I believe I already explained this.
I’m sure we all have our own issues. I will refrain from speculating about yours, but you do seem awfully worked up about a brief pop culture reference.
Oh no, please do. You guys already have Fear Itself pegged as a creep with a statistics fetish who objectifies women, based on a the amount of options in his internet poll. It would be interesting to find out what crazy paraphilia I must have if I disagree with that assessment.
I don’t know if I’d define a few two or threes sentence posts as “worked up”. But my points is, when someone says his poll was “(a) variety perviness into something bordering on Silence of the Lambs territory” (a movie about serial killers), then “Some would have you believe it is also evidence that I am a serial killer”, is hardly a strawman.
The character mentioned has an unholy obsession with girl parts, and his lines and actions are nearly as hilarious and campy as they are creepy. He dances around with a toy poodle while dreaming up a suit designed of girl parts that he could wear. It’s absurd, like the detail requested in the poll.
See? Not such a terrible comparison.
Troppus, who sports bright pink nipples of freakish proportion.
I addressed this already as well, but in the future, if you are going to quote from my posts, I’d appreciate it if you would do so accurately. I did write the quoted words in that order, but by chopping that section out of the rest of the sentence you’ve butchered my grammar and potentially distorted my meaning.
Just to be clear, I am using the words “chopping” and “butchered” in the metaphorical sense. I am not suggesting that you are actually a violent criminal. If anyone here sincerely believes another Doper to be a threat to others, I encourage them not to make puns, jokes, or semi-humorous pop culture references about it, but to instead report the suspicious posts and ask the Mods to contact the appropriate law enforcement agency.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to open up a bottle of Chianti. I’m having an old friend for dinner.
You’re defending the comparison as if it’s a rational and intelligent comparison? Seriously?
Nope, I prefer to believe you seriously think I am a serial killer, because it suits my recreational outrage. Nothing you can do to change my mind, either. You have serious issues, to equate my poll with a serial killer; perhaps you should seek professional help. If I were you, I would apologize to the board community as well. Won’t someone think of the social norms?
So, if the nipple thread had been open to all posters, then it would have been ok? Wait, it was open to all posters.
What argument are you attempting to make here? (This should be entertaining).
Just the poll and maybe about 2/3rds of the way down the page of replies. I have to admit, I never saw the “nipply goodness” statement. It’s kind of Dorky and nerdy. Still, it’s a post on a message board, not held to the same standards as a medical professional.
I’ll admit that my ire was raised upon the comparison between the defecation threads and that one. Even given the “nipply goodness” statements, the nastiness and grossness of defecation (as do some of the other threads on body parts and sexuality) FAR exceeds, in creepiness, any of **Fear Itself’s **waxing horny over nipples.
(bolding mine)
Just out of curiosity, what exactly are the parameters for “freakish proportion”? 
“Pink is my favorite color!” 
(Apologies to Steven Tyler/Aerosmith)
I never said that or even suggested it.
The only argument I was making was that Fear Itself was in error when he said that I started the thread ‘just to post naked pics of myself’. It had nothing to do with whether my thread was creepy or if his was creepy or whose was creepier.
I saw what I perceived as an error. I corrected that error.
Yeah, but that is kind of my whole point. You are ragging me about posting a poll for the purpose of gathering masturbation fodder, when you are the guy who asked people to post nude pictures of themselves. Now, if anyone is going to jump to a conclusion about what is more likely to lead to auto-erotic gratification, is it going to be a bar graph, or naked pictures of real people? Do you really think anyone is going to take you seriously when you lecture anyone about fapping? Please.
Fear Itself Let’s just say for the sake of argument that you actually have a valid point. That takes care of me. Now, you’re just left with everybody else who complained or thinks that you are creepy. What about them?
I can live with those who think the poll was creepy. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. You however, have demonstrated a bizarre, stalker-like fascination, so it was necessary to swat you like a fly. Fortunately, you not only provided the newspaper, you rolled it up and handed it to me. All that is left is to flick yourself into the toilet. Shoo!
It’s one thing to start a thread that doesn’t go well. It’s easy to misread the room and given that so many of your respondents said they weren’t responding honestly, it seems fair to say that only a minority of people found it appropriate.
What’s worse though is that you changed from your initial response of ducking out and letting it end to vociferously arguing that what you did was socially acceptable when it clearly wasn’t. That seems to indicate that you not only haven’t taken any lesson from this but you completely don’t care about the people who were, understandably, disturbed. Which is, in its own way, creepier. People’s instinct to avoid folks who can’t meet or deliberately flout certain types of social expectations is self-protective.
The thing inside me doesn’t require me to break out a measuring tape or a color-comparison chart or that little card they give you when you get the tuberculosis test, so you can see exactly what it’s supposed to look like.
It’s difficult to take your post seriously when you use a hyperbolic term like “require”. I don’t think there is an example of anything being required anywhere in any of this.
If you have an intelligent point to make about social norms regarding sexuality and this particular situation, make it, and I will do my best to give it proper consideration and response.
But unintelligent claims like “require” (or others with comparisons to serial killers) are just not worth anybody’s time.
So, what point did you want to make about this?
Is your point that you personally are interested in a lower level of detail than the poll with respect to either that feature or all features and therefore everyone should have the same level of interest as you? What about people with an even lower level of detail, now who is the norm?
You’re getting unnecessarily shirty about this, RaftPeople. And you’re also conflating my statement with everyone else’s. At this stage, your confrontationalism in this thread is getting to be more obnoxious than the impression made on some by Fear Itself’s original poll.
Your seizing on the word “require” by the way is way off the mark, and more than a little offputting. I’m going to avoid responding to that while I’m riled up.
I apologize, my bad.
I just came back to edit my post because as I was thinking about what you wrote I realized I misinterpreted it. I thought the “require” meant the drive to know more details was “requiring” the poster to create a poll.
Hopefully you can ignore my previous response.
So your point is merely that the level of detail noticed by person X is much more than you. From my perspective, I assume there is a wide continuum of these types of things in all directions for each person - some I’m on one end of the spectrum and for some I’m on the other.
I have a hard time thinking that just because a person demonstrates a level of detail and interest that may far exceed my own, that the person is creepy, because I know I have some other ones that probably exceed that persons.
No, I don’t mean that. I mean that:
(1) The level of detail I notice is not enhanced by meticulous categorization. I noted in the actual thread that I didn’t find the OP so much creepy as completely lacking in eroticism. It is odd for sexuality to be a slave to that degree of precision.
(2) Even if I did obsessively measure things like that. I wouldn’t be asking other people in conversation to match up their own body parts to that taxonomy. It’s too personal, too precise, and too objectifying when you’re talking with people about their own bodies. And, sure, people do have different sexual tastes. That doesn’t mean you bring them all to the dinner table for meticulous examination. The SDMB is a little more liberal in these things than an ordinary family dinner, but, yes, there does seem to be a limit. And I don’t think that the nipple poll was the first time that this limit was reached.