Oh shit. I stepped on it this time :eek:
I’m like all doomed and stuff.
Okay, but first show us your tits.
She accused the people who made comments of being sexist, and said they needed “to apologise and make an effort not to do it again.”
Well, far be it from me to twice slay the slain. But if what you really want is for people to STFU, do you then open a new whole shiny new thread for them to shut up in?
I believe a robust cinnamonstick is a natural choice in regards to man berries! I use that and cloves when mulling wine.
Oh, stop making sense 
I don’t care how much he’s slouching; that is one tiny dwarf.
This is so “on point” it should be nominated. That is what all this is to me. Much like the original thread where the OP throws out there the fact that her boobs look amazing in that shirt (absolutely unnecessary to the subject) - is to get a rise/get attention/tease (IMO), all this continuing argument is nothing more than an effort to draw more attention to herself.
In a sense it has worked, but not like I think she hoped.
I’m willing to believe that she didn’t anticipate the reaction the original comment would garner. But I do agree that opening whole shiny new thread for people to shut up in is not an effective way to make them actually do so.
Tracy Lord,
I actually thought this thread was a whoosh, but you seem sincere in not wanting a thread about your shirt to turn into one about your breasts. Fair enough. So about your shirt and the way you like the way it looks, can you see the bra under the shirt? Or do you go without one? In which case is this fabulous shirt somewhat transparent, as to allow your nipples to show through, maybe a little. Or is it more conservative. If it is, is the material soft enough to discern when your nipples are erect? I like shirts like that. I think they’re a great look. Particularly if the nipples are a little perky.
I have to say, while I defer to your defining that the conversation be restricted to your shirt, you do appear to be a little…tense…about the whole sex thing. In my experience that can often indicate not enough sex. Well, I might be able to help you with that. But I’ll need a picture first. Both in the shirt and out would be helpful.
And please, if when we get together I open a door or two for you, please don’t take offense. Old habits die hard, even such ugly ones.
Yeah, it kind of reads that way to me. I mean, I don’t think we should talk about her boobs when she says not to, but at the same time, this whole thing just kind of screams of “I really do want attention.”
Kind of like that other thread that she started with that guy who was supposedly stalking her, but then turned out to be obnoxious/ill mannered but not exactly a stalker. I don’t know, I get the “I’m a victim” vibe from both those threads taken together.
magellan, I don’t think that’s really helping.
I like Tracy Lord. She has left no doubt that she takes herself, her place in the world, and her perceptions quite seriously, which is quite a good trait at her stage of life.
But may all the Dark Gods forgive me, I cannot seem to keep a straight face when she takes up the cross for the suffering of all women everywhere based upon her experience of the “steady stream of sexist crap I put up with for being a woman in public”. I have shoes older than Tracy Lord.*
I expect that what she probably does suffer is more ageism than sexism, and I recall that it was frustrating back in the day when I was a young lawyer. A Clerk of Court once absently told me that I should hurry along as my class was already getting a tour of the courtroom when I came in to file a petition. The class in question was a ninth grade class, so fifteen years old or so. This was not a never ending stream of sexism; it was a distracted clerk of court to whom all females under about 30 look more or less the same. A judge mistook me for a hooker in open court, requiring me to make a joke to save face for her. (I represented th ehooker. Er, alleged hooker). Yes, the judge was a her. You would think the suit and briefcase would have tipped her off, but maybe she thought I was a specialist catering only to guys with a hard on for lawyers.**
Stuff like that happened a lot. But it had to do with my age and appearance and was in my opinion not sexism a bit. Now I am going to get it in the neck for being patronizing; and I suppose that’s fair. I am being, a bit. But really. Kids these days.
- they are red Converse High Tops, see, things really do come back into style.
** a lot of BDSM doctors fall under this category, I hear it’s a good living.
I proved long ago that sexism runs rampant on, around, through and occasionally over the SDMB.
Waaaay back in 2004, I posted a thread in which I referred to myself as (and I quote) “a handsome, chiseled firebrand with arresting brown eyes”.
You wanna know how many times people have kidded me about that in the thousands of subsequent threads of which I’ve been a part? None. Zero. Zip. Nada.
Obviously, it’s because I’m male. If I were female, you’d have been drooling all over yourselves and asking for photographic proof of my handsomeness, or my chiseledness, or my arresting brown eyes. You people are all just a bunch of sexist … people, or something.
I’ve got a good mind to leave the boards until I log back on to my computer later.
Very nice. But what, exactly, does that have to do with what I said?
Look, I realize there is a lot of playfulness on this board between friends and there are a lot of people on here, men and women, who welcome ANY and EVERY kind of attention from the opposite sex. If it clearly bothers someone why can’t people move on and find someone who appreciates their attempts at humor and flirtation?
Oh yes, yes she should feel lucky she’s not invisible yet. Yes, yes she should feel good because some people need to tie a hundred dollar bill around their necks to get attention. Yes, yes her name is Tracy Lord which is close to Tracy Lords who was a Porn star with a capital P and that stands for pool.
Do I agree that every mention of these things = sexism? Nope, and I don’t really care about that. She doesn’t like it, so stop it. Is it really that hard to act like an adult and knock off the obnoxious behavior?
Ignorance fighting, smartest-people-on-the-internet folks who can’t let go of grade school jokes. What prizes! YaY
I just mean that once she called people sexist, they couldn’t just go away, because now they are going to be moved to defend themselves. I totally agree that people should have just dropped it in the first thread when it was clearly bothering her. However, the initial reference in the second thread didn’t seem sexist at all–people say things like that to each other. It’s only after people were accused of sexism that they became indignant.
Whenever I decide to apply it.
It’s always funny when people try to be sarcastic and end up saying something that’s true without the sarcasm applied. Seriously, think about the differential reaction to men and women making comments about their appearance. It needn’t be universal, just a trend.
Anyway, I’m reminded of this XKCD comic: pix plz
Because she’s throwing an accusation of sexism at some people who were pretty clearly trying to be jokey/flirting. Then within a few posts asserts that it’s offensive because it’s boring, not sexist. (in this post)
Frankly, I’m seeing her as thin-skinned at best after finding that doozy. As I said in the other thread, given that at this point less than half a dozen people have actually done thing thing she’s pissed about, she needs to be using the “ignore” button and getting on with her life like the rest of us do when something offends us on these boards.
I’m sorry but, I don’t see the connect there. You don’t get any responses to your post, therefore, this board is sexist? Might it not have been because nobody cared about your comment?
Most of everyone here agrees that TL is not looking at this from the right angle. I have counted maybe three posters who side with her (some of which, don’t side with her views, just that we should knock it off). Are we all sexist?
Except for a few who are commenting just to press some buttons or have some laughs (we aren’t curing cancer here you know), most of us are just commenting on how baffling and wrong it is to:
- Purposely put your boobs in a place your boobs didn’t need to be, and then be upset because other people comment on it.
- That you start a thread about something, and it is recalled later (jokingly), without any ill intent, and you get upset about it.
- That you label all of this, as sexist without any grounds to do so
- That we are somehow, on a message board, not entitled to comment or argue about something that someone purposely put out there for us to argue about.
It all stinks of “look at me, look at me”. But hey, I could be wrong. Maybe we are all wrong, and you and TL are right. The world is wicked and cruel, and you two are the guiding light of example that we should all follow into salvation of our depraved and immoral souls.
:rolleyes: