Diffusing sexual tensions and creating camaraderie in the workplace

[Pure]

New York Times:

CAIRO, June 11 — First came the breast-feeding fatwa. It declared that the Islamic restriction on unmarried men and women being together could be lifted at work if the woman breast-fed her male colleagues five times, to establish family ties.

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I'm for it!

 

[oggbashan]

New York Times:

CAIRO, June 11 — First came the breast-feeding fatwa. It declared that the Islamic restriction on unmarried men and women being together could be lifted at work if the woman breast-fed her male colleagues five times, to establish family ties.

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I'm for it!

The downside is, that once family ties have been established, any sexual contact, including legitimate marriage, is punishable by stoning to death.

Og

 

[Stella_Omega]

... Does she actually have to produce milk? Or can he just pretend?


I have to say, that might actually-- in the religious mind at least-- remove the sexual tension because it establishes her as his mother. Hypothetically.

I worked barback in a leather bar-- while I was still lactating with my second kid. Every once in a while someone would ask me... I could squirt milk into the back of their throats and make 'em choke.

 

[BlackShanglan]

New York Times:

CAIRO, June 11 — First came the breast-feeding fatwa. It declared that the Islamic restriction on unmarried men and women being together could be lifted at work if the woman breast-fed her male colleagues five times, to establish family ties.

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I'm for it!

Hysterical. The ultimate result of hysterical prudishness and sexual repression is ... women breastfeeding their male colleagues. The mind positively boggles.

It brings to mind the new "creation science" museum that is opening, complete with dioramas depicting humans and dinosaurs coexisting. The logic (if one may call it that) given was that since we can see dinosaur bones and they did exist (and draw good crowds to museums), they must have lived at the same time as humans during the post-Biblical-creation period.

So ... evolution clearly can't exist, as it's not mentioned in the Bible, and in order to support that belief, we'll instead assume that every prophet and scribe who contributed to the Bible forgot to mention that the landscape included lizards the size of schoolbuses. Dinosaurs not being mentioned in the Bible is neither proof that they didn't exist nor proof that some things undeniably true are not specifically mentioned in the Bible, but rather evidence that the prophets were sufficiently focused on sheep, goats, and locusts to overlook the occasional apatasaurus.

Shanglan

 

[rgraham666]

How on Earth could you 'miss' an apatasaurus?

Even the small ones were the size of a rhinoceros.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Hysterical. The ultimate result of hysterical prudishness and sexual repression is ... women breastfeeding their male colleagues. The mind positively boggles.

It brings to mind the new "creation science" museum that is opening, complete with dioramas depicting humans and dinosaurs coexisting. The logic (if one may call it that) given was that since we can see dinosaur bones and they did exist (and draw good crowds to museums), they must have lived at the same time as humans during the post-Biblical-creation period.

So ... evolution clearly can't exist, as it's not mentioned in the Bible, and in order to support that belief, we'll instead assume that every prophet and scribe who contributed to the Bible forgot to mention that the landscape included lizards the size of schoolbuses. Dinosaurs not being mentioned in the Bible is neither proof that they didn't exist nor proof that some things undeniably true are not specifically mentioned in the Bible, but rather evidence that the prophets were sufficiently focused on sheep, goats, and locusts to overlook the occasional apatasaurus.

Shanglan

I used to let my (fundamentally religious) sister babysit my kids on Wed nights and take them to her "Sunday School." I'd been to lots of "Sunday schools" as a kid, figured it was pretty harmless...

until I arrived early one time to pick them up and heard the "teacher" telling my kids that humans and dinosaurs co-existed and showing them pictures of dinosaur and human footprints side by side...



They never went back. When religion starts messing with science, I'm done. :x

 

[marifree]

Hysterical. The ultimate result of hysterical prudishness and sexual repression is ... women breastfeeding their male colleagues. The mind positively boggles.

It brings to mind the new "creation science" museum that is opening, complete with dioramas depicting humans and dinosaurs coexisting. The logic (if one may call it that) given was that since we can see dinosaur bones and they did exist (and draw good crowds to museums), they must have lived at the same time as humans during the post-Biblical-creation period.

So ... evolution clearly can't exist, as it's not mentioned in the Bible, and in order to support that belief, we'll instead assume that every prophet and scribe who contributed to the Bible forgot to mention that the landscape included lizards the size of schoolbuses. Dinosaurs not being mentioned in the Bible is neither proof that they didn't exist nor proof that some things undeniably true are not specifically mentioned in the Bible, but rather evidence that the prophets were sufficiently focused on sheep, goats, and locusts to overlook the occasional apatasaurus.

Shanglan

This is so ridiculous that I can’t even come up with a clever response…. You mean to tell me that there is an entire building, a staff, and an elaborate museum support system to perpetuate a lie? I want to scream now!

 

[rgraham666]

This is so ridiculous that I can’t even come up with a clever response…. You mean to tell me that there is an entire building, a staff, and an elaborate museum support system to perpetuate a lie? I want to scream now!

Unfortunately, yes.

Personally, I find it rather a giggle.