Rolling 'this is sexist' thread

good point

when I was around the roller derby crowd they said "bitches" a whole lot but that was a different context, I would imagine

Facebook wd be improved by complimentary peanuts and the possibility of cocktails, this is true

Lol I guess I surprised rrrobyn and our mutual friend V once by emphatically saying I would never never tell anyone I had a crush on, because that way lies embarrassment for everyone involved.

awww

I think the people I have for-real crushed on hard are ones that I have seldom approached, and then it builds to this crescendo of me skittering from the room or being super-awkward. Best to approach someone before it gets to that point and they're so super-human that they seem unattainable.

yikes, that sounds gross, io. nothing worse than looking around and realizing that you are surrounded by jerks
having to extricate oneself from situations like that is why i am so reticent to become part of any group tbh!

i think i've usually approached people i've had a crush on unless it seemed like a bad idea for a particular reason, but that was all so long ago i cd be wrong

pathological smashriarchy

also "for real crushed on hard" is not even remotely equal (or even comparable) to "found appealing"

there's an element of far-gone-ness in the former that hasn't been given the chance to ferment in the latter

i still remember a lot about my first real crush but mostly embarrassing memories - i was a very, very gauche 16 year-old

Peacocking is a bloody great idea tbh, even if it gets co-opted by PUAs. Everyone should wear something mad glam, if they feel like it.

http://www.golfblogger.co.uk/data/post_pics/Trilby_Tour/Trilby_Tour_East_of_England_Golf.jpg

maybe not

in my youth I used to think that appearing in anything other than a nondescript, but clean fashion, was far inferior to having a rich inner life and being a conversationalist or something, but I think I also mostly read Star Wars books and played computer games a lot

i had a phase in my teens when i wore a lot of purple and yellow. and a hat. and beads. i think i'm good for the rest of my life.

I have no probs approaching people, the issue is no one seems worthy of approaching

I am totally sweating this hot bouncer at the club I frequent, though, but he is friends with my ex. So hands off.

i don't like the opposition of our 'evolutionary nature' and being a moral person in contemporary life. i don't think we have some kind of base or bestial nature that needs to be tamed by civilization, however conceived. evolution comprises our whole being, cognition, the works. it's like gravity, it's always on, everywhere, all the time. which makes it meaningless as a guide to proper action. that isn't what it is.

― goole, Tuesday, June 25, 2013 1:32 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

truth bomb

Yeah, eloquently stated.

People are primates, and are in constant competition with others.

iana primatologist but bonobos give the lie to this idea, at least if by competition you are assuming something necessarily violent or aggressive.

aren't bonobos also the ones that murder each other?

ah just looked it up. it's chimps, not bonobos, who are murderers. good job bonobos. keep it up! http://www.realclearscience.com/2011/03/08/bonobos_unlike_chimps_do_not_murder_240136.html

competition isn't necessarily violent or aggressive. plants compete for access to sunlight.

yeah, plants don't need violence, they just gerrymander their voting districts...

I don't automatically hate face tattoos (this may say something about me), but I do automatically hate NY Giants ones.

pls don't say a jets one would be better

i want one of a plant wearing a jets uniform intercepting a pass from a plant wearing a giants uniform

knowing the Jets, it'd probably be them throwing the interception

look, i didn't choose to be a jets fan. i was born that way.

that guy in the plaid fedora posted upthread is like... things could be worse

competition isn't necessarily violent or aggressive. plants compete for access to sunlight.

― Me and my pool noodle (contenderizer), Tuesday, June 25, 2013

tbqh redwoods are straight murderous

And also, if you can point to a behaviour and say 'yes, this behaviour is more natural than this other behaviour, if I do more of this I will be more natural', you're making a conscious/intellectual choice to do so, which by the oft total bullshit anti-intellectual standard of 'being natural', you're not supposed to do

fucking hell the world will turn me into a feminist yet, wtf wtf wtf dismissed?

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/sexual-assault-case-against-sailor-dismissed-1.1453294

sorry

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/sexual-assault-case-against-sailor-dismissed-1.1453294

“The complainant alleged that the 25-year-old sailor had asked her ‘for a quickie’, had slapped her behind and grabbed her by the breasts with both hands...

...there was a doubt as to whether the sailor intended the assault to be of a sexual nature.

u_u

The defendant broke down as the judge invited both parties to leave the events behind them, describing the case as a “trial for all parties”.

darragh getting pissed about that makes you empirically a feminist basically, also what the christ

i laughed, i cried

http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/07/7-women-you-meet-in-hookup-culture-stories.html

holy shit, it starts out awkward and goes straight into no-way territory

I am trying to generously assume this is supposed to be satire, but it's too mean-spirited.

title suggests that it's about the characters encountered in "trend stories", not human beings or anyone's actual culture. but i dunno. nothing in the piece backs that up, no quotations from or links to representative examples.

uh there are all kinds of links

eep! there are. dunno how i missed that, except dumbness of course.

1 dumb opinion: seems like satire of the pieces linked/

oh wait, selective color blindness. i missed the links cuz of selective color blindness. it's a condition.

I uh...I didn't think it was mean? I read those trend stories, one of them just came out like last week and has been making the rounds and inspiring reaction pieces left and right, which I think is the specific piece almost all of those types are references to.

I get that it's an acerbic take on the horrible sexist stereotypes in articles but the phrase,
" She is the tenuous link between the trio of campus plagues — binge-drinking, hookup culture, sexual assault — not the guy who is into sex with half-conscious women."
...still managed to make me nauseated, even if it's referencing what those other articles are insinuating.

If you mean the fact that trend pieces about young women's sexuality and "hook-up culture" are concern-trolling in every possible way, one of which is tacitly (or explicitly, take your pick) blaming women for non-consensual sexual experiences, then yes, I support being offended by that. I'm not sure what part is nauseating, though?

That phrase

One of my friends just told me one of his conservative acquaintances just posted that article to facebook, not realizing it was a criticism of the stereotypes used in other articles, and not a description of actual "types."

:/

http://www.milb.com/assets/images/5/6/6/54170566/cuts/baseball101_webRR_1dumhbvr_imdru2x0.jpg

only $75 if u ladies want to wrap your pretty little heads around the game of baseball

Hell, if Babe Ruth and Nolan Ryan are going to be there, I'll go.

thanks state farm
i will never give you money (i don't give you any now)
$75?!?