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Notes on Stupidity
Mar. 16th, 2007 02:06 pmToday's pieces of idiocy:
1) I am not at liberty to say what I'm up to at work specifically, but suffice it to say that we are starting work on a project to increase foreign direct investment in a country that is at war and has no government. Just where people want to do business, right?
2) Locked-door bathroom laws and policies: these are supposedly in place to protect women by putting a lock on women's room doors. How do these protect anyone? Every business I know that operates under a locked-door law or policy has a set of women's room keys in an easily accessible place at the front (such as hanging on the wall just inside the office door), so even supposing that this were in any way an effective means of protecting women... the people most likely to assault you (that is, people you know who are of a similar social standing to yours) could get the keys easily, often without any kind of procedure or oversight at all. In fact, anyone at all can get them.
3) Let me preface this by saying that I hate tobacco and all its works. But telling tobacco companies they can't advertise anywhere is just dumb. It's a legal substance. If you want to illegalize it, illegalize it. Otherwise, let a company do its business. The latest outcry is over Camel marketing to women. Women are so vulnerable! We must protect them from evil tobacco! This rates among the most sexist lines of argument we've seen from Congress in a long time - and Congress produces a huge number of sexist arguments on a daily basis.
1) I am not at liberty to say what I'm up to at work specifically, but suffice it to say that we are starting work on a project to increase foreign direct investment in a country that is at war and has no government. Just where people want to do business, right?
2) Locked-door bathroom laws and policies: these are supposedly in place to protect women by putting a lock on women's room doors. How do these protect anyone? Every business I know that operates under a locked-door law or policy has a set of women's room keys in an easily accessible place at the front (such as hanging on the wall just inside the office door), so even supposing that this were in any way an effective means of protecting women... the people most likely to assault you (that is, people you know who are of a similar social standing to yours) could get the keys easily, often without any kind of procedure or oversight at all. In fact, anyone at all can get them.
3) Let me preface this by saying that I hate tobacco and all its works. But telling tobacco companies they can't advertise anywhere is just dumb. It's a legal substance. If you want to illegalize it, illegalize it. Otherwise, let a company do its business. The latest outcry is over Camel marketing to women. Women are so vulnerable! We must protect them from evil tobacco! This rates among the most sexist lines of argument we've seen from Congress in a long time - and Congress produces a huge number of sexist arguments on a daily basis.
