On the foreign talent medal saga

[jemauvais]

I read in Mr Brown yesterday about how our Singapore Silver girl, Li Jiawei, was interviewed by China Central Television and during the interview, she said:

"自己是个北京人, 又是中国人。 我希望能在自己的本土， 自己的地盘上， 能够取得一枚奖牌。"My Chinese is quite bad, but even I can grasp more or less what she's saying.  IMO, that's not a very bright thing to say, especially when people

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[jemauvais]

*rolls eyes*

[cheshirefeline]

His marbles. A long time back.

The quote really cracked me up, man.

[jemauvais]

Hurhurhur, I just found it ironic how in Feminist Theory, them feminists keep lambasting men for objectification of women, and rant about how men are treating women as inferior, but nobody bats an eyelid when women utter stuff like this.  And when men say that is objectifying us, women actually step up and give it a good thumbs up.

If you reversed the situation and said: "A woman is like a fine wine.  She starts out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on her and keep her in the dark until she becomes something you'd like to have dinner with," I bet you the women would be in uproar, and if any man ever dared to give that a thumbs up, he'd be shot down many times over.