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Have to make a dig @ their web team thou, responsive design fails for small widths.

Looks fine to me in the Xcode iOS simulator; maybe the text size is a bit larger than necessary, but thats about it.

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This bet was attacked by feminists (rightly? or too sensitive?) : the idea of it being a humiliating punishment for a respectable businessman having to dress up like a woman and serve other men. So it was my understanding that Virgin backed away from this bet and tried to downplay it. I'm a bit surprised by this picture cropping up on the website. Am I being hypersensitive? No-one else seems to have picked up on this…

>> Am I being hypersensitive?

Yes, you are.

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This bet was attacked by feminists (rightly? or too sensitive?) : the idea of it being a humiliating punishment for a respectable businessman having to dress up like a woman and serve other men. So it was my understanding that Virgin backed away from this bet and tried to downplay it. I'm a bit surprised by this picture cropping up on the website. Am I being hypersensitive? No-one else seems to have picked up on this…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_%28clothing%29

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post #33
post #30

This bet was attacked by feminists (rightly? or too sensitive?) : the idea of it being a humiliating punishment for a respectable businessman having to dress up like a woman and serve other men. So it was my understanding that Virgin backed away from this bet and tried to downplay it. I'm a bit surprised by this picture cropping up on the website. Am I being hypersensitive? No-one else seems to have picked up on this…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_%28clothing%29

There's a big difference between wearing drag for theatre, personal empowerment, kicks / w/e, and being forced to dress like a woman as a punishment or forfeit.

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This bet was attacked by feminists (rightly? or too sensitive?) : the idea of it being a humiliating punishment for a respectable businessman having to dress up like a woman and serve other men. So it was my understanding that Virgin backed away from this bet and tried to downplay it. I'm a bit surprised by this picture cropping up on the website. Am I being hypersensitive? No-one else seems to have picked up on this…

1. Many men find it humiliating to dress like a woman and do make up. 2. Many men find it humiliating to serve for their competitor. 3. Richard Branson is a man.

All the logical prepositions you need to show that there is at least one interpretation for the events that does not involve misogyny.

Why bend over backwards to smear a man who has made so many women rich and powerful?

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The guy pictured in the photo is Richard Branson, aka the boss at Virgin. Just search his name on Google Images to get the humor. http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Branson

Hahaha this is one fun way to lose a bet and I like the idea. But they really should add a caption because their customers and causal visitors probably can't recall/can't tell what is going on and will skip. I'd laugh harder if I were browsing and saw this and learned this was a bet.

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This bet was attacked by feminists (rightly? or too sensitive?) : the idea of it being a humiliating punishment for a respectable businessman having to dress up like a woman and serve other men. So it was my understanding that Virgin backed away from this bet and tried to downplay it. I'm a bit surprised by this picture cropping up on the website. Am I being hypersensitive? No-one else seems to have picked up on this…

Being too sensitive, all it is, is a man who likes to dress up in ladies clothes (or are men not allowed to do this any more ;-P)

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This bet was attacked by feminists (rightly? or too sensitive?) : the idea of it being a humiliating punishment for a respectable businessman having to dress up like a woman and serve other men. So it was my understanding that Virgin backed away from this bet and tried to downplay it. I'm a bit surprised by this picture cropping up on the website. Am I being hypersensitive? No-one else seems to have picked up on this…

I agree with you, however I was wondering why showing cross dressing as a 404 page was funny. I much prefer the github 404 page or the one from hw.no http://www.hardware.no/abc

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This bet was attacked by feminists (rightly? or too sensitive?) : the idea of it being a humiliating punishment for a respectable businessman having to dress up like a woman and serve other men. So it was my understanding that Virgin backed away from this bet and tried to downplay it. I'm a bit surprised by this picture cropping up on the website. Am I being hypersensitive? No-one else seems to have picked up on this…

> This bet was attacked by feminists (rightly? or too sensitive?)

Everything you do gets attacked by someone. If you ate meat for dinner; if you drove a car; if you use Microsoft Windows; if you didn't pray to Zeus, you offended someone's sensitivities. So if feminists attacked this bet, just ignore them.

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