I tried for a long time thumbs-downing the diet ads but I just stopped getting those ones and started getting other diet ads instead or beauty tips. Now I get ads for Sky TV and gift shops. I'm in the (posted to Hey Facebook, Hands Off My Self-Esteem!)
I'm listed as in a relationship (in the UK) and I still get mostly diet ads, despite thumbs downing them as offensive over and over again. Or I did until I took my gender off. Now it sometimes checks if (posted to Hey Facebook, Hands Off My Self-Esteem!)
We have some Giftmas sexism on TV here in the UK. (posted to Giftmas Sexism)
I wonder sometimes why I blog. And then something like this happens and I'm typing frantically until five in the morning and I wonder how I could live if I didn't blog! (posted to Why do I blog?)
Samhita, this is a thread about a post *you* wrote questioning why your posts are dismissed by other people. As such, you invited any reasonable discussion of that question. I replied saying that the obvious answer to "why aren't I (posted to Why do I blog?)
I replied saying that the obvious answer to "why aren't I being listened to" is "what I'm saying isn't interesting", which, in the context, doesn't seem like an offensive thing to say. And I hardly see how it can be (posted to Why do I blog?)
What impresses me more than a woman playing professional baseball (why shouldn't women be allowed to play with men on the same level, and why aren't there more, particularly in e.g., golf?) is her age. A sixteen year old playing (posted to Hey Facebook, Hands Off My Self-Esteem!)
I don't understand why the Dallas Cow"boys" get paid tremendous dollars to play football while the cheerleaders get paid next to nothing yet have to stay in perfect shape, always look perfect and spend a great deal of time preparing, (posted to Dallas Cowboy's Cheerleaders)
