I couldn't agree more.
(Guilty!)
(Not Guilty!)
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.
This is HUGE!
Suffer!!!
Did you by any chance go to an all male prep school or military academy?
Hell no!
I would say that the best way to improve things would be to lead by example. Don’t be one of those guys. Be a quality poster that wouldn’t be caught dead on one of those threads. Maybe some will come around, and maybe they won’t.
You’ve risked your reputation with this post, and I respect that.
I couldn't agree more.
(Guilty!)
(Not Guilty!)
How dare you post a 30 year old music video?
You must have it bad! ;)
You can’t prove it! ;^P
All Your Not Guilty Are Belong To Us...?
Usually when a thread has these many pulled posts, the whole thread gets pulled.
Take two Midol and call us in the morning.
It’s funny in a kind of self-deprecating way because we are depravedly incapable of not juding by appearances.
Isaiah 53
1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our iniquities.
"Guilty" "Not Guilty" is now banned.
Beeber Stunning will not be tolerated.
Absolutely NO references to "Moose" "Sister" or "Cheese" are allowed.
Thailand?
I actually spent a bit of time this AM researching the Cranberries post.
She looks something like a younger Deborah Harry but with a much smaller cup.
Still, I’d rate her a ‘not’ for what it’s worth.
Please, for the sake of the rest of us, lighten up.
This thread has had half of its comments pulled already.
Many were innocuous by normal standards.
What is the point being made?
Is there a new level of posting standard that is being instituted?
A thread with this many pulled comments is embarrassing.
Just delete the whole thread already.
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