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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.
Yet we seriously and studiously avoid fart jokes and comments.
That’s classy in and of itself.
The jury is still out on this.
Threads are allowed where we ask practical questions of all sorts and often much good information is shared. All in all, I think that's all good.
BUT.
What is not good, imo, is the allowance of tabloid type stories. I have suggested that a separate forum be made for that; but my suggestion has not been adopted.
I do commend you for bringing it up. Perhaps some people will think - what a concept. And might as well plug an oldie of mine.
Smokin Joe’s post to nathanbedford really should be restored.
Commentary is now News/Activism ?
It was #73 with the blue Jefferson quote.
There was a fart joke on the Friday silliness thread. Maybe that is free fart zone though.
Can we discuss that she was guilty of being Irish... er... I mean drunk?
It’s best not to be serious all the time especially in today’s world. Humor from the gutter up has it’s place and it’s safe to say it’s not just limited to women on FR and it’s also heavily dependent on the post title which can often tell you where the comments are headed. Sometimes just the name of someone implies guilty or leads to the humor.
Sorry, they’re neither Christian nor conservative. They’re pimply faced adolescents with bad teeth giggling over the lingerie pictures in a Sears catalog.
Yes, I’ve been criticizing these idiots for years. Laz and the rest of FR fools fantasizing about a childhood they never had, I guess.
Perhaps your next angry vanity should cover totally missing the point, or failure to understand?
The reason the guilty/not guilty threads start is based on truth and reality, and conservatives have an uncanny ability to point it out and mock it with humor.
It wouldn’t be funny if it wasn’t the truth. The fact is that really attractive women caught having sex with underage males are treated differently in court. If convicted at all they will get a sentence of...well...nothing. There also seems to be a sliding scale based on how attractive they are.
Fear of pointing out the truth is a liberal trait, and their lives are devoted to misrepresenting the truth, or hiding it completely. The liberal mindset is based on fantasy, and their agenda falls apart when faced with the truth.
It’s no different than a black comedian in a nightclub mocking life in the hood, it’s funny because it is based on the truth. Do you seriously think they find the drugs, crime, and murders funny?
The guilty/not guilty threads are the same thing. The black comedian isn’t a racist for pointing out the truth, and conservatives aren’t condoning sex with minors by pointing out the facts using humor.
Feel better ?
I'm calling BS on that. The last time a guy committed suicide because he got laid was , well, never.
Do you like gladiator movies?
Humorless people are in my experience absolutely horrible to be around. Self deprecating ones are usually a joy to be around. Which category do you fit in?
Guilty - original sin.
Now that there is plain funny.
WOW! That is series!
Hmmmm...
A Silliness thread would almost have to be I suppose...I usually do not go there.
Now there’s a thought for those who object to a thread’s content....
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