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.
Fascinating.
Now make me a sandwich.
IF I WANTED HUMER, ID HANG OUT ON THE CLOWNS BORDS!!!!!
Every Catholic v. Protestant thread on FR is just as stupid as these not guilty ones and cheapens this site almost daily.
sudo make me a sandwich.
It needs the Clive Barker treatment!
You have a sense of humor and thus are forgiven.
Agree with the bold.
:-)
But when countless images and comments show up on different threads with constant commenting on women's looks, it comes across that women are judged primarily on their looks which is sexist. Take any crime related thread and you will see it.
Heck - look at any thread with Hillary, Michelle, even back to Janet Reno. The focus on their looks and the corresponding comments are highly insulting. The fact that I am reduced to defending those womes... agghhh. Listen - it's sexist to reduce women to their looks. That's not a liberal position - it's a respectful position. Or maybe you think I am too sensitive. Fair enough. And maybe you think that the men who agree with SAM are .. not real men. Fair enough. But maybe - just maybe... our position is the better one? Maybe all this humor just really isn't funny to everyone?
Our culture is so degraded one would think we're French. I lurk at the Belmont Club and the discussions there are quite decent. Sometimes FR is like being at a bar with a bunch of 20 year olds playing quarters.
No need to worry AppyPappy - I don’t expect humor from you.
Ha ha, I get it!
Womes are evil and diseased.
How in the wide wide world of sports you can come around here defending womes is beyond understanding.
Thank you.
...in a very guilty not guilty sort of way...
Ahem... Hillary, Michelle, even back to Janet Reno.
As El Rushbo says.... feminism exists to allow ugly women access to higher levels of society. (I am paraphrasing)
A sense of humor is paramount to being a conservative. I have yet to meet a true conservative who gets “IT”
How can we not laugh at ourselves. It takes honesty. Also takes accepting your peccadilloes.
To quote many a comment on this thread:
“Lighten up Frances”
When looking for that graphic, I discovered there are more than one websites out there dedicated to explaining xkcd comics. Wow.
A most eloquent, impressive and sublimely well reasoned reply.
Not guilty!
IT without a sense of humor that is.
My wife is chatting with me.
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