Is it time for another game of “Right-Wing Buzzword Bingo”?
Nobody was criticizing the comment in question until the outraged-manbaby brigade showed up demanding to have it explained to them, over and over again at great length, what could possibly be open to criticism in that comment.
You mean, instead of whining and carrying on for over a dozen pages about a gentle correction to an irrelevant remark? Yes indeed, why don’t you?
I didn’t whine or carry on about the correction. I commented on the ridiculous rationales others offered concerning the appropriate nature of the triggering comment. Let’s work on accuracy please.
You just do that little thing. Call your wife anything you and her agree is ‘cute’. I don’t care. No one else cares. The problem is men grabbing their junk and hollering ‘hot-chick’ or whatever crude remark they can come up with. I would not call anyone ‘cunt’, ever. That’s just me. But, by god, don’t you dare call out any sexist remark in my direction, there is never a good reason or the right time. Ever. Grow up. Teach young men a better way. It’s on you.
Aren’t there more important issues for you to concern yourself about?
And kept commenting, and commenting, and commenting, and commenting. And then whined that other people were dragging out the thread too long and wasting too much time and energy responding to your comments and answering your questions.
If you don’t want other people to waste time talking to you about a topic that you don’t think deserves that much attention, then try shutting up about it yourself.
Potty mouth.
Finally! Something to discuss that’s not a pulled-from-ass unsubstantiable silly claim. So what we have here is:
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Pet names are considered okay between, shall we say, consenting couples.
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Women saying something can have a different meaning than when men say something.
Supposing I’m willing to concede both these points (which I am), and then casually say that I don’t feel that disproves that the word is a derogatory diminutive. All it means is that pet names allow (and are largely built on!) derogatory diminutives, and that just because women say something doesn’t mean YOU can.
Unless you’re trying to argue that nobody would say that the term “cunt” is potentially offensive, I’d have to say you’ve lost track of what the discussion here is.
Women can say stuff I can’t? I don’t believe in that type of double standard. If I weren’t so polite and gentlemanly I’d call you a hot chick.
But don’t you see how that can be counterproductive when there are far larger issues to tackle? Why not expend that energy on real issues?
If you want to keep wasting your time and energy arguing about this topic, don’t scold other people for wasting their time and energy arguing about it with you.
You realize I agree with making the world a more welcoming place for women but where I disagree is with the methods of the loony left?
More likely Goliad.
“Blessed be” is Wiccan; “Have a blessed day” appears to be some form of Christian, but I cannot confirm that because I have so far resisted the urge to ask, “By whom?”
No one said you said they couldn’t criticize the comment.
Indeed, no one said that you said that they can’t criticize the comment, which would have been patently ridiculous because they had been at some length by then.
You can agree or disagree with anything you like. But if you want to keep arguing with other people about issues on which you disagree with them, then you can’t in good faith scold them for wasting time and energy when they keep responding to your arguments.
The Dixie Chicks?
Hysterical lying moron seeks protection from echo chamber of two posters, whose posts are apparently so innocuous in fact that she must lie about them in her attempt to turn the SDMB into even more of a left-wing echo chamber than it is already.
This board is seeking to grow its membership. Making it a place where you can’t point to a hot chick in a video clip, and/or where the slightest criticism or disapproval of or the practices of any members of any group besides white men gets labelled hate speech, is not, in my opinion, likely a very successful way to go about accomplishing this.
You have an echo chamber your own already at the other board, where you can post the most idiotic shit imaginable and receive applause for it. Here at the Dope, there are standards and actual rules, and diversity of opinion and the debate or conversation that results from it is considered to be a good thing.
But you never bring any debate or conversation to an issue. You offer nothing in the way of insight, and you appear to completely lack the ability to form any sort of cogent rebuttal to statements or points of view you disagree with. All you appear capable of doing is complaining and spouting prejudicial nonsense that you couldn’t back up if your life depended on it.
If I were you I’d content myself with hanging out at the other board where an almost total lack of standards and the aforementioned echo chamber allows you the illusion that you have anything of worth to say. Over here, on the other hand, you come across as one of the two most stupid posters on the board, so it’s little wonder you seek not to have to confront arguments that you’re incapable of contesting with anything other than lame insults.
All of which is beside the point that the standards and rules that exist here would come into play with boxings just like they do with bannings. It’s not enough that people just don’t want to hear what the poster in question has to say. Your inability to recognize this distinction is not surprising.
I was wondering if you’d attempt to dive down this rabbit hole. Based on how you mock your own position in the same breath, I assume you realize that source and context do indeed matter and this is just your coy way of conceding that.
I hesitate to even try to imagine how you would choose to make the world a more welcoming place for women.
Lol. Well for one I believe in actual equality not double standards. That is scary isn’t it?
Yes.
I doubt he missed them too. He may not, however, have connected them up in your co-workers minds as being factors that would lead to discomfort over this gun talk. Horrible things are reported in the news every day that we don’t have foremost in minds when talking to friends or co-workers about other subjects.
What I wanted to know was specifically what was said. One person’s politeness may be another person’s condescension or attempt at what might be viewed as illegitimately assuming authority and seeking to set new rules.
It’s pretty clear that something set him off, so I’m thinking that perhaps the exchange was not so benign from his point of view as it is in your interpretation of it.
I have been listening to what they say. It’s just that I disagree with both what they’re saying and the consequence of it should they prevail.
It seems you missed the point. You’re not the only one.
Is that how it works in your world? Ideas that aren’t completely in accordance with what you believe scare you? Or is this some ridiculously distorted image you have of yourself that people fear what you say because of it’s terrible truthiness?
How pathetic-Seek help.
Nope.