Your posts are not funny or helpful.
Your posts are funny and helpful.
I have a mother who is a very strong alpha mother. (She was the alpha of our family.) In other words THIS WOMAN WAS/IS A REAL BALL BUSTER! (Love ya’ Mom)
If I ever fell off my bike and got a boo boo on my knee; she wasn’t one to kiss it and make it feel better. She was the type to tell me to “Shake it off. Your bones ain’t broke!”
She retired as a VP for a fortune 500 company. She started as a secretary at the ass end of the 60’s and climbed her way up to the top all through the 70’s , 80’s and 90’s. You women think you got it tough now? Try doing what my Mother did back in those days.
I asked my mother as an adult how the hell she managed to do what she did. Her answer: You got to be tough as nails. No whining, no complaining and don’t take shit from nobody. Also, don’t make yourself out to be the victim and NEVER let them see you cry. And work hard of course.
Take from that what you will. I take from it that it wouldn’t kill some women to grow a thicker skin and NOT demand all us men folk come together and learn to be more sensitive every time some one gets their feelings hurt.
cool story bro.
Does it occur to you or your mother that the objective is to have a world where women (and everyone, really) don’t have to be tough as nails to lead a normal life?
you’re just like martin luther king except you’re white and don’t have any particular insight to share about anything
also, not sure if you have a moustache
Done.
Your mother did what she felt she had to do and it sounds like it worked for her and she was happy with the results. Now these women are refusing to take shit in the form of being subjected to sexist commentary and your response is to tell them to sit there and take it. Methinks the one who needs to be more tough like a nail is you, Shakes.
Eisenhower, who was able to bring over plenty of people to his point of view was vastly better than a prima donna who was disciplined for slapping a soldier.
Are you going to bring up Frank Kush or Woody Hayes as a third example?
No. I quoted my mother as saying “Don’t take shit from no one.” I’m down with that. But when I hear shit like: " I had to say yes and give him sex or he MIGHT have beat me up. I’m a victim, I was raped!" It makes my head want to explode.
You do realize that all over the world at any given time that is exactly the choice some women are facing: to acquiesce and be raped or be beaten and then be raped? Your comment displays a frankly astounding lack of understanding given just how much actual women have been sharing in this and the related threads about the topic.
Actually, my last response to yours was a tangent. Although, it does make my head want to explode that’s not the response I wanted to give. Sorry, I’m at work right now and my attention is divided.
The point I’m trying to make is, there’s a big difference between:
Shut up bitch! The men are talking.
And
show me your boobs! (Said in a Bra thread or whatever.)
The first one? Yeah sure, call those asshats to the carpet.
The second one? Yes, it’s beyond asinine. But for the love of god, do you really have to cry misogyny! I’m a victim! I’m a victim!
Is it crying “I’m a victim! I’m a victim!” to say “hey, cut that shit out!”?
Apparently so, because it’s too hard to stop acting like douchebags for some people.
I can never even imagine having this reaction to a message board on the internet.
I started this thread. I cried misogyny. I’m not a victim. Instead, it’s a simple decision for me: do I want more people like jsgoddess to leave this board, or more people like akennett? I know who creates value on the board for me and who makes the board worse; and I want folks who make the board worse either to change their ways or to leave.
All the folks who are sneering at women for not being tough enough to handle verbal abuse? You make the board worse.
I think you have a point here. These threads as of late have been rather depressing. Plus it’s too polorizing and I don’t feel they are going anywhere. I do firmly believe though that there is a middle ground to be had here. I just don’t think it’s going to happen.
I personally don’t think one group of people are making this place worse but rather this subject is. Too many freyed feelings.
I think I’ll enjoy this board more if I stay out of threads like these.
I apologize to anyone who I have offended. Good luck guys.
MOLDERATOR: splatterpunk, personal insults do not belong in this forum. There’s been quite enough acrimony in this thread already. Marley told y’all to knock it off back in Post #275, yesterday. This is ATMB, not the Pit. I’m issuing an Official Warning.
To everyone else: this forum is ATMB. Here, the goal is to have polite and civil discussions about issues relating to the boards. Those of you who want to rant and rave and call names and vent spleen (on both sides of the issues) should start a new thread in the Pit.
From your past posts here I infer that you are joking here, but I don’t really get the joke. Just saying-the-opposite sarcasm?
You go to a board, and see that everyone’s typing in leet, celebrating Skrillex’s latest dubstep.
And your reaction is?
(Of course I’m assuming some things to make this point, but if the assumptions don’t apply in your case I trust you can see how a different set of assumptions would make the same point.)