That’s weird. I’d think David Sedaris is the hipster king, and most hipsters would ruin his theory. Like, 50 years ago you might say that PBR drinkers tend to know how to rebuild an engine. Nowadays, not so much.
Talk about an even data distribution - the “guy” choices have tallied 22, 22, 18 and 22 as of this posting.
No idea how to vote.
I have a beard, but have no idea if my father ever own a gun. I never heard of him going hunting, but we were never close, so who knows.
Other: David Sedaris is NOT funny.
And a Reno woman don’t need him 'round, anyhow.
I find this question odd. I’m currently clean-shaven but have spent months with a beard in the past and my dad is currently clean-shaven but has also experimented with beards. To my knowledge he’s never owned a gun. However, my mother does.
Dunno what that means.
:eek: Does your mom know?
I’m a girl. My dad has a beard, and both my parents own guns. I don’t own any myself, but I would if there was a nice range giving lessons around here. Pretty sure I’ll be the one to inherit the guns - that’s how mom got all but one of hers, ftr.
Well, except that I “self-identified” my dad as a non-gun owner, which I think is true by any reasonable definition of the term, but that wasn’t good enough for you.
Pick one slope to slide on, here.
No girls without a beard choice. Some of them shave don’t you know. I’ll assume a dead father reverts to gun ownership before death.
It’s possible men are less likely to own a gun when they have daughters versus sons, but I’d think it more likely that some of the women (3 of the 11, currently), just don’t know that their dad has a gun.
(I suppose it could just be a fluke, but where’s the fun in assuming that? :))
Going by your standards for cars and drugs, if the gun is usable as a gun, he’s a gun owner, if not, he isn’t.
So when people like Eric Holder(when he was US Atty for DC) say things like
Would that count? Because there seems to be a growing stigma associated with gun ownership. Not just the use of guns to commit crimes, just the mere ownership. At what point does a sloppy correlation to link people with negative stigmas become harmful? Does it rise to the level of the kind of offensiveness from Airline sex discrimination where male passengers were not allowed to sit next to unaccompanied children? There was actually a British court case where there was successful legal action by someone who had been singled out by this policy and he was awarded damages because this policy treated him as a presumptive danger to the child.
I could see this correlation becoming a stereotype like “beard = raised by gun nut” and that’s not only unsupported by any reasonable standard of evidence, it’s offensive. It may make a funny anecdote, but it really shouldn’t leave the comedy club.
Enjoy,
Steven
What’s the point? Someone will always say it is the wrong one. This is humor; arguments are down the hall.
Well, the poll seems to be slightly serious, it’s in IMHO , and the OP seems to want a real answer.
So, what was Sedaris point anyway?
He likes to test out pet theories by asking people at his book signings. He started out with the theory that men with beards owned more guns, but discovered men with beards didn’t have more guns that those without, but men with beards had fathers with guns, by a margin of 4 to 1. Unscientific of course, and only reflective of his readers who come to book signings, but it made for a funny bit.
He had another pet theory that two gay men in a restaurant will share a dessert, but two straight men won’t. Straight men will share a plate of Buffalo chicken wings, but they won’t share a dessert.
Hmmm. time for another poll…
I don’t have a beard (never have; I can’t grow a respectable one), and my father doesn’t own a gun…at least, not anymore.
He grew up in Wisconsin (though neither he, nor his father, had beards, either), and would occasionally go hunting, for deer, and for small game. He had, IIRC, two hunting rifles.
When my sister and I were small children, he kept the guns stored at my grandmother’s house; he did not want guns in the house at all with small children. And, during that time, he didn’t hunt.
When my sister was 7 or 8, he retrieved the rifles from my grandmother’s house, and started hunting again. He didn’t go often; he always said that he mostly went in order to spend time with some of his friends (though, ironically, he, the guy who was least interested in actually getting anything, was the one who always got a deer).
My sister, who was living at home, had a baby when she was 24. At that point, my dad again decided to not have any guns in the house with a small child around. He was in his 60s at that point, and decided that he was done with hunting, so he sold the rifles.
This is sort of right, but also wrong. Unless they are very close friends, or someone I am intimate with (which of course would mean they are very close friends, so..) if the food item is one piece, I don’t feel comfortable offering a bite. But if they are multiples , then sure.
So, it’s not desserts. I often have a box of Sees (YUM!) which I offer around. And, it’s not gay men , I think, it’s two gay men in a relationship with each other. But I could be wrong about that, not being gay…altho I do work in SF, so…
However, its’ clear Sedaris idea about beards is wrong. It made little sense anyway.
I’m a girl. My father had no guns. He did have a beard.
Mostly, I’m just using this as an excuse to post one of Maki Tori’s great Beardwall comics:
I would wager that if two guys are at dinner together, the odds of them actually ordering dessert are much lower if they are straight. It’s just less common to order. And less likely therefore to share dessert with female friends, family members, etc. Also, the kinds of places where two males go to get wings don’t tend to be the kinds of places that actually serve dessert.
It’s not supposed to make sense.