The Isolated Politics Blurt Thread I: A New Beginning

When you start generalizing that it’s all. Men. Period. That’s when I call bullshit. Just because one guy is a pig, doesn’t make them all pigs. At that table? Maybe.

It's like good cops who keep silent about bad cops... how good are they.

The reality is that I have experienced exactly what happened to that girl. That is why I posted it. Not a single man spoke up in my defense. Not one. Not his friends, not anyone around, not my friends. No one.

I am not alone.

You can say "not all men". Fine. The overwhelming vast majority of men.

Just about every woman - if not every woman - has experienced what I and that 15 year old girl has: A man making completely inappropriate remarks or making a completely inappropriate action and not one person, not one man, not a single soul came to their defense or put the man on notice that it is not okay.

Sorry, but save your indignation unless you personally have spoken out in a situation like that. Guaranteed you've witnessed it.
 
Yeah, believe it or not, I actually have spoken out. At one time that I recall, it was a similar situation where I actually knew the girl’s young age and a friend (didn’t know) called her beautiful with an intonation that made it sound very lecherous. Before she left the area, I told him to relax that she was only 14. He was mortified and embarrassed and apologized to her. After she left, he admitted that he thought she was much older because of her appearance and the way she was dressed. I told him that he might live longer if he kept comments like that to himself.

Men have been trained by society—and their own fathers—to objectify women. I was taught by my mother to respect women. Many men don’t benefit from that type of instruction. You might see indignation in my post, but it wasn’t my intent—I just don’t see it as a black and white issue.
 
It's like good cops who keep silent about bad cops... how good are they.

The reality is that I have experienced exactly what happened to that girl. That is why I posted it. Not a single man spoke up in my defense. Not one. Not his friends, not anyone around, not my friends. No one.

I am not alone.

You can say "not all men". Fine. The overwhelming vast majority of men.

Just about every woman - if not every woman - has experienced what I and that 15 year old girl has: A man making completely inappropriate remarks or making a completely inappropriate action and not one person, not one man, not a single soul came to their defense or put the man on notice that it is not okay.

Sorry, but save your indignation unless you personally have spoken out in a situation like that. Guaranteed you've witnessed it.

In a better America, that POS’s comment would have been prosecuted as a sexual assault against a minor.

That ^ would likely go a long way towards eliminating that type of behavior.

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Yeah, believe it or not, I actually have spoken out. At one time that I recall, it was a similar situation where I actually knew the girl’s young age and a friend (didn’t know) called her beautiful with an intonation that made it sound very lecherous. Before she left the area, I told him to relax that she was only 14. He was mortified and embarrassed and apologized to her. After she left, he admitted that he thought she was much older because of her appearance and the way she was dressed. I told him that he might live longer if he kept comments like that to himself.

Men have been trained by society—and their own fathers—to objectify women. I was taught by my mother to respect women. Many men don’t benefit from that type of instruction. You might see indignation in my post, but it wasn’t my intent—I just don’t see it as a black and white issue.

Thank you.

I apologize for snapping.

Truth be told, it's happened to me more than once. Even in front of my father and brother. Not quite as spicy as other comments not in their presence, but still. Nothing. It is and was considered normal for men to talk about women's bodies in front of women, make lewd comments and in general sexualize women from a young age. Honestly, I and most women have never had a man come to our defense when this has happened. Not when I was 5 (yes), or 8 (yes), or 11 (again, yes), 13 (yes), 14 (yes)... even into my college years.

So, again, thank you. You are probably 1 in... honestly I can't think of the right number. 100, 500, even 1000 does not seem high enough considering the prevalence.

My frustration and anger with the situation was unjustly thrust upon you.
 
Friendly reminder that voters get to overthrow the government every two years, well, part of it. It's called, get this, an election. I know, crazy, right?
 
exactly, adrina... the kind of christianity on display by the magats is a complete rewrite
of how it's actually supposed to work. Take that "Thou shalt not kill" thing... they want to apply it to pregnancies but not the mothers, play the victim when christianity's criticised but are eager to pull the trigger on those who don't look like them or agree with them, politically.
 
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