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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by mrbrowning on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @02:01AM (#13479345)
It's not a totally different thing, it's the same thing with me driving on the left side of the road instead of the right. We don't know if this would cause horrific, fiery tangles of flesh and steel or not.
Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by rokosbasilisk on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @08:04AM (#13481049)
This is reasoning is a great example why democrats have lost the working class.

We all know if men marched with dicks on ther heads in washington they would be laughed and imo rightfully so.

Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by MrZongle2 on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @12:29PM (#13483541)
"We all know if men marched with dicks on ther heads in washington they would be laughed and imo rightfully so."

And there would be cries about vulgarity and "what about the children?!" along with it.

Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by mattnewton on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @12:03PM (#13483202)
And we are arguing that it's not relevant. Men are treated differently in our society, dicks have a different connotation, etc. This is a great example of how simple metaphors strip important nuance.
Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by antisthenes on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @12:34PM (#13483618)
Yes, applying double standards when it suits your narrative, and arguing for equality when it doesn't is another example of why liberals lost.

Apparently the fly-over country is at least smart enough to notice the blatant hypocrisy, so props to them for that.

Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by mattnewton on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @01:17PM (#13484155)
I am unsure what your argument is here. The liberal position here is, in a nutshell, that women's rights are treated poorly and should not be. It's a real stretch to say that means they should be treated as if they were men wearing dick hats because they think men are equal.
Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by flukus on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @06:42PM (#13487350)
So you're argument is that because women are treated differently we should treat them diffently? You aren't advocating equeal treatment but for more unequal treatment.

And how exactly are women treated poorly?

Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by mattnewton on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @11:13PM (#13488640)
Because "women's rights" are treated poorly, we should treat "women marching with pussy hats" differently than "men marching with dick hats".

Specifically women's rights around their reproductive organs, between access to abortion, classifying sanitary napkins or tampons as a necessary expense, or sexual assault of those organs.

If men had women in congress debating over making ejaculation without intent to conceive illegal, if men were payed less for the same work on average, if men had powerful people talking bragging about grabbing them by the dick whenever they wanted, etc, maybe then you would have a point.

But as it stands, you're twisting my words into a false equivalence.

Women's rights are treated poorly. Women should have equal rights and should be treated equally if you believe they are equals to men. Women marching with pussy hats represents a different phenomena than men in dick hats. For that to be equal treatment the context has to be equivalent. And it is not.