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Curves
06/26/09

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Please note the tremendous UnCurves-like restraint that I am showing by not letting the flame baiters get my Irish up.

Yet.
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Curves
06/26/09

@Curves: I have never clicked as many hearts by names or put so many names on my personal shit list than I have on this post.
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katieoh
06/26/09

@Curves: oh, man, you didn't see the vince-shamwow-hooker post on the consumerist, did you?

raaaaaaage. i literally teared up in frustration.
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Curves
06/26/09

@katieoh: No, I missed that one (link please). Actually, I dont let it all get to me like I did at one time. One of the advantages of age and experience is that I have learned to pick my battles. I can get mad, or I can do something about it. Being a goal oriented person, I tend to do something about it, if I can. If I have to get angry though, I get MAD. (Why do it if you arent going to do the HELL out of it?)
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
06/26/09

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Not my cup of tea, personally. It was, however, my cup of coffee:

But you do need to nail the point home, or perhaps, staple it home:
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
06/26/09

@StruckBySmoothCriminal_GitEmSt...: We should reach them while they are young:
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aerospaceman
06/26/09

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Imagine how annoying it would be if a poster depicting a naked/clothed attractive person would have a camera like that. (being inclusive and not saying just woman cause we all know Curves and Software Goddess like to check out hunks)
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Curves
06/26/09

@aerospaceman: If Hunk=Good looking, then count me out. I cant speak for anyone else, but for me, the BIG THREE must haves in a partner are Humor, Intelligence and Passion. With those, he can be a toad and I will love the hell out of him.
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92BuickLeSabre
06/26/09

@Curves: Really? Physical appearance plays _no_ role? Are you being truthful or aspirational?

Yes, gender differences and all of that, but I can't believe that you've managed to completely cut the hard-wiring that makes your eyebrows arch when a hottie walks by.
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Curves
06/26/09

@92BuickLeSabre: Truthful, in as much as I can be. I know its hard to believe, but I am ALL about substance, and not flash. Beauty is only skin deep while ugly comes from within. Shit in a pretty package is still just poop.
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Slyd3z
06/26/09

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What do you tell a woman with two black eyes?
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Geisrud
06/26/09

@Slyd3z: @CoolRiver45: wow, that's poor taste.
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weatherman
06/26/09

@Slyd3z: to leave you.
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ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD
06/26/09

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Last time I checked, it was the 21st century. I remember hearing about a neighbor who smacked his wife years ago, she divorced him like a week later. I didn't think this was still such an epidemic, divorce isn't really frowned upon anymore.
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weatherman
06/26/09

@darkstar: domestic violence is WAY down over the last 20 years, no doubt about it. Check the chart below (the most recent graphic I could find). But it's still a problem and rates of domestic violence generally go up in times of economic hardship so perhaps this is more to remind people that the issue hasn't gone away, and that it can come back.
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weatherman
06/26/09

@weatherman:
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Curves
06/26/09

@darkstar: One in every 4 women will be abused in her lifetime, and in many cases, she is financially unable to leave her abuser, usually due to children.
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Kaiser-Machead
06/26/09

@darkstar: Statistics within my family show that 99.9% of men that abuse their spouses get their noses broken. I love statistics, don't you?
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eaddict
06/26/09

@weatherman: It would be interesting to see this chart with the populatio numbers. In 1993 we had 257,746,103 folks in 2005 there are 296,410,404.
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weatherman
06/26/09

@eaddict: it's rate per 1000, so it's adjusted for population.
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FredicvsMaximvs
06/26/09

@darkstar: Yeah, it would be nice if it were that simple. However, there certainly isn't any shortage of power-trippy assholes these days, and it's not always as easy to get away from them as the movies would have us believe.
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Hello Mister Walrus
06/26/09

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So it's like the ghosts in the haunted house level from Super Mario?
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ZaxxonQ.com
06/26/09

@Hello Mister Walrus: +1! ^_^
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Noobs-R-Us
06/26/09

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What about men abused by women? They should show that also.
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weatherman
06/26/09

@Noobs-R-Us: I think suggesting that "they should show that also" just distracts from the issue. Females are far more likely to be victims of domestic abuse than men are, and near as I can tell men are more often the victims only in same-sex relationships. I'm all for recognizing that domestic abuse crosses gender and sexual demographics, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't put up a poster that brings attention to the issue just because it only represents the majority of cases and not every case.
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Curves
06/26/09

@Noobs-R-Us: I agree that it happens and its not reported nearly as often as it is with women, but in 95% of cases the woman is the victim. [www.stopvaw.org]
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weatherman
06/26/09

@Curves: I'm not a huge fan of that site you use as a reference. First, the 95% figure seems high - most of the stats I've seen have ranged from 65%-85%. Obviously the figures vary widely when you start to include domestic violence against teens (non-partner violence) and exactly how one defines "violence." Which leads me to my second issue with that website; they suggest that in "even" that 5% they claim where the man is a victim, it is justified. I thought we'd finally gotten past that "she had it coming" argument. To have it turned around to justify violence against men makes the whole site lose credibility for me.
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Curves
06/26/09

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Not only is the technology good, the message and delivery are excellent.
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