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‘Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky’
« on: July 08, 2020, 08:53:27 AM »
‘Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky’ – do cities have to be so sexist?
https://amp.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jul/06/upward-thrusting-buildings-ejaculating-cities-sexist-leslie-kern-phallic-feminist-city-toxic-masculinity?__twitter_impression=true

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Glass ceilings and phallic towers. Mean streets and dark alleys. Road names and statues of men. From the physical to the metaphorical, the city is filled with reminders of masculine power. And yet we rarely talk of the urban landscape as an active participant in gender inequality. A building, no matter how phallic, isn’t actually misogynist, is it? Surely a skyscraper isn’t responsible for sexual harassment, the wage gap, or even the glass ceiling, whether it has a literal one up top or not?

There are other places to live aside from big cities.  

I thought this quote was amusing.  That isn't all that long ago.  Maybe I am just getting old.
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As far back as 1977,..............
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Re: ‘Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky’
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2020, 09:00:31 AM »
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Re: ‘Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky’
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2020, 05:03:57 PM »
What if skyscrapers are built in a certain way because the goal was to get many, many floors worth of offices onto the same, small plot of land, and not because someone wanted them to look like giant dude junk? Crazy, but just consider it as a theory.
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Re: ‘Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky’
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2020, 05:40:44 PM »
Quote from: fistful on July 08, 2020, 05:03:57 PM
What if skyscrapers are built in a certain way because the goal was to get many, many floors worth of offices onto the same, small plot of land, and not because someone wanted them to look like giant dude junk? Crazy, but just consider it as a theory.

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Re: ‘Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky’
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2020, 06:09:46 PM »
Quote from: WLJ on July 08, 2020, 05:40:44 PM


I am so ashamed. I need to think about how knowing how stuff actually works in the real world is sexist and patriarchal. I should spend less time understanding how accomplished men accomplished things that were useful to people; and instead understand how the greatness of what men have created makes ungrateful, clueless womyn feel sad feelz.

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Re: ‘Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky’
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2020, 06:12:30 PM »
Actually wasn't the image I intended to use. Oh well
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Re: ‘Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky’
« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2020, 06:15:04 PM »
Quote from: WLJ on July 08, 2020, 06:12:30 PM
Actually wasn't the image I intended to use. Oh well


Well?
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Re: ‘Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky’
« Reply #7 on: July 08, 2020, 06:26:41 PM »
Lemme realsplain stuff to you.

I think Delores, Leslie, and Jane need some.
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Re: ‘Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky’
« Reply #8 on: July 09, 2020, 07:35:19 AM »
Here... there's a program in place to counter the weepy estrogenic lamentations by placing female-oriented architecture...

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Re: ‘Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky’
« Reply #9 on: July 09, 2020, 07:37:44 AM »
She needs to go live in a hole in the ground for a while.
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Re: ‘Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky’
« Reply #10 on: July 09, 2020, 07:53:58 AM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on July 09, 2020, 07:35:19 AM
Here... there's a program in place to counter the weepy estrogenic lamentations by placing female-oriented architecture...



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Re: ‘Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky’
« Reply #11 on: July 09, 2020, 07:59:34 AM »
Are they going to start complaining about fountains next?
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Re: ‘Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky’
« Reply #12 on: July 09, 2020, 10:06:43 AM »
Quote from: fistful on July 08, 2020, 05:03:57 PM
What if skyscrapers are built in a certain way because the goal was to get many, many floors worth of offices onto the same, small plot of land, and not because someone wanted them to look like giant dude junk? Crazy, but just consider it as a theory.

WOW!

You're really reaching for the sky with that silly notion.
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Re: ‘Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky’
« Reply #13 on: July 09, 2020, 10:08:54 AM »
Well, if if its any consolation Ladies, you will always have these:

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Re: ‘Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky’
« Reply #14 on: July 09, 2020, 10:12:29 AM »
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Re: ‘Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky’
« Reply #15 on: July 16, 2020, 12:13:59 PM »
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Re: ‘Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky’
« Reply #16 on: July 16, 2020, 12:53:03 PM »
It's scary, what people preoccupy themselves with. Hope for humanity dwindles :'(
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Re: ‘Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky’
« Reply #17 on: July 16, 2020, 01:21:15 PM »
Just wait until someone starts complaining about the patriarchy of the giant sperm in the sky, aka comet Neowise...
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Re: ‘Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky’
« Reply #18 on: July 16, 2020, 02:32:52 PM »
I enjoy Cheese Nips.
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Re: ‘Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky’
« Reply #19 on: July 16, 2020, 04:28:01 PM »
I always kinda thought Church Entrances were mostly pretty cunnic.





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Re: ‘Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky’
« Reply #20 on: July 17, 2020, 09:22:47 AM »
Quote from: 230RN on July 16, 2020, 04:28:01 PM
I always kinda thought Church Entrances were mostly pretty cunnic.


"Cunnic?"

Also, that second one has a chastity belt . . .

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Re: ‘Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky’
« Reply #21 on: July 17, 2020, 05:42:51 PM »
Quote from: fifth_column on July 17, 2020, 09:22:47 AM
Quote from: 230RN on July 16, 2020, 02:28:01 PM

"I always kinda thought Church Entrances were mostly pretty cunnic."
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Cunnic?

OK, how about quimic?

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« Reply #22 on: July 17, 2020, 05:52:40 PM »
I got Terry's allusions but the vocabulary word you are looking for is yonic.


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Re: ‘Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky’
« Reply #23 on: July 18, 2020, 12:39:56 AM »
Analogy:  Eskimos.  Number of words for snow.

Quim, hence quimic.

I hope this thread isn't evulving in the wrong direction.  But after all, it started with the gals' phallic metaphor regarding buildings.
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