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  1. Fat Controller

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    I'd have enough trouble controlling my feet let alone having to control other body parts at the same time, so I'd be hopeless at it.
     
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      I think you might mean harem, haram is Arabic for taboo.
      I'm not sure commodity can be applied to a woman's eggs; to my mind a commodity is something freely tradable such as oil, gas, copper, maize etc.
       
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        See, I was right - cakes and scones are freely tradeable. ;)
         
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          Men have harems because women are a commodity to be picked up and put down as desired. US Mormons do it too.

          As for toxic masculinity I believe it refers to behaviours such as hazing women, assaulting women, using date rape drugs, having a total lack of respect for any girl or woman. It is clear that not all men go around harassing women but I don't know any woman who hasn't been harassed by males at some time in her life.

          Feminists have worked hard for decades to improve the rights of wome in society, industry and the law but still they get beaten, raped, molested, murdered on a daily basis. In the US it's 3 a day. In the UK it's 1 every 3 days. Then we have work and play - women still paid less than men, women promoted less than men and facing harassment of other kinds in toxic male environments.

          As for the BBC, it is an equal opportunities employer, hence the number of women on radio, TV and behind the scenes as well as men and women from non-white ethnic groups and people with handicaps such as being blind or needing a wheelchair. It doesn't get all its focus or news reporting right but it's doing well offering opportnity.
           
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          Women won't get pregnant if dancing the tango with me!!!!

          Why, well no balls and i can't do the tango :heehee:
           
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            Nope, I googled to make sure it could be used in that way, and yep, it could.
             

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