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Nintendo's 'Captain Toad' Will Teach Boys To [Not] Be Men
Forbes ^ | 12/01/2014 @ 10:03AM | Jordan Shapiro

Posted on 12/01/2014 8:18:17 AM PST by BenLurkin

For example, one thing I’m concerned about is the damsel in distress trope. In particular, it seems problematic that Princess Peach has been kidnapped in 12 out of 19 games in the Super Mario series

Why does that matter? Because it sends the wrong message to my sons (seven and nine years old). I don’t want to raise average men. I want to raise politically progressive individuals who are compassionate, tolerant, and patient. I want to make sure my boys are not beholden to, nor complicit in perpetuating, gender-normative (and/or hetero-normative) social constructions.

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To: BenLurkin

21 posted on 12/01/2014 8:38:38 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Arkansas Toothpick

So his sons will grow up and be hairdressers or interior decorators.

No problem.


22 posted on 12/01/2014 8:38:48 AM PST by Signalman
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To: Arkansas Toothpick

I really did too, at first, and thought it was pretty good satire. Unfortunately, this dweeb is serious.


23 posted on 12/01/2014 8:39:49 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: longtermmemmory
She is no mother.

Indeed, she is a father (pics above). Which makes it even worse.

24 posted on 12/01/2014 8:40:44 AM PST by Moltke ("The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution if you only know how to use it.")
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To: RightGeek
Don't try to paint a whole generation as "Pajama Boy"

Remember: This guy volunteered.

25 posted on 12/01/2014 8:41:53 AM PST by NorthMountain
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To: BenLurkin
I want to make sure my boys are not beholden to, nor complicit in perpetuating, gender-normative (and/or hetero-normative) social constructions.

This sounds like gibberish but I know what he means. He wants his boys to grow up to be sissies.

Young people at certain age like to rebel against their parents. I could see Jordan Shapiro's kids rebelling against their dear old dad by becoming Navy Seals or MMA fighters.
26 posted on 12/01/2014 8:42:30 AM PST by Ticonderoga34
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To: BenLurkin

Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be Jordan.


27 posted on 12/01/2014 8:42:42 AM PST by IronJack
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To: BenLurkin

This is a prime example of why all liberals must be placed into concentration camps and worked until death. I’m sorry but there is no other recourse left. They need to be exterminated.


28 posted on 12/01/2014 8:43:20 AM PST by Minsc
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To: BenLurkin

Remember, you dumb hippie, that children typically revolt against their parents. Your sons are likely to be football players or soldiers.


29 posted on 12/01/2014 8:44:25 AM PST by proxy_user
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To: Minsc

Sadly, liberals in this country seem to outnumber the Americans at the moment. Perhaps your plan is best deferred until that situation is reversed.


30 posted on 12/01/2014 8:46:48 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: NorthMountain

1 you assume he did not adopt.

either way he is a fool. fools should not be suffered gladly.


31 posted on 12/01/2014 8:48:51 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Minsc
This is a prime example of why all liberals must be placed into concentration camps and worked until death. I’m sorry but there is no other recourse left. They need to be exterminated.

I agree with you up to the point where you said they needed to be worked to death.

Liberal work is worthless. No need to work them. Just put them down with a single shot behind the ear.

32 posted on 12/01/2014 8:49:50 AM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Deciding Female Criminal Guilt By How Hot They Are Since 1999 !)
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To: Da Coyote

“Wow, can ya insert any more meaningless liberal word collections containing absolutely no meaningful information in there?”

He did forget to make it all “sustainable”.


33 posted on 12/01/2014 8:50:40 AM PST by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: NorthMountain

M-4 and M-79 combo. Pretty neat.


34 posted on 12/01/2014 8:52:45 AM PST by onedoug
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To: BenLurkin

Good Lord what kind of fag thinks like this?


35 posted on 12/01/2014 8:54:31 AM PST by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!)
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To: onedoug

M203 grenade launcher ... attaches under the M4/M14 ... gives the soldier more options when it’s time to ruin Achmed’s day.


36 posted on 12/01/2014 8:57:57 AM PST by NorthMountain
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To: BenLurkin
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I don’t want to raise average men. I want to raise politically progressive individuals who are compassionate, tolerant, and patient. I want to make sure my boys are not beholden to, nor complicit in perpetuating, gender-normative (and/or hetero-normative) social constructions.



It's called civilization, dipwad. Pick up a hod or a shovel, or get out of the way.
37 posted on 12/01/2014 8:59:45 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: envisio
Good Lord what kind of fag thinks like this?

Obviously, the kind that Steve Forbes doesn't mind hosting in the pages of his end-table paperweight.

38 posted on 12/01/2014 9:01:04 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: BenLurkin

Three movies to watch with you boys that will show them how to be men:

Broken Trail

Open Range

Secondhand Lions


39 posted on 12/01/2014 9:01:05 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: longtermmemmory
you assume he did not adopt.

1) He could actually be the boys' biological progenitor, as unlikely as that may seem.

2) Wifey-poo has been hooking up with actual men, while stubble-boy has been playing inane games and fantasizing about non-hetero-normative males.

3) Adoption ... poor kids ...

4) ???

40 posted on 12/01/2014 9:03:14 AM PST by NorthMountain
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