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Re:Visitor accidentally shatters Jeff Koons 'balloon dog' sc... by graderjs on Monday February 20, 2023 @01:22AM (#34865521)
It's not absurd, or sexist. It's just a fact. If you pretend that you can't make any generalizations or statements because of one's gender...or you even pretend that's negative. Then you're the one being sexist. It's just crazy this kind of over protected speech. You're totally reading the wrong thing into it. Haven't you ever observed this?
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Re:Visitor accidentally shatters Jeff Koons 'balloon dog' sc... by morsch on Monday February 20, 2023 @01:43AM (#34865652)
Nope. Couldn't find anything via Google, either. I thought you were making a Seinfeld joke, at first ("The Little Kicks"), but apparently not.
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Re:Visitor accidentally shatters Jeff Koons 'balloon dog' sc... by graderjs on Friday March 03, 2023 @01:39AM (#35006544)
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Re:Visitor accidentally shatters Jeff Koons 'balloon dog' sc... by GavinMcG on Monday February 20, 2023 @02:03AM (#34865760)
Never once. At best you're describing children, in my experience, not adult women.

But especially if it is an involuntary expression of anger, as you say, then advancing the sexist "You're Cute When You're Angry" trope[0] is not a great reaction.

[0] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YoureCuteWhenYou...

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Re:Visitor accidentally shatters Jeff Koons 'balloon dog' sc... by graderjs on Friday March 03, 2023 @01:36AM (#35006526)
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