I read what Starving Artist wrote and I thought: Can he really be that stupid? Can anyone?
And then I realized that some idiot put that shit on the wall in the first place.
Okay, just curiosity here, but let’s say that you win and the saying stays up. What would you suggest as the male-focused counterpart for the other side of the hall/boy’s locker room?
No.
Barrows has denied being a ‘worker’ in the escort business. Nor was she a ‘pimp’ in the commonly understood meaning of the word. She ran a business that set up appointments between call girls and clients.
As to why she’d be less likely a target, that would be because despite her background in the the sex service industry, she’s a charming, well-educated, and dare I say it, ladylike, woman who undoubtedly travels in more polite and civilized circles than does someone like Amy Schumer.
This is too silly to bother with.
I’m at a bit of a loss to understand how I might see women to their cars in a less ‘ostentatious’ way.:rolleyes:
And it isn’t our own employees that pose a potential threat, but rather any of a number of the random criminal element our society is so rife with these days.
And I hardly think walking with a woman as she goes out to her car, often accompanied by friendly joking and pleasant chit-chat (and sometimes my having to break said chit-chat off and remind them of my need to get back inside) may properly be characterized as ‘supervison’, nor could their path from the door of our building to their car be reasonably described as ‘restricted’. You really need to put a little more thought into this practice of yours of attempting to insert prejudicial verbiage into posts you make to opponents.
You mean, the circles that pay her to provide prostitutes? Yes, very nice company. Have you suggested to the young women at your work that they should pursue such activities so that they can travel in those “polite and civilized circles”?
“Ladylike’
‘Travels in polite and civilized circles’
Fresh steaming piles of wildly outdated misogyny. Ugh!
“…IF I COULD TURN BACK TIME…”
It seems to me like it is gendered for no good reason.
You can easily use some form of the golden rule to say exactly the same thing that should be (hopefully) uncontroversial. i.e. “treat others as you wish to be treated yourself”.
No need to mention men or women at all, it is something that should be part of every school ethos as important for *all *to adhere to for *all *situations.
Yes, but you’re having to pervert the words to make them say what you need them to say in order to arrive at the message you’re claiming they contain. The message is not “The more you act like a lady, the more he’ll act like a gentleman”. It’s “The more you act like a lady, the more likely it is that the guys will act like gentlemen”.
Nowhere in the school’s message is it implied that every guy will act like a gentleman, nor is it implied that no guy will ever commit rape or assault.
By the time they reach middle school, everyone, boy or girl, should know that there are simply bad people out there, and there’s no way anyone can guarantee that you won’t ever run afoul of one of them. And believe it or not, most people know this already.
I seriously doubt that sex of any kind was on anyone’s mind at all when they wrote that message. It was simply intended as a way to get girls to try to behave in ways that would encourage guys to behave better themselves.
But you people, ever eager to manufacture victims somewhere, instantly seized upon it and twisted it into this ridiculous faux message about making sexual assault the girl’s fault, as if the school’s administration for some idiotic and utterly incomprehensible reason deliberately set out to pre-emptively shift the blame for any future sexual assault onto its female middle school student body in order to spare the boys. The entire idea is ridiculous on the very face of it.
Why, in your world, are guys under no obligation just to BEHAVE THEMSELVES? Poor things, they aren’t responsible for their actions, it’s all somebody else’s fault… If only those girls would encourage them, they might do it, they can’t be expected just to behave properly all on their own… Poor dears, it’s hard not to feel sorry for them, isn;t it?:rolleyes:
That is EXACTLY WHAT THE MESSAGE SAYS. Do you need to see an optometrist? Does the site management need to look into enabling blink tags if the other forms of emphasis I just used prove insufficient?
Oh, and we’re still wondering:
How about “Just because you can’t control yourself doesn’t mean you have the right to attack anything that’s female.” ?
Like how ‘ladylike’ a thirteen yr old girl is determines the ‘gentlemanly’ behaviour of a thirteen yr old boy!
How about we charge parents with producing gentlemanly sons instead of looking to other people’s daughters to do that?
What a steaming pile of poor reasoning. It’s the 21st freaking century you dinosaur!
“Be excellent to each other.” - Bill S. Preston, Esq.
The more you act like a gentleman the more likely she is to put out?
Nope. That’s the same website. It probably didn’t implement the new EU rules about data protection (that’s the main reason why we can’t access a non-EU news site, currently).
Obvious Troll continues being Obvious.
Leave it to the diseased asshole leakage named Starving Artist to ruin the perfectly good hockey diss thread us ladies were having. :mad:
That wasn’t very ladylike.
Obvious Troll continues being Obvious.
(Specific words are less indicative of a “potty mouth” mentality than the sentiments expressed, Potty Mouth.)
Yes. Yes we did.
You really are an oblivious dinosaur.
Well, here’s a link to the Tweet (including photo) at least.
And here’s a small sampling of the article that I think sums it up:
One HISD teacher who wishes to remain anonymous told KHOU she could not believe the quote is at the school in 2018. […] “To me it meant that girls need to take responsibility, not only for their own actions, but for whatever the boys to us as well and I just didn’t feel like that was an image of the equality and self-determination that, we as a district or myself as a mother, want to portray,” the teacher said.
Several Twitter users claimed the quote was photoshopped but Beckman responded saying it was real, tweeting more high resolution shots of the quote.
A couple of hours later, HISD confirmed the photo was in fact real when the district sent a statement to KHOU 11 News Friday afternoon.
“The quote does not align with HISD values, and it will be taken down.” the statement read.
Disturbingly enough, the quote comes from Sydney Biddle Barrows, a business woman who was the owner of an escort agency in New York City.