Commenter Thos has discovered that the new Canadian $100 bill, which commemorates the discovery of insulin, features a picture of a young, attractive woman in front of a microscope, suggesting that she is the person who discovered the hormone, which has saved the lives of countless diabetics.
However, the person who actually discovered insulin was a man (surprised?). Frederick Banting, who was born on a farm in Ontario, was a war hero and orthopedic surgeon at a children’s hospital in Toronto. Later, he became a painter, and then contributed to the WWII war effort, meeting his untimely demise in a plane crash en route to a test of a new flying suit he’d developed. He was an all-around impressive man, and someone Canadians have every right to be proud of. So why was he left off the bill commemorating the discovery of insulin in favor of some fictitious female scientist?
The only answer I can think of is that to some Canadian bureaucrat, historical accuracy and national honor take a back seat to pushing a deceptive agenda. If any man deserves better than to be snubbed in the furtherance of a lie, it is Frederick Banting, the youngest person to ever receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Here’s the real discoverer:
It was bad enough when MSNBC deceptively portrayed female factory workers in a training drill as heroic Pearl Harbor firefighters, but in stealing the legacy of a national hero, this is worse. Some feminists suggested I was hyperbolic in comparing the Pearl Harbor fake to Soviet tactics, but I wonder whether even the Bolsheviks would have gone so far as to put such a blatantly deceptive picture on their currency.
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Credit where credit’s due, Bill. It was commenter Thos who first exposed this outrageous act of historical revisionism, though I did spend a few minutes determining exactly who the man on the $100 bill is – former Canadian prime minister Sir Robert Borden.
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Enjoy your Insulin and contraception while it lasts bitches, it won’t be around for much longer.
Coming to the rest of the west within 5 years max:
Consequences of Collapse: Access to Critical Medicines Is Disappearing in Greece
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Well it seems a rather androgynous figure to me, not that invalidates your point.
Those were different times, when men and work ethics were valued.
Today the young and brighter minds do other things, like developing games for iPhone, and how blame them. Wonder why there is not a cure for cancer or AIDS yet.
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Click here . Save the image to your computer and open with the graphics application of your choice. The fictitious sexy science girl has a large ear-ring that sets off her slightly androgynous sassy haircut.
The evil bitches responsible for this travesty spent many, many hours getting this image JUST right.
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I wander how Frederick Banting would feel about his greatest work, his magnum opus being commemorated on Canadian currency, with a picture of a female lab attendant over the bottle, and not him??
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Butch Lesbian Adolescent looks into microscope. Rather says it all about Canada, I would say.
Are Canadian men complaining about this – or have they not received permission from women to do so, yet?
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Frederick Banting had no female lab tech. That’s what makes this so reprehensible. This woman did not exist. She is entirely fictitious.
Banting’s assistant was medical student Charles Best . Banting thought so highly of Best’s work that he shared his Nobel Prize money with Best even though Best was not named by the Nobel Prize committee as a discoverer of insulin.
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Some years ago there was rather amusing Polish Film going by the name of Ex-Mission or Sex Mission, wherein in a world ocupied entirely by women (though unknown to them controlled by men) the women were convinced that people like Galilieo, and Newton were women. That was satire, but as usual reality has here caught up with satire. Actually what really shocks me about the Note is that a woman has indeed been left off the Note – The Dominion’s Head of State – replaced by a mere (male) Prime Minister. Shameful.
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Dear WF:
Thanks for the bio. I learned a lot about Banting.
I don’t think anyone with any intelligence is going to assume that the photo depicts Banting’s “female lab tech”. She’s looking into a circa 1995 microscope. It’s a higher and less obvious level of reification we see here, suggesting (without any evidence) that female lab techs are the legitimate successors of the innovators and discoverers of yesteryear. It’d be nice if there were some possibility of this, for it’d mean that Brother Boxer and millions of other Canadian men could take a rest while the sisterhood pushes the wheelbarrow for a while. As we all know, it just ain’t happening, despite the wild wishes of the dreamers.
The only answer I can think of is that to some Canadian bureaucrat, historical accuracy and national honor take a back seat to pushing a deceptive agenda.
The use of art in the service of political ends is a hallmark of fascism (the other hallmark is perpetual international warfare, but that’s a different article). There’s a reason they’re called “feminazis” — it’s more than just a slur, it’s reality. This is the corporate state creating minds and hearts to replicate its wildest ambitions.
Unfortunately, the female of our species is proving herself a dismal failure at doing the heavy lifting, which suggests that this tactic represents one in a larger go-nowhere strategy leading to a political dead end.
Regards, Boxer
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The other thread mentioned Best as the likely candidate to be that androgynous person in front of the microscope. A quick google search shows a _slight_ resemblance in a few pictures, but quite frankly one shouldn’t have to close one eye and strain the other to kinda maybe match to reality; as Charles so eloquently put it:
“The evil bitches responsible for this travesty spent many, many hours getting this image JUST right.”
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From the country that brought you “The Loonie”.
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Ryu
I believe you are confusing the word Jew with Zionist. There are many good Jewish people much the same as in any other religion. Except for your belief in the Holocaust being a fable, I agree with everything else.
Having said that, we can all argue and point the finger at whoever/whatever group we choose, until we turn blue in the face.
The only problem we have is humanity is asleep and refuses to wake up.
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Thank you, Captain Obvious.
99.9% of the Canadian men and women who look at this bill will see nothing more than a female scientist and a vial of insulin. They won’t be looking for the data plate on the microscope.
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we can all argue and point the finger at whoever/whatever group we choose, until we turn blue in the face
It would certainly be nice to be able to know at a glance whether the person approaching on the street were a decent sort or a complete asshole. For better or worse, we don’t.
Since we’re talking about Hebrews, I have a question: What is a “Jew” anyway? I know and work with a bunch of them. In my own Rolodex there are blond Jews who look like Alicia Silverstone, Black Jews who look like Whoopi Goldberg, and the stereotypical Mediterranean looking “dark White” Jews. I even know one Asian Jew. I know Republican/Conservative Jews and Liberal/Democrat Jews. When Ryu says “all Jews are” it’s a little like me saying “all Irish are”. There are, what, something like 50 million people in those categories? It ain’t like they’re all of one mind on anything.
I think Ryu is an interesting guy who has written some compelling stuff (check out his work from a year or so ago) but I believe he is relying on this racism/ethnocentrism to paint broad strokes rather than see the fine points of issues. That’s my main problem with racism: It’s like voluntarily taking a tranquilizer and turning your brain off. Whenever you do this, you’re ultimately serving the purposes of those who want you to sleepwalk through life.
Regards, Boxer
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“Are Canadian men complaining about this – or have they not received permission from women to do so, yet?”
- Good point Opus. And funny too (I laughed).
I haven’t yet complained or inquired. Just learned about the $100 bill yesterday care of commenter Thos and W.F Price’s Spearhead.
I tried obtaining written information years ago from the Canadian government regarding the $10 bill the old fashioned way before the interwebs – through writing a paper letter. I received no reply.
I wanted to know the meaning behind the graphics on the back-side of the Canadian 10.
(Pulls out wallet and whips out a tenner) I’ll describe in words what it looks like :
In the middle of the bill (where it folds in half) is pictured a female military staff member in fatigues with unknown rank donning a blue beret and looking through a pair of binoculars to the east (presumably and figuratively she is selected as looking ahead to the future [good grief, yet another dumbed-down, watered-down institution] ).
In the background to her is a meridianed globe.
To the left of her are 2 doves (ya right).
To the left of the birds are 3 poppies (the symbol of Canada’s contribution to honouring the numerous dead young Canadian men and boys serving in both ‘world’ wars. That is young men serving in both wars as voted in by the newly franchise receiving female electorship while exempting themselves from front line skirmishes and battle).
To the right of binocular girl is a monument arch with a (presumably) female facing the bill holder in front of the archway and a man soldier to the left side of the archway. The man soldier is holding a firearm and looking downward.
To the left of the archway are 3 figures : a young boy with brown hued skin, a slightly taller white faced older girl beside him and an old war surviving man with white gloves, beret and jacket beside her. They are all looking beyond the archway and toward the globe.
The symbolism can be open to speculation but it can appear somewhat ominous – female leadership through multi-culti world governance.
I asked about the symbolism behind the bill in my letter but received no answer or acknowledgement.
Unfortunately, and due to the nature of our lives, or mine in particular, I went about my numerous affairs leaving the unanswered question in the trough of things to inquire about in the future.
Now may be the time to do so.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nbpennfi/veteran_on_our_ten_dollar_bill.htm
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Boxer
At the risk of sounding like a tree hugger, I suspect we will all find that the deeper we look down the rabbit hole chasing the demons, we will sooner or later, once we have cornered the beast, find ourself staring right back at ourself. If you get me drift?
I cant remember the guy’s name off hand, but I do recall him saying that he had recieved an excellent education and it took him years to get over it. He compared life to walking down a series of steps to finally reach the end to shake hands with the lump of clay that he actually was/is.
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Children ‘dumped in streets by Greek parents who can’t afford to look after them any more’
How much you wanna bet that those “parents” are almost exclusively single mothers?
Nice of the media to use the gender-neutral term of parent.
The wickedness of unrestrained womanhood in full view.
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@universe
I looked at your link. It looks like figures-in-a-landscape stuff to me. No idea what to make of it.
I sometimes read a particular Facebook page (written by a Canadian in Ontario) and I frequently want to shake him by the shoulders and wake him up as he clearly lives in Manginaville. A lot of his problems seem to originate from his total lack of ‘cajones’, yet I doubt he is untypical of Canadians. I might think that AFoR, Charles Martel and Boxer are (en masse) stupid and gratuitously offensive but at least I do not doubt their ability to call a spade a bloody shovel!
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Boxer,
When you have big goals, you need a big paintbrush. If you have a small canvas, then you can use the small brush. What’s the size of your canvas and ambitions?
There’s alot that needs to be accomplished. The problem with moderates is that they are lukewarm. Most MRAs are lukewarm. They probe too deeply, and thus they are not sure of their side.
If the MRM wishes to succeed, you need more than logic and reason. You need extremists, men who are 100% for your cause. GlobalMan was like this. He was a leader.
It takes absolute conviction to do anything in this world – starting a business, entering a maraton, finishing graduate school. What will it take for the MRM to do anything in real life? The answer is conviction. No argument, negotiation or quarter.
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Revisionist History.
Reminds me of the Ground Zero Firefighters Raising the Flag.
“In December 2001 The New York City Fire Department unveiled plans for a statue based on the photograph to be placed at the Brooklyn headquarters. In an effort to be politically correct, the statue was to include black, white, and Hispanic firefighters. However, it was cancelled in an outcry about rewriting history because all the depicted firefighters are white.”
The USA hates men, and in particular, white men.
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Ryu
Interesting take on the direction of the MRA movement. Don’t you think it’s sort of a one size fits all approach though ?
I could perhaps be the Buddhist Friar Tuck for the MRA band of brothers ?
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The picture looks a lot like Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, one of the greatest female scientists of all times. Hodgkin discovered the structure of insulin, which in turn led to several improvements in diabetic therapy (particularly slow release versions of insulin). She received the Nobel prize in 1964.
http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/hodgkin.html
However, this may be a coincidence because:
1) Hodgkin was a British citizen (born in Egypt), who did all of her work in Britain. She never had anything to do with Canada.
2) Hodgkin died in 1994, and could never have looked into a modern microscope as a 30-something (apparent age of the woman on the note).
Too bad. Hodgkin, Franklin, and Dodson are three remarkable female scientists in structural biology who contributed enormously to public health and basic science. If feminists were literate enough to read science, they would not need to invent “fake” female scientists. They could use the real thing. There have been many women in history who did remarkable things for the public good — in stark contrast to the evil poison that is feminism.
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I respectfully disagree. The picture on the Canadian bill looks nothing like Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. Furthermore, women who succeed in scientific endeavors on their own merits are generally unacquainted with the blow dryer.
The irreducible obstacle to the revisionists that designed the Canadian bill is that if they were to celebrate the Canadian discovery of insulin, they would either have to celebrate Banting or change history. And change history it was.
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The idea is that a little girl will see the picture and and say, “Look mommy, there’s a girl scientist on the money!”.
And her mother will reply, “Yes dear, yes there is, and maybe one day you too can be a scientist, just like her.”
She will then realize her greatness from this experience and become a famous scientist herself, just like what’s on the money.
It’s patriarchy that oppresses girls by expressing itself in imagery of men doing great things. If we pretend enough that women do great things too, they’ll start doing it. Sadly, the only women who’ll actually see this $100 bill will be turning tricks in downtown motels.
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And people wonder why I always try to remind people that teachable game (to this day I have trouble following Ross Jeffries) was invented in Canada by guys like Mystery, Tyler Durden, and Zan.
It wasn’t because Canadian men are inherently awesome (though they a very cool bunch). It’s because they had no other choice. I can’t think of a better picture showing why.
Disclaimer: not Canadian
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Just last week I tried to get to the bottom of the Feminist reason why yet another falsehood/Feminist fantasy. About 10 years ago I read an account by Illana Mercier who measured that about 99.9%+ of discoveries and about 99.9%= of inventions that advanced societies substantively were by men.
So, yet another Feminist lie on the currency of the Women’s Bank of Women’s Canada.
Such is in addition to the Women’s 50-dollar bill of the issue previous to the polymer series. On the back, various female supremacists were displayed and the so-called, “Persons Case” was highlighted. For the book I’m writing, I wrote a whole chapter on the fact that the whole claim about women not being legal persons was a lie and that profound male disadvantage in such regards was in evidence.
Of course, one also has the women’s quarter (pink re, Chest Cancer –I refuse to call it by its Feminist name) and, of course, the Feminist 10 is quite irqesome (women in armed service–try, Affirmative Action uniformed service in which women cancerize the work environment and harm men with their inferiority and right to advance against qualified/injuried men).
The blue berret worn by the woman pictured on the back of the $10 bill indicates that she is in the Royal Canadian Air Force (a dark green means Army and black means Navy–red means MP of all services). The uniform she wears predates the present, “cadpat” which has been issued to all reg-force and reserve units by as of about 5 years ago (much of that is related to the fact that tanned uniforms have been in such demand as per the war to spread Feminism in Afghanistan).
The fact that over 99.9% of our armed-service deaths (caused by being in the services) is male (116,000+ men and boys to fewer than 30 women and no girls whose deaths were CAUSED BY BEING IN THE SERVICES/not just coincidental with being in the services) is quite bothersome.
The plight of the holocausted male is trumped by women’s wanting to play office and refuse to be office. And what is more, there was a Remembrance Day-type quarter issued about 5 years ago and there was a red poppy on it/no blue(male) flower.
One percent of chest cancer in first-world countires is male and the women’s Royal Canadian Mint gender-designate the disease as female (pink ribbon) on a quarter. But even though 99% of chest cancer being female is an evidently sufficient threshold to exclude concern for the male, a 99.9%+ violence-against-men theshold is not sufficient to gender-designate a quarter as blue (male). And such is the case that whereas chest cancer being 99% female is a private matter not a product of government policy, that armed-service deaths are 99.9%+ violence against men is not opposed.
Men work/women play.
The Women’s Bank of Canada and the Women’s Royal Canadian Minist deserve no respect whatsoever on matters of gender (there’s also the Women’s dime–just look at the women’s images on it).
Men pay the price and women are celebated on the money issued. Women’s collective commitment to the exercise of moral unintelligence once again is clustered in this whole policy area.
Same old, same old.
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It would be interesting to see the minutes and attendence of the meeting to approve this fraud.
I don’t suppose Canada has a freedom of information act?
I bet there is a small cabal of feminists responsible for these most outrageous acts as it appears to be in Austrialia and in the U.S..
A feminist beaurocrat like the one who issued the order for colleges to take away mens right to a fair hearing.
These need to have light shed on them so they can slink into whatever hole they came out of.
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no, no no, bill, youre obviously missing the point.
A woman COULD have discovered insulin if the evil patriarchy hadnt kept her down. Since we live in a world of maybes and what ifs, thats all that matters. The bill represents all the potential women had that could have been tapped into if we hadnt chained them to our kitchens for the past several thousand years.
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Dear Jim:
“In December 2001 The New York City Fire Department unveiled plans for a statue based on the photograph to be placed at the Brooklyn headquarters. In an effort to be politically correct, the statue was to include black, white, and Hispanic firefighters. However, it was cancelled in an outcry about rewriting history because all the depicted firefighters are white.”
I remember this very well, and at the time I wondered why they didn’t just include a bunch of other invented characters raising the flag at ground zero for their statue. You could have had an Asian guy, a first nations guy in eagle feather headdress, and hell, maybe a couple of dyke bitch firefighters grabbing each others saggy dugs at the periphery of the flag raising. We need to be inclusive, yaknow.
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As I said before, the guy at the microscope is Best. He’s a bit effeminate looking and was only 22 at the time.Now, they may have exploited this to make it appear to be a female especially with the hair style. Most people have no idea what Best looked like as a boy and may believe that it’s a female there(intentional?)
This is why US currency is better. They got into the habit of only using dead white male presidents and I doubt it will chage soon. They gave Susan B Athony the dollar coin but it was so unpopular that you rarely see them
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“For the book I’m writing, I wrote a whole chapter on the fact that the whole claim about women not being legal persons was a lie and that profound male disadvantage in such regards was in evidence.”
That Married Women’s Property Act being the omen of feminism’s ‘what’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is also mine’
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That Married Women’s Property Act being the omen of feminism’s ‘what’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is also mine’
It existed even before the act. Any female who actually had property pretty much had it tied up by her lawyers (or her family’s lawyers) so her new husband just couldn’t spend it all on himself.
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@Martell-yes, I believe you are correct, it is Sir Robert Borden, former PM.
I had assumed that the full faced pic was Banting and his young assistant at the microscope was Best.
Now, Best was young and perhaps still a bit girlish looking but he had been a soldier in WWI as a teenager and then after the war was back at Uni where he met Banting. He was 22 when insulin was discovered. I saw that the pic was a bit exaggerated to sort of make him look even more effeminate so it could be confused with a female but this is even worse than I imagined. Best was young and fair but this is a complete distortion. Here’s his pic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Herbert_Best
Yu’ll notice that in the pic his hair was shrt in the style f the time and the wat WWI veterans wore it not like o the $100 and although he is a bit delicate looking he certainly didn’t look like a female r the depiction on the $100
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That’s your ego talking. It’s obviously not Best as Best was not a woman.
Here’s a picture of Best.
The Bank of Canada has been very cagey about this new $100 bill, avoiding an explicit description of exactly who is on the bill commemorating the discovery of insulin. Here’s the press release . “The $100 note, which is to be issued in November 2011, features images that focus on Canadian innovations in the field of medicine: from pioneering the discovery of insulin to treat diabetes, to the invention of the pacemaker and to the role Canadian researchers have played in mapping the human genetic code”
But CBC spills the beans : “The first of the new Frontier series, the $100 bill, went into circulation in November. It replaced the map of Canada with a female scientist and a bottle of insulin, representing the country’s contributions to medical research.”
So now we can see how diabolically clever this nasty piece of social engineering is. Frederick Banting’s Nobel Prize-winning discovery of insulin is represented by a vial of insulin. The pacemaker is represented by an unnoticeable stylized ekg strip and human genome mapping id represented by an unidentified female scientist looking into a microscope. But genome mapping is done with automated laboratory equipment. Manual microscopy is not involved, so the image on the $100 bill is intentionally misleading.
The end result, which will be seen by anyone holding this bill. Female scientist, vial of insulin.
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@ Taqman
To these Greek (and coming to the females of a gentilic near you) bitches, children are the new pets.
Unfortunately, these Greek bitches also can’t get aspirin, and since pharmacies may be running out of penicillin for VD, it will be interesting to see how the situation unfolds there until properly stocked pharmacies become the norm again.
Worst case scenario is that Greece sinks to the level of Malawi in the book “28: Stories of AIDS in Africa”, where the author Stephanie Nolen goes to the main hospital in the capital city of that country, Lilongwe. At the hospital, patients sleep three to a bed, under beds, and in stairwells. When Nolen finds a nurse, at 8 am, the nurse is drunk, but Nolen is unable to find any other health care provider.
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Martell, it’s supposed to be Best but they made it look like a female.
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so the image on the $100 bill is intentionally misleading
OK, so you’re saying that this $100 is just a composite of various discoveries and that the pic at the microscpe is a female.
In that case it’s VERY bad because none of those discoveries was done by a female. I had believed that it was just about Banting and Best and can’t really make out the other stuff you mentioned.
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Why is it supposed to be Best? The image of the female scientist is commemorating human genome mapping.
You know, it’s OK to admit you were wrong. I understand why you made that mistake. You jumped to the conclusion that the old guy was Banting, so the young guy (gal) must be Best.
Happens to us all as we get older. Cognitive function starts to decline at age 45, so you’re really fighting a losing battle now.
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OK, the original poster said it was about Banting and Best but now that I’ve enlarged the $100 I can see your point.
Yes, it’s completely misleading.
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Happens to us all as we get older. Cognitive function starts to decline at age 45, so you’re really fighting a losing battle now
That’s not true. But even if it were I could stand to lose 10% and still be a lot smarter than 99.9% of you boys
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There now, that didn’t hurt too much, did it.
Now that’s the old Avenger we’ve all come to know and love!
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Martell, I have to give you and the other Gen X and Y betas some credit though. What would we ever do without Facebook and Twitter
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@gender foreigner – the red poppy is nothing to do with women. It is used in remembrance of million plus British (Empire) men killed in war, especially WWI, when; after the guns fell silent in Flanders fields the blood red poppies bloomed, where hundreds of thousands of British men and boys had been slaughtered. Men and boys, most of whom could not vote, many of whom had been shamed into going by the vile white feather campaign of feminists/suffragettes led by Emmeline + Christabel Pankhurst (inspired by Lord Fitzpatrick) and many many men and boys who were later conscripted. Again, the suffragettes campaigned for men’s conscription.
The red poppy represents the blood of men fallen in battle.
Men who died, at least in part to enable the power aspirations of the suffragettes. Suffragettes who collaborated with an incompetent+callous upper-class of authoritarian white-knights who herded lower class men into the murder machine, the hell-on-earth of the Somme and Ypres. The suffragettes were rewarded with the vote for their collaboration.
The poppy is also the symbol of the British Legion that helps wounded soldiers. We wear it every November to commemorate their sacrifice in all of Britain’s bloody wars, especially WWI and WWII. Some fundamentalist muslim dickheads burned some poppies Remembrance Day 2010. If they had burned the Union Jack flag or a christian cross there would have been much less (out)rage. Without the police to protect them, they would’ve been attacked by the crowd. The poppy is held dear even by peaceniks.
I am sure the poppy has the same significance in Canada, as Canada was part of the British Empire until fairly recently in history.
Poppy = blood of men. Nothing to do with women.
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Slightly OT: apparently Banting used the research of another politically controversial scientist, considered by some to be the first who discovered insulin. Banting later acknowledged and apologized:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Paulescu
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Joe says….
Men and boys, most of whom could not vote, many of whom had been shamed into going by the vile white feather campaign of feminists/suffragettes led by Emmeline + Christabel Pankhurst (inspired by Lord Fitzpatrick) and many many men and boys who were later conscripted. Again, the suffragettes campaigned for men’s conscription.
American says…very interesting joe, Ive read a few times on mens rights sites about “The white feather campaign”, and how women shamed young men who couldn’t even vote, into sacrificing their lives. I believe i will research this “White Feather campaign” further.
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Thanks Joe
I am sure gender foreigner was not aware of the red poppy and what it represents but I am glad you explained it.
Perhaps we could adopt it as an MRA symbol against the slaughter of millions of young men that only benefits rich old men and womankind ?
For many years I refused to wear a poppy as I did not want to celebrate or glorify the deaths of so many young men.
These days I wear one but it is pinned to a white card with bold black typed letters. “I wear this in honour of the young Lions that died in war . Not for the Donkeys that sent them”.
It’s only quite small but on the odd occasion someone stops me and reads it, most of the time they just nod their head in agreement and walk on.
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American
While you are doing your research on the white feather campaign, if you really want your eyes opened, research the Dear John letters that many of the soldiers recieved from their wives and girlfriends. If you think that is heartless enough? Wait until you read some of the contents of the letters ! Even sent to some when they were POW’s
Course NAWALT. My feckin arse !
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Dear Joe January 11, 2012 at 18:12:
Thanks for your contribution. The poppy has equal standing in Canada as the senior dominion. My point is that no gender-designation was either intended nor understood as per the visual communications of the currency.
Again, thank you for your points.
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Dear Oddsock January 11, 2012 at 19:03:
Thanks for your contribution. About a month ago, I read some good books on the South East Asian (“forgotten”) war of WWII re the British Empire (my uncle was an RCAF Observer in an RAF Wing). In Burma, there was almost extreme depression as per the morale of the men in the units under Slim EXPRESSLY BECAUSE OF THE DEAR JOHN LETTERS.
I’m very glad you mentioned the point. Again, thanks, Oddsock.
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There is a pervasive form of gender/race propaganda through advertising and government PSAs. Is it self-emergent or an insidious plot? Who runs the ad agencies and art departments that churn out this crap? Somehow I don’t think black folks are really behind all the clever ads and commercials that in one way or another paint white men as ridiculous fools.
There are definite patterns employed, such as deferment, pose, order, and roleplay, and strict rules regarding dominance and superiority that are followed in producing these outrages.
examples :
Cover of an engineering trade magazine : A white woman in hard hat with blueprints in front of a construction site, issuing directives to a black fellow. She is placed higher in the visual frame.
Two new billboards in my town “don’t text and drive” showing a middle-age white guy texting behind the wheel.
You’ve probably seen a million more. You are desensitized by the commonality of it. If you complain, you appear “crazy” or a “bigot”.
I saw this ad last night and nearly wrote a Spearhead essay on it :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBNnD5kuHUE
Observe :
hot blonde chick saunters through in first frames
nerdy white dude begs for chips from handsome black guy
nerdy white dude sucks cheese off the finger of the black guy
later, it’s ok because the nerdy white dude sucks cheese off the seat of some white slob’s pants
Would Frito-Lay produce a commercial showing a black man sucking a white man’s finger? How about a female co-worker sucking an older white man’s finger?
I guess the takeaway is
Frito-Lay : White Guys Suck.
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I have knowledge of the Dear John letter in my own family. There is a bit of a mystery to it all. I had a great great Uncle served with the Gordon Highlanders and was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Somme. On his release and his return home he recieved a letter from the King welcoming him back. I once had the original but it went missing or someone else in the family has it. I dont know why but I am sure in the letter the King mentioned something about him being released from the horrors of a Japanese POW. Now I know this can’t be true. Wrong war wrong enemy etc. Perhaps I am just imagining I read it ? Anyway, the top and bottom of it all. His wife had done a runner with the kids and obviously another guy and am not sure but I think she told him this by letter. Where and when he got the Dear John I am not sure. Either way, I believe he turned to drink once back home. He had no family as such and there was no jobs to be found. The story goes that he actually threw the letter from the King into the fire in disgust. A family member rescued it. The only remaining part I know of his life was that he became a staunch communist but more likely a socialist. That’s the thanks he got for all his pain and sacrifice.
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“I remember this very well, and at the time I wondered why they didn’t just include a bunch of other invented characters raising the flag at ground zero for their statue. You could have had an Asian guy, a first nations guy in eagle feather headdress, and hell, maybe a couple of dyke bitch firefighters grabbing each others saggy dugs at the periphery of the flag raising. We need to be inclusive, yaknow.”
Or just do a statue based on an old photo of The Village People.
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Opus January 11, 2012 at 13:16
– I appreciate your candour as also appreciating those whom you’ve noticed as being forthright or the many others employing brevity as a writing style.
Unfortunately for those who actually do read my contributions I like to tart-up my writing a bit to keep it novel with sometimes trying to combine too much within few words. In the mean time I thank all those who are patient with me as someday I may actually write satisfactorily and well but it will definately be per my own style.
Yet, for those who write in men’s blogs and for all our combined foibles, of which I choose to disregard, we are not required to like one another. In the short run all that matters perhaps is the ability, within our own capacities, to see through the lies of a definate nemesis (by their own choice and admission) including those who promote that enemy and come up with answers and solutions to both. I do not think of either outcome being out of the question.
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Opus January 11, 2012 at 13:16
– I appreciate your candour as also appreciating those whom you’ve noticed as being forthright or the many others employing brevity as a writing style.
Unfortunately for those who actually do read my contributions I like to tart-up my writing a bit to keep it novel with sometimes trying to combine too much within few words. In the mean time I thank all those who are patient with me as someday I may actually write satisfactorily and well but it will definately be per my own style.
Yet, for those who write in men’s blogs and for all our combined foibles, of which I choose to disregard, we are not required to like one another. In the short run all that matters perhaps is our ability, within our own capacities, to see through the lies of a definate nemesis (by their own choice and admission) including those who promote that enemy and come up with answers and solutions to both. I do not think of either outcome being out of the question.
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@Charles Martel
“99.9% of the Canadian men and women who look at this bill will see nothing more than a female scientist and a vial of insulin.”
I agree with that. I see only what is possibly a young female looking into a microscope. A lab helper.
Nice banknote, by the way: I wouldn’t mind possessing a truckload of that… lol!!!
I wouldn’t mind trading all my $20 bills , with the queen of Canada on them (who, by the way, has been named queen of England as well, if I’m not mistaken) for this new bill: bill for bill…hahaha!!
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Oddsock & Gender Foreigner:
Stories like yours, about women who cheat on the men who are off serving and protecting them, are among the most disgusting tales imaginable.
There is a marine corps sergeant I know. While he was deployed, his wife started fucking some other man. When he objected and then filed for divorce, she retaliated by sending pornographic photos of herself with the other guy to random members of this brother’s unit, to embarrass him further. This is apparently so common it has a name (though I don’t remember it) among members of the USA military.
Women’s greatest contribution to America’s national defense has been cuckolding the men who serve, causing them to cry, go crazy and commit suicide.
Regards, Boxer
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Elmer,
The CEO of PepsiCo (the parent company of Doritos), is a misandric bitch named Indra Nooyi. Since 2008 her ad exec., Nicole Bradley, has been producing ads that originally aired during the Super Bowl featuring men getting hit in the testicles (Google, e.g., Doritos Snow Globe), and which has been brought to their attention by many on several occasions.
The stupidity of the ad you linked to keeps the Nooyi/Bradley tradition of shitting on men in Super Bowl ads alive. The Tamil Nooyi was a darling of the “Ooohhhh! Look! A WOMAN (of color!) CEO!” crowd when she took over in 2006. PepsiCo stock has flatlined since then and she’s looking a bit more stressed these days. PepsiCo is talking about laying off thousands, eliminating 401(k) matching, freezing salaries, and fiddling with retirements benefits (i.e., the typical/traditional corporate economic chaff) in a desperate bid to quickly kick up profitability after several of her attempts at improving profitability by, you know, increasing sales, failed. Such measures are likely to be very short term. Hopefully, the board will fire her sorry sexist ass.
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@Joe
The wearing of the poppy was probably inspired from the poem which every grammar school kid knows
“In Flanders Fields the poppies grow
Between the crosses row by row’
etc
But the poem was actually written in 1915 at the beginning of the war and one thing I don’t like about it was that it was sort of war recruiting propaganda and stuff like this kept the war ging rather than trying to end it with an armastice. The 3rd and last stanza
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Sme US female professor wrote her own sequel to it which also encouraged the futile fighting and death called Keep The Faith
Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,
Sleep sweet – to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high, we keep the Faith
With All who died.
We cherish, too, the poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led;
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies,
But lends a lustre to the red
Of the flower that blooms above the dead
In Flanders Fields.
And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honor of our dead.
Fear not that ye have died for naught;
We’ll teach the lesson that ye wrought
In Flanders Fields.
In Flanders Fields we fought
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The woman in the picture is Rosalind Franklin.
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin
The resemblance is undeniable. Plus she is best known for her imagery of the DNA molecule using a electron microscope.
She has no ties to Canada, so not sure what she is doing on their 100 dollar bill.
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Given that the entire financial system is based on lies and deceit, the fraudulent depiction on the $100 note is somewhat appropriate.
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opus wrote:
“Some years ago there was rather amusing Polish Film going by the name of Ex-Mission or Sex Mission, wherein in a world ocupied entirely by women ”
Yes! I remember that as well!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexmission
Powerful stuff.
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“Some years ago there was rather amusing Polish Film going by the name of Ex-Mission or Sex Mission, wherein in a world ocupied entirely by women (though unknown to them controlled by men) the women were convinced that people like Galilieo, and Newton were women. ”
The original name was “Seksmisja”, which is an interesting pun. Literally, it means “Sex Mission” but is also very similar to another Polish word, “Eksmisja”, which means “Eviction.”
That’s what feminism is about – EVICTION of men, even from memory and replacing it with false memory, as in the Canadian bill.
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No way. Completely different profile. The fictitious female scientist on the $100 bill has a petite, feminine nose. RF not so much.
She’s also using an optical microscope. But hey, optical, electron, what’s the difference. It’s all sciencey stuff.
Nice try though. I’d actually like to know if the woman on the bill is real or if she is just clip-art from the PC handbook.
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You got it all wrong. That’s a picture of Frederic Banting as a ten year old young boy! Before the testosterone kicked in he was a bit effeminate. LOL
It is hard to believe they didn’t honor the man who has saved so many lives.
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Mobile PT January 11, 2012 at 22:48
Elmer,
The CEO of PepsiCo (the parent company of Doritos), is a misandric bitch named Indra Nooyi.
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Thanks for the backgrounder. Now I remember from my frothing rage last year over the Coca-Cola CEO waxing about the superiority of women.
Max Coxwell January 11, 2012 at 23:16
The woman in the picture is Rosalind Franklin.
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin
The resemblance is undeniable.
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The microscope on the bill is a post-1970′s model, and her work involved DNA research, not insulin. She died in 1958. The wikipedia entry is an interesting read however.
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@WRB
I am indebted to you for the explanation as to the two very similar titles of the said film. It had always puzzled me. If a list of good MRA films were ever made, Sex Mission must be in it – and there was me thinking that the only thing Poland produced was plumbers.
Right now I am watching The Fountainhead with Gary Cooper.
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The image of the sexy science girl on the $100 bill is so friggin’ perfect she has to be clip-art from the Encorpera PC handbook. She represents “the feminine spirit of scientific innovation – TM.” LOL.
I tend to think if she was real some annoying biotch would already have popped up to slap us around.
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Many of our bills have birds on the back of our bills, this is just replacing a bird with another bird.
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I’ve had several of these bills and to be honest didn’t even notice it. She got one thing right, she looks like the typical modern urban Canadian feminist cunt. You mean they existed back in 1922 as well?
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“It wasn’t because Canadian men are inherently awesome (though they a very cool bunch). It’s because they had no other choice. I can’t think of a better picture showing why.”
You’re right. It’s because our women are the most bitchy, self-centred, spoiled entitlement princesses in the world. You can take that to the bank from yours truly, a Canadian man who has dated countless of them.
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Outrageous.
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No surprise that money would be PC’ed.
These things are almost like taunts from feminists, to rile the sensible.
Best to chuckle at their fragile egos and how low they have to stoop to have their feeeeeelings met.
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@Avenger – Ah, I went to a Secondary Comprehensive, and we did Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen in the War Poets part of English Lit. O Level.
So, I wasn’t aware of the poppies earlier use in persuading men to go to war, thanks for the info.
That said, grammar schools were a minority even back in the day, and much more so now. In the minds of most Brits the poppy is commerative, rather than persausive. Through persistence of use it has been redefined in the public mind, IMO.
@Max et. al. – Rosalind Franklin is not famous for work with the electron microscope. She did great work in X-Ray Crystallography (most notably with DNA) which is not the same thing at all.
You can see the famous X-ray Photo 51 on this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_51
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Interesting article I found concerning the White Feather Campaign:
http://www.studentpulse.com/articles/151/the-white-feather-campaign-a-struggle-with-masculinity-during-world-war-i
Written by a student.
I wonder if he’s a feminist sympathizer.
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I think you guys would love this movie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Man_on_Planet_Earth
I found it quite entertaining, and though distant from reality it seemed like a dream-come-true for a SCUMmer…
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Right now I am watching The Fountainhead with Gary Cooper
I mentioned that before and included the rape scene. only at the time it wasn’t viewed as rape and the female was really asking for it by her actions with Cooper.
btw Opus, Cooper was from Montana but his father was a barrister in England and Cooper and his brother attended a private school in England.
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This is why US currency is better. They got into the habit of only using dead white male presidents and I doubt it will chage soon. They gave Susan B Athony the dollar coin but it was so unpopular that you rarely see them
The currency is OK but I failed to mention the crap that the Post Office turns out with the stamps in the US.
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There was a damned good book called the Four Feathers, and it was made several times, most famously in the 50s. The book’s about a gent who’s in the army to please his dad.
His father dies just as the army is off to war and, since his father’s no longer around demanding to be pleased, he resigns. Well, many accuse him of cowardice and that the army was demolished and stragglers captured makes the situation worse as people take their frustrations out on him.
So, he packs off to rescue his pals. It’s a great adventure story and what’s interesting about it is that everyone is really trapped by society’s expectations. The girlfriend who gives him a white feather is made out to be a bit of a villain as she’s the romantic motivator of the plot, but she’s clearly no worse than anyone else.
A good yarn.
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Joe: “I am sure the poppy has the same significance in Canada, as Canada was part of the British Empire until fairly recently in history. ”
Shameless Canadian history plug here: the blood/fallen soldiers symbolism of the poppy in the Commonwealth is originally based on a poem by a Canadian WW1 military physician named John McCrae.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flanders_Fields
No real reason for non-Canadians to know that, but here it’s read every Remembrance Day as a national ritual and homage to the fallen.
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