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McDonald's 'Make Burger History' Site Hijacked With Offensive Burger Ideas (stuff.co.nz)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Stuff.co.nz: McDonald's New Zealand has been left with egg on its face after a raft of bad-taste burger suggestions customers forced it to quickly take down its new design-your-own-burger website. The company launched its "Make Burger History" site this week, as part of a new promotion where customers can "build your own unique burger" and get free fries and a medium soft drink. "Just come in to a participating 'Create Your Taste' McDonald's and order your Creation at the self ordering kiosk," McDonald's promised. But its failure to consider what pranksters might dream up online has left the company red-faced, with the website overrun by racist, homophobic and otherwise offensive suggestions. The page now redirects to the McDonald's homepage. The burger concepts ranged from the mild, such as "Bag of Lettuce" (literally just a pile of lettuce leaves) and "The Carbonator" (seven burger buns, no filling), to X-rated, including "Girth" (a stack of seven undressed burger patties) and "Ron's Creamy Surprise" (a pile of mayonnaise, best left unexplained). But many went totally tasteless, creating burgers with names like "Mosque at Ground-Zero," "Rektal Prolapse" and "Toddler Body Bag," some of which ended up on the website's front page before it was shut down entirely overnight.
Until school girls from a muslim background start to be pressured into wearing them because otherwise they are "whores" and are attacked both verbally and physically by their fellow pupils. It's one of the main reasons headscarfs are forbidden in many Belgian schools. It was becoming a de facto obligation for many of the girls in areas with lots of muslims.
That is the danger of head scarfs. I know there are some misguided women who wear it as a personal choice because they are so proud to believe in their particular version of the Imaginary Superbeing, feeling the need to show everybody how much better they are because of that, and are somehow oblivious to how it is used to oppress women in many parts of the world. But for many it's not a choice at all, and that's what's wrong with it.
"But for many it's not a choice at all, and that's what's wrong with it."
*citation of your novel definition of "choice" required
Women being beaten or stoned for not wearing the correct clothes?
Or, in my own country (Belgium), being called whores and sexually assaulted?
It's not a choice if your family or friends make you under the threat of violence.