[American_Centurion]

It's a cartoon, it's flipping the bird, a meaningless gesture that only has meaning to those looking to take offense to it. Sheesh. As long as reproductive organs are left out of the depictions, those outraged by cartoons, are just looking to be outraged to stir up a stink, just like the muzzies do.

[ishabibble]

>>>...a meaningless gesture that only has meaning to those looking to take offense at it.<<<<

I see all kinds of low-rent, dirtball people throwing that finger all the time. Mostly, they are under thirty. The very second they do that, in traffic or on the street, I know that is a no class bum that I want nothing to do with...and for some odd reason, I always think that these losers flipping the bird have a social disease.

In Western civilization, we strive for excellence. We are never content to sit in the bottom of the barrel. That is why (outside of celeb culture) we try to maintain the highest standards of behaviour. It is not cool, it is thug. It's BET, MTV, HBO culture that says it's perfectly fine to use such coarse and ugly gestures and words. That might be your world. It will never be mine.

One of my most frequent shorthands is PC BS. I use this because I think it covers about 90% of what we discuss here with regard to politics and society. I am not a prude. I just have standards and those standards do not include the "That's OK" mindset. If some grunge person is picking his nose on the Amtrak, I am the woman who stands up and makes him stop. That is my responsibility because I live in this civilized country. Mr. X has lived in many Third World countries, and has told me the horror stories. Not happening here while I'm still around.