Gap kids ad racist or not?
Apr 14th 2016, 4:27 am
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Re: Gap kids ad racist or not?
Who gets to decide?
Apr 14th 2016, 5:27 am
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Re: Gap kids ad racist or not?
Activists?
Apr 14th 2016, 5:38 am
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Re: Gap kids ad racist or not?
I feel slightly racist typing using black font and as I do not wish to offend am going to revert to unseen non racist font....
I hope I did not offend with my comments, apologies if you cannot see them because you have racist vision and can only view in black font.
I hope I did not offend with my comments, apologies if you cannot see them because you have racist vision and can only view in black font.
Apr 14th 2016, 5:41 am
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Re: Gap kids ad racist or not?
BE is a Safe Space.
Apr 14th 2016, 5:42 am
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Re: Gap kids ad racist or not?
Apr 14th 2016, 6:24 am
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Re: Gap kids ad racist or not?
The mind of the beholder!
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Apr 14th 2016, 6:38 am
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Re: Gap kids ad racist or not?
Don't ask me to explain what the point is in gendered nouns, but it's something I remember from Latin, French and German in school. German also has 'neutral' ones too, as far as I remember.
Anyway, on topic - how dare a white girl be older and taller than a black girl ... no, seriously, not even remotely racist, so whoever says it is needs to **** off, find their safe space and never leave it.
On leggings, my wife's arse looks great in them, that's all I care about.
Apr 14th 2016, 6:49 am
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Re: Gap kids ad racist or not?
It doesn't. French has gendered nouns. Fromage is masculine but the adjective 'petite' is the feminine form, and 'petit' (sans 'e') is more correct. Her daughter appears to have been being pedantic about the correct French to use - I'd have thought you would have approved. .....
Apr 14th 2016, 6:56 am
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Apr 14th 2016, 6:59 am
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Apr 14th 2016, 9:38 am
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Re: Gap kids ad racist or not?
Apr 14th 2016, 6:19 pm
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Re: Gap kids ad racist or not?
As in, who got to decide that cheese was masculine?
Apr 15th 2016, 1:40 am
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Re: Gap kids ad racist or not?
I think it's arbitrary. I don't really understand it myself, I just learned which words were 'le' words and which were 'la' words and didn't give it much thought beyond that.
