I suspect, Jodi, that if they do, Esprix can deal with it.
Wow.
I’m stepping away from the computer for a long bit now. But I did want to say thanks to the people who understood where I was coming from. I’ll probably miss a few but:
Thanks to: BBJ, Blessed Wolf, Mauvaise, Cauahtemoc, Jodi, Laur_Ange, Zut, RickJay, Blackknight, Trion, and Truth Seeker.
Thanks also, to the many good people on the SDMB who were even-handed, even if they called me an “asshat” along the way. Don’t they know that’s passe? Fucknugget, please. 
Also, to those who sent good wishes via e-mail (y’know who ya are), thanks so much, I feel truly blessed. Y’all folks are great, thank you so much.
And I wanted to take a special time-out to give props to Joe_Cool and Gobear, usually at opposite ends of any given debate, agree here. I feel good about that – I hope we all get to take something equally as good away from this thread.
Best wishes,
Ace
But gobear, that’s what Ace did in the other OP:
Not “you inconsiderate jackass”, not “you fucking waste of oxygen” (both of which, I would have agreed with) but rather: “you skeevy pipe-smoker”.
The acehole’s first reaction to a “booty call” is to make anti-gay comments.
Imagine if the “booty caller” had been black and Ace responded with:
Fer christ sake, at least find out if I’m into black chicks first you skanky porch monkey!
Given the nature of Ace’s other OP and given the tone of his other posts (Hell, look at the title of this thread), I thought Esprix’s comment, while strong, was damned appropriate. I can understand the temptation to use this sort of comment against racists (and homophobes). Had whatshername: our Nazi Shiksa from Stormfront posted in the Pit, I was half-considering a “You’re repressing your lust for Jewish guys, aren’t you? That’s why you sound so angry. Just admit it to yourself. You want me.” type post.
There are very few circumstances where Esprix’s comment would have been appropriate. Leave it to Acehole, the leader of the Banned to provide him with one.
Fenris
Fenris, I’ve always wondered: what is a “shiksa”? It’s such a cool sounding word.
It’s Yiddish and essentially means bimbo.
A zaftig shiksa is a stacked bimbo.
Thus endeth the Yiddish lesson.
Fenris
Gentile woman.
Regards,
Shodan
Beleive me, Fenris, it gives me no great pleasure to beon Ace’s side, when I’d much rather be supporting me droogie, Esprix. I can’t really fault **
Ace** for the “skeevy pipe-smoker” comment because it’s something I might have said; I know in some long-dead thread I referred to some old troll trying to pick me up as a “fat, old shirtlifter.” I saw Ace’s remark as an apposite comment on the nature of the complaint, although it’s entirely possible I could be taking too charitable a view.
Guin, you are a shiksa, that is a Gentile female. Be glad you’re not a yenta.
Cool, thanks! I’m going to use that to refer to Jennifer Love Hewitt now.
When I first posted, I had it in mind that the OP might even be well meant in some way. But I knew from the extremely ill-judged title it would be a train wreck.
And it is. What a waste of all our time.
Holy shit. I was wrong.
I just looked it up: according to three different sites, it doesn’t mean “bimbo”. It means “non-Jewish woman” and, according to some sites (the American Heritage Dictionary) has a nasty connotation. :eek:
Mea culpa.
Fenris
Thanks gobear for eloquantly saying what I’ve been trying to state.
Everyone got so mad at Kirkland for being rude to His4Ever, even though she has few supporters here.
There is a big difference between saying something that is personally insulting (‘moron’) and generally offensive (what Esprix said).
Oy, *Fenris, you think you’d be above all this goyische mishagas.
Shiksa doesn’t have as nasty a connotation as koorvah, though.
“Oy, Fenris, why can’t you bring home a nice Jewish girl instead of dating that shiksa” is not good, but “I can’t believe you brought that koorvah into our house!” is much worse.
ACE, do not confuse criticizing SPREE with defending you. Those are not the same things. Nor should you take my opinion in this case to be my opinion ESPRIX generally. I think he was over the line here, but I also think he’s a damn fine poster who adds a lot to the Board. You I don’t know.
Jodi, who chews everyone’s ankles equally.
Ankle-biter.
**
“Shirtlifter”? Who’s shirt, yours or his? Seriously: I have no idea what that insult means and I thought I’d heard 'em all! . (though point taken).
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I’m not familiar with the word koorvah (my Yiddish is very limited). However, I didn’t want to leave Guin with a wrong connotation and have her use the word inappropriately.
Fenris
Only if we’re having a good night and there are a lot of drinks involved. 
Now THAT’S getting kinky… 
D&R
D’oh. Oh well. Still, it’s a pretty nifty sounding word.
Maybe we could have a “shiksa” smiley to match the “putz” smiley.
FWIW , I took ‘skeevy pipesmoker’ the same way I would have taken ‘dirty slut’ had the caller been a woman. Not necessarily a slur just because the caller is gay, but more referring to the caller’s methodology.