This is hysterical for it’s utter ignorance.
Except neither you nor your daughter have any idea whether the models in that ad are minors or what their actual ages are, do you?
Didn’t think so.
There’s a minimum frequency requirement for being part of a “crowd” now?
The guy who strawmanned a calm and rational discussion of whether and how the word “hottie” might be considered objectionable in a prom dress ad with attention-seeking hyperbole as melodramatic as “Anybody who is not offended many times over by that ad is a bigot, a racist, a sexist, a neo-Nazi, and an animal abuser” really has no business accusing anybody else of being a shrill self-righteous smug jackass.
Oh, go fuck a food processor. You’re outraged and you like being outraged. You look for stuff over which to be outraged. If you can couple that to a sense of moral superiority over some individual, well that’s just cheesecake! Ask yourself this question: Does my opinion of you matter to you? Now why should yours matter to me?
“No u” would have been shorter.
(I am not seeing any outrage in this thread.)
The outrage and sense of moral superiority here is all yours. All I said was that I thought the wording of the ad was “kind of inappropriate” and a “bit too sexualized for my taste”.
And then I poked a little mild fun at a few posters who were trying to satirize ridiculously overblown levels of outrage that didn’t come close to actually existing in any of the views actually expressed by other posters.
Nobody’s opinion of anybody else needs to matter in the least to anybody here. But if you can’t take the occasional unflattering comment without getting all furious about it, well, at least you’re in the right forum.
You’re right about the “no u.”
This is the ‘go to’ rejoinder from thread-shitters and trolls when they get called on their antics, particularly by any calm and accurate accuser. It’s particularly stupid because it’s an appeal to the accuser to join into a fiction that, whatever the subject of discussion, any objection to a particular comment is meaningless, that all such objections are merely ad hominem distractions and that therefore any slur they themselves throw is on equal footing with all rebukes of their asshattery.
Perhaps other posters have the same experience as I do: in this exchange, I find myself attending to Kimstu’s opinion of another poster with interest, due to her history of careful and cordial posting on any number of subjects here. She, I’ve noted, is neither prone to undue bellicosity nor given to careless critique of others.
Scumpup, OTOH… Its posting history commends to me that zero fucks be given for its opinion on anyone or anything.
Just because they’re legally able to consent to sex doesn’t make it any less disconcerting. They’re still legally children until 18. I don’t like the idea of our culture sexualizing girls like this. I do realize this is my opinion though and there’s no law against such things.
And admittedly I haven’t been to any homecoming dances recently, but I’m fairly certain at least one of the two people (couple) attending needs to attend that high school. Which means, chances are higher that they’re under 18. Correct me if I’m wrong because, with a young daughter nearing that time in her life, I’d really like to know if schools are allowing just anyone to show up to these things.
What a bizarre (and bizarrely antagonistic) response.
- It’s a homecoming dance, a high school thing.
- It’s an ad aimed for teens.
- The ages of the models is irrelevant, especially given 20-somethings portray high school-aged kids all the time.
- The ad isn’t for, or about, the models in the ad.
Drop the asshole act and come back when you’re not feeling so personally defensive.
Gosh, another person I don’t know says bad things about me about which I don’t give a shit. So, since we are all on the same page here, i.e. none of us care about what any of the others think about us, why don’t we let that particular fiction go? Frankly, I seldom bother to read most of the spittle sprayed in my direction by the shrill and self-righteous set, let alone respond to it.
Calling a teenage girl a “hottie” is about the most watered-down form of sexualizing I’ve ever heard. I’m a bleeding-heart liberal but I’ve got better things to worry about.
Well, thank heavens we’ve at least managed to rescue this thread from its originally intended purpose of talking about some debatable aspects of sexualizing descriptions of women and redirect it to the perennially top-priority issue of whether a male poster is possibly being criticized unfairly. I was afraid for a while there that we were going to be stuck in a calm rational interesting discussion forever.
ETA: And now begbert2 had to go and ruin it by dragging us back to the calm rational interesting discussion. Dammit begbert2. :mad:
As it happens, I’m a male poster. We can talk about whether your criticism of my onff-topic interruption is unfair criticism, if that helps!
While this has really devolved into something that has nothing to do with the original topic, good job to all for showing the proper amount of vitriol and knee jerkishness that is required of this particular fora(did I use that word correctly?) I blame nightshadea for not putting it in IMHO.(sorry pal, it’s the pit; I gotta throw some shade at someone.
He’s simply asking if anyone is perceiving it in a less than kosher light. There is no wringing of hands or preaching; he’s clearly asking for opinions.Why it gotta be about PC / anti PC , “now I think you’re a moronic, goat feltching, strawman flinging, reprobate” behavior?
Oh yeah. Forget it, nightshade it’s The Pittown:dubious:
I care about what some posters think about me. Not all, but some. I don’t know what the percentage is.
My hero! Actually, it’s pretty easily settled because my criticism of your reasonable and pertinent comment obviously was unfair, so we’re back at calmly and rationally discussing the actual thread topic again. Oh well.
Bugger all to do with the context of the OP, but I’m going to add"dillard" to my lexicon of slang. It’s sort of portmanteau for cases when “You are a dill” and “You are a dullard” both apply.
Please, don’t mind me, carry on the pitting.
That is awesome. As a resident of a place where this store was a big deal (and where I never shopped)I’ve always substituted their name as “Dullard” or Dillweed" and sometimes, when in a childish snit, “Dildoes” (I was their advertising acct rep at one time)
and something that focusses on the person (schoolgirl) who will wear the dress’ feelings, not the (pervy) blokes at the dance’s.