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"Like a Girl" - 2/1/2015 10:37:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		What does it mean to run like a girl? Throw like a girl? Fight like a girl?

I found this thought-provoking, and others might too.

Note: Despite the URL, it's not really a tampon commercial.

https://showyou.com/v/y-XjJQBjWYDTs/as-a-male-this-is-the-first-tampon-commercial?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=timeline

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RE: "Like a Girl" - 2/1/2015 10:47:47 AM   
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Status: offline 		By some males standards women are still seen as weak and ineffectual,, so males who cant ( by subjective standards) achieve stuff are "ball less" or pussys or cunts or throw like a girl...
but most men scream with the same sound a women makes when it comes down to it.
Of course balls are incredibly fragile
Vaginas are powerful strong and bring forth life and are therefore scary, so it diminishes how powerful it is in real life to men who think they have to be full of testosterone
Just my two cents of course:)
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RE: "Like a Girl" - 2/1/2015 11:19:32 AM   
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Status: offline 		its got a handful of facets to it.

one is, its a holdover from a day when girls didn't have the opportunities either to be taught or practice athletics to the extent boys did, so their bad technique was mingled with their being girls. in a benign sense, it refers to poor technique.

which is a nice segue into another facet. given that young boys don't really like young girls and want/need to differentiate themselves from them, comparing any of their athletic peers to girls was (still is), unfortunately a way to insult them. its a miniature version of the animosity that exists between genders.

in a sense, the phrase is really outdated and not really accurate anymore since so many women today can run and more or less throw with the best technique available to them.

it gets weird a little when you can tell a girl "hey, you throw like a girl." and yes, boys aren't totally by nature gifted runners or throwers---that is, they sometimes need instruction too.

if you want to watch a great movie that has some really nifty elements of this in it, watch the sandlot.

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RE: "Like a Girl" - 2/1/2015 11:35:26 AM   
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quote:

https://showyou.com/v/y-XjJQBjWYDTs/as-a-male-this-is-the-first-tampon-commercial?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=timeline


That was good, DC.

My little sister did everything 'like a girl' until some ten years. Complete weed, basically. Bought into the whole weedy-girl thing. Now she's 2nd dan black belt in karate and she hits like a ... well, she hits.

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RE: "Like a Girl" - 2/1/2015 1:12:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		Something I see a lot of on the FB hockey pages I belong to is the practice of calling NHL players female names and using feminine pronouns to describe them. I tell them that if they think that player is so weak they should stop complimenting them.

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RE: "Like a Girl" - 2/1/2015 1:20:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		I never did anything like a girl except look like one. I punched the crap out of what was considered the toughest guy at school because he annoyed me one day enough to flip the bitch switch. he didn't play fair, tapped me on the shoulder, and as I turned to look back he punched me on the cheek. He told one of my closest male friends that he'd rarely been hit so hard. male friend asked him what the hell he'd expected of me when he knew that I worked around horses, cycled, swam, and ran long distance for the school team.

just as some women live up to the bad driver rep, so do some guys. I also know some men that have ovaries bigger than their balls. they pms worse than I ever have, and I've been the queen of that at times. I also know one that can carry a sulk in a purse for months better than any woman.

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RE: "Like a Girl" - 2/1/2015 1:51:59 PM   
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I also know some men that have ovaries bigger than their balls


British men have always been pioneers, Needles.

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RE: "Like a Girl" - 2/1/2015 6:15:12 PM   
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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

What does it mean to run like a girl? Throw like a girl? Fight like a girl?

I found this thought-provoking, and others might too.

Note: Despite the URL, it's not really a tampon commercial.

https://showyou.com/v/y-XjJQBjWYDTs/as-a-male-this-is-the-first-tampon-commercial?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=timeline
if


I liked it ...

Since when did "run like a girl" "throw like a girl" "fight like a girl" become a bad thing? I am a girl and doing these things like me is a good thing ....

I agree we should be teaching our young people that this is a good thing ....

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RE: "Like a Girl" - 2/1/2015 6:25:09 PM   
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My youngest was a really good football player. He could have gone to college on, at least, a partial scholarship. he never really did run very well but he always just KNEW where the ball was going. Back in the day, we called that "Ball hawking skills".

When he was thirteen and playing his last year of Pop Warner before going into HS ball, he was "lined up" (He was a linebacker) opposite a rather tall, skinny kid. The first series he got OWNED. I asked him what was wrong, when he came off the field and he said: "Dad, it's a girl".

I had always taught him that gentlemen don't hit girls/ladies and I realized why he was getting abused on the field. I had to sit him down and explain that hitting another football player was what was required and no one had forced that girl onto that field.

After two series, they moved her to the other side of the line.

Having coached football and baseball for my kids, I can tell you this: Some kids came to me (I started coaching as young as five-year-olds), being able to throw, pretty well. I never really did equate it with gender except in that I fell prey to societal discriminations. I did say (whether it was girls or boys) that someone "threw like a girl" if they were right handed and led with their right foot. To me, it was just a way to describe the phenomenon.



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RE: "Like a Girl" - 2/1/2015 6:25:10 PM   
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RE: "Like a Girl" - 2/1/2015 6:25:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		"Like a girl"....
the connotations from my youth.
Run like they have on high heels; just like they saw the screaming heroine in male centric movies.
Hitting with open handed slaps with the eyes closed like a sheltered debutante throwing a tantrum.
Feigning incompetence in order to be more feminine.... "ewwww, check my own oil?"

I'm so glad such seems to have been on the decline since the 1970s. Now if the group consciousness would finally realize that the average female size is a 14 and not a 4.

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RE: "Like a Girl" - 2/1/2015 7:44:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		I found it very worth while when they asked the little boy if this meant he was insulting his sister. First he said no, then you could see him think things over.

Hopefully in the next few years many other males will rethink this.

I've pretty much stopped The Man from calling people cunts. Because if he thinks a cunt is such a terrible thing, then why does he want access to mine.

Of course, having a grandson who is at that repeating all the words you don't want him to stage is cleaning up his language faster than I can do anything.

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RE: "Like a Girl" - 2/2/2015 3:28:11 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm a gamer at heart. Many times, I've played games with both sexes and never assumed one is just 'better' because of their sex (or sexual orientation). I recall watching players against one young lady in a Warhammer 40K tournanment. The males made bad tactical decisions that they would not normally do with other males. That they assumed that since she is a girl, she cant be that good. Or that her boyfriend (whom was sitting nearby and not a gamer) was in need of replacing by them. They all lost. I played her. She was very good. I won, but not by much. I thanked her for the awesome game. If she didn't have crappy dice rolls, I think she would have won the match!

I've seen women in every profession and many situations. That their female doesn't seem to register to me that they are inherently bad at something. I've lost plenty of games to the ladies! Yes, I did lose at 'Candyland' with my niece. Now I lose to her in 'Settlers of Catan'!

A really good video!

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RE: "Like a Girl" - 2/2/2015 6:03:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well I can't say for sure what people mean when they say things like that. But I can tell you it gets some interesting responses when told to a women swinging a flogger.

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RE: "Like a Girl" - 2/2/2015 6:17:45 AM   
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Status: offline 		run like a girl? fuck you, im not running. throw like a girl? fuck you, get a man to throw it, that's what theyre for. hit like a girl? yeah now youre talking! ;)
no?

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