It seems like the OP has confused accusing someone of pulling something out of their ass with telling them to shove something up it.
Nothing, I just think it’s stupid. So be it. If somebody is hot and bothered about the phrase “hot and bothered,” I may soon be jumping on the PC-has-run-amok bandwagon after defending it for decades.
And, yes, I note the irony.
There might be a big distinction between those two for you. But for me it seems like a half dozen of one…
Tell you what. Go out and approach someone and tell them they’re pulling something out of their ass, and see if they take it as platonic.
“When insults are flying” Ah yes, the fog of war. That’s exactly when you need to interpret all things as sexual. Because: You have to!???
If it’s not “obvious” that they were intended innocently, then the answer must be by default: “Get him.”
It’s the way of the gun I suppose.
Yet isn’t that exactly when a mod is supposed to look at the context, and maybe refrain to single out a poster for responding at the tail end of a chain of abuse, with an ambiguous phrase.
So in absorbing the repeated abusive accusations that I was pulling things out of my ass, I forgot about the rudeness rule for a second, and said something that had more than one meaning according to Urban Dictionary. I wonder how on earth could I have forgotten that rule.
And that gave you an opening to just about be accurate in saying there is an interpretation of it that is sexual and a rule violation?
Can’t be a proud day.
Here.
Point to the sexual definition here. Go ahead. We can wait.
I guess it’s a good think I didn’t say that, then, isn’t it?
Giving someone a mod note is not “getting him”. It’s simply a reminder.
Mod notes = guns?
It was a mod note. No need to get all hot… under the collar… about it.
Go try it out in the world. I’ll wait.
Do you have a place of work? Do you know what is considered sexually suggestive at your work place? Haven’t been through any trainings this century?
I do remember being on a grand jury once and covering a similar territory too. It’s not obscure knowledge.
I noticed in the thread that it was almost de rigeur to make violent imagery and invective part of the response to any progressive thought. There are no reminders for anyone to act cool in the gun threads because the tone is set by the abuse and the crudity and the mods don’t want to interfere. But they aren’t scared of me so, go to town.
Yeah, it’s not.
Which is why it’s weird that you have such a complete misunderstanding of it, that is so bizarrely unrelated to the use of the term by literally every single other person on the face of the Earth.
Can you read the post before you write at least?
My position on it was that it was offensive, whether it describes an actual act or not. I didn’t say anything to characterize it until after I had been warned.
But it is considered sexual for our modern standards of interaction, in politer areas, because harassment is a more modern concern.
Go to your HR dept and ask them what’s sexual.
Now tell me why you are so interested in litigating this again?
No. It. Fucking. Isn’t.
You have already been given a cite to that point.
You have, conversely, not provided anything aside from your own disproven opinion.
‘Don’t pull shit out of your ass’ has never been considered sexual harassment. If it was, you could cite it.
But, you can’t. Because it isn’t. Because there’s nothing even vaguely sexual about it. It means BULLSHITTING.
You know where shit comes from right? The ass.
So you don’t work anywhere? Some kind of Trust fund?
You’re full of it. The world changed since you looked outside last.
Given that this has degenerated into personal squabbling, and the questions concerning moderation have been answered, I’m going to close this.