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.
Do what I do. I skip over the inane articles, since they have no value to me.
I miss pancake bunny.
You must follow the herd or be condemned! - just like liberalism and they're so called "tolerance"
I hate it when people who claim to be conservatives try to limit our free speech, so as not to offend someone.
Off with their heads
You must follow the herd or be condemned! - just like liberalism and they're so called "tolerance"
Are you series?
Several years ago another FReeper and I tried telling guys on a thread that that behavior was demeaning, degrading and disrespectful to women and it showed them to be shallow and immoral. It turned into a flame war and the thread was pulled. Our society has slid into immorality and you won’t change that anymore than we could. Sadly it is what it is.
Sears still has a catalog? Go figure.
He’s tryin’ to make it SERIES!
But FAIL is in the air.
It’s not something invented here. It happened in an actual court room. Debra Lafave’s lawyer argued that she was too pretty for prison. That’s how the law works.
Thread winner!
So you’re saying God’s word is useless?
I don’t care what the others say, I thought this was a great rant! One that will become a Freeper classic.
I’ve been in a “coyote ugly” situation but I never thought about suicide. Maybe amputation, but not suicide.
Compared with most other public sites, FR is quite classy.
First, on it’s own right FR has a tremendous amount of topical diversity you don’t normally see on political sites. Look at the ping lists: Gardening, Formula 1 racing, World War II Daily posts, College Football, the Canteen (which is as wholesome as apple pie thanks to the lovely ladies who host), modern music, Astronomy Picture of the Day. There are many more and I can’t even count them.
2. Compare this site to Democrat Underground. I’ve read their content but only once or twice as prolonged exposure would be detrimental to your soul. That place is, quite simply, a cesspool. I don’t know how human beings can choose to wallow in it.
3. We need to keep a free exchange of ideas going. And in my opinion, the best way to do that is through humor. Not all attempts at humor will be funny. Not everyone will “get it.” But, let us let our hair down. Particularly for guys, this is what we do.
4. I think the Admin Mods to a great job of keeping the trash off this site.
So thank you Jim Rob for hosting a wonderful site, and for letting us have some fun, too.
Moreover, posting it in 'Front Page News' only increased the likelihood of massive piling on.
If you'd chosen to whine/attack the whole 'Amish' meme, you would've been on to something.
But as it is, given the multitude of true fusterclucks piled on our collective daily plate, this one smacks a bit of 'turtle on post'.
Could it possibly have anything to do with a 0344 posting time ?
Why do you hate fun?
Guilty!!
That’s just my opinion on what is the truth of the matter.
That's Hugh, to yugh !
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