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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: dfwgator

Right, then, I am definitely holding off on the coffee this morning as I laughed so hard at that pic I would have been toweling off not just the keyboard but the bloody monitor as well!


241 posted on 11/11/2014 7:28:10 AM PST by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them-)
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To: shibumi
There's a right way and a wrong way. You don't say to the MIL "You're a fat slob." Instead, you say to your wife "You're a fat slob, just like your mother."

Wife: "Do these pants make me look fat?"

Husband: "No. The pants are fine. It's the freakin' half-a-cheesecake and cheesy poof habit that make you look like a bleached, bloated, dying whale on the beach."

242 posted on 11/11/2014 7:28:18 AM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Deciding Female Criminal Guilt By How Hot They Are Since 1999 !)
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To: CatherineofAragon
Yer in luck. “A”s are on sale today for only tree fiddy.

I don't got no tree-fiddy. Can I get about tree-fiddy?


243 posted on 11/11/2014 7:30:04 AM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Deciding Female Criminal Guilt By How Hot They Are Since 1999 !)
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To: central_va

At the risk of being pedantic, didn’t a Brazilian speak Portuguese instead of Spanish?


244 posted on 11/11/2014 7:33:33 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: Lazamataz

There’s a time to have fun and a time to be serious. Sometimes humor is a welcome and needed relief. Sometimes it’s an obstacle. And sometimes it’s misunderstood and thus danqerous. That’s why we don’t use the “N word” a lot here. We self-censor, because we know it would be taken the wronq way and used aqainst us.

I don’t particularly care for dead baby jokes even thouqh I know people have the freedom to say whatever they want. Because I’ve lost 2 children. Joke about boys “qettinq laid” by beautiful women as if rape isn’t rape, but realize that even thouqh you may be mockinq the very idea that beautiful people can do whatever they want, to somebody who’s been used and abused by the beautiful/popular/powerful people the joke miqht not be so funny, and miqht actually contribute to an attitude that hurts them very much.

We can joke, and hopefully do. But with class, because we are people who actually do care about what is riqht and qood. That’s what FR is about.


245 posted on 11/11/2014 7:38:46 AM PST by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/)
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To: shibumi

246 posted on 11/11/2014 7:40:09 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Thoughtful, principled people are often a joy to be around because they don’t care whether they are a joy to be around. In most cases their senses of humor are appealingly dry and inviting, rather than facile and boisterous.


247 posted on 11/11/2014 7:40:28 AM PST by golux
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To: Lazamataz
"I don't got no tree-fiddy. Can I get about tree-fiddy?"

*Sigh*

Okay. Free.

248 posted on 11/11/2014 7:41:20 AM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: butterdezillion
We can joke, and hopefully do. But with class, because we are people who actually do care about what is riqht and qood. That’s what FR is about.

Well said.
249 posted on 11/11/2014 7:41:58 AM PST by golux
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To: butterdezillion
Classless humor that makes you cringe and wonder about the human race, is its own reward.

ONWARD, SOLDIERS, TO CLASSLESS HUMOR!


(by the way, Napoleon just farted)

250 posted on 11/11/2014 7:44:26 AM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Deciding Female Criminal Guilt By How Hot They Are Since 1999 !)
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To: CatherineofAragon

I need anudder tree fiddy.


251 posted on 11/11/2014 7:45:10 AM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Deciding Female Criminal Guilt By How Hot They Are Since 1999 !)
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To: Lazamataz; Travis McGee

Say that to Travis’ face.

Travis, not meaninq to draq you into this if you want to stay out of it, but I do think it’s a hurtful overridinq philosophy that every male wants every sexual encounter he can qet. Rape is about power, not about sex, and until people realize that, they are qoinq to imply that there’s somethinq wronq with a quy who DOESN’T welcome every sexual encounter he can qet.

Jokinq is fine. I just think that people should be careful that their jokes are understood the riqht way, because jokes have broken a lot of people - either intentionally or accidentally.


252 posted on 11/11/2014 7:45:58 AM PST by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Pedict this thread will get to a 1000 posts in record time.


253 posted on 11/11/2014 7:47:43 AM PST by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: Lazamataz

If I weren’t so lazy, I would post that “Well that escalated quickly” image.... but it might get the post pulled anyway.


254 posted on 11/11/2014 7:48:38 AM PST by Graing ("The power of wind, fire... all that kind of thing")
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To: Lazamataz

Wallet’s closed, dude. I still have a burqa to buy.


255 posted on 11/11/2014 7:49:16 AM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: Lazamataz

Nice pick-up line, Laz! Can I borrow that?


256 posted on 11/11/2014 7:54:59 AM PST by HandyDandy (Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: golux

You sound like a lot of fun to be around. ;-)

So rate the following for me please:
Click and Clack radio show, Car Talk
The Three Stooges
Monty Python
Benny Hill
Andrew Dice Clay
Blazing Saddles
History Of The World, Part I
The Airplane movies
The Police Academy movies


257 posted on 11/11/2014 7:55:20 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: DCBryan1

LOL!

Well, good to see most of the deleted posts, about 40 of them, were un-deleted, in a rare performance of Moderator moderation.
I was watching and posting in real time, and I have never seen so many posts pulled without rythme or reason.

I had four posts pulled, and two were returned to life.

They were all innocuous.

Anyway, after 6 years of terror with Obola at the helm, and daily outrages, sometimes more than one a day from DC, a little humor is called for.

It is an adolescent fantasy of most normal males to be tutored in the ways of the world by a savvy older woman.

The prettier, the better.

The reverse not so much.

Men and women are different.

I skip past threads that do not interest me.

I suggest others do the same.

As others have said, there is still a high level of decorum here on FR.

Other sites have so much profanity, you need a shower after you read the posts. DU is a prime example.

I went there Election Night to witness the wailing and gnashing of teeth, and was swiftly reminded why I had not visited there in years.


258 posted on 11/11/2014 8:01:12 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Darksheare
This thread shows signs of not dying.

Plus, I needed to post this -


259 posted on 11/11/2014 8:02:37 AM PST by shibumi ("Walk through the fire - Fly through the smoke")
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To: exit82

I was logged out about 15 times and thought that was over but was just logged out again a few minutes ago. At least my posts are back and I’m no longer on ‘review’ status.


260 posted on 11/11/2014 8:03:06 AM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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