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[Spriggan]

actualy gropeing them is the national past time.  On crowded trains (the ones you see on tv where they're all packed in like sardines) its very common if your female to be felt up.  it's not like haveing someones hand on your chest, wich sometimes its hard to help since there's little room to move, but more like hands up skirts and such.  And it's hard to see who's doing it.  It's probaly a little safe for american females over there since the ones I know that have been felt up have allwayse managed to hit the pervert that did it.  And I mean an all out puch, or wacking the guy with an umbrella and the such.  So in some places american women have the reputation of not taking any crap from the people that do that kind of stuff.

[fuzzyoctopus]

So unless you have a prosthetic leg, don't wear a skirt in Japan, especially on the trains?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

also: be ugly.

[EUOL]

And avoid being a schoolgirl.

[Tekiel]

Hmm, that was never a problem for any of us when we were over there on the subways.  Guess we were in an area where they knew we'd slug them if they tried it.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

omfrpg13! This is so funny: http://discuss.futuremark.com/forum/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=miscgeneral&Number=3609013&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=0&fpart=1

[fuzzyoctopus]

Too bad it's 10 years old and still not true.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/opus.htm

But it IS still a great story.

[fuzzyoctopus]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=817&ncid=757&e=10&u=/ap/20040324/ap_on_fe_st/genital_piercings

Now, hang on a second. A man in Texas can turn himself into a lizard   http://bmeworld.com/amago/

but a woman in Georgia can't decide to have her own genitals pierced?  And a man in Georgia can?

MESSED UP.

[EUOL]

Don't get quite so outraged, Fuzzy.  This was obviously a bill designed to deal with female genital mutilation:

http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/intcam/femgen/fgm1.htm

It seems they just didn't consider that some people would actually WANT the piercings (as stated by one of the representatives in your article.)

[fuzzyoctopus]

Yes, and I'm sure that it will get fixed either before or soon after the bill actually goes into law....

But I don't care how old these Congressmen are- how can they think that this is an ok thing to do?

And, really, what fun is being young if I can't get outraged?

[EUOL]

But I don't care how old these Congressmen are- how can they think that this is an ok thing to do?

What do you mean?  They see a major human rights issue being denounced by feminist organizations around the world, they draw up a bill to combat it, and you snap at them?  Yes, the piercing clause is probably a bad idea.  But it seems to me, from the link you gave, that this was an attempt made in good faith by some lawmakers trying to do a good thing.

[fuzzyoctopus]

Yes, yes it is.  But I still object to whoever wrote in the part about voluntary piercing.

[EUOL]

Yes.  Isn't it amusing how the conservatives are always saying "We don't want the government poking into our business!" When they really mean "We don't want the government poking into OUR business--but those hippie kids, do whatever you want to them."

[Spriggan]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4593873/

mutant cat born in germany.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I wonder if Georgia would allow the mutant cat to have its genitals pierced.