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Ever-rising height of car bonnets a ‘clear threat’ to children, report says
(www.theguardian.com)
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checkmate feminists
You will never escape samsara.
Hey, we are boiling together in the pot after all Rigatoni eh?
do not make me hungry for squirrel pasta
This isn't a gotcha. It's a literal fact.
People of all types - brown, white, black, man, woman, + - contribute to the problem.
Yes, the truck owners are majority men, but who makes the ads, who designs the trucks, who approves the designs?
"Leftists" will stop at nothing to be sexist as long as its against the "in" group. For some reason, we are ok with that.
This reminds me of a B52 meme... On the right side is the conservative B52 with Nazi and confederate symbols. On the left is the Liberal B52 with feminist and LGBTQ+ symbols ... Both B52's are raining hellfire on some minority because capitalist dictatorship masquerading as "democracy".