{"id":38663,"date":"2013-09-06T21:46:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T03:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/06\/because-someone-thought-it-worthwhile-and-potentially-profitable.html"},"modified":"2013-09-06T21:46:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T03:46:46","slug":"because-someone-thought-it-worthwhile-and-potentially-profitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/06\/because-someone-thought-it-worthwhile-and-potentially-profitable.html","title":{"rendered":"Because someone thought it worthwhile, and potentially profitable"},"content":{"rendered":"
But, of course, there's no such thing as "rape culture" and everyone knows something like this is utterly wrong and that any company that would come up with it, even as a "pilot" to see how it would work in a highly public<\/i> setting would surely be shunned by society, despite claiming they don't "condone" it, and quickly go out of business.<\/p>\n

Right?<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +George Wiman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Every so often i encounter an apologist who thinks rape culture is a myth. And this decal may be – technically – legal. But the driver of the truck deserves to be shunned. Really, fellas, if one of your friends puts anything like this on their truck, make them explain the joke. Make them tell you, in detail, why it's supposed to be funny.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Trompe-l’\u0153il<\/a>
\n But they’re much funnier in Texas than those lame-ass Nova Scotians. The hilarious thing to do in Texas is stick a decal on the tailgate of your pickup that makes it look as if there’s a woman tied…\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But, of course, there's no such thing as "rape culture" and everyone knows something like this is utterly wrong and that any company that would come up with it, even as a "pilot" to see how it would work in a highly public setting would surely be shunned by society, despite claiming they don't "condone" … Continue reading “Because someone thought it worthwhile, and potentially profitable”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137260,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/28\/sixteen-candles-and-rape-culture.html","url_meta":{"origin":38663,"position":0},"title":""Sixteen Candles" and rape culture","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Sep-18 8:59am","format":false,"excerpt":"I will confess I have never seen the rom-com classic of 1984, Sixteen Candles. 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