Anything that does not involve having to interact with people, or look at them, or be near them in any way.
In case you didn’t notice, I’m on your and catsix’s side in this.
Okay, ya know? This is damn funny stuff.
Yes, I know that; but when you leave an opening for a cheap shot like that, I just can’t resist. It’s like asking an alcoholic to sniff a bottle of merlot just to appreciate the bouquet.
It’s true!! Everyone on the SDMB really IS a shithead!!
I think it’s all perfectly well and good that you like catsix and are sticking up for her (you’re not a dude are you? She might be offended by your chivalry) but you’re definitely in the minority. Seems to me this thread can’t be too lame-ass if it’s gotten this much response. Yes, all catsix did was express an opinion as is her right, but it’s obviously fairly offensive to lots of poeple, not just Beaucarnea. You certainly don’t have to agree, but what with the constant allusion to secret identities and footwear? What does that have to do with anything?
I think that it “certainly implies” is the huge leap being made, by you. And she’s right, it doesn’t exactly help the equality situation.
Seems that a few people are just carrying around some catsix baggage and they can’tread a post without imagining “invective” or inferring giant leaps that she is crying about being oppressed.
I can only speak for myself, but I can quite honestly say that unless they were riding a gentle natured Abyssinian donkey I thought was cute I have never once held a door for a lady because I wanted to check out her “sweet ass” (and the Abyssinian exception happens twice a year or so, tops). ;j
Is it “baggage” to be aware of a poster’s history? Am I just supposed to wipe the memory of past posts and treat every new one I see as a tabula rasa? Because I’ll tell you, there are a hella lot of posters here on the SDMB, and I consider myself no more than a casual scanner of the Board, and even I know to brace myself when I see a **catsix **post, because chances are that’s going to be at very least negative and very probably controversial. What’s more, I think she enjoys the persona of being the whipping girl who is reviled for her unpopular stances here on the SDMB. Whatever floats your boat.
He’s implying that Beaucarnea is a troll, or a sock puppet. I know we’re now allowed to call people trolls in the Pit, but did they change the sock puppet rule as well? Can’t remember.
The only implication is that I feel it is good manners to be deferential to ladies. While it may be a tad patronizing, they get a seat out of it and if they feel it is insulting they can decline- if that’s the worst sexual discrimination they encounter in their lives then they’re blessed. (I should make an addendum in interest of full disclosure: I am not likely to surrender my seat to a young girl (teenaged or so) or to somebody speaking on a cell phone (it would required interrupting a call) or to anybody remotely rude, or when I’ve been on a cane due to a recurrent sciatica I’ll keep seated because it’s painful to change position, but I have surrendered seats to particularly butch lesbians (read “John Wayne but in less drag”) and not once have I received any response more irate than a seemingly sincere “Thanks”.
Like tipping more than 15% for good service or calling a person “Sir”, “Ma’am”, “Mr. ____” or “Ms. ____” until invited to address them by their first name, it’s something you do. (I wonder if Germans and the Spanish are having similar concerns over the use of “du/Sie” “tu/usted” these days to the irritation some here give at Sir or Ma’am; a friend of mine was slapped as a child for calling his teacher ma’am when he moved from rural Alabama to Detroit- she apologized when his mother, very sweetly and without ever raising her voice, informed said teacher that 1) it was good manners in the South and that was how here son was reared and 2) if it ever happened again the teacher would find herself in need of a very good dentist, cosmetic surgeon and a wig- if you’ve never heard a Southern mother defending her cub without raising her voice, it’s one of the most terrifying quiet sounds you’ll ever hear.)
They loosened it up a bit.
I’m from the South. My mother taught me to hold the door open for “ladies” (all women.) Around here, it is genrerally regarded as a courtesy, and a sign of respect. If I were to move somewhere that it was an insult, I suppose I would adapt. My point is, it’s silly to take offense at a social nicety absent any other reason to take offense.
When I was in college (age 39) I held the door open, at the entrance to the English building, for a person in a wheel chair who had an armload of books, and he chewed me out for it. Now, these were double doors that swung out and returned quickly, and I would have held the door for anyone with an armload of books, just as I would offer to help someone with a cumbersome package at Lowe’s, or to get something from the top shelf for a short person. Some folks just want to be offended.
No. It’s “baggage” when you think every post of hers carries “invective” when it doesn’t. It’s baggage when you think she saying “I’m being oppressed” when she isn’t. Well, baggage or just bullshitting to get people on your side of the argument. That seems to float a couple boats around here.
Anyway, I already said that I don’t particularly agree with catsix, just pointing out that she made her point pretty rationally. Unlike many of her detractors.
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Okay … I’ve got a brand-new prejudice: against what passes for “manners” outside of the South. Sorry all … we do it Right and Proper and Correct down here … and y’all don’t 
Not even a thank you? So what you dont believe in a God, they do, and they want their God to bless you. Isn’t that a kindness on their part? Why wouldn’t you say “thank you”?
The problem I have here is that unless you a wearing a sign that says “Treat me like a man” nobody knows thats what you want. Most men are brought up to give their seats to a lady, open doors for them, etc… It’s an accepted polietness, not a slam on your gender. I give my seat up all the time, and not once have I thought “Weak woman, need seat, me strong man, I stand”. I just thought it was being nice.
You want to be treated like an abled bodied man? What does that mean exactly? you want to get drunk, watch porn, and grab your crotch all the time? Talk about other hot women you would bang? Dont shave for days?
So on a sinking ship if they said Women and Children first, would you wait??
What, you think women don’t do this already?
Sounds like the girl’s gym coach at the school where I had my first teaching job. I’m sure she’d have been up for a threesome with some hot chick; but that would have been like having a threesome with some hot chick and Victor Mclaglen.
Now see…I just don’t get this. How could an educated person (that is, anyone who made it past the third grade) confuse “ma’am” with a slappable offense? Did she think it meant “god-forsaken muthafuckin’ whore?” I’ve never met a Northerner who interpreted it as anything more than a simple (if overly formal) way to address an elder.
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You say that like it’s a bad thing… Don’t be talking bad about my wife! 
Sooo you’re saying it does happen then, even for you 
Horseshit. 24kt horseshit. This whole story. Stick to yarns about your fucked-up family; You have some slight overly-verbose charm with that.