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Gormy Cuss

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2. It certainly reinforces the notion of women as commodities

Reply to Lunacee_2013 (Original post)

Mon Mar 31, 2014, 12:47 PM

Mar 2014

rather than individuals with their own agency. The whole notion of offering discounts to women in order for the bar to extract more money from the male customers is shockingly anachronistic.

However, the expectation that after men buy them drinks the women have an obligation to have sex with them, that smacks of rape culture.

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Is this a part of rape culture? [View all] Lunacee_2013 Mar 2014 OP

The line can be fuzzy at times Warpy Mar 2014 #1

It certainly reinforces the notion of women as commodities Gormy Cuss Mar 2014 #2