I think it’s particularly ironic that Suspenderzzz thinks drive-bys don’t happen anymore, as most of her annoying posting history consists of cheap-shot drive-bys.
I thought it was also particularly ironic that she mocks the “bourgeois” at the same time she implies, in the “Heroes and Survivors” thread, that only rich folk like heart surgeons can be heroes while “poor schlepps” like firemen and factory workers can’t. Who taught “her” economic theory, Chumpsky?
Ah, sorry, looks like looking again at the “Heroes and Survivors” thread that she did consider firemen heroes. “Poor schlepps,” however, still didn’t make the cut.
You’re right, Duke. A wealthy heart surgeon who saves a life is a hero, it’s very glamorous. But the half-literate woman who slaves away to support her handicapped child has two impediments–she’s got a non-glamorous, low-paying job, and her child fails the eugenics test. I suppose if she were rich, or the child a mutant super-genius, maybe then she’d be a hero.
Firemen might not be rich, but it’s exciting and adventurous, and they might save someone rich and deserving of rescue. Little known fact–if a firefighter finds a loser in a fire, they just leave them. Because they’re heroes, they’re not going to waste their wonderful selves on losers. Same with heart surgeons, actually. Why, I’ve never known a top rated surgeon to, say, spend some of their time visiting communities with little or no access to medical care and volunteering…they’re just too good for that. And even if they did, that wouldn’t be part of what makes them heroes.
Would it?
The more I think about it, the more I feel sympathy for Suspenderzzz. I mean, she’s beset by teachers deviously prying into her household arrangements. This happens to me all the time. Every time I see my daughter come home with any kind of work she did in school that day, I know it wasn’t the teacher trying to give her writing skills, or math, or reading. I know it was a sinister attempt to find out whether or not my family life conforms to the One True Family Template. Why, just the other day my daughter brought home a drawing of a cat, with the legend “I like cats.” This particular attempt was so sinister, so subtle, that I still can’t figure out what they were trying to do.
And then let’s talk about the marriage thing. I mean, how could we dopers be so unreasonable as to think that the boyfriend might have a right to his own opinion? Obviously, we should have advised that Suspenderzzz abduct him and start the de-programming immediately, because he just wasn’t Thinking Right. We were all so terribly blind and bourgeois to suggest that if her goals for the relationship didn’t match his, she should let the guy go. Why, that’s just the same thing as telling her she should get married. And didn’t we understand that it’s her convenience and happiness at stake?
And then imagine her beset by people who insist on mentioning that they do charity work, or even that they were surprised to find just how badly off some people are. Or actually mentioning that there’s crime! I mean, that’s just gauche.
And I’ve seen the light about staying at home with my kids. I’ve betrayed my feminist principles! I am going to go get a job immediately. Who cares if daycare costs more than my paycheck? The ever-deepening pit of debt will be worth it. And I won’t regret not having the time to write anywhere near as much–I don’t need to write my novel anyway, I’m not rich or glamorous enough for it to be worth reading. And since it’s not, you know, a job with an office and lots of money, it’s not worth doing. And when my family is on the streets because we couldn’t make the house payments, I’ll thank my foremothers for fighting so I could have that nervous breakdown while my kids wandered homeless.
Yeah.
wow.
seeing all of those links makes me genuinely wonder if it isn’t a troll.
really.
She/he/it might not be a troll. Some people just really get off on being easily offended about things, even things about which they are not very well-informed. And if these people choose their offensive triggers carefully, they can come up with things that make them special. They turn them into people who are “edgy” and “different” and “unique” and so much more enlightened than those of us who plod along, brainwashed to think our conformist lives are satisfying.
Don’t get me wrong, I think there are questioning people and social critics who have some valid complaints about things we tend to just accept. They’ve got an important role to play in society. But I also firmly believe that there are some people who just seek emotional fulfillment by asserting they are above the rest of us and more “attuned” and “enlightened” than us poor sods. If you ask me, they need to take off their angry little “radical” lapel pins and get the fuck over themselves.
Now get out of my way, I’ve got a soccer game to drive my kids to.
I read the “Of Heroes and Survivors” thread and was very impressed by something. While technically it was aimed at Suspenderzzzz, my fascination lies more in its wording.
I mean, damn! I’ve never heard or read anything more personally scathing than that. Well played, Fenris!
So now that it’s Monday, can we expect to hear from Suspenderzzz? I haven’t been particularly comfortable about piling on when she’s not around, so here’s hoping we can find out what exactly she objects to so much in our at-home-mommy lives.
If she’s really telling the truth and arguing on the opposite side of issues, just to argue for ‘fun’, that pisses me off. I have a friend of mine who will get into raging fights with me LONG DISTANCE on the PHONE for twenty minutes and then say “you know, I actually agree with you…I’m just arguing the other side”. It’s a waste of everyone’s time.
Wow, what an, uh, interesting collection of links. I saw the “He asked me to marry him so I dumped him” thread and basically dismissed Suspenderzzz as an asshole (gender &c. unimportant). But this takes me to a new level of understanding.
People who blindly, automatically disobey authority rarely seem to realize that they’re being controlled just as thoroughly as those who blindly obey.
I’m very pleased that some individuals are so threatened by one person’s opinion that they decide to spend an entire weekend (day and night) rooting for things that that person has posted and studying/analyzing them. LOL! Lordamercy, as they say down South. I am concerned about some of you, because I do sense a definite air of desperation here. Y’all don’t get much attention at home in your alleged domestic bliss, do you? I certainly didn’t spend any time thinking about the SDMD this weekend. :rolleyes:
If you (however many of you there would be left if someone were to pull off the socks) are so certain that your lifestyle is good, what do you care what some anonymous poster on the internet thinks?? I tell you what: I got you thinking. Good. I got you spending your weekend thinking about me. Gosh, I’m blushing. All this for me? I almost feel like I’m back in Augusta, Georgia, where I was such a threat to the conformists I pretty much got the above type of reaction all the time. It only reconfirmed that I was doing something right. (Ole Augusta has been making a few “flattering” headlines of it’s own lately, has it not. We have to take these types of redneck views with the utmost skepticism.)
You all have been waiting for me to make an appearance and post a response. Well, I will humor you. But I will not be bullied and backed into a corner. I also will not be baited. Obviously, everything I think about the issues cited here has more than gotten through, so there is no need for me to elaborate any further on them. At least not until I feel like it, whenever it fits into a context somewhere in the future. On my terms. Meaning, you will not get me to post anything else to this thread no matter how hard you try. But I did not want your efforts and your anticipation for me to make an appearance go wasted. That would be just cruel. See, I do have a heart. 
Carry on, my adoring fans. My bohemian, unconformist life is calling.
Wow, I was right!
Suspenderzzz, you think that folks care enough about your opinions to create a sock just to refute them and risk being banned? Please come down off your high horse. The only thing extrordinary about you is your condescension. Other than that you’re just a garden variety asshole who only thinks they’re so bourgeois and … nonconformist.
no no. We’re bourgeois. She’s non-conformist. Get the hip 1960’s jargon book for more info.
Given the membership dates and number of posts that the other posters in this thread have, compared to Suspenderzz’s, I’d guess that her throwing out (or up) the suggestion that there are sock puppets posting here is one more piece of evidence that she(?) is the kind of semi-literate redneck that she pretends to despise. Or, perhaps, it’s self-hatred, rather than pretense.
In any case, we may hope that her borderline sociopathy has not been transmitted to her son. If it has, we may confidentally expect to see a filmclip in which he is lying in a pool of his own blood, on the floor of the liquor store that he has just tried to rob, whilst she rages uncontrollably about how anyone could kill her darling baby boy merely for pistol-whipping the elderly proprietor.
Yeah, jackelope, you were. It’s just as self-involved and assholish as suspected.
I really like the “If you’re so happy you’d ignore me” schtick. Let me see. The bare existence of stay at home moms is justification enough for Suspenderzzz to cast insults. But if anyone is actually insulted by her offensive words, they must actually be upset only because they know, deep down, that she is right, in her mighty wisdom.
So tell me, what’s the logical conclusion here? Oh, I know! It’s that Suspenderzzz is always right, and justified in flinging insults, but no one else has the right to criticize her. Gosh, why didn’t I see it before? It couldn’t possibly be that Suspenderzzz is much more insecure about her life, being threatened by the very existence of other choices, than the rest of us, who don’t worry about such things unless someone throws an insult in our face. No, indeed. It couldn’t be that. Because we know she’s above all of that, superior to the rest of us puny, bourgeois nobodies.
Dear, your boyfriend is better off without you. Not because you won’t marry him, but because you’re a self-involved, self-righteous jerk. I wish you as much joy as you can wring out of your twisted little heart. You’ve gotten the attention you craved, now run along–we’ve gotten about as much amusement out of you as you have to offer.
Hmm, Bad News, looks like we won’t get an answer to your question:
I believe I’ll collect my marbles and play somewhere else. She doesn’t want to converse with me anyways since I’m in gasp the South.
must… control… redneck … mouth…
Has it ever occurred to you that the reason you might have had a hard time in Augusta is that you tend to be a little abrasive?
Or shall we take your painting of an entire city with a single broad brush to be indicative of your logic?
Eeeesh how pathetic. Being “nonconformist” is probably like being “classy” - if you have to keep bringing it up, you probably aren’t.
Ah yes. My favorite non-response of all time. “I have a response, but I won’t tell you until I’m ready.”
Right up there with:
“I’ll post my cite when I’m good and ready.”
and
“I’d show you my proof, but you wouldn’t understand it.”
and
“My girlfriend is from out of town. You wouldn’t know her.”
My favorite is her non-conformist boyfriend, who lives gratis due to his parents’ extensive wealth. Yeah, that’s not bourgeois… :rolleyes: