# The Hags of the Straight Dope **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 13, 2000, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hags-of-the-straight-dope/19460 "2000-05-13T23:00:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![blueslady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@blueslady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blueslady)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hags-of-the-straight-dope/19460/61 "2000-05-14T05:07:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Well you women have made Cecil’s job easier. He was wondering where he was going to find a group of hags he could survey about why ugly women all tend to go on the rag at the same time. > \*\* I wonder If this could be considered misrepresentation. I can’t imagine why Cecil would say this sort of thing or confide with this person whom he would survey. \*\*I think that men who are wussies tend to go on the rag when they are not with any women ugly or otherwise…I’d like some opinions on this…anyone??? \*\* blueslady (smile when you say that) ---
**Author:** ![saucy\_potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@saucy\_potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucy_potato)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hags-of-the-straight-dope/19460/62 "2000-05-14T05:14:59Z")
Sigh… left out again. ::sniff:: ---
**Author:** ![lswote](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lswote/32/5737_2.png) [@lswote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lswote)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hags-of-the-straight-dope/19460/63 "2000-05-14T05:21:39Z")
> [@](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > \*\*Well you women have made Cecil’s job easier. He was wondering where he was going to find a group of hags he could survey about why ugly women all tend to go on the rag at the same time. > > I wonder If this could be considered misrepresentation. I can’t imagine why Cecil would say this sort of thing or confide with this person whom he would survey. > > I think that men who are wussies tend to go on the rag when they are not with any women ugly or otherwise…I’d like some opinions on this…anyone??? > blueslady (smile when you say that) > \*\* blueslady, please stop the insults. I was hurt and was just trying to hurt back. I am not a bad person. Please stop. I won’t insult anymore. Please stop. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hags-of-the-straight-dope/19460/64 "2000-05-14T05:34:17Z")
Can I be a hag? Qualifications: I’m a stark raving lunatic. I was going to list more, but it seems to me that that alone should qualify me. Please let me know if that’s not sufficient, as I did have a rather long list. Unfortunately, I don’t have a photo for you to review. For some strange reason, my image does not show up on film. ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hags-of-the-straight-dope/19460/65 "2000-05-14T06:00:24Z")
> [@](#): > > **mega the roo OH** : I do believe that it was Bricker who originally said that you were “joyously cute,” no? How could a little ol’ Hag like me possibly disagree with the great Bricker? Well, colour me Jones. I completely forgot about that. ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hags-of-the-straight-dope/19460/66 "2000-05-14T06:19:07Z")
I’m baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack and the shipment of team jackets have arrived!! Get em while they’re hot ladies!! ---
**Author:** ![Calredic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@Calredic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calredic)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hags-of-the-straight-dope/19460/67 "2000-05-14T06:24:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Well you women have made Cecil’s job easier. He was wondering where he was going to find a group of hags he could survey about why ugly women all tend to go on the rag at the same time. > \*\* lswote, I may not be Don Juan. Hell, I may not have been out on a date since 1995. But even a romantic flop like _me_ can tell you that, when you treat people like this, the reason why you’re alone and miserable isn’t much of a mystery. It’s because you act like a confrontational idiot. I was actually behind you when I first started reading your posts on your being lonely. Hell, I even looked past your incessant whining on the subject, as I have been known to do the same on occasion. However: when you started attacking the people who were merely _offering their advice_, just because you didn’t happen to like what they were saying, I started wondering if I’d judged you too charitably. Well, now I _know_ I did. Four simple words of advice: grow the hell up. –Calredic ---
**Author:** ![Calredic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@Calredic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calredic)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hags-of-the-straight-dope/19460/68 "2000-05-14T06:27:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Well you women have made Cecil’s job easier. He was wondering where he was going to find a group of hags he could survey about why ugly women all tend to go on the rag at the same time. > \*\* lswote, I may not be Don Juan. Hell, I may not have been out on a date since 1995. But even a romantic flop like _me_ can tell you that, when you treat people like this, the reason why you’re alone and miserable isn’t much of a mystery. It’s because you act like a confrontational idiot. I was actually behind you when I first started reading your posts on your being lonely. Hell, I even looked past your incessant whining on the subject, as I have been known to do the same on occasion. However: when you started attacking the people who were merely _offering their advice_, just because you didn’t happen to like what they were saying, I started wondering if I’d judged you too charitably. Well, now I _know_ I did. Four simple words of advice: grow the hell up. (Incidentally, sorry to intrude like that, ladies, but I just couldn’t let that slide without saying _something_.) –Calredic ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hags-of-the-straight-dope/19460/69 "2000-05-14T06:39:28Z")
Oooo! Can I join too? I’m a cynical chick who tells it like it is…does that mean I qualify? And pics of me are on my homepage. ---
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hags-of-the-straight-dope/19460/70 "2000-05-14T06:47:52Z")
Not sure that I should be doing this…but I guess I should be another one of the boys aux…as for pictures…I keep breaking the camera lens. ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hags-of-the-straight-dope/19460/71 "2000-05-14T07:16:37Z")
I realize this may be out of the ordinary, but in order to continue my support for the proletariat, while still being part of a bourgeousie, clique-y club like the SD Hags, I’d like to submit my [application](http://www.mindspring.com/~vincegonzales/vinn.jpg) to the **pending** category. ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hags-of-the-straight-dope/19460/72 "2000-05-14T08:26:14Z")
Demo, you’re the most cock-diesel toddler I’ve ever seen. And smart, too (or is that just the post-bot?)! To think I was fooled by that actor psy hired for the NYC gathering. ---
**Author:** ![TaleraRis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@TaleraRis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TaleraRis)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hags-of-the-straight-dope/19460/73 "2000-05-14T08:50:38Z")
Well I _play_ a priestess character when I roleplay on IRC. Does that count, elelle? 😃 I wanna be a Hag. Here I am > **[Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos](https://www.yahoo.com/)** > > Latest news coverage, email, free stock quotes, live scores and video are just the beginning. Discover more every day at Yahoo! And you should put that tall, blonde guy in the lower pic in your guy group. That’s Jophiel and he’s hideous. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hags-of-the-straight-dope/19460/74 "2000-05-14T10:46:43Z")
Photos are nice but I’d like to keep admiring all you ladies from your posts. To me that is who you _really_ are and a wonderful lot you are too. There is a soft spot for one or two. No names though! ---
**Author:** ![lswote](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lswote/32/5737_2.png) [@lswote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lswote)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hags-of-the-straight-dope/19460/75 "2000-05-14T12:13:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*Well you women have made Cecil’s job easier. He was wondering where he was going to find a group of hags he could survey about why ugly women all tend to go on the rag at the same time. lswote, I may not be Don Juan. Hell, I may not have been out on a date since 1995. But even a romantic flop like _me_ can tell you that, when you treat people like this, the reason why you’re alone and miserable isn’t much of a mystery. It’s because you act like a confrontational idiot. I was actually behind you when I first started reading your posts on your being lonely. Hell, I even looked past your incessant whining on the subject, as I have been known to do the same on occasion. However: when you started attacking the people who were merely _offering their advice_, just because you didn’t happen to like what they were saying, I started wondering if I’d judged you too charitably. Well, now I _know_ I did. Four simple words of advice: grow the hell up. –Calredic \*\* [/QUOTE] As I said to everyone else who complained about it, I was upset that people were specifically referencing me. It was mean and hurtful or them so I was mean and hurtful back. I don’t think a group of men on this board who did what this women are doing would be tolerated. If someone started the ugly men of the straight dope and continually denoted the qualification for entry was they had dealt with such and such a putz woman, everybody would be at arms. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hags-of-the-straight-dope/19460/76 "2000-05-14T12:52:41Z")
Well, I think I qualify, especially after what I posted in his last pity party. Here are my qualifications: [http://home.flash.net/~zyada/zyada\_aus99.JPG](http://home.flash.net/~zyada/zyada_aus99.JPG) and [http://home.flash.net/~zyada/portrait.JPG](http://home.flash.net/~zyada/portrait.JPG) Oh, lswote? ::beating lswote upside the head with a 2 by 4:: I was hurt and was just trying to hurt back. I am not a bad person. Please stop. I won’t beat you anymore. Please stop. ---
**Author:** ![lswote](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lswote/32/5737_2.png) [@lswote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lswote)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hags-of-the-straight-dope/19460/77 "2000-05-14T12:59:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Well, I think I qualify, especially after what I posted in his last pity party. Here are my qualifications: [http://home.flash.net/~zyada/zyada\_aus99.JPG](http://home.flash.net/~zyada/zyada_aus99.JPG) and [http://home.flash.net/~zyada/portrait.JPG](http://home.flash.net/~zyada/portrait.JPG) > > Oh, lswote? > > ::beating lswote upside the head with a 2 by 4:: > I was hurt and was just trying to hurt back. I am not a bad person. Please stop. I won’t beat you anymore. Please stop. > \*\* zyada, I didn’t say anything mean to you at anytime, why must you be mean to me? You really want to hit me with a 2 by 4? Why would you do that to me? ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hags-of-the-straight-dope/19460/78 "2000-05-14T13:32:57Z")
Oh, did I hurt you? I didn’t mean to. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hags-of-the-straight-dope/19460/79 "2000-05-14T13:52:58Z")
Hello everyone. It is a beeyootiful day! I have many applications to consider, many pictures to review…How wonderful! The membership updates will be posted a bit later. However there was one thing that I though should not wait: **lswote:** Please read the following in its entirety: Yes, a comment that you had made was the inspiration for this thread. Yes, all the women that your comment referred to were automatically inducted as “members” of the “club.” Other than that, The Hags of the Straight Dope has nothing to do with you! It was not founded as a forum for discussion of you. It is simply a tongue-in-cheek celebration of the lovely ladies (and the men who appreciate them) of the SDMB. The attacks on you did not start until **after** you posted the following insult: > [@](#): > > Well you women have made Cecil’s job easier. He was wondering where he was going to find a group of hags he could survey about why ugly women all tend to go on the rag at the same time. Many posts later you said: > [@](#): > > As I said to everyone else who complained about it, I was upset that people were specifically referencing me. It was mean and hurtful or them so I was mean and hurtful back. Nobody was specifically referencing you _until_ you made that uncalled for and hurtful comment. Your complaint is illogical and invalid. An OP has no control over what happens to his or her thread after it is started, of course. But I certainly can offer my opinion: You are taking a fun and enjoyable thread and attempting to turn it into yet another pity party. **Please leave this thread. You are not wanted here.** Sincerely, Green Bean ---
**Author:** ![lswote](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lswote/32/5737_2.png) [@lswote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lswote)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hags-of-the-straight-dope/19460/80 "2000-05-14T14:06:57Z")
> [@](#): > > **Nobody was specifically referencing you _until_ you made that uncalled for and hurtful comment. Your complaint is illogical and invalid.** Not true. Though I was not happy with the thread, I didn’t react until Shayna posted this to the thread calling me a putz. > [@](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > Jezebel, you and Shayna both are making the wrong assumption here. Shayna feels I am still whining and you feel I should want to stop going deeper in the hole. You both missed my point. > > That’s it. That’s all he had to say to (about) me. After all the effort I went to to make him feel more comfortable here. Putz. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hags-of-the-straight-dope/19460.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hags-of-the-straight-dope/19460.md?page=5)