[Rant] Minor Rant III: For a Few Hollers More

GasBandit

GasBandit

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figmentPez said:
Don't forget "Disagreeing with a feminist is misogyny". UGH!
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hah! I submitted that to urban dictionary some years ago. Misogynist: Noun. A man who wins an argument with a feminist. It was far and away the #1 upvoted definition of the word. It has since mysteriously disappeared.

Wayback Machine archive of the definitions in 2010

Today, suddenly that top definition is nowhere on the list and the entire first page is militant manhatery.
 
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Null

There is one thing that can help improve relations between the genders, and it ends in -king.




Talking. Why, what were you thinking?
 
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makare

I don't consider man hating part of feminism. there are man hating feminists but you can be feminist without hating men.

There are so many times people i know say they are a feminist but they are really just assholes.


I just realized that counts for pretty much any -ist really.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

Staff member
makare said:
I don't consider man hating part of feminism. there are man hating feminists but you can be feminist without hating men.
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I don't think it's a part of feminism either, which is why I hate that I see it connected so frequently in geek feminism. Those geeks who are most vocal about feminism also tend to fall into male-bashing. It's not even that they all actually hate men, but the hurt men have caused tends to get turned into mistrust and anger. It's difficult to separate that out and not retaliate in kind, but I really appreciate it when feminists do manage to make their arguments for women without being against men.
 
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SeraRelm

figmentPez said:
I don't think it's a part of feminism either, which is why I hate that I see it connected so frequently in geek feminism. Those geeks who are most vocal about feminism also tend to fall into male-bashing. It's not even that they all actually hate men, but the hurt men have caused tends to get turned into mistrust and anger. It's difficult to separate that out and not retaliate in kind, but I really appreciate it when feminists do manage to make their arguments for women without being against men.
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Just like a man to lay it all on the women.
 
Hylian

Hylian

My work is setting me and my coworkers up for failure and they know it but they are still doing it so they can show proof to the higher ups that we need more people. I understand why they are doing tis but it is going to make the next few weeks a royal pain in the ass as me and my coworkers run around like chickens with our heads cut off trying to get shit done and yet we know that we aren't going to be able to get it done and it is going to be a colossal fuck up. Hopefully it will be better in the long run but the next few weeks are going to truly suck.
 
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makare

Tonight this lady want her money back because the movie she rented was a "gay film". I was quiet for a minute because I didn't quite know where she was coming from. So I looked it up. It was indeed a movie about someone who was gay. Oh, the things I wanted to say. I just offered her a free courtesy code and she went on her merry bigoted way.

Seriously I could head desk myself into a coma with these people.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Yesterday a coworker ran to the Gap during her lunch. She reports she ended up stuck in line behind a woman who was trying to return 2 pairs of pants that were from the Gap Outlet and that were--get this--tagged from 2001 and 2004 (and therefore hopelessly dated). This woman just would not understand why they would not return the pants seeing as how they were still tagged and never used.

--Patrick
 
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SeraRelm

What is the Gap's policy on returns? If it's just "tagged and never worn" then they have to do the return. If there is a time limit, then it's too late. I fail to see the issue here.
 
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SeraRelm

Depends on their return policy still. Sometimes you can return items between stores if they've the same parent company. All in all, it should still have taken less than 2 minutes, tops.
 
Sparhawk

Sparhawk

Usually between Outlet stores and Mall stores they will not allow returns, since the Outlet are selling discontinued or "buyer's agreement" merchandise. There may be local laws that require or prohibit certain things, but that doesn't affect all stores.

I'm using the "Mall" store tag above to denote a regular store, whether in a mall, strip or stand-alone setting.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

Most retailers have a 30 day limit on returns anyway. Regardless of the whole Outlet =/= mall store thing. Simply put, if they can't resell the product or return it for money back themselves, they don't want it back.
 
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SeraRelm

Tell that to Boscov's.
"I got this shirt 5 years ago and don't like it now."
*returned*
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

Well there are exceptions. And usually, even if they have a 30 day policy, if you put up the right amount of stink about it they'll do it for you. It's the most annoying thing in the world when you're working as a cashier/ supervisor and the manager overrides the policy and apologizes for your wanting to uphold it, making you look like an idiot rather than just telling the customer no.
*glad he doesn't work in retail any more*
 
Vagabond

Vagabond

I forgot all about Record Store Day until it was too late to do anything about it.

Spent that time being beat up by a minivan instead. Work today was extra brütal.
 
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Vagabond said:
I forgot all about Record Store Day until it was too late to do anything about it.

Spent that time being beat up by a minivan instead. Work today was extra brütal.
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When fighting a minivan, always remember to stick and move. Or use a tank.
 
Silver Jelly

Silver Jelly

So, today it's Saint George's Day, wich in Catalonia means it's some kind of catalan valentine's day. A good friend of mine, with who I may like to try to be something more, came today near my workplace to have lucnh weith her mom, and, with the excuse of paying her the last part of the camera she sold me some time ago, I managed to get her the traditional rose. I had a beer with her, her mom and her mom's friend, but then my friend and I went to the bank to get the money. I wanted to ask her out after giving her the money, I even had a joking sentence about how that seemed like a weird thing to do after paying her, and then, after she had told me either yes or no, I would go back to work and leave her to talk about it -or not- with her mother while they had a walk through the streets, with the traditional, and usally considered romantic, rose and books street vendors.

The bank is within walking distance from where we were, and on the way there, she told me about her mother's groups of friends. The friend I had met was from one of the goups, "regular people" that talk about "regular stuff". The other one, a new group, is made of sucessful females with careers. "they are very cool people: they are lawyers, doctors... And they keep having affairs behind their husband's backs!"

I get she is talking about her mom, married to some man who is a terrible husband, keeping her family in constant debt while being almost an absentee. These friends are strong, independent women, and they suffer because of no man. Yes, I get it.

But I didn't ask her out.
 
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