nice feminist strawmen you got there
[Question] Post about the last time you thought or did something bigoted.
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North_Ranger
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Little old ladies piss me off. Mainly because of one particular old skank who lives in my neighbourhood. Twice in the past year I've met her on the street, and both times she insists on walking up to me and start patting my stomach, asking when I'm due with a chuckle. Bitch, don't step into my personal space. Next time you do that, I'm going to break your arm. A year or two earlier while at the grocery store, I saw another old lady trying to lift a sixpack down from the pile. She was a tiny little woman with a bad back, and the sixpack pile was at least five feet and change in height. So, I offered to help, being six foot even. How did she thank me? "Oh, how healthy you would be if you were a little leaner". Bitch, you ain't my doctor or my mother. I should've just lifted the sixpack back onto the pile and walk away.
Dave
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Don't mind me, I'm just an old dude, you ageist!
okay, so your last time was in this post when you called them "bitch" and "skank"
GasBandit
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Really, this could be a good and interesting thread, but even before some of those actual 'I'm white so I must be racist' were stated you guys were already assuming that was what the thread was about. FFS, we had cases of being bigoted agains white people. I usually think that the points of going too far in where we see racism/sexism/whatevs were fair ones, but you guys are sounding like assholes saying 'LALALA RACISM DOESN'T EXIST SEXISM DOESN'T EXIST WOMEN GOT IT GOOD THEY JUST LIKE TO COMPLAIN'. Why can't these topics be discussed?
Instead of the usual where CDS is the troll, you guys are the ones trolling here. Oh wait, I fell forit didn't I?
North_Ranger
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I calls 'em how I sees 'em.
No, I think he's saying that because he thinks 'bitch' and 'skank' are bigoted words...
I mean, a) I don't think anyone has made that assertion, and b) Charlie started the thread, which is the direct cause of the assumptions you're talking about. He makes no secret of his agenda, everyone knows what it is, and he started within what, 3 or 4 posts of the thread being opened?
The thread recovered after Charlie's faux pas and the 'normal' posts continued... And suddenly 4 troll posts coming from nowhere. So no, I don't think you're right. Still, maybe you're right and I should acknowledge that CDS is an asshole too. Conclusion: everyone's an asshole!
Whatever, I think what I'm doing is worse for tha thread than any of all that. So let's just end this here.
Whatever, I think what I'm doing is worse for tha thread than any of all that. So let's just end this here.
Just like 'dick' amirite
Cajungal
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You BASTARD! *punches chest weakly, then faints*
actually you are right, I try to avoid calling people "pricks"
I once asked a girl on a date, instead of waiting for her to overcome her burdensome gender role.
North_Ranger
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It's kinda like when you talk to a die-hard vegan... and you get the urge to eat the biggest burger you can find.
Exactly. Except I have this strange urge to throw watermelon at black people, make slanty eyes at yellow people, do a rain dance at a red person and fuck women.
Cajungal
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And then cross the street when the burger is walking towards you.
North_Ranger
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I'd take that as a sign to check my meds.
I'm Metis, if you don't know what that means, it means that I have a significant mix of native ancestry mixed in with my overpoweringly white ancestry (sandy brown/blonde hair, white as snow, blue eyes, etc). I have a huuuuuuuuuuge native family branch in the Cold Lake area of Alberta and it's surrounding reserves. Huge. As in hundreds of cousins. I have no real negative initial reaction to most non-white people of any sort, black, asian, etc unless you are native. If you are native, the first thing that springs to my mind is what scummy trash, alcoholic, FAS bullshit am I about to put up with. It's awful, and it's most often wrong, and most of all it's entirely self-loathing but that's the way it is.
I'm also from the Texas of Canada, Alberta.
I'm also from the Texas of Canada, Alberta.
Is it really?
My grandmother grew up on a reserve in SK but wasn't a native. She looked it, but was actually of Ukrainian decent so it was always funny for her to get her native brothers and sisters ranting to her about the white man. One of my uncles ended up being half-cree I believe, with my two aunts and my mom looking somewhat native but being Norweigen/Ukrainian. Makes me laugh because they don't get much whiter than me but a good half of my family is native.
Necronic
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Did Charlie just Unironically refer to minorities as "colored people"?
Also, while I have my own race bigoted moments from time to time, my real prejudice is against the poor. When I see some massively overweight 30 year old wearing a loony tunes shirt dragging some screaming kid in dirty clothes by the arm through a Walmart I think some pretty negative things about them, like "man I would hate to be her"
Also, while I have my own race bigoted moments from time to time, my real prejudice is against the poor. When I see some massively overweight 30 year old wearing a loony tunes shirt dragging some screaming kid in dirty clothes by the arm through a Walmart I think some pretty negative things about them, like "man I would hate to be her"
Cajungal
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I was wondering the same thing.
And I can identify with that. We have so many morbidly obese poor people here. One thing I would really love to do in service to my community is teach people about cheap food that is also healthy for you. It breaks my heart to see a mom buying often overpriced junk food either thinking it's her only option or not caring.
I hate bad drivers, I think they are selfish people. I have met bad Chinese drivers, bad Japanese drivers, bad Korean drivers, bad Orwellian drivers, bad Swedish drivers, bad German drivers, bad French drivers, bad English drivers, bad Ethiopian drivers, bad American drivers, bad male drivers and bad female drivers, bad one eyed- female drivers, bad short drivers, bad old drivers, bad young drivers and I hate them all.
I can't drive.
I hate people who live in a foreign country for decades and gleefully refuse to learn the language or culture of where they live.
I hate people who are bad at something but instead of trying to become better, make excuses for why they suck.
I hate newly graduated kids sense of entitlement and unwillingness to do "bitch"* work (*I hate this term, this is what it is called.)
I hate the willfully poor who do nothing to bring themselves up or improve their surroundings.
I don't think much about race, colour, religion or these other things. I've lived in China, Sweden, Belize, Japan, & Canada.
I have a Jewish Grandmother, A catholic Grandmother, A nazi ancestor, an allied war hero, there are black people in my family, Asian people in my family, gay people in my family, lesbians in my family, Indians in my family, first nations in my family, Arabians in my family and Americans in my family. I am a child of this world who has touched his feet on every corner of this world and I have discovered one simple truth... people are pretty much the same from any part of this world save for the mind fucking cultural differences.
I can't drive.
I hate people who live in a foreign country for decades and gleefully refuse to learn the language or culture of where they live.
I hate people who are bad at something but instead of trying to become better, make excuses for why they suck.
I hate newly graduated kids sense of entitlement and unwillingness to do "bitch"* work (*I hate this term, this is what it is called.)
I hate the willfully poor who do nothing to bring themselves up or improve their surroundings.
I don't think much about race, colour, religion or these other things. I've lived in China, Sweden, Belize, Japan, & Canada.
I have a Jewish Grandmother, A catholic Grandmother, A nazi ancestor, an allied war hero, there are black people in my family, Asian people in my family, gay people in my family, lesbians in my family, Indians in my family, first nations in my family, Arabians in my family and Americans in my family. I am a child of this world who has touched his feet on every corner of this world and I have discovered one simple truth... people are pretty much the same from any part of this world save for the mind fucking cultural differences.
I'm not saying this to troll, but having Charlie discuss his area of upbringing explains a lot. Not in how he acts, but in how he seems to think everyone thinks the way the people around him do, just because that's all he's been exposed to. A lot of people, not surprisingly, had a different upbringing and have different points of view.
I'm divided about your opinion Frank. I know many, many Native people who fit that bill, and I know a great more that aren't. I believe that your self loathing, line of work, coupled with the usual human behavior to look at the negative aspects of anything blind you to some really great people with Native ancestry.
A female friend of mine had a poly relationship. Basically, she had a boyfriend and a girlfriend (the girl in the equation also had a boyfriend and both guys were totally okay with it). I never - and to this day, still don't fully - understand how something like that works, but if it made them happy, then all power to them.
Anyway, I was on a double date with the two girls and my girlfriend at the time (@Made Ya Blush, in fact, who can back me up on this one). As per usual with this female friend, the topic veered towards the subject of sex. We were all discussing our "number;" the number of people we've had full sexual relations with. When my friend listed hers, she of course, listed her girlfriend sitting next to her.
Without even thinking, I blurted out, "Does that count?"
Anyway, I was on a double date with the two girls and my girlfriend at the time (@Made Ya Blush, in fact, who can back me up on this one). As per usual with this female friend, the topic veered towards the subject of sex. We were all discussing our "number;" the number of people we've had full sexual relations with. When my friend listed hers, she of course, listed her girlfriend sitting next to her.
Without even thinking, I blurted out, "Does that count?"
GasBandit
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Your third paragraph just answered your first paragraph. A lot of guys still, to this day, don't see lesbianism as "really sex," and therefore isn't cheating. It doesn't matter what lesbians do, these guys will just laugh and smile and point and whoop, even if one of the participants is their bisexual "girlfriend." There has to be a penis involved for them to suddenly flag the activity as sex. The moment there's a penis unveiled within 5 feet of their girlfriend, shit gets serious real fast.A female friend of mine had a poly relationship. Basically, she had a boyfriend and a girlfriend (the girl in the equation also had a boyfriend and both guys were totally okay with it). I never - and to this day, still don't fully - understand how something like that works, but if it made them happy, then all power to them.
Anyway, I was on a double date with the two girls and my girlfriend at the time (@Made Ya Blush, in fact, who can back me up on this one). As per usual with this female friend, the topic veered towards the subject of sex. We were all discussing our "number;" the number of people we've had full sexual relations with. When my friend listed hers, she of course, listed her girlfriend sitting next to her.
Without even thinking, I blurted out, "Does that count?"
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