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Gormy Cuss

(30,884 posts)
Thu May 3, 2012, 02:09 PM May 2012

Act like a girl, walk like a girl, smell like a girl?

The story about the "pastor" who instructed parents to punch their boys for acting effeminate is even worse that just homophobic, it's got a heaping dose of misogyny as well. See yardwork's posting of the transcript here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=111751

Can someone help me out here -- how exactly are we supposed to walk and smell?

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Act like a girl, walk like a girl, smell like a girl? (Original Post) Gormy Cuss May 2012 OP
The first time my straight daughter wore a dress HockeyMom May 2012 #1
Yup. You all are "butch" in his narrow little mind. Gormy Cuss May 2012 #2
Must mean perfume? Neoma May 2012 #3
Or just soap and deodorant Gormy Cuss May 2012 #4
Or farts! But let's not go there... Neoma May 2012 #5
Of course! How could I forget THAT unladylike emission. n/t Gormy Cuss May 2012 #6
thats why I don't like being called a lady Whisp May 2012 #8
Read my sig line Gormy Cuss May 2012 #9
I have no idea what that creep meant by that but Whisp May 2012 #7
I tend not to walk "like a girl" Nikia May 2012 #10
 

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)
1. The first time my straight daughter wore a dress
Thu May 3, 2012, 02:29 PM
May 2012

was at her wedding at 25 years old. She HATES dresses. Today at 28, she has NEVER worn high heels. lol I am the same; only wear a dress, makeup, etc., at weddings. I guess I never set a good, feminine example for her, or her lesbian sister. How you dress has NOTHING to do with your sexual orientation. My future lesbian daugther-in-law is far more "feminine" than either me or her sister-in-law. Totally STUPID.

I suppose by this "pastor's" standards, netiher of us are real women.

Gormy Cuss

(30,884 posts)
2. Yup. You all are "butch" in his narrow little mind.
Thu May 3, 2012, 03:22 PM
May 2012

So am I. I've never worn makeup or heels higher than 2 inches. I do wear dresses and skirts but most of the time I'm in jeans.

I don't think I smell bad but I'm not sure what a GIRL is supposed to smell like.

 

Whisp

(24,096 posts)
8. thats why I don't like being called a lady
Fri May 4, 2012, 02:16 PM
May 2012

I sometimes don't have the emission control I used to.

 

Whisp

(24,096 posts)
7. I have no idea what that creep meant by that but
Fri May 4, 2012, 02:14 PM
May 2012

Lawrence O'Donnell was especially disgusted by that.
I jsut wonder what he thought it was about.

Nikia

(11,411 posts)
10. I tend not to walk "like a girl"
Sat May 5, 2012, 02:45 PM
May 2012

Because I walked a lot as a child and despite having below average physical coordination, I was a good runner and very efficient. I walk faster than average without unecessary side to side hip movement.
Many women do tend to walk slower and have more hip movement in order to look more attractive. Some of this is on purpose. Other times, I think that it is caused by wearing shoes that make it more difficult to walk fast and efficiently like heeled shoes or even dress flats are narrow and don't have rubber or other comfortable bottoms. I know that many women, even feminists, defend wearing restrictive foot wear. I suppose that if you think that it makes you look good and don't find it overally restrictive, keep wearing it. Insisting that it is a vital part of being female though, is just wrong.

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