that or he needs to get back on the antidepressants. A 'chill pill', if you will.
I would hope that anger and violence does not follow him home.
One thing is clear. GW is not a happy man. No matter how much he's trying to convince the world and himself that he is.
He is troubled and he needs help.
Ya'll don't know how much work being rich, white and male is. Stop bothering the man! He had to go away to work for a whole eight weeks. Not even men in the army have it that bad!
He needs more than green tea, a wank and chill pills this time.
He's on the edge.
Maybe if he wanks in the tea and then gargles it will help repair his fucking blasted vocal chords before the next leg of the tour. He sounds like a dying lamb.
If the fangirls in the US want to see MCR on tour this spring they better get off their asses and give GW the slaps he needs to wake him up. Brian's not around to do it this time and I'm afraid there won't be a tour if they don't.
It really gets me how some of you act so informed and so outraged by the use of a word when there are countries where women are raped as a form of punishment for crimes such as not being home when her husband gets home or for going out alone.
When women in Africa still have their cunts butchered so sex will always be so painful that will make them less likely to cheat on their husbands.
In a world where governments still sanction gang rape and stoning women to death as a means of justice.
Get some fucking perspective
I have never read more stupidity coming from one person on one blog by someone so blinded by their own ignorance.
I have spoken to many people who have migrated from these countries and I can tell you that the women in those countries are depicted in those terms regularly, and are in turn thought of as less than breeding cattle.
Apart from not being respected they are considered mere chattels to their husbands and families and have to abide by a rigid set of codes to led their lives.
Do you really think that "reclaiming" a word dilutes it's power as a slur, because if that was the case it would not even be considered a word to be censored by the media and upheld as a slur word by the judiciary.
Attitudes generally begin from words used to describe people and slur word such as the c word are designed to reinforce it.
Do you also think the people on this blog are privileged? I think you should move to South America and try to get an experience as a female there. It might give you more perspective.
Many of the women here are priviledged, like the one who said her daughter will earn a hundred thousand dollars before she is 30.
How is that not priviledged when women in other countries have no such prospects.
I've been there. Friends of mine have been there.
I've been there with friends.
Maybe you should get off your sanctimonious ass and spend some time there.
The word cunt is no more offensive in the African language than pussy, vagina, dick or penis.
It means nothing to them. It's all the same. Just words used to describe external sex organs.
It's not privilege, it's EDUCATION.
The word cunt is no more offensive in the African language than pussy, vagina, dick or penis.
Um...which African language are you talking about?
Women in other countries would consider themselves lucky to earn $20 a month.
But don't try to tell that to the sheltered, privileged women here who think that they know it all and would stoop to calling those woman stupid idiots.
How is that not priviledged when women in other countries have no such prospects.
Why would you give a c any privileges to be an equal?
Women in other countries would consider themselves lucky to earn $20 a month.
But don't try to tell that to the sheltered, privileged women here who think that they know it all and would stoop to calling those woman stupid idiots.
When did anyone here call women in those unfortunate circumstances idiots?
Now you're just pulling shit out of your ass.
They refuse to acknowledge the fact that are still countries out there where women have no opportunity.
None.
Where women aren't even allowed to go to school and learn to read and write.
Where women have no other option but to find a man and marrying him because that is their culture and their way of life.
Stupid stupid women in other places who do that and who aren't offended by the c word.
Like they really care about a word.
I've been there. Friends of mine have been there.
I've been there with friends.
Maybe you should get off your sanctimonious ass and spend some time there.
No you haven't.
No one here does not acknowledge that these issues occur, 1:37. Where are you getting that nonsense? And what in the world does any of that have to do with the use of the c-word?
Talk about deflecting.
Okay, let's talk 'bout words. I want you to walk to your local black community club/bar/shopping district/whatever and start yelling racial slurs.
Let's see if you're still around to come back and tell us that they didn't care that much.
If you call it a privilege to get an education and have the opportunity to earn a decent standard of living then I'm privileged. I also have gratitude to live in a country that allows these opportunities and still upholds the c word as a slur.
Wow, you just keep right on pulling shit out of your ass.
Your logic is so faulty it's almost comical.
There's always a certain type who doesn't feel that the c-word is offensive to women as well -- ignorant, self-hating women who think that the most important thing in the world is "getting" a man.
The ones who can't really take care of themselves, usually. The ones who will base their self-worth on their ability to attract men, but who won't realize until it's too late that men don't always live up to their promises and that, ultimately, women are responsible for themselves.
I feel very sorry for you, 6:29.
March 21, 2011 7:42 AM
I also have gratitude to live in a country that allows these opportunities and still upholds the c word as a slur.
I second that!
The single most offensive thing I've ever read here.
What a completely uneducated opinion from 7:42 AM.
They refuse to acknowledge the fact that are still countries out there where women have no opportunity.
None.
Where women aren't even allowed to go to school and learn to read and write.
Where women have no other option but to find a man and marrying him because that is their culture and their way of life.
Stupid stupid women in other places who do that and who aren't offended by the c word.
Like they really care about a word.
You can't generalize. I'm sure many of them do and try to fight it in their own way. You just don't hear much about it.
I made that statement, and if you are implying that it was directed at women in countries who have no other choice in life than to be married off, you are sadly mistaken.
No cigar for you.
Uneducated and insensitive to other countries, cultures., and other women.
The single most offensive thing I've ever read here.
If that's the case, then you must be one of those women who thinks your only purpose in life is to get a man. Are you the person who comes here and calls us "cat ladies" and says we are jealous of Lindsey because we can't "get a man"?
Seriously who cares about the pair? He cannot go around slurring a group of teenage girls to impress his dingbat wife. There is absolutely no justification for it.
It's obvious from the wording of 7:42's comment that she wasn't talking about women in Africa or the Middle East. She was talking about women who make the choice to live off a man.
Did you even read it?
12:49, my name begins with an "S", but I'm definitely not Siobhan.
The single most offensive thing I've ever read here.
What a completely uneducated opinion from 7:42 AM.
Do you think your only purpose in life is to get a man, 1:42? Is that why you found that comment so offensive?
When women in Africa still have their cunts butchered so sex will always be so painful that will make them less likely to cheat on their husbands.
You really don't know anything about this culture. The horrible practice of Female circumcision is considered a part of their social custom as it curbs "nature" and many mothers who have undergone the process themselves have their daughters go through the same thing as they consider it their duty.
I'm still waiting for 1:26 to tell me which African language she was talking about, seeing as how she knows so much about Africa, having been there and all...
Where women have no other option but to find a man and marrying him because that is their culture and their way of life.
Stupid stupid women in other places who do that and who aren't offended by the c word.
Like they really care about a word.
How can you care about a word when you already think that you are less than what you really are?
Your argument is going nowhere 2:02. You aren't even making a point. You're just babbling incoherently.
No one here has ever called the women from countries that enslave women stupid, 2:02. No one except for you.
The only one I'm calling stupid is the one who insists that we are to preoccupied with the c word.
No one here has ever called the women from countries that enslave women stupid, 2:02. No one except for you.
Read the comment properly. I implied no such thing.
Your argument is going nowhere 2:02. You aren't even making a point. You're just babbling incoherently.
I consider you very ignorant.
So what, were you quoting someone else, or was the "stupid stupid women" thing meant to be sarcastic?
Regardless, your comment didn't make a lot of sense.
Sorry if I mis-read your intent, but I still think it needs clarifying.
Sorry - I think I missed something? Where did Gerard have this outburst? Can I see somewhere?
Kinda have to agree, I didn't understand what 2:02 was trying to say either. :/
I was quoting the other person that was trying to distort our arguments.
Okay, sorry. You might want to use quotation marks or italics for quotes so it's not so confusing.
I actually thought you were the op. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
I don't find the word cunt offensive at all. It's simply a word, nothing more. This is because I respect myself, and if someone ever calls me that,or anything else, fuck 'em. I'm too busy to give a shit what some idiot thinks of me. I'm with the person who says there are far worse things going on in the world to women. My sympathies and energies are with them, not a four letter word.
Just out of interest...can we say our ages, and if we find that word upsetting? It will be intersting to see if there's a theme?
31 - NO
Regardless of how you feel about the c-word, I think that threatening violence is going too far. I'm far more upset over that than the use of the c-word.
20 - When used by a man, yes.
Why not by a woman? That's interesting.
45
YES
I was trying to say if you accept your station in life as deemed by your culture and subconsciously consider yourself secondary, words like this would have not as much impact as opposed to people who see themselves differently and refuse to see a slur other what is is designed to be, an insult.
Why not by a woman? That's interesting.
I guess I should clarify. It's the intent behind the word that bothers me. If it's used as a term of endearment (which it can be), it doesn't bother me at all. I've had friends call me a dumb cunt in a joking manner, with no ill intent, and it doesn't bother me.
But if a man called me that, I would take it as a sexist remark and I would be offended.
Ah. I agree with that, 2:33.
I think that's why the more educated a woman is, the more likely she is to be offended by the word.
45 Yes
26 Yes
Regardless of how you feel about the c-word, I think that threatening violence is going too far. I'm far more upset over that than the use of the c-word.
My views are once you start with the c word then the mindset to think violently towards people considered c's, would be a natural consequence.
My views are once you start with the c word then the mindset to think violently towards people considered c's, would be a natural consequence.
Absolutely agree. It's like the n-word. People who throw that around are much more likely to commit hate crimes against black people than people who don't.
Also, when kids are brought up hearing hate language, it has an effect on the way they perceive the objects of it. Little boys who hear their fathers use the c-word are more likely to disrespect women.
I'm 38. I don't like it when women use the word jokingly, but as I said before, it does not carry the same weight as when a man says it - especially when it's said to demean and degrade.
It's the same way that LGBT community can use slurs against each other if they feel like it and if that's okay between them. And if minorities wish to talk to each other like that. That's obviously something they've acknowledged as all right.
Being from a different world view, I would never, ever presume to be "a part of that" and think it's okay to "take that word back" for them. What an idiotic way to be.
Same goes for men using words to demean women.
I'm 32. I find the c word unacceptable, regardless if a man or woman uses it.
Let me add that although I don't get mad if a fried jokingly calls me a cunt, I don't use the word myself. I was brought up to believe that hate speech is wrong and I would never use that word, knowing that it might possibly offend someone.
*friend, not fried
Lol.
I was brought up to believe that hate speech is wrong and I would never use that word, knowing that it might possibly offend someone.
That's the thing I don't understand about Gerard using it. He has to know that a large portion of women are still offended by it, regardless of how others feel. So why on earth would he use it and knowingly offend many of his fans?
Because he doesn't care whether he offends us or not. He's too 'edgy' to care about little things -- like his fans' feelings.
I think he's trying to impress his crappy friends and wife. I think they are the type of people that find humor in these things.
Because he doesn't care whether he offends us or not. He's too 'edgy' to care about little things -- like his fans' feelings.
So much for all that empathy he's supposed to have.
15
It's just a word so why should I care?
I think that so-called empathy was another thing that Gerard made up.
Even though I don't mind cunt, I don't think Gerard should of threatened that girl. He was being a bully.
It's only a word until you encounter negativity related to yourself as a person because of the word.
I've never been called a cunt. It's just not something people say where I live.
Amy freely used that word at Mayo's to describe the "porchies".
Didn't like it then and don't like it now.
32.
In fact now that I remember it.... Her exact words were 'not afraid to call a c--- a c---."
Hmmm
You really don't hear the word said very often in many parts of the United States. It may be used in really big cities or in the northern states, but not so much in the South or the mid-West.
Amy freely used that word at Mayo's to describe the "porchies".
It was also used to be offensive in that situation and i think she is foul.
I don't know who Amy is, and if she's connected to Mayo's, I don't care.
"Amy freely used that word at Mayo's to describe the "porchies".
It was also used to be offensive in that situation and i think she is foul."
IA, she was one of the worst among many gross people.
Also, IIRC, it was her life's goal to "get a man and get married." Yeah, zero respect.
My dad would use that word in arguments with my mum and i've been called it before a boyfriend. I just don't use the word full stop. My mum always said the worst words anyone could say were cunt and nigger.
I'm 23.
I'm sorry 3:43. :(
I'm sorry 3:43. :(
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Also, IIRC, it was her life's goal to "get a man and get married." Yeah, zero respect."
Yup yup, that was Amy. She said it was her dream to get a ring on her finger and she often made mention of doing that and quitting her minimum wage job.
I think it's interesting that a woman like that, who gives herself one function, had no problem "calling a c--- a c---."
And if you really think about why Amyranth was so upset at the porchies? It was because they had the attention of someone she thought was a man. Someone she thought was Gerard Way, in fact. She said as much on many occasions.
That says a lot about this type of person.
How can anybody just get married and quit a job? I mean, I can maybe see staying home to take care of a child, but what the hell do you do with yourself if you don't work and don't have children?
By the way, I'm not saying that the female parent has to be the one staying home to take care of the child. I think it's fine for a man to do that if the situation is right.
I was a stay at home mom for 12 years, and while in many ways it was very rewarding, I'm glad it's over and I'm working again. The longer I was home and not earning a paycheck, the more dependent I felt. That wasn't a good feeling.
Well that was just Amyranth's thought on it. They lived with her father or something. She talked about how when she FINALLY got that ring on her finger, they'd move out and she'd quit her job. I don't think she was actually making a lot of money since she said it was minimum wage and she wasn't there often.
Whatever, that is how she deals with her life. However I think it says a lot that her biggest gripe was that Mayo (who she thought was THE MAN, GERARD) was paying attention to other women. And that's why, in her words she was calling them the c word.
Did she ever trap her man, er, manage to get that ring on her finger?
This place was more fun a couple of days ago when we were talking about Tom Hardy's dangly bits. :)
42
You're damn right the word bothers me. I've only been called it once.
Years ago, when I was in college, there was a man who stopped to help me when I had a flat tire on the way to work. I made the mistake of telling him where my part-time job was, and afterwards, he started stalking me. He would come to my workplace and hang around, trying to get me to go out with him. I told him no several times, but he wouldn't give up. When I finally got angry enough to tell him to leave me alone and not come back, he said something to the effect of, "Yeah, you were nice to me when your car was broken down on the side of the road, but now you won't give me the time of day, you stupid cunt."
That night, when I left work, I discovered all of my tires had been slashed.
So yeah. One of many reasons why I hate that word.
I think a lot of the people who don't mind the c-word have never been called that by a man.
That's a terrible story 3:30. You're probably lucky that he didn't do something worse.
Most of you are too old to be MCR fans. No wonder CUNT bothers you old CUNTS so much.
You're obviously twelve. Go back to buzznet.
Most of you are too old to be MCR fans. No wonder CUNT bothers you old CUNTS so much.
Yeah i guess we are to old to be fans if we want to have sex with them (YUK)and like have their babies and stuff. When you say stuff like that, it just goes to show you why you like them so much. It can't be for Gerards vocals or his dance skills.^_~
Most of you are too old to be MCR fans. No wonder CUNT bothers you old CUNTS so much
You most obviously are an MCR fan because it's seems the prerequisite to qualify as one nowadays is extreme stupidity.
My dad would use that word in arguments with my mum and i've been called it before a boyfriend. I just don't use the word full stop. My mum always said the worst words anyone could say were cunt and nigger.
I'm 23.
March 21, 2011 3:43 PM
I am so sorry that you witnessed and experienced what you did 3:43.
Don't accept anyone you love using this word against you. It will eat away at your self esteem. No one deserves to be treated that way.
Where did Gerard threaten a girl?
Twitter.
He threatened to "smash in" the face of a girl. Now, like the coward he is, he's disappeared.
I'm 42, female, with two children, 20 & 17, when my son was about 12, I heard him call my daughter the c word, I washed his mouth out with soap. I detest the word, even if it's in jest, I always ask anybody, male or female, not to say it, in my company.
Go home
just the facts
An estimated 1500 languages are spoken in Africa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Africa
A typical day for an African woman
In Africa, women are laden primarily with the task of taking care of the home and raising their children. These roles are quite challenging as there are little or no social amenities and everything has to be done by direct labour.
A typical day of an African woman starts very early in the morning. She wakes up from a mat spread on the floor, folds it and picks up a broom (the broom was hand made from the stem of palm fronds) to sweep the whole house and the surrounding compound. After this she goes to the stream in the company of other women which is usually some kilometers from her house with an earthen pot on her head to fetch water for the household. This time creates an opportunity for the women especially the maidens to talk and gossip about latest happenings in the village.
For others who have fetched water previously, the evening before, they move on to other house chores like washing the dishes. There were no sinks nor running water, so she had to wash them outside. After this she prepares breakfast for the family. She had to do the cooking using fire, wood and earthen cooking pots. Usually, cooking for the typical African woman was not so easy, as she had to fan the flames to fire. Cooking too could entail pounding yam, using mortar and pestle, which is usually strenuous.
http://www.infobarrel.com/7_Reasons_Why_African_Village_Women_Back_Their_Babies
In Africa, most dishes were not complete without chili pepper. What this means is that the woman has to grind the pepper on a specially carved flat stone. Palm oil, another important ingredient in African dishes has to be produced manually. For most of these women, they also had to go to the farm as every household had a farm land to cultivate.
Other household activities varied from one day to another ranging from peeling cassava and soaking, grinding and frying it to make "Garri" one of the Yoruba's common delicacies. Sometimes, she has to smoke the fishes caught since there are no refrigerators for preserving them. Other times she is seen washing clothes at the stream. She has to fetch firewood for cooking in the nearby farm.
Since she is sorely responsible for taking care of the children and there are no toys or crèche to take the children to, her babies have to constantly be under her guide. There were no televisions, not to talk of Barney or cartoons to keep the children busy and her house hold chores had to be done, there has to be a way of combining the two.
The traditional African woman and mother came up with backing their babies. This is a convenient way of bonding, keeping the child from wandering out of sight into danger and still be up and doing with her multitasking job as wife, mother, manufacturer, caretaker, house keeper, cook, small skill business entrepreneur, nurse, teacher, seamstress, gardener and any and everything as occasions demand. No wonder, the African woman prefers backing her baby any day, any time.
I don't want to give MCR another hit on youtube, 7:56. I would appreciate it if you would warn me before you post their videos.
I didn't watch it, by the way. Immediately hit the back button when I saw what it was.
Me too.
Live without pretending, Love without depending, Listen without defending, Speak without offending.
Great advice from Mr Denzel Washington on Twitter.
It's kind of everything GW isn't. How sad.
Celebrities have a choice of whether or not to inspire and encourage their fans. GWay made the wrong choice.
Celebs can be funny on twitter without offending as well...
No, daytime television. I was not hurt on the job or have mesothelioma. I'm just lazy and don't like to leave the house during the day.
2:30 PM Mar 21st via web
Aw, did something happen to burst y'all's MISANDRIST bubble? Positive reaction to the Planetary (GO!) video maybe? Or maybe the fact that MCR are headlining Reading and Leeds?
How does it feel? I bet it BURRRRNS!
Lol.
Have you looked at any of the Reading/Leeds boards? Fans are calling this the worst lineup in the history of the festival, and tickets haven't sold out yet.
And since when do they say "y'all" in England?
Oh, and Planetary (GO!) sounds like a disco song from the 70's (and they stole P!ATD's exclamation point).
Reading and Leeds? Aren't those the same festivals KOL headlined last year?
I hear 30STM are playing this year too. They'll go on right before MCR.
Must be from southern England.
My Chemical Romance will headline Reading on the Friday (August 26) and Leeds on Saturday (August 27) with support from 30 Seconds To Mars, The Offspring, Deftones, Rise Against and Bring Me The Horizon.
The Strokes will co-headline the main stage with Pulp on the Saturday night at Reading and Sunday at Leeds. The National, Jimmy Eat World, Madness, Two Door Cinema Club and Seasick Steve will also appear.
Muse will take to the main stage on the Sunday at Reading, and Friday in Leeds, with Elbow, Interpol, Friendly Fires, Enter Shikari, The View and Frank Turner.
KOL headlined V-Fest last year. They headlined Reading and Leeds two years ago and they're headlining the Isle of Wight this year.
Where's the Isle of Wight?
The Isle of Wight is a festival in England. Past headliners have included The Rolling Stones, Sex Pistols and Paul McCartney.
Link.
^It's also the name of the island where the festival is held.
Thankx!
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Would love to have gone to the Isle of Wight Festival in 04. The Who and David Bowie played. O_O
I feel so bad for the people in Japan who are hungry. :(
I would love to see the acts playing Coachella this year, but I hate festivals.
Ray misspelled "There" in a recent post on their website.. granted i'm not one to talk but its funny
7:56am March 22.
Oh. I'm not liking that one too much at all. Annoying song to the max.
Sing would have benefitted from a live footage video, rather than that hotchpotch they put together for it.
Yeah, I agree. Sing was the song they should have done the performance video for. They could have shown the fangirls in the audience singing their little hearts out as Gerard sang to them.
The Killjoy storyline just didn't fit that song at all.
Positive reaction to the Planetary (GO!) video maybe?
I watched it and i really wouldn't describe it as a live performance seeing as they told the audience what to do. You know, like clap and jump up and down and stuff. I really had to laugh at the part where of course Gerard had to get a shot where he was rolling around on the stage like he did for FLW. LOL!
It would of been so much better if he would of stage dived...:)
^ Would have.
He's a fucking idiot.
And a scumbag.
And jerkoff.
MCR will massacre the reading and Leeds festival. Hope they get bottled like at Download. I much prefer The Strokes.
RIP Elizabeth Taylor. Such a beautiful lady.
With Reading and Leeds ticket sales being this slow, I doubt they'll get asked to headline ever again. They're subbing at T in the Park, for fuck's sake. People on the boards are saying the promoters are losing touch with their audience.
Reading and Leeds has totally gone to shit.
I hope MCR gets bottled, but they probably won't because nobody but the fanzombies will stick around to see them.
People on the boards are saying the promoters are losing touch with their audience.
That's because "board kids are mean...and FAT!"
Coachella is going to be amazing. KOL, The Strokes, Mumford & Sons, Arcade Fire, The Kills, The Black Keys, Lauryn Hill, Brandon Flowers, Neon Trees, Gogol Bordello, Bright Eyes, Duran Duran, The National, Animal Collective, and Kanye West.
I can't even.
Somebody explain to me why dstarpro and her little group of minions think it's wrong to belittle someone because of their appearance, but perfectly fine to belittle them over their age.
Isn't one just as bad as the other?
Didn't you know? Only LynZ can call people fat and get away with it. Oh yeah, and Frank, didn't he call some guy fat on twitter? The one who didn't like babies on planes, I think.
And of course, if Gerard ever calls someone fat, it will be just fine. Some people have a divine right. The rest of us, not so much.
Gerard could drown a puppy and those people would say it was the puppy's fault.
Dstarpro and her friends are as sexist and backward as Gerard and Lindsey are. Also, they are stalkers (like, real 'fly across the planet to see Gerard at Lindsey's art show' stalker) and one of them used to write Waycest. Tells you all you need to know!
I think demeaning a woman over her age is one of the most sexist things you can do.
Society tells women that they are only worth something when they are young and nubile and that when they are older they're washed up and should just go away. But older men are valued for their experience and knowledge.
This is such a shame, because older women are often far more interesting than younger ones.
It goes back to that whole "get a man" thing. Younger women are more attractive to men, therefore these sexist fools think that makes them somehow worth more.
It's sad to see girls place so little value on themselves. They'll be older one day too.
tbh, their 'values' seem to change depending on the weather. One moment they're feminists, then the next they're defending a man threatening a teenager. They're crazy, obsessed, dangerous loons. Instead of looking for the 'threats' online, Gerard would be wise to deal with people like Mary who stalk Lindsey and used to write fanfiction about him fucking his brother. Now that's freaky.
They do seem to be obsessed. I've only glanced at their twitters, but some of them seem to be on there all the time. And when they aren't on twitter, they're writing fanfic or obsessing on lj over what songs MCR is going to play at shows on the other side of the world.
How do you find so many hours to obsess over a band? My God, do they not have anything else in their lives?
Sad.
They only want to get in with Lindsey because they want contact with Gerard. One of them, Kellie, used to be obsessed with Frank Iero and she used to stalk him and Jamia. She even got a picture of Frank tattooed on her arm, ffs. She seems to have moved onto Gerard now, because she is desperatly trying to get attention from Lindsey. Creepy, sad, unhealthy fangirls.
And we're the damaged ones, lol.
duranduran: Unstaged Guest Announcement... Gerard Way of @MCRofficial is joining @duranduran in concert tonight:
LMAO. Oh Gerard. Did they promise you free drugs?
Hello people!
I need your help. Does anyone of you know who to contact in the U. S. if people send you death threats online? Is it the F. B. I.?
I'm fed up with those kids thinking that they can do and say whatever they want via Twitter without being held responsible for their actions.
I just sent Gerard Way two new tweets in which I advised him to whistle his fans back or that I will file a law suit against him for deliberately and knowingly inciting his fans to harrass and threaten me.
I don't know if he blocked me so I don't know if he will get my tweets.
I need your help to tell me what can be done.
It is much appreciated!!!
Siobhan what you are contemplating is very serious.
So are death threats, anon.
Have you reported the people making the threats to you to twitter?
And duran duran, wtf?
I don't think they give a fig, anon.
Apart from that, they are too many.
I would have thought you have more of a case against a social site that appears to let other people get away with these sorts of threats more than you would have against a rock star. I thought they would have shut down their accounts.
Once on YouTube I left a comment about MCR, I don't really remember what I said, but I think I criticized them a bit. Anyway, before you know it, the MCrmy ants started threatening to "cut me with a blunt razor blade" or "setting me on fire". Stuff of that nature. I never took the messages seriously.
The majority of their fans are kids, stupid kids who are harmless and who wouldn't say "boo" to you if they met you in real life.
Siobhan, if you want to report them, go right ahead and do it.
If I was sad enough to get a racist, sexist pig like Frank Iero tattooed onto my skin, I would probably just kill myself.
Maybe this girl can get a backpiece of Gerard punching a girl? Then next time she stalks him and his wife she can show them and try to impress them with it.
I don't take them seriously, anon.
It just irks me that this is possible without any of them, Way or his meat puppets, being held responsible.
You know, I think with Gerard Way it's like this, he's always looking how far he can get without having to expect any repercussions.
First, he calls a girl a cunt on his Party Poison account and deletes it immediately because he wasn't sure what reactions to expect.
Then he writes his bio with 'not afraid to call a 16-year-old the c-word...' See, he still doesn't dare to write out the word, but I can tell you now he will do it.
The same thing with what he did with me. If he gets the feeling that he can get away with it without having to fear that he might get punished in any way (be it bad press or even a law suit), he will soon think that he can up the ante every other time that he will get away with his actions.
I say we let him get away with it and his army of idiot fans spur him on, because soon he will hit some girl he doesn't like the look of, and we'll all get to laugh at his trashy ass going to prison and crying as he's driven away in the car.
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