So…what DID she mean when she said it doesn’t help the equality situation? I took it to mean that as long as men give up their seats to women, women will never be equal in society. If it meant something else, I would love for you to explain it to me.
Dude, when catsix finds out that you are fighting her battles for her and otherwise rushing to her aid, she is totally going to flame you.
Didn’t you read her posts? She can take care of herself. She isn’t some helpless damsel in distress. Not a member of the weaker sex.
I don’t think you know her at all.
Sheesh.
Why do I feel like I’m replying to a Haine’s Knee-High?
She’s been following this thread all along and replying to it.
She’s no damsel in distress, nor does she need my help.
She is, however, someone I like.
If I see any friend of mine bing plagued by some random asshole, I’m happy to jump in.
I appreciate it, friend.
I see things have really gotten out of hand while I was off making my sushi.
In Thailand, it is polite to refrain from touching someone’s head.
In some areas of the Middle East, we avoid using the forefinger to thumb “okay” symbol.
We don’t belittle or fight the cultural practices of others; it is a matter of respect.
And in the United States we have certain cultural habits. We offer (offer; not insist) to offer a seat or open a door for a lady, for our elders, for the infirm, or for the visibly exhausted or uncomfortable (I am including pregnant here) because it is a kind and polite thing to do. Doesn’t matter whether the other person is wearing a skirt or pants.
Some of you may choose to read an insult into every attempt by a male to make you more comfortable. But offering a seat or holding a door is not an intentional affront to your physical abilities. It is just a polite cultural practice. We don’t have an agenda to undermine all the progress you have made since sufferage.
catsix , you stated earlier that you choose to use the board to educate people. I appreciate and respect your point of view; but you haven’t changed my mind. The occasional dirty look is worth the risk.
I will continue to offer my seat to the pregnant, the elderly, the infirm, or the tired as long as I am the less-encumbered one of the two of us.
Congratulations! And now you know what to expect on public transit. 
Here’s a crazy idea but maybe she meant:
i.e. maintaining customs and rituals based on inequality DOESN’T ACTUALLY HELP the drive for equality. Why go nuts and jump to the conclusion that she thinks it’s some deal breaker or the front lines of the battle of the sexes.
I personally think little courtesies between the sexes could continue while still getting equality. It would be a shame if the custom of a woman fetching her husband’s slippers after a hard day of work were to die out.
DAVENPORTAVENGER sez:
By “we” I assume you mean you and the frog in your pocket, as opposed to presuming to speak for all the ladies, because IMO this is another example of a pretty bleak outlook.
Talk about your dark worlds. Every man who offers you his seat is covertly insulting you, and every man who tries to buy you a drink in a bar is at best going to attempt to (gasp!) talk to you (which god forbid) or at worst is going to slip you roofies to despoil your body while you’re unconscious. Jesus. :rolleyes:
Has it ever occurred to any of you “quick to take offense where none is even imagined” types that many men do this because they were taught it was the polite thing to do, and that there is NOTHING to it other than that?
That it has nothing to do with what the man thinks you can or can’t do, but instead has to do with what the man thinks of himself?
That is, as the poster above replied with the old saying “…I did it because I’m a gentleman”.
And where exactly does catsix behave in such an unrecognizable way? Because she certainly rarely exhibits the behaviour you describe above here on the Dope.
She’s been angry AND foulmouthed in both this thread and the one linked to by the OP.
And I’ve not seen a single thread where a woman was making a LEGITIMATE complaint about harrassment, or some similar situation, that catsix hasn’t come into and poured poison over the entire thing.
I’m going to let you in on a secret, but you have to promise not to spread it around: There is more to life than this discussion board.
Now you figure out the rest from there.
Hey, an opportunity to be the first catsix hater to post a link illustrating your point! Good luck.
Several posters already let you in on a little secret, however she may have acted when she met you, most of her time here she doesn’t behave the same way you describe her acting with you.
You would have a point had people attacked the behaviour you say you witnessed IRL, what you have here, are people who’ve seen her outraged, one trick pony rants for quite some time.
We get it, you like her. Who she presented herself to be in real life, is not who she presents herself to be here. And since all we have to go on is the angry vile way she generally “speaks” here, we have no way of knowing what there is to her outside of this board.
I’m hardly the first. There are several other posters with much better navigational and search capabilities than I have who have already done so in many other threads.
But just in this thread alone…
Foulmouthedness (not a real word).
And her post #19 in this thread where she accuses the OP of being a troll and stalking her. As if lurking in order to get to know a message board is somehow a crime or something. Very accusatory and angry sounding.
It could very well be that catsix is simply incapable of expressing herself very well in type, and simply comes across better in real life. I’ll accept that that may be the case here since I obviously don’t know her IRL.
No you are the first. Maureen and DianeG just made shit up, basically.
And yeah, I suppose that’s foulmouthed but guess what, you said BOTH threads, so you’ve failed the assignment like the others.
and PS-
That example is from this Pit thread so you’ll forgive me for not giving a shit that she was foulmouthed, especially when it wasn’t even directed at another poster, ffs.
As I said, others are likely way better at searching than I am, and not as lazy about seaching. Unlike catsix I have no trouble revealing in which areas I have severe limitations and faults.
But when I said I am not the first, I didn’t mean the first regarding **just ** these two threads, I’m talking about a mulititude of threads into which cat has waded and hijacked for her own woman hating agenda.
At any rate, as I said, it’s entirely likely that IRL catsix is the sweetest nicest most polite person to walk the earth, I have no way of knowing and no problem admitting that I don’t know her behaviour IRL, but here her behaviour is the opposite of what scumpup says he witnessed upon meeting her.
I don’t care that’s she’s foulmouthed. She can be as foulmouthed as she wants to be, and usually is. So? So are all of us from time to time whether in the dope, or out in the world.
The point of my post wasn’t whether or not she was allowed to be foulmouthed. It was in answer to scumpup’s claim that she was polite and not foulmouthed, or angry. She’s proven to be both angry and foulmouthed in this thread alone, belying his claim.
Sorry to be the one to tell you, CanvasShoes, but you are full of shit. You clearly said she was foulmouthed in both threads, implying you fucking read it. And now you try to pretend you are just inept in searching? A single thread? Lame, buddy.
First off, I’m not a buddy.
Second, fine you made me look. In her first post, both angry, insulting and foulmouthed.
Angry…Anything catsix doesn’t personally endorse is “stupid” or any number of equally insulting labels. This is actually pretty mild for catsix, but the gist is there. If she doesn’t agree with it, or understand it, it’s stupid.
Breed appears to be cat’s favorite word in discussing women who are pregnant or who dare to have children on HER planet. Angry and unnecessarily derogatory.
Foulmouthed and tacky.
But you’re right, in one way, and maybe a happy way. These are very mild examples of the catsix modus operandi. Perhaps she is mellowing with age, that would be nice.