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(CBC) Misc Female reporter says she doesn't feel like a woman when she's abroad   (cbc.ca) divider line 83
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dinch 2010-03-11 10:01:10 PM  
Somebody should pinch her ass.

 
FirstNationalBastard [TotalFark] 2010-03-11 10:02:01 PM  
I don't know how many time I've told those boys, never call chicks broads.

 
cold_war_relic 2010-03-11 10:02:44 PM  
dinch: Somebody should pinch her ass.

Or call her "sugar-tits".

 
The Damned 2010-03-11 10:02:48 PM  
Something about saying "boobies" on Fark seems wrong.

Not wrong as in sexist, wrong as in there's this feeling in the back of my mind that doing so results in some sort of minor inconvenience.

I just can't place it.

 
tuffsnake [TotalFark] 2010-03-11 10:03:58 PM  
Understands completely:

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AppleOptionEsc 2010-03-11 10:05:00 PM  
i106.photobucket.com

 
fearmongert 2010-03-11 10:06:01 PM  
Does she cry during the lap dance?

/it's always better when they cry

 
fastfxr 2010-03-11 10:07:18 PM  
*FINALLY* humor returns to Fark.


5th grade humor, but 'tis funny nonetheless. +1


/anti-TF crusader

 
Balchinian 2010-03-11 10:08:17 PM  

 
Obscure Login 2010-03-11 10:09:13 PM  
Nice headline subby. Here, enjoy this worthless +1 for making this liter chortle.

 
cuzsis 2010-03-11 10:10:07 PM  
So they are treated better than the local women. That's not a bad thing, geeze!

Heaven forbid they wash their own *socks*! Will the trials never end?!

/whiny article
//esp. considering they are covering folks who do this for months and *years* at a time.

 
Egalitarian 2010-03-11 10:10:52 PM  
She doesn't feel like a LOCAL woman, subby, and she feels isolated being the only Western female around in some situations.

Western female reporters don't have to wear veils and have a lot more freedom, but it must also be pretty lonely.

 
tripperday 2010-03-11 10:10:52 PM  
This is old news. Most people in other countries recognize that even though their women may act a certain way, American and Canadian women don't and that difference is respected.

 
Degenz 2010-03-11 10:10:57 PM  
she needs a good Drudging
www.gluckman.com

 
KillAllHumans 2010-03-11 10:11:15 PM  
and she Won't go to harlem, in lincolns or fords

 
fastfxr 2010-03-11 10:12:32 PM  
Question--how do I know if this was submitted by a TF or not? It's funny enough it almost HAS to be a non-TF submitter.

 
TedNigma 2010-03-11 10:13:13 PM  
Unfortunately I understand exactly how she feels.

And anybody who has felt the fiery eyes of predators on their necks, does also.

 
bbfreak 2010-03-11 10:13:23 PM  
Boohoo, cuzsis: So they are treated better than the local women. That's not a bad thing, geeze!

Heaven forbid they wash their own *socks*! Will the trials never end?!

/whiny article
//esp. considering they are covering folks who do this for months and *years* at a time.


Yeah, no doubt the female soldiers would like a word with them. At least they get to go home.

 
RockIsDead 2010-03-11 10:16:17 PM  
You know if I was a working reporter woman and I went to a culture where women are prevented from working or even being seen I'd be totally surprised to feel different too!

 
StoPPeRmobile 2010-03-11 10:18:55 PM  
Thank you subby.

/The lutz, that's why we do things.

 
aearra 2010-03-11 10:19:08 PM  
Typical CBC staff. Quality work in the most difficult of situations. Watch The National to see what professionalism is.

 
rhiannon [TotalFark] 2010-03-11 10:19:08 PM  
"Fung recalls spending nights on a cot in the desert in Afghanistan surrounded by male soldiers."

Oh I bet she does.

 
Obnox 2010-03-11 10:21:02 PM  
I bet she sounds like a little squeaky toy in the sack.

 
cats4rent 2010-03-11 10:25:03 PM  
she just needs a good spanking.

 
AlwaysRightBoy [TotalFark] 2010-03-11 10:29:38 PM  
When I go on abroad, I sail there first.
/just lickin the winds of fortune

 
rawkus 2010-03-11 10:33:44 PM  
The job is as "unglamourous as you can possibly imagine," Ayed said. "You're eating out of cans, washing your own socks. We're doing everything for ourselves."

holy crap, that's insane! i always assumed that as soon as you become a reporter you get a coterie of valets to do your laundry and present you nightly with pepper-crusted filet mignon in a red wine reduction! i mean, obviously, why else would someone choose reporting as a profession?

/has no idea how pepper-crusted filet mignon in a red wine reduction tastes
//just googled filet mignon for recipes

 
SlothB77 2010-03-11 10:40:42 PM  
what you did there, subby. i see it.

 
Boritom [TotalFark] 2010-03-11 10:40:49 PM  
I hate it when some dame complains about bein' abroad.

That's why the lady is a tramp.

(C) 1952 Sinatra Aesthetics Inc.

 
ramen_for_all 2010-03-11 10:42:41 PM  
Dude, don't be sexist. Biatches hate that.

 
R.A.Danny [TotalFark] 2010-03-11 10:48:44 PM  
Each and every one of you is a bunch of misogynists.

 
Aquapope 2010-03-11 10:51:46 PM  
Being clearly not men, they aren't considered men. Acting clearly not like local women, they're not treated like women. I understand that, I don't condone that. The solution is not to stop sending women, who seem to be competent and intelligent, but to stop the fundie farks who buy into this shiat by helping to uplift the local women (see: micro-loans) where we can.

 
strathmeyer 2010-03-11 10:53:43 PM  
R.A.Danny: Each and every one of you is a bunch of misogynists.

Well, real men are misogynists.

 
dinch 2010-03-11 10:53:54 PM  
IonBeam2: Well I can understand them being treated like they're not the same as Haitian women. Let's face it, black women usually don't look very much like women.

Sooooo... is your experience with black women limited to 1960's editions of National Geographic?

 
msimon8 2010-03-11 10:54:22 PM  
MichianaJerk: She's not a call girl when she is dead..she's a whore.

Actually, when they're dead, they're hookers.

 
dinch 2010-03-11 10:56:05 PM  
strathmeyer: R.A.Danny: Each and every one of you is a bunch of misogynists.

Well, real men are misogynists.


Somebody should pinch her ass too while they're at it.

 
Porous Horace 2010-03-11 10:59:30 PM  
I wash my socks in a red wine reduction.

 
Brick-House 2010-03-11 11:05:17 PM  
I say she needs a second opinion, so bring the broad here and let me see if she feels like a women.

 
we_hates 2010-03-11 11:06:50 PM  
I'd make her feel like third sex, maybe even on the same night as the first and second.

 
porterm 2010-03-11 11:09:23 PM  
TedNigma: Unfortunately I understand exactly how she feels.

And anybody who has felt the fiery eyes of predators on their necks, does also.


i feel that every day at work,got damm,how did we become such a stabby folk?

 
doglover [TotalFark] 2010-03-11 11:11:49 PM  
TedNigma: Unfortunately I understand exactly how she feels.

And anybody who has felt the fiery eyes of predators on their necks, does also.


American journalists.... I'd certainly avoid it male, female, or other.

 
Special Guest 2010-03-11 11:14:17 PM  
"Yes, sometimes my lyrics are sexist but you lovely biatches and hoes should know I'm trying to correct this."

 
Indiakim 2010-03-11 11:17:26 PM  
I wash my socks in a red wine reduction.
I adore you.

 
DocRoberts 2010-03-11 11:17:51 PM  
I feel like a woman right now. Sure would be nice if someone delivered one to me (preferably freshly bathed).

 
Giblet 2010-03-11 11:18:57 PM  
A lot of American women - compared with women in other countries - are about as feminine as a retired Russian weightlifter with rabies.

 
dead_dangler 2010-03-11 11:19:30 PM  
i621.photobucket.com

 
Mock26 2010-03-11 11:25:52 PM  
Meh, kind of want Nahlah Ayed. I will treat her as if she were the only woman alive and put her on a pedestal. One that is about waist high.

 
magic_patch 2010-03-11 11:31:49 PM  
Does this third sex have a fourth hole?

/Giggity

 
SirEattonHogg 2010-03-11 11:36:44 PM  
Waaaaaahhhhh.... Big farking deal.

No one threatened them to do this job. These reporters gets bragging rights, see a culture and country few people get to see. Plus, they probably get paid extra hazard pay. That one chick who got kidnapped - well, that's rough... but the chances are fairly low of that happening, she just had bad luck.

After you spend a month or two washing your socks in a tin can in "the field", you probably get some off time to drink a few and chill out at the Hilton Lounge in Bombay, Dubai, Tokyo or wherever is much nicer.

Pffft. Yeah, no sympathy here.

 
Oznog 2010-03-11 11:44:38 PM  
Actually I'm kind of fascinated, now that she points it out.

There are plenty of male-dominated cultures with very oppressive practices for their own women. And they are proudly enforced. However, they're often not shocked or threatened by a foreign woman doing things that would never be allowed of a local woman- having a job, driving, ordering people around, not wearing a veil.

You could say it's just that the average man in the street isn't in a position to do anything about "the foreign woman", but I get the impression that they're not actually offended or threatened on a level which would need to be responded to.

That requires some thinking. I mean, the assumption has always been that they're oppressing women as a gender, but apparently "not as such", they're only bearing oppressive attitudes towards local women they identify with as being part of their community?

 
CornFedIowan 2010-03-11 11:59:10 PM  
FirstNationalBastard: I don't know how many time I've told those boys, never call chicks broads.

Came for the UHF, leaving happy.

 
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