A message for T-Rex

Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 9 Location: Toronto

Hey man,
I'm happy for you that you've got a thing going with your ex that you're finding fulfilling. Really, I am. Everyone deserves a little bit of that in their lives. (Except molesters, rapists, republicans, etc.) This is just a friendly reminder that the internet is a big, public place. If you keep picking on women's rights, there's a good chance that your lady friend will eventually stumble upon your quips and be less than impressed. There's also a chance she won't, but I don't think anyone who has a mother, a female lover, a sister, or female friends should be making jokes about something as important the female right to vote. I apologize if your lover is not female and I'm being presumptuous, but Dromiceiomimus is a chick and your friend. I think it's time you show some respect.

A concerned friend,
CONtAGiOUS

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:16 am

UT OH!

on

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:16 am

I wouldn't presume to speak for T-Rex (of course!) because that would not be classy, but I think he puts them on the same level as poutine and electricity: a very high level indeed! He wants all the credit because it's good things.

Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 313 Location: Halifax, NS

Plus, inventing woman's rights is actually pretty easy to do, ESPECIALLY if you can back it up with other revelations from the future.

I mean, probably quite a few people were thinking "Hey, maybe woman should be treated equally!" but they got silenced, because they didn't RIP THE POWER OF THUNDER FROM THE SKIES AND GIVE IT TO MAN.

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:44 am

it would have been badass if the women's rights movement had been started early... BY A DINOSAUR! it would have been unstoppable. all the chauvanists would have been "Well, I used to think women weren't deserving of rights, but shit... THEY HAVE THEIR OWN DINOSAUR!"

Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 313 Location: Halifax, NS

Suffragasaurus Regina!

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 11:05 am

Peter wrote:

Suffragasaurus Regina!

Hahaha!

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 11:28 am

"NICE MEN DON'T WANT THE VOTE!"

Burnsauce!!

on that guy!

Also, lots of people don't know what poutine is!

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 11:49 am

BizRodian wrote:

Also, lots of people don't know what poutine is!

Which is a shame, because it's the greatest thing the Quebecois have given us since Montreal women

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 1:15 pm

I enjoy that once in a while I will forget Ryan is Canadian and then there'll be a sudden Dino Comics reference to poutine or expiry dates.

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:11 pm

T-Rex & Nellie Mcclung: The Ultimate Team

Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 9 Location: Toronto

There's all this outrage now because there's a statue of the key women who fought for the vote in Canada, who turned out to have been way racist and for sterilizing all kinds of "undesirables". They may have also been immortalized on a stamp or a coin.

Were they just a product of their times? If so, can we condemn them?
On the other hand, can we celebrate them as human rights pioneers when they were shitting all over everyone?

This morning downer brought to you by CONtAGiOUS.

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:18 am

t-rex is a racist because he eats other dinosaurs!

T-Rex - OMG!

NO WAY!

Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 1442

Wait, they have women on computers now?

Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 66 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland

NOT ON MY WATCH, MISTER!

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 5:31 pm

CONtAGiOUS wrote:

There's all this outrage now because there's a statue of the key women who fought for the vote in Canada, who turned out to have been way racist and for sterilizing all kinds of "undesirables". They may have also been immortalized on a stamp or a coin.

Were they just a product of their times? If so, can we condemn them?
On the other hand, can we celebrate them as human rights pioneers when they were shitting all over everyone?

This morning downer brought to you by CONtAGiOUS.

But Eugenics was pretty popular at the time. It was considered a very liberal and progressive idea; I don't think you can really fault them for their context!

Oscar Schindler was an adulterer, but that doesn't make his saving of hundreds of Jews during WW2 any less important.

Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 9 Location: Toronto

I'm not necessarily disagreeing. On the other hand, though, some people of colour feel that celebrating these women for their contributions and ignoring the aspects that are not-- celebrate-able-- is uncool.

Out-Talled Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 4580

I once read an article by Chinua Achebe that said we shouldn't like Joseph Conrad's books because he was a racist.

It got me pretty angry!

Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 8:05 am

Sigh.

Sure, we could shoot ourselves in the asses, too, but it wouldn't be fun nor wise.

Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 66 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland

It would definatly be manly though..

Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 3863 Location: Utah and/or Texas

Hi Flustered Pie!

Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 3:07 am

quetzalcoatlus wrote:

there'll be a sudden Dino Comics reference to poutine or expiry dates

Uh... Americans don't have expiry dates?

Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 3:49 am

America has no concept of food going "bad". For instance, here sour milk is considered a delicacy.

No, really, we have them, except we call them "expiration dates".

Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 7:20 pm

quetzalcoatlus wrote:

For instance, here sour milk is considered a delicacy.

Except you call it sour cream to make it appetizing!