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Report as: spam offensive Dan and Liz on 10/11/06 at 2am

Is the point of this article just to make fun of sluts?

Report as: spam offensive Rabih on 10/11/06 at 6am

whatever happened to metaphors!
interesting article

Report as: spam offensive Wow on 10/11/06 at 4pm

Apparently yes, Dan and Liz.

I think making fun of sluts is a worthy topic of a major school newspaper op-ed, and am in awe of how Mr Franich could extend a bad your-momma joke, which was already trite in the early '90s, to fill an entire column. (It's funny cause there are a lot of bikes on campus!)

Bravo Mr Franich, nay, bravo Stanford Daily.

Report as: spam offensive Simone de Beauvoir? on 10/12/06 at 1pm

If this piece has any depth at all, one need not explore those depths for long in order to discover the frankly disgusting implications inherent in the demeaning (and starkly unoriginal) metaphor of the village bicycle.
Things you can do with bicycles: You purchase a bicycle. You borrow a bicycle. You own a bicycle. You leave a bicycle for a car or a motorcycle without a second thought.
To extend any part of this metaphor to another human being, female or not, displays a lack of maturity and humanity that makes me seriously doubt the prospect of your getting any unless the other party (or parties?) is inebriated or otherwise judgment-impaired.
To imply, even in jest, that one can own a woman is to blindly trample on the essential tenets of feminism that many women and men have fought so hard to establish. If I were Simone de Beauvoir, I would administer some serious feminist justice on your ass. But I am only myself, so I shall say this: I am ashamed that such a thing was printed in the Daily. I am discouraged that the feminist movement has obviously had no impact on you. I am embarassed for you for having reduced a woman to an inanimate object whose own concerns are of no relevance to your decisions. And, in a slightly more academic vein, I am devastated to see that the art of the editorial has eluded yet another writer. You have no argument, you have no opposition, and you have no point.
Whoever is dating this man, break up with him. NOW.

Report as: spam offensive Simon the Boovwa on 10/14/06 at 12pm

So, you're not down to be donkeypunched?

Report as: spam offensive Darren on 10/14/06 at 5pm

You kids have dirty minds.

Report as: spam offensive J Marra on 1/04/07 at 6am

This prim sniffy little article reminds me of a "Wife Swap" episode in which an uptight California fundamentalist Christian Stepford Mom wanted her swap-dad to instruct his daughters about "purity" with the metaphor of a handed-around candy bar. "You wouldn't want to eat a candy bar that all those people have handled, and maybe sneezed on, would you?" she said, tilting her helmet head of hair and assuming a sugar-sweet expression.
Church Lady Lives!

Report as: spam offensive Em on 1/20/07 at 11am

Re: Dan & Liz
"After all, when you get right down to it, isn’t every bicycle a village bicycle?"
Let's not forget, every woman is a slut.
Since when did Stanford start publishing fratboy jokes?




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