# Is this a Conservative or Liberal Forum? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 26, 2009, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-conservative-or-liberal-forum/507783 "2009-08-26T16:50:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-conservative-or-liberal-forum/507783/41 "2009-08-27T14:40:42Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Is there a female version of the word ‘blowjob’? Yes, but it’s active, not passive. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-conservative-or-liberal-forum/507783/42 "2009-08-27T14:41:31Z")
If you mean a single act of cunnilingus, then no, I don’t think so. A lick job? ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-conservative-or-liberal-forum/507783/43 "2009-08-27T14:55:27Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > The boards are (by US standards) socially extremely liberal, economically moderately liberal. It is predominantly agnostic and atheist, with a substantial fraction of those atheists being the rabidly anti-religious sort. The boards are (by non-US standards) extremely right-wing and religious. For example, the right-wing Conservative party in the UK (leading the polls to form the next Government) stand for: - universal health care - banning of handguns - unarmed beat police - teaching of evolution - closing Guantanamo Bay ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-conservative-or-liberal-forum/507783/44 "2009-08-27T15:19:05Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Is there a female version of the word ‘blowjob’? I don’t mean, ‘cunninglingus’ or however you spell it… I mean a cool, easy, quick word. I can’t believe I just realized there isn’t a female equivalent of ‘blowjob’. I don’t know, but I often find myself saying “[Such and such thing] can blow me.” It gets the point across. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-conservative-or-liberal-forum/507783/45 "2009-08-27T15:46:20Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > It’s a strongly _anti-ignorance_ board. Any political leanings it has are the result of that. Reading through any discussion on business or economics should disabuse you of this silly notion. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-conservative-or-liberal-forum/507783/46 "2009-08-27T15:46:44Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > I don’t know, but I often find myself saying “[Such and such thing] can blow me.” It gets the point across. Well, yeah. I don’t doubt that you can come up with some good ways to tell someone to fuck off, in so many words. But I am wanting a word that means the exact same as ‘blow job’, you know? Not as an insult, but as in, “Boy, if he keeps licking his lips like that, I’m gonna ask him for a …” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-conservative-or-liberal-forum/507783/47 "2009-08-27T15:47:53Z")
I’d say the board is left of center by US standards and right of centre [sic] by European standards, with a wide variety of views held within that range and the usual gangs of noisy idiots at either extreme. However, I’m not convinced it is “predominantly agnostic and atheist”; it’s just that the agnostics/atheists here tend to speak up a lot more than in regular society. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-conservative-or-liberal-forum/507783/48 "2009-08-27T15:48:37Z")
Chapstick? ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-conservative-or-liberal-forum/507783/49 "2009-08-27T16:03:05Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Chapstick? Sigh. Forget it. If you guys aren’t going to be serious about coming up with a good word, then I will just stop hijacking this thread about it. And ‘lick job’ is weak. Sounds whack, and encourages bad technique. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-conservative-or-liberal-forum/507783/50 "2009-08-27T16:16:15Z")
It’s a bit archaic, but “head” goes both ways. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-conservative-or-liberal-forum/507783/51 "2009-08-27T16:17:47Z")
Eating out. ETA: And I don’t know about there being a significant part of the board being actively anti-religious. **Der Trihs** and **DtC** are two obvious examples, and there are others, but that’s not a ton. Those threads are just very highly self selecting towards people that feel strongly about the subject. You won’t get a lot of replies from atheists that don’t care either way. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-conservative-or-liberal-forum/507783/52 "2009-08-27T16:17:55Z")
Yeah, but you wouldn’t say “I gave her a head”. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-conservative-or-liberal-forum/507783/53 "2009-08-27T16:19:57Z")
No, you’d drop the ‘a’ - that’s even shorter. \*\*Nzinga \*\*seems to be after brevity. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-conservative-or-liberal-forum/507783/54 "2009-08-27T16:37:53Z")
She’s also after a word that describes a single… performance, though, as BJ does. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-conservative-or-liberal-forum/507783/55 "2009-08-27T16:58:16Z")
> [@Ruken](#): > > Yeah, I think it’s mostly pretty liberal. It does vary a bit depending on the issues. Just some examples: > > Abortion: All over the place(?) I don’t usually wade through these threads, but the distribution seems more even than for other issues. Not in my experience. ISTM that the SDMB is at about the same (roughly) 80% pro-choice/20% pro-life proportion as the (roughly) 80% liberal/ 20% other proportion it otherwise presents. I doubt the boards are any more balanced there. A poster was suspended for thirty days a while back for (among other things) posting in the Pit links to a video presenting information detrimental to Planned Parenthood. I think the difference in the case of abortion is that there are several Dopers - I probably shouldn’t mention them, because I will inevitably forget some of the others, but **JThunder** , **beagledave** and **Stratocaster** spring to mind - who argue the pro-life position about as well as I have seen anywhere. Things look more balanced when even a small number kick ass and take names as consistently as these do in abortion threads. And also because pro-life debaters who do not rise to the level of the two mentioned get piled on and the rest of the treatment, and therefore learn to either leave the topic or the boards alone. > [@](#): > > Unions: Other than a few vocal posters, I don’t think it’s very union-friendly. > Free trade: More free trade than not > > But then again, my own biases color my perceptions. Actually, I think both these points are well-taken. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-conservative-or-liberal-forum/507783/56 "2009-08-27T17:14:58Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > I doubt the boards are any more balanced there. A poster was suspended for thirty days a while back for (among other things) posting in the Pit links to a video presenting information detrimental to Planned Parenthood. It was for posting a misleading thread title, not for posting links to a video. I agree, though, that the suspension was inappropriate and certainly appeared politically motivated. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-conservative-or-liberal-forum/507783/57 "2009-08-27T17:26:30Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > She’s also after a word that describes a single… performance, though, as BJ does. Doing a better job at understanding my posts now than you did at the beginning of the thread. How about cuntjob? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-conservative-or-liberal-forum/507783/58 "2009-08-27T17:38:36Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > How about cuntjob? I have met a few of those. They usually work in customer service. ---
**Author:** ![Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d9b06d/32.png) [@Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichini_Sanshigo)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-conservative-or-liberal-forum/507783/59 "2009-08-27T17:53:01Z")
“A trip downtown” maybe? Or is that too long? ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-conservative-or-liberal-forum/507783/60 "2009-08-27T18:08:29Z")
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