I don't got no tree-fiddy. Can I get about tree-fiddy?
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.
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!
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."
I don't got no tree-fiddy. Can I get about tree-fiddy?
At the risk of being pedantic, didn’t a Brazilian speak Portuguese instead of Spanish?
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.
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.
*Sigh*
Okay. Free.
ONWARD, SOLDIERS, TO CLASSLESS HUMOR!
(by the way, Napoleon just farted)
I need anudder tree fiddy.
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.
Pedict this thread will get to a 1000 posts in record time.
If I weren’t so lazy, I would post that “Well that escalated quickly” image.... but it might get the post pulled anyway.
Wallet’s closed, dude. I still have a burqa to buy.
Nice pick-up line, Laz! Can I borrow that?
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
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.
Plus, I needed to post this -
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.
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