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Ms. Monopoly — the World’s Dumbest Board Game
National Review ^ | 9/12/2019 | Madeleine Kearns

Posted on 09/12/2019 4:23:45 AM PDT by simpson96

In talking with feminists, I’ve noticed two types.

Stereotypes? No! Types. (Please read what I’m actually writing.)

First, the giving sort. This feminist spends her time helping women escape unjust and (often horrifyingly) abusive situations, from exclusion in education and employment to domestic violence, (snip) I admire her greatly.

Second, the silly sort. This feminist lectures the nice man at the station who only asked if she needed help with her suitcase; demands that a pointless statue of a girl be erected in front of an even more pointless statue of a bull; and sits round a boardroom table, in a fancy office, in a first-world country, eating all the cookies, and exclaiming loudly, “You know what feminism today really needs?” — at which point her male colleagues all slump in their chairs. “It needs Ms. Monopoly! The first game where women make more than men!”(snip)

The way Ms. Monopoly works is that, as players pass Go, females are given 40 more Monopoly bucks than males. (It’s worth noting here that the games’ creators seem to assume only two genders.) The idea behind this, it would appear, is to plaster over an imaginary gender pay gap (in the real world) with an imaginary gender pay gap (in the game).

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To: simpson96

Leftists can’t separate fact from fiction. They create fiction to represent what they want to happen. They want women to be paid a higher rate than men.

Since gender is fluid, a player can change genders during the game. Several times. Does the pay change too?


21 posted on 09/12/2019 5:21:54 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: VanDeKoik

No, it’s not.

Just more anti-male social engineering nonsense.
What if they made White Monopoly?
No Jews Monopoly?


22 posted on 09/12/2019 5:25:10 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: a fool in paradise

Mainly coupons for 10% off insulin!


23 posted on 09/12/2019 5:25:12 AM PDT by VanDeKoik ( In heap big peace pipe)
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To: simpson96

Do the women pay 3 times as much for their coffee?


24 posted on 09/12/2019 5:29:13 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: VanDeKoik

Exactly. Instead of pop-culture themes based on movies they’re basing them on social justice themes... and they’re hilarious for what they provoke from the PC mind.


25 posted on 09/12/2019 5:40:28 AM PDT by Frapster ("Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.")
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To: simpson96

Chance Card:”You need to buy a new car so you sleep with your boss to get a raise...collect 10k”


26 posted on 09/12/2019 5:44:00 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Chode

“and if only girls are playing?”

Erk! (coffee to keyboard, direct hit!)
LOLOLOL!
You mean, no men to defeat, humiliate, or emasculate?
Where’s the fun in THAT?


27 posted on 09/12/2019 6:16:43 AM PDT by mumblypeg
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To: Vaquero

Saw that last night on Laura’s program. Gave me a good laugh.............


28 posted on 09/12/2019 6:28:03 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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To: simpson96

In the screen shots of the board (not in this article) the “Go To Jail” cop and the guy behind bars in jail are the same iconic images from 1935.

I’ll keep my 1985 set that still has a Christmas themed Community Chest Card, and Luxury Tax is still at $75.


29 posted on 09/12/2019 6:32:38 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("...a choice between Woke-fevered Democrats and Koch-funded Republicans is insufficient."-Mark Steyn)
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To: a fool in paradise

The Gold Digger pickaxe was a nice touch as well.


30 posted on 09/12/2019 7:09:35 AM PDT by BipolarBob
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To: Zathras

Community Chest: You want a start in politics, so you sit on the mayor’s “staff”.


31 posted on 09/12/2019 7:16:01 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: simpson96

The box top is decidedly false advertising. The women should all be blonds.


32 posted on 09/12/2019 7:24:03 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: a fool in paradise

And what if the man identifies as a woman? At least for the duration of the game.


33 posted on 09/12/2019 7:25:17 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: simpson96

34 posted on 09/12/2019 7:26:29 AM PDT by Spruce
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To: kanawa

Love her, and Sydney Watson, and even Shoe on Head is pretty good, though Shoe still hasn’t realized she’s actually more conservative than leftist...


35 posted on 09/12/2019 7:46:15 AM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: simpson96

At a very nice restaurant my wife and I visit, a guy at a grand piano plays oldies. Exiting, I mentioned an Anne Murray number he’d played earlier. I opined that the feminists must hate Anne Murray’s guts. #1, she’s pretty. #2 she has a nice voice and knows how to use it. And #3, most of her songs portray a woman madly in love with a man. He smiled and said, “Well we can’t have THAT, can we?” And began playing, You Needed Me.


36 posted on 09/12/2019 7:49:23 AM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: simpson96

Buy it. Don’t open it. Save it. It’ll be worth a fortune down the road.


37 posted on 09/12/2019 8:57:06 AM PDT by o-n-money
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To: Spruce

That is hilarious.


38 posted on 09/12/2019 9:01:50 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world but loses his soul?)
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To: Don W
I'll be checking out the two ladies you mentioned.

Another one I follow is Daisy Cousens from Australia.

She always dresses nicely, is pleasantly feminine and has great diction.

39 posted on 09/12/2019 12:05:09 PM PDT by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal (NorthernSentinel))
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To: mumblypeg

100%


40 posted on 09/12/2019 3:16:48 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors, and come heavily armed!)
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