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WHAT DO YOU think of when somebody says that you run like a girl? Or throw like a girl?
It has negative connotations, right?
But why?
When did it become a slur? Why is it still one?
Those are the questions that Proctor and Gamble are asking in its latest ad for its Always products.
Yes, it’s an American commercial so the company have produced it to sell its brand. But, we have to admit, they’ve done it well.
A studio was set up and a group of adults and teens were asked to act out what it means to do something “like a girl”.
This is one young woman, “running like a girl”.
Here’s a man, “fighting like a girl”.
But what do girls think of themselves and other girls?
Here’s one reaction when a young girl was asked to “run like a girl”.
She’s not holding back for any negative stereotype.
Nor is this girl, who is fighting like a girl.
The ad ends with a message that all girls should keep running like girls, hitting like girls, throwing like girls and fighting like girls.
“Keep doing it ’cause it’s working. If somebody else says that running like a girl, or kicking like a girl, or shooting like a girl is something that you shouldn’t be doing, that’s their problem. Because if you’re still scoring, and you’re still getting to the ball on time, and you’re still being first, you’re doing it right. It doesn’t matter what they say.
I mean, yes, I kick like a girl, and I swim like a girl, and I walk like a girl, and I wake up in the morning like a girl because I am a girl. And that is not something that I should be ashamed of, so I’m going to do it, anyway. That’s what they should do.”
Here’s the full video.
via Business Insider
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Would it be too hard to put a gps tracking device into an ATM?
@artie kelly: Yes but what if the ATM just wanted to go for an evening stroll?
@artie kelly: exactly what I was thinking. And surely some sort of alarm notification once it has been “removed” from the wall. Banks love their money so much I’m surprised there isn’t that kind of setup
@Neil Mac: Banks love YOUR money. They’ve got none of their own, remember?
@Michael Lynch: well said.
Usually it’s the bank who rob the public.
Someone forgot their atm card again
The thieves got away with nothing as the ATM was empty of funds because the tight Caaaavan heures keep all their money under the mattress.
Matter of time before discount stores are selling diggers
‘Thieves rob ATM without using a digger’. Now that will be newsworthy!
@P Mc G: it’s amazing them Cavan people trust the banks
Good news! With the corruption in this country from the top down, why not join the Frey and make the best of it.
Border rats. Hard Brexit is most welcome.
Will the hard border will put a stop to this?
@Random_paddy: one in Cavan ,one in Dungannon ,both sides of the border
Ha, makes a change though. Usually they just walked in and took it. Ffs that bank has been robbed 2 or 3 times in the last 10 years. Sure there used to be a another bank across the road from it. One year they robbed that one and then went across the street to the other and robbed it before getting away.
Do these people not realise that they have security features that destroy the money inside?
@Dan Skelton: ways around everything
@Dan Skelton: they actually open it under water and the ink is oil based and floats to the top then they wash the notes with vanish from the supermarket.
@Eoin Kenny: No, the container has no top and simply spills dye when the machine is moved over a certain degree. Banks deserve to be hit like this when they don’t install the dye in all machines.
Would it be too hard to put a gps tracking device on atms??
Why is there no automatic alarm built in to ATM machines or a GPS tracker??
So what’s new?
ATMs need to be removed from small towns and placed in Garda stations.
@Tim McCormack29: or Garda stations with permanent officers need to be placed in small towns. Having them in Garda stations would not suit a lot of people
@Tim McCormack29:
Would you trust the Gardai ?
@Barry Foster:
Far more than I would trust the banks.
@Tim McCormack29: is there not a Garda station in Kingscourt? Or is it one of those unmanned ones..
Election funding!
How about a self destruct charge which would go up 20 seconds after the atm was removed…..a nice big one!!
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