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= F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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The Manipulation of Women and Children
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You hear the reference all the time. I heard it on the news tonight.
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"The fire set by the young boy spread to nearby apartment buildings,
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forcing residents to flee, including many women and children."
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I heard it when U.S fighters hit Iraq a couple of months ago from Saddam
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Hussein. "The Great Satan has killed many innocent citizens, including
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many women and children." He held up part of a torched teddy bear for
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emphasis.
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I heard it when boarding a recent Greyhound trip. I was the only one
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with a pre-purchased ticket. There was one seat left. No one else had a
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ticket, and couldn't buy one, because the terminal was closed. They
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wanted to pay the driver the cash equivalent of the ticket price, which
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is allowed on Greyhound. I quickly snagged the seat. One of the women
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shouted at me, "You're leaving women and children behind who could've
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had your seat."
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You know what I say to all of these examples? "So what?"
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Now, I don't endorse the killing or abandonment or women and children by
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any means. What I don't like is the way "women and children" is used to
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make someone look subjectively more bad or evil.
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"Women and children were forced to flee." So what? What about all the
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men who had to flee? Objectively, what does gender have to do with
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anything? Is the kid who set the fire any more the evil because his
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victims happened to have included women and children? It's not like the
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eight year old scoped out a building with higher concentrations of women
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and children, versus men, just to be a dick. No, it just makes the kid
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out to be more of a bad guy, and plays on the emotions of viewers who
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watch sensationalist broadcasts.
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U.S. fighter jets induce collateral damage, and a few women and children
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get killed, while trying to protect the lives of thousands of Kurds. So
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what? What about the men? Did we target women and children when we
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dropped the bombs? Nope, but shit happens. Yet, Saddam has the ultimate
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propoganda opportunity. He can rant and rave about us "killing his women
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and children," and can rally all his loyalists and allies against us. He
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can play to their emotions.
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I caused "women and children" to be stranded because I selfishly took
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the last seat on a bus. So what? I was the only one in the crowd who had
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a ticket. I had been waiting for this bus for five hours, because I went
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early to purchase a ticket before they closed. I planned ahead. My bus
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was to arrive in my new hometown one hour before a critical job
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interview. I could not miss this bus.
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She arrived ten minutes before the bus arrived. She didn't have a
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ticket. She didn't plan ahead. She was probably watching television
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while I was freezing my ass off outside the closed terminal for five
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hours waiting for the bus with my ticket. Sorry lady, but, your loss.
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And what about the men, who also didn't plan ahead, and lost out on the
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last seat? How could "women and children," plural, have benefitted by
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one open seat if I had given it to them? Was the kid to sit in her lap
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for ten hours on a crowded bus? No, she said it because she was pissed,
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and it was an easy way to villify me in front of other passengers, and
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those who also missed out, jsut to make her feel better.
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There are literally thousands of more examples of "women and children"
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in all sorts of stories. It's as though they are the weak - the lower
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class - and that anything bad that happens to them is a victimization of
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them. But it's really manipulation. It furthers the cause of those who
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eschew it. It plays us for fools, because in reality, women and
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children, as human beings, are no different from any other human being,
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regardless of age or gender. Tragedy is tragedy, missed opportunities
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are missed oopprtunitites, no matter what age or gender is involved.
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The moment you consider any individual different than another is when
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equality no longer exists. Isn't equality what women have been fighting
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for for the last thirty years?
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se7en
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10/23/96
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