Metal Reviews

No, the only thing I have a problem with is the fact you seem to support the mutilation of women. If that video was fake, fine, no harm, no foul. But you continuously say that westerners have no right to shove our culture down others' throats, even when I bring up things like female genital mutilation. Can you honestly sit there and say that you think the world at large has no right to try and help the women in those cultures who want to make a change? That's what western-based human and women's rights organizations are doing; working with women who belong to those cultures. Are you really saying that that's wrong?

You obviously don't support the war in Iraq, which I think is admirable; I also opposed it from the beginning. I don't think it was at all necessary for us to go in to Iraq; no one asked us, there was no clear and present danger to America. I don't understand why you kept bringing that issue up as if I was arguing with you, unless your command of your native tongue has atrophied so much that you can't understand what I'm trying to communicate.

You say you get to travel like it's something I would envy. Are you trying to foist your values on me? Or are you assuming that just because we're technically part of the same culture, we have the same outlook, the same goals in life, the same way of dealing with the world? Even two people raised in the same culture are different, which, incidentally, is why you can't make broad claims based on culture having to do with, say, what styles of government can work in a given country.

As for my little term of endearment, I call everyone honey, even in real life. If I had been trying to be condescending, I'd have let my four years in the south take over and called you "boy."

Another thing... I do not get why you keep mentioning the abolishment of apartheid as so catastrophic. My ex is South African, and she was alive before and after the change (and only moved to Canada three years ago)... she likes Mandela, and thinks that he made South Africa a better place. Where exactly are you getting your opinions from on the matter...

Yes, well, that's largely remnants of apartheid. Perhaps most of that still exists, but at least they're equals by law now... at least it's possible for their society to eventually balance out. Just because a solution doesn't fix something completely overnight, does not mean that it's not worth the effort.

And yes, she is white. Do you think a black South African would say otherwise? ... I don't.

nothing might have changed for the blacks since apartheid ended (although I believe they're better off now) but it's also a matter of principle. Apartheid bad, Mandela good.

Basically why I was in favour of the Iraq invasion - Saddam bad, democracy, flawed but overall pretty good.

Did I hear a can of worms opening?

They have another cool series where they just run around ripping tops and skirts off of women all over Tokyo. As meany times I have been there though I have never seen a porn shooting on a train or some girl squatting in the middle of the street and being filmed. Life is long though.

I lived in Tokyo for a few years and I NEVER saw any porn shootings or anything like that in the streets. It would be my strong guess that it was filmed in a studio and meant to look real. This is the same country that tried to alleviate the "train groping" problem by setting up bars that look like trains and allowing you to grope the waitresses.

that would be the worst job ever lol

I randomly grope myself all of th.......oh shit.

Yeah actually I do if they were still poor and had no job. The would probably look at you like "wtf, when did Apartheid end?"

What is equal? Because Black are in power but all the majority is still fucking dirt poor, has no job and is generally lawless? Now there is 3 classes, MC white, Blacks in Power and everyone else that was shit on before........

And it isn't "remanants" of Apartheid the article I read was pointing out that everything was even worse now (crime, unemployment, rape, etc...) and no, it was general news wire and not White Power weekly before I get accused of that.