Why is it cool…

Just-Legal said:
IT?!

Seriously, Svenska, that was below the belt.


I didn't mean to insult tolyk, just tease him. It's a quote from my favorite comic strip.

Should have known better than to quote it in a thread with this sensitive topic.

I apologize, tolyk. I know you're not an IT.
 
What!?
No rant at Elsol, Svenskaflicka?

not gonna bean him with a rock?
 
elsol said:
Or to have rocks thrown at them... oh wait, that's how we got here.

Sincerely,
ElSol

Basically when we're all sitting with our heads hurting and our arms too tired to throw, we can make fun of the rocks. That's how most of my arguments end, anyway.

I'm a total lightweight in an argument. Make me laugh, you win.

Then I'll start arguing again about something else.
 
Recidiva said:
Basically when we're all sitting with our heads hurting and our arms too tired to throw, we can make fun of the rocks. That's how most of my arguments end, anyway.

I'm a total lightweight in an argument. Make me laugh, you win.

Then I'll start arguing again about something else.

So is this about lughinh your socks off or getting your rocks off? :D
 
elfin_odalisque said:
So is this about lughinh your socks off or getting your rocks off? :D

Given a choice between not knowing what lughinh is and not generally approving of socks since a conversation with vella_ms, I'd have to go with the getting your rocks off part since that always sounds better.

Moves her hands like the Karate Kid waxing a car.

Rocks on

Rocks off
 
poink!

I heard "Sven" uttered!!!


(perhaps she just yells at me, because she LIKES me?)
Svenska's gotta a boyfriend! Svenska's gotta boyfriend!
Svenska and Dark-glassess sittin' in a tree Kay Iye esS esS...Iye eN Gee!
 
In a probably far-too-late comment given the inevitable thread-jacking, I find it intriguing that the only people I've encountered in my work setting who made sexist comments - and I've had to crush that sort of thing more than once - have been women. I work with a fairly even mix of males and females, and on several occasions have had to deal with women who felt it appropriate to make sexist comments. Each time this has occurred in large groups made up of both genders, a setting in which I think the most courageous or most foolhardy man would feel some hestitation to offer such an opinion about women.

For what it's worth, I think it is a reflection of power perceptions. Women think of men as having more power and possibly as thus being invulnerable to anything they can say. Many, indeed, have had more direct complaints ignored routinely; I suppose they think that snide comments in passing are equally ignored. Part of it may be rebellion at what they perceive as unfair in their lives, a sort of passive-agrressive resentment of many small slights. But all of it I think wrong.

This sort of behavior is, in my opinion, not merely cruel and unfair, but pointless and self-defeating. Whatever resentments we have of members of the opposite sex - on both sides- they fall in one of two categories. They may be unjustified and of the generalizing-from-personal-experiences nature: a person with a few bad relationships in the past assumes that all members of the opposite sex are vicious. This is self-defeating, as the person who allows him or herself this dubious luxury cuts off all possibility of a good relationship - who wants to be near someone who radiates contempt and revulsion? - and fails to recognize the actions and choices that led to entering into a bad situation to start with. Failing to recognize that element of personal control dooms one to repeat the cycle.

There are, of course, those resentments that are justified. The woman who works the same number of hours as her husband and is left with all of the housework and child-raising to do may have a justified complaint. So may the man who finds women constantly preferred for hire or advancement in a female-dominated work environment - and such do exist. However, venting our resentments in angry comments about the gender in general is a poor response to a specific situation that has real solutions. Diverting our energy into bitter recriminations against the sex as a whole only saps the strength needed to file a complaint with the EEOC, step out of a relationship that has become thoroughly unreasonable, or simply begin with the first step: drawing up one's courage and asking that the circumstances to which we object be changed.

Sarcasm, snideness, and cutting comments share this: they are impotent. They are, at heart, a surrender. They achieve nothing, and at times worsen the problem. They are are only employed by those who have given up hope of change and have turned their energies to being spiteful. Now and then we are all in that position. But it's no way to live life.

Shanglan
 
yeah!

gonna get me a new suit!

after all..if I am gonna be impotent..I should look impo'tent!
 
dark-glasses said:
yeah!

gonna get me a new suit!

after all..if I am gonna be impotent..I should look impo'tent!

I found that remark to be racist.

While some people of color speak like this, it is not necessary to make fun of us.

Sincerely,
ElSol
 
elsol said:
I found that remark to be racist.

While some people of color speak like this, it is not necessary to make fun of us.

Sincerely,
ElSol
yeah? well I got color!
 
cantdog said:
Besides, it is necessary to make fun of us.

Oh good. Then I'm doing my job. Is it okay if I make fun of everyone else, too? Really, as long as I'm not DISCRIMINATING about who I pick on, it's not racist or bigotry, it's just me being a bitch.
 
Recidiva said:
White people NEVER get to have any fun.

Ya'll get to keep us down... that looks like fun to me!

Sincerely,
ElSol
 
elsol said:
Ya'll get to keep us down... that looks like fun to me!

Sincerely,
ElSol

I get confused. See, I'm not "The Man" and I'm a girl and everyone says I have no power. Now, even though I disagree with everyone on all this stuff, do I need a ruling, did I miss a memo or something?

I'm always out of the loop.
 
elsol said:
Oh... then it's okay.

Sincerely,
Elsol

nah.

my pinkness hardly excuses anything...nor would an Ethiopian tan.

I can see the humor..and the hurt.
 
So, new favorite t-shirt:D
"Chronically Caucasian, don't let near dance floor."
 
Dar~ said:
So, new favorite t-shirt:D
"Chronically Caucasian, don't let near dance floor."

See, I'm Caucasian and that's just hurtful! Oh, no, wait. I can dance and sing. Must have spent several past lifetimes as someone overseas and gay. That can explain it. Mystery solved!
 
Recidiva said:
See, I'm Caucasian and that's just hurtful! Oh, no, wait. I can dance and sing. Must have spent several past lifetimes as someone overseas and gay. That can explain it. Mystery solved!
:kiss:
I can dance and sing also. Was actually being groomed for the stage when I found ou tI was pregnant with my daughter and discovered I liked being a mom and housewife more than I liked performing. Now I content myself with weekly karaoke trips.:D
 
Recidiva said:
I get confused. See, I'm not "The Man" and I'm a girl and everyone says I have no power. Now, even though I disagree with everyone on all this stuff, do I need a ruling, did I miss a memo or something?

I'm always out of the loop.

Oh see... the men have your 'keep the others down' proxy.

It's a free service they provide, I think you're expected to wear a short skirt, a tight sweater, hair in ponytails, pom-poms and gaze adoringly at them.

Sincerely,
ElSol

ps. No panties would be preferable.
 
Recidiva said:
See, I'm Caucasian and that's just hurtful! Oh, no, wait. I can dance and sing. Must have spent several past lifetimes as someone overseas and gay. That can explain it. Mystery solved!


Nah... is cause you're a girl.

It's a part of the girl-package.

Sincerely,
ElSol
 
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