No question that the feminine of the species is all too often a contributing factor in relationship problems. But I also agree that many men on this “conservative” forum, who consider themselves “good Christians” oogle women and make “wink wink” sexually-suggestive coomments. And yes, I am deeply offended that so many men here dismissed the accusations against Cosby simply because at some point he had supposedly made some “conservative” comments, so all is forgiven.
Internet boards are hardly a bastion of considered rhetorical analysis. Most posters spend little time considering their words. FR has become more coarse over the years, though I’d put it above most non-moderated forums.
Often the first posts on any topic are reactive and banal. I’m not sure how many continued support of Cosby once the level of his abuse was made clear.
As to the sexually suggestive threads, I find most are inhabited by the same audience. Unfortunately, too much of our modern dialogue is filled with perverse sexual topics, so the bar has been lowered dramatically. Since “the love that not speak its name” has become “the love that won’t shut up,” many think that anything heterosexual is conservative. Comments once restricted to barrooms are uttered indiscriminately in polite company.
And yes, I am deeply offended that so many men here dismissed the accusations against Cosby simply because at some point he had supposedly made some “conservative” comments, so all is forgiven.
This happens a LOT with conservatives. We are so beat up in the daily media that if anyone fakes being like us, we forgive them ANYTHING. The senate race in Alabama, totally fine to have been searching for young teen girls in his 20s. A rich serial rapist who belonged in the federal pen told black youths to pull up their pants and stay in school, and no prob with the conservative men, those b*tches set him up... and of course my favorite, the brilliant constitutional expert attorney who had many a sexual encounter with a 16 year old girl but espouses pro-Trumpian stuff and he’s a-ok.
Haven’t we seen, with all the preachers and priests who have been criminal, that all kinds of humans can go toward evil? And there probably are serious leftists who wouldn’t hurt a fly. Morality isn’t always political.