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> Fisting, Wikipedia not censored etc
Peter Damian
post Sun 5th February 2012, 11:46am
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Lots going on here http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...&action=history with a big fight to add/remove a picture of a man with a fist up his bottom. It's very important to have pictures like these, with spots, poor angle, framing and lighting etc., all so that the evil shadow of 'censorship' shall not fall on Wikipedia.
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Mister Die
post Sun 5th February 2012, 1:20pm
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I tried reading a book yesterday (via Questia) entitled Women Who Become Men: Albanian Sworn Virgins and I learned more about narcolepsy than anything (to be fair I'm far more interested in history than social studies.) Thankfully the author handled the subject responsibly, so the practice of women "becoming" men (adoption of male dress and traditional responsibilities, vows of celibacy, etc.) in pastoral highlands as a way to escape a highly patriarchal culture and to avenge the death of a male family member wasn't transformed into "the earliest recorded date of transsexual liberation in Albania can be sketched back to..."

If there's ever a Wikipedia article on Transsexualism in Albania I'm quite sure some activist editor will go around proclaiming them as wonderful examples and anyone who dares question such a thing labeled as homophobic, transphobic, bigoted, etc. Sorta how some pedophilia-apologist Wikipedian once made an article about "Albanian pederasty" with content insinuating that every Gheg highlander was ready to start going around buggering children as an integral practice of tribal life.

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Peter Damian   Fisting   Sun 5th February 2012, 11:46am
Mister Die   Well duh, the purpose of every encyclopedia is to ...   Sun 5th February 2012, 1:01pm
Peter Damian   Well duh, the purpose of every encyclopedia is to...   Sun 5th February 2012, 1:16pm


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