I’ve never defended sexual assault. I wasn’t taking Trump literally. You guys believe everything Trump says now? Um, fact check please!
I’ve been with and married to the same woman for almost 25 years. Neither of us are going anywhere.
It wasn’t about defending people. It was about being hypersensitive to imaginary slights. Why do you think there is so much anti-PC ridicule? It’s because you all are ridiculous.
It’s ironic you mention context.
Opening for a joke? That thread was pretty sad. Sexual abuse, especially by people in position of power, like a step parent or a parent or the president of the USA is never acceptable. Especially against a child. The video I perceived was an attempt to interject a tiny bit of comic relief in a thread that reflects the tragic disparity in biological power between men and women and adults and children. So I made a comment on it while offerening sincere sympathies.
If that’s not sufficient I honestly don’t care. I don’t live or write for the professionally offended crowd. I know this though, I have physically intervened at risk to my own safety to prevent a black child from being beat by a mob, to prevent a gay man from being harassed by some rednecks, and to escort women home when they didn’t feel safe at college after dark. Have you been willing to fight other large males to prevent bigotry or you all talk sitting behind your monitor?
I don’t normally bring this sort of stuff up because it’s irrelevant to the issue being discussed and it should not matter one bit. But you want to bring character into it so what do you do? Who have you helped? You ever get bloody defending someone? If not you might want to chill with your unearned condescension.
Sexual assault seems to be not very rare in hazing in athletics. You never witness or hear about that? Are the news stories and gossip extreme outliers?
Where is the video you keep referring to? At the beginning of the article is a link to the video of the 2005 Trump comments that we’ve all seen/heard about. The substance of the article, however, is an interview with the reporter who solicited stories of unwanted crotch-grabbing and assaults that women experienced.
I can’t imagine why you thought for one second that your comments would be amusing or welcome, but it takes all kinds. Do you like it when people come out of the woodwork and jump all over you with hobnailed boots? Just curious.
Anyhoo, is it the Trump video you’re talking about? Thx.
Umm, if you read the thread and my post which quoted the link of a video some other lady posted you’d know exactly what I’m talking about. Watch the video and tell me it’s not a bit humorous. That’s the thing that gets me is the complete lack of context these knuckleheads perceive.
But I shouldn’t be surprised. Parsing a problem where someone rolls two dice is a challenge for this board.
And I would have never even posted in that thread if it were not for that ridiculous looking dude tip toeing in that linked video. Yeah sneaking up and tickling someone’s parts is completely inappropriate. But the visual imagery of someone tiptoeing away all exaggerated with a demented laugh or whatever is just absurd.
No problem and sorry for the snark. I honestly feel terrible that we live in a world that the powerful and depraved victimize so many. I’m doing my part to raise my kids to respect every other human as equally valuable beings. I’ve even had to defend taxation to them!:eek:
No prob. I’d hate to be a kid today or raising kids today. Because they’re awash in a sea of media, you have to explain stuff to them that I didn’t even KNOW about until I was, like, 30! My hat’s off to you.
Thats hilarious. I’ll probably still be laughing when I get to the start line of the marathon I’m doing in three weeks, I hope it doesn’t affect my pace.
You are still a numpty though. As a non-American interested observer of these elections your posts have been a constant example of everything wrong with your politics. A constant stream of utter bullshit trying to defend the indefensible simply because its on your side, its very clear that you don’t really believe half the shit you spout but damned if you aren’t going to spout it anyway.
Don’t believe what? You talking about my politics? They aren’t simplistic. I’d vote Democratic if they advocated the right stuff. But I can’t take seriously increases in the minimum wage and free college for useless majors. Or if they made a principle stand for real, justice system reform. But the rat bastards on the left are no different than those on the right. It’s just that the left’s lies sound nicer.
If people see a slight, it isn’t imagined - you may not agree its a slight, but their perception about the conversation is real. Dismissing it as imagined is gaslighting - its part of how men abuse women.
You know another way men abuse women. “You don’t know what you are talking about.” Dismissing their knowledge.
You all need to learn to read. And lighten up. There is a thread in MPSIM where there is spanking being mentioned. Some one may need a white knight. Perhaps a few of those posters will be pitted for advocating sexual assault.
I was accusing you of gaslighting Enginerd and anyone else (including myself) who was offended by your “imagined” slight.
And aldiboronti wonders why women would leave rather than confronting this sort of behavior. Because its fucking exhausting to fight the ignorance of sexist idiots.
Tell me again, precisely, what the original slight was and why enginerd and yourself should be considered abuse victims. If you can’t then stop your self righteous, ignorant, bloviating to defend those whom were presumed to be offended by a third party(enginerd) and then they, the supposed offended, explained that they weren’t in fact needing defense as no offense was taken. Self righteous pricks are vastly more dangerous than imagined “sexist idiots.”
This reminds me of “accusations of racism are worse than racism”, or “accusations of rape are worse than rape itself”. You did say “imagined”, but there are a lot of actual sexist idiots out there.
Not to hijack the pitting too much but ThelmaLou deserves a lot of credit in all this for not understanding or caring how the Pit works. This isn’t the first thread she’s opened in the Pit that was totally out of place.
It is either really stupid or deliberately insensitive to post a thread surveying victims of sexual assault in the single, only place on the entire board where it’s not only allowed but 100% guaranteed to get drive by jokes, insults, and hijacks.
This is someone who’s been posting here for six years. She should (and maybe did) know that she would be exposing anyone who posted a sincere reply to her thread to this sort of one-liner or much worse.
As to the one liner in question I agree with CairoCarol, the person to whom he was replying, that it wasn’t an example of “misogyny”. Calling a stupid one-liner like this an example of some endemic misogyny that some allege exists on the boards really undermines the credibility of such complaints.