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She’s a bigot.
Her culture’s way of doing things is correct; all others are morally wrong.
There isn’t a lot more to it than that. Everyone is looking at this the wrong way; she’s crazy, she’s a troll, she believes X but not Y, and so on. The entire thing is remarkably simplified and logical if you simply realize she’s a massive racist. Her people are correct; everyone else is dirty and wrong.
Which people? She’s never specifically stated.
Sure she has, she’s Roma.
Make no mistake; in her eyes, that’s the right people. Everyone else is bad.
According to Kal, who is also Roma, ZPG belongs to some subset of Roma. That is why I said she has never specifically stated.
Being a victim validates her. She wants to be a social pariah. It validates her ‘unique cultural identity’ and draws the attention she craves to fill that emptiness inside.
What perplexes me is the cognitive dissonance on display. She is fighting for women! By buying into the idea that a husband owns his wife. Women deserve respect! By treating them as delicate flowers and not equals. Respect cultural differences! Well you whores and gender traitors need to respect mine; i spit on yours. Help battered and abused women! By reinforcing the idea that slutty women who shake hands are violating their husbands ’ rights to sole ownership and might just end up dead.
Don’t forget: Calling someone a whore isn’t that much of an insult. But I should stab someone for suggesting I’m a whore!
I was starting to wonder if no one else was astonished by that!
What sort of library is this that attracts so many future sex offenders? But I have no problem believing no one would ever accuse you of improper sexual conduct.
I *had *forgotten that bit of WTF. Thanks for reminding me 
That’s because, IIRC, none of us actually has a culture - only she does.
No, in a business context it is extremely rude to single out the women for special treatment.
If you feel like you might run into someone like ZPG-zealot, you could ask every person you meet if they shake hands, but then everyone will think you are weird.
Wearing just that skimpy ring…I’d say she was asking for it.
The only thing that concerns me about this story is the possibility that you had something to do with them getting convicted.
So what if a man has a sick obsession with raping other men? How does that fit in?
Question for any Romany or those actually familiar with the Romany culture: Is there in fact such a sub-culture with the proscriptions/traditions which ZPG Zealot has described? Remember that one person does not constitute a sub-culture.
There isn’t. Several people have tried to google this and no one can verify it. She (if s/he is really a she) refuses to say what the subgroup is.