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Will FreeRepublic Finally Stop Posts Equating Guilt or Innocence with (Females') Looks???

Posted on 11/11/2014 12:44:00 AM PST by Secret Agent Man

The Cranberries prior posting about the gal singer who assaulted the flight attendant and cop was the last stupid straw about posting about guilt based on looks. (Note I am not a big Cranberries fan, I have no dog in this particular hunt - it's just an example.)

I am not against posts that discuss a person's looks per se. Particularly if it factors into the issue being discussed. If it's relevant, it's relevant.

What I am objecting to are the stupid inane posts that add nothing of value to the thread and detract from the reputation of this site as being a far better place than any liberal discussion site out there.

I am just so flipping tired of idiots claiming to be conservatives posting comments of absolutely zero value about the guilt or innocence of - almost always - a female person, based solely on her looks.

It's stupid. After being done a billion times, it's not even funny. Why so-called conservatives here think this is appropriate every time a female is in a news story that has potential criminal/illegal actions, what it really is is just tiresome. It adds nothing substantive to the thread. It makes the image of this place look crass.

And it makes light of actual crimes committed by people based on if they have breasts and vaginas. And it's entirely one way. Note we do not have thousands of post replies over the years discussing the guilt or innocence of male criminals based on how good looking they are. The female conservatives here (and the pervy guys who post all the time about females) have somehow restrained themselves from any posts of this kind, yet they cannot help themselves to go this way when there's a legal controversy with a female. Then it's find a photo, and let the idiotic guilt or innocence comment postings commence.

Can we just try to keep it classy here? Do we always have to devolve to appeal to the lowest common denominator of gutter humor here when women make the news for bad behavior/crimes? Don;t we have better standards as conservatives? Having a sense of humor is important, but why is it funny that a woman is innocent or guilty because of her looks? What makes this funny? Because ugly women deserve to be locked up? Because hot women can always get out of crimes or bad behavior and ugly women can't? This is the funny stereotype these comments are playing off of?

And when the crimes are sexual crimes, as they often are, in the articles these comments surface in, why should this be made fun of? Because there aren't any negative consequences that occur to a young boy or girl when an adult female decides to satisfy their sexual urges with usually an underage boy or girl? The same stuff isn't treated lightly or humorously when an adult male does it, in fact death threat statements and the like are posted. But it's all fun and games and smart-ass humor when a woman does it.

What makes it wrong is conservatives ought to know better. They do know that there are negative consequences to teens who have sex with adults, BOTH men and women. It's not victimless only if a woman does it. It screws up their viewpoint of sex and male-female relationships. In both cases these posters KNOW that it's wrong to have an adult authority figure having sex with kids they are in positions of overseeing. It's wrong for male and female adults to look at students as potential personal sexual conquests.

This is sick behavior for a site supposedly made up of conservatives.


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To: shibumi

Where’s the gelziabar stone?
/ end Undying reference


441 posted on 11/11/2014 2:08:00 PM PST by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: zeugma

Makes me chuckle and think of the quote “If you have to ask what it costs, you can’t afford it”

If you need a website to explain xkcd, you have no place viewing xkcd

LOL


442 posted on 11/11/2014 2:08:27 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: shibumi
Moslem men are (especially the Arabs) desperately afraid they will not "measure up."

Overheard in Jihadi kickball locker room:

"Yes, Masouud.. eat the bacon. It will make your man parts grow!"

"No! It is Haram!"

"Just look at Mohammad! See how he has flourished!"

"Allah be praised, it is true!"

443 posted on 11/11/2014 2:21:56 PM PST by humblegunner (Why hello, Captain Trips.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Good luck with this. I posted a quixotic thread about “I’d Hit It”, and it became a long-running joke here, with thousands of responses.

I predict your thread will live on in infamy.


444 posted on 11/11/2014 2:22:31 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Patriotic1
"But when countless images and comments show up on different threads with constant commenting on women's looks, it comes across that women are judged primarily on their looks which is sexist."

Oh, PLEASE. Men are visual. Is that news to you? What are they supposed to do, judge her personality by a picture?

I just don't get this way of thinking...this offense and outrage when men opine on a woman's prettiness.

445 posted on 11/11/2014 2:29:07 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: Trillian

I have ALWAYS vowed I would get married wearing a three-foot-tall blue beehive. You read my mind.


446 posted on 11/11/2014 2:30:22 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: CatherineofAragon; Salamander
"I have ALWAYS vowed I would get married wearing a three-foot-tall blue beehive. You read my mind."

How 'bout this instead?

447 posted on 11/11/2014 2:36:38 PM PST by shibumi ("Walk through the fire - Fly through the smoke")
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To: shibumi

LOL-—word overload! I love the sound of words.

And mukluks


448 posted on 11/11/2014 2:52:38 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: Secret Agent Man; Paladin2
Almost 500 posts and no one has posted a link to that one offensive post
that triggered this whole thing. And pinged the poster.

Cranberries

It should have been done upfront.

449 posted on 11/11/2014 3:42:55 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: TigersEye


450 posted on 11/11/2014 3:47:03 PM PST by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: Brother Cracker

You’re not a botanist are you? lol


451 posted on 11/11/2014 3:48:05 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I have nothing to say. But I did want to contribute a fifth of a percent to this thread.


452 posted on 11/11/2014 4:05:39 PM PST by tinyowl (A equals A)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Will Lucy ever stop pulling the football away from Charlie Brown.


453 posted on 11/11/2014 4:07:24 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: TigersEye

Offensive?


454 posted on 11/11/2014 4:19:01 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: farlander

Cheers!


455 posted on 11/11/2014 4:21:06 PM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: Paladin2

As per the original post, not according to me.


456 posted on 11/11/2014 4:21:52 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: TigersEye; Secret Agent Man
As is par for the course of public discourse these days:

"I'm sorry that anyone took it upon themselves to be offended."

457 posted on 11/11/2014 4:25:50 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: TigersEye

We are closing in on 500 posts.

If things held they were early this morning, about 250 of these posts would have been deleted by now.

BTW, has Lillian called yet?


458 posted on 11/11/2014 4:28:13 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Paladin2
...took it upon themselves...

Precisely and accurately phrased.

459 posted on 11/11/2014 4:32:42 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: Paladin2; TigersEye; Darksheare; CatherineofAragon
Just a passing though for those who find themselves perpetually offended.
(Any lurking Liberals, Progressives or Moslems, this means *YOU*)


460 posted on 11/11/2014 4:35:32 PM PST by shibumi ("Walk through the fire - Fly through the smoke")
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