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• YES! I for one thought it was totally fucked up, and I wrote about it my blog at the beginning of this week after having seen it incessantly on TV all weekend. For anyone interested, I have a link to
  (posted to Womanhood: Getting dudes to buy you stuff)
• Sure, he's acknowledging that men want affection but is implying by his pitch that it's virtually able to be satisfied by this technology. Sure it's not the real thing, but "it'll do". For me, this image would make me more
  (posted to Virtual girlfriend as art my ass.)
• To be honest, when I got EC in Canada last year, I really didn't mind talking to the pharmacist at all. They were very helpful and non-judgmental. To me, taking the EC was kind of a big deal, and the
  (posted to Emergency Contraception approved for over-the-counter sale in Canada)
• @ Black Canseco: The problem with your comment(s) is your vague use of pronouns such as "we" and "us." In your first comment when you say "let's be consistent in our criticisms," you imply that the criticism made here by
  (posted to Newsweek hearts Polanski (and victim-blaming))
• I don't know, a character who dresses like she's from 1840 and is named after a baked good is hardly a great role model for young girls in the first place. Well, what does it mean to *not* look like
  (posted to Cartoon characters getting "makeovers")

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• I'm 41, a bit too old for Strawberry Shortcake, so the makeover doesn't really bother me, as I have nothing invested in the original character. To me, what it looks like is that they took away the 70s Holly Hobbie (posted to Cartoon characters getting "makeovers")
• "If only more of them were like Nausicaä..." Well, Miyazaki and Ghibli consistently put emphasis on the plot, not making characters visually appealing to mainstream male sexual appetites. See: Howl's Moving Castle. How many heroines looking and passing for 90 (posted to Cartoon characters getting "makeovers")
• less belly fat...on a bear. i hope they survive hibernation. (posted to Cartoon characters getting "makeovers")
• A male: Howl's Moving Castle is based on the Dianna Wynne Jones novel. She writes children's/young adult's novels, and definately doesn't care about male gaze. I don't think the credit is theirs in that case. (posted to Cartoon characters getting "makeovers")
• "Howl's Moving Castle is based on the Dianna Wynne Jones novel. She writes children's/young adult's novels, and definately doesn't care about male gaze. "I don't think the credit is theirs in that case." See how much (or I should say (posted to Cartoon characters getting "makeovers")

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