Gendanken said:
I'm a little tired of people saying America lacks 'culture' as if dreadlocks and patchouli were "culture" and hamburgers not. What, we need to be brown and fuzzy with exotic beads and spicy food to be truly ‘cultural’?
My point exactly.
Although, I'm not so sure that I'd call McDonalds a harbinger of our culture. At least not to the degree with which it is generally looked upon by outsiders as.
It's just burgers.
Ronald McDonaldland is not 'art'. It's just a way of making a turd.
However. In this, it is culture. Part of American culture is 'making a turd' rather than seeking out some 'culture'-filled restaurant serving snails and frogs legs (unless you want to impress someone with your sense of culture, that is...)
America is a utilitarian environment and McDonalds (as well as other 'fast food' restaurants) is an icon of this utilitarianism.
It is this utilitarianism that makes American English the best language for scientific papers (although I suppose this might be disputed). We're a very no-nonsense people. We don't put on many airs.
Of course. The country has been going through a vast cultural flux over the past 50 years. Decadence sinks in. McDonald's is taken as a sign of decandence, but I don't think it is. I think it's a victim of it.
I love the irony in men that have beat and controlled a woman's mind and body from the first day he introduced his degenerate sex ..........and would assume she'd be actually enjoying sex with his body.
I'm sure you realize that the real issue is paternity (and 'pure' women, of course...) rather than enjoyment. Well. At least in the case of sewing the damn thing shut. I suppose removing the clitoris and labia and depriving her of enjoyment would make her less likely to cheat.
The truth is that a women enjoys cheating more than sex with her partner. She is also likelier to impregnate because of it.
So. In this perhaps it is effective.
I've seen this done, by the way. Pictures. Had a link to a web site that showed pictures of various operations, had been planning on posting it, but the site was a geo-cities page and isn't there anymore.
Gross stuff.
Poor labia.