Is the Internet a Mob Without Consequence?

LOL, its my wifes ipad. i hate these stupid things.
I knew there was no way it was yours. :)

Rita hayworth...that was a lady. i would lay down my coat in a mud puddle for a woman like that. back then women could be confident and sexy without being obnoxiously rude and belligerent. they didnt even feel the need to get tatoos and plastic surgery along with botox injected into their faces. Yuck!

I have a good one though for a wife. Incidentally she thinks modern women are rude and disgusting.

Rita Hayworth had one of the most tempestuous private lives of Hollywood though. She had no luck in her relationships and tended to end up with abusive men, which is a shame. People speculate her father abused her when she eas a little girl, which set all this in motion.

And in passing, let me add that abusers/rapists should have their nuts cut off to begin with.
 

Bartelby

Bionic Poster
Women hit on men just as much, but they're just too subtle and men are just a bit too dull.

On the other hand, men can be obvious to the point of vulgarity.
 

AtomicForehand

Hall of Fame
Hopefully Woody Allen didn't have anything to do with that? :)

You'd be surprised how many adult men in positions of power will hit on a little girl. Coaches...guidance counselors...mom's boyfriends...friends' dads.

Yeah, we get the message early that men think we exist to be their playthings.
 

WildVolley

Legend
I thought you were?

I should be the spokesman for right, and many others, but they just don't recognize my exceptional genius.

You should distinguish between "have" and "should." Also, we Americans have trouble with right and left as it applies outside the States. The categories don't necessarily match up in different places.
 

Bartelby

Bionic Poster
These are always relative terms with variable substantive content.

If looked at in absolute terms, then the US has not really had a left and the rest of the West has not had one since the eighties.



I should be the spokesman for right, and many others, but they just don't recognize my exceptional genius.

You should distinguish between "have" and "should." Also, we Americans have trouble with right and left as it applies outside the States. The categories don't necessarily match up in different places.
 

Bartelby

Bionic Poster
Woody Allan's conduct sure got another consideration at the GG. It would have happened anyway, but Diane Keaton's speech was ill advised. His moral rehabilitation is just not going to happen.
 

Bartelby

Bionic Poster
Apparently we have at least on thing the same thing between our legs and theirs is bigger, but fortunately less obvious for men.
 

Kobble

Hall of Fame
I am pretty surprised a women would get offended by a bunch of guys, and teenage guys trashing women. Most women harden up to it and find guys they do like, and don't really spend much time around the creeps, or even fighting with creeps. Be greatful you aren't in a relationship with one.

I mean, I played tennis, in my late teens to early twenties. I know in some guys mind I am chained up in his basement, but I just don't give a ****. I went to the Orange Bowl. Most guys (old guys), were watching the girls matches. They don't give a **** about tennis.
 
You'd be surprised how many adult men in positions of power will hit on a little girl. Coaches...guidance counselors...mom's boyfriends...friends' dads.

Yeah, we get the message early that men think we exist to be their playthings.

That's a little unfair, as it is a hasty generalization, isn't it?

Plus, it works both ways. Exhibit A is Mary Kay Letourneau, unabashed cradle robber.

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Now, she was pretty hot so in my opinion the only crime comitted is that she wasn't around when I was a kid. :lol:
 

AtomicForehand

Hall of Fame
That's a little unfair, as it is a hasty generalization, isn't it?

Plus, it works both ways. Exhibit A is Mary Kay Letourneau, unabashed cradle robber.

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Now, she was pretty hot so in my opinion the only crime comitted is that she wasn't around when I was a kid. :lol:

It's not a generalization. All of those things happened to me before I was 15, and to some of my friends as well. The statistics are out there too.

Yeah, it makes NEWS when an older woman goes for an adolescent boy, BECAUSE IT'S SO RARE. We're just inured to it when it's men on girls (and even men on boys).
 
It's not a generalization. All of those things happened to me before I was 15, and to some of my friends as well. The statistics are out there too.

Yeah, it makes NEWS when an older woman goes for an adolescent boy, BECAUSE IT'S SO RARE. We're just inured to it when it's men on girls (and even men on boys).

You got a good point. Testosterone makes people randy and men have more of it, so it makes sense (not that I condone such behavior, because that's what self control is for).
 

Mr.Lob

G.O.A.T.
That's a little unfair, as it is a hasty generalization, isn't it?

Plus, it works both ways. Exhibit A is Mary Kay Letourneau, unabashed cradle robber.

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Now, she was pretty hot so in my opinion the only crime comitted is that she wasn't around when I was a kid. :lol:

Must be true love. Those two weirdos have been together for 10 years, and several jail sentences for Mary Kay who ***** that boy. Guess they're waiting to be offered a reality series.
 

Sentinel

Bionic Poster
What do you mean by "sexism"? Do you mean some kind of discrimination, or just commenting on Kate Upton's awesome tatas? Because if it's the later, I'm quite sure Kate Upton appreciates the attention.

Also, you forget a group who is OK to ridicule: People who believe in God. Does that ring a bell? ;)
Fed fans, too.

Ring a belle ? ;)

p.s. hilarious thread, guys. You and dparis !
 

Bartelby

Bionic Poster
... a god-botherer brimming with resentment about women. What a surprise!



What do you mean by "sexism"? Do you mean some kind of discrimination, or just commenting on Kate Upton's awesome tatas? Because if it's the later, I'm quite sure Kate Upton appreciates the attention.

Also, you forget a group who is OK to ridicule: People who believe in God. Does that ring a bell? ;)
 

r2473

G.O.A.T.
Just telling it like it is. Been hit on all my life since I was a preteen. Yes, WE do get really tired of it.

I think this is more because of your winning personality than your overall hotness (I'm thinking back to the vegan thread in H&F).

(I'm just messing with you gorgeous)

Is the TT at TW a Mob Without Consequence? :twisted:

No, I find no evidence of this type of behavior whatsoever.
 
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Manus Domini

Hall of Fame
As one of the few women posters on this board, it sure feels like it. The amount of putrid sexism we have to wade through on a daily basis is astounding.

You'd think Tennis Warehouse would want to make this forum a friendlier place for female customers, since we women probably make up the bulk of their sales.

It's also amazing that the men on here who are NOT sexist pigs let all kinds of filthy or degrading comments about women go by without objection, while there are still a few posters who do speak out against racism and homophobia on the boards. It actually makes it look like all the men on here *are* sexist pigs, when logic and statistics indicate that this must not be true.

Are women the last group that it's OK to oppress and demean? Around here you'd certainly think so.

There's no sexism here, woman! Now go in the kitchen and make us sandwiches! [/sarc]

OK, I'm not serious with that--trust me. (If I were, I know plenty of girls here at college who would have murdered me by now.) The thing that we men have to remember--and remember well--is that we *don't* know what it's like to be women in 21st century America (or the rest of the world, for that matter). The point of that very bad joke was that people who aren't sexist still might act like complete ****es to women without realizing it--and make similar jokes.

We have a lot of insults like "You throw like a girl", but don't understand the harms that those statements have. There are others which don't even lower the expectations for women in sporing--just the expectations for women in their character. If you're afraid to do something, you're "acting like a girl"--synonymous here with being a wuss.

We objectify women, consider them sexual objects, and laugh at them for being strumpets. If a woman and a man each sleeps with the same number of partners as the other, the first is a *****, the second, a player. (I'm not encouraging sexual infidelity, and I think both are equally wrong; my point is the double standard here.)

Women have lower average wages for the same amount of work. They are based less on potential, and more on achievements, than men. Women are less frequently at the top of their fields or at the top of the job force. They are a minority in politics.

I don't take the double standards or sexism well in reality. In high school (less so in college; I tend to not be in any actually sexist situations), I would constantly deride my classmates for sexist remarks, as well as homophobic and racist remarks (if they were lighthearted jokes, it was a different story; but boys at an all-boys Catholic school are less likely to make lighthearted jokes than I would have liked).

The internet, though, is different. There exists some concept that this is a "man's" thing (as if any gender has greater right to the internet than another). There is a joke about some Rule 37 or something: "There are no women on the internet." Like drinking beer while watching football, culture dictates (and I'm not saying it's right to do so) that the internet is a man's dominion.

So, why don't people like myself go around haranguing those who make sexist remarks? (For the record, I am about as active on the racist and homophobic fronts, too.) Unless the comment is directly toward me or someone else, there is generally no need to get in. It's a waste of time Haters gonna hate. Don't feed the trolls. Bigots will be bigots, and there's not much you or I can do to breath reason into a stone man.

Just ignore (block if you have to) the sexist morons. If someone comments to you or another in a fashion that is extremely insulting and uncalled for, then you respond. Otherwise, don't feed the trolls.
 
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Manus Domini

Hall of Fame
Why an iPad, bro? Those gadgets are just popular amongst women (and less tech savvy men).

Just kidding, of course. Sorry you are on the iPad though. ;)

I got me a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 and it is pretty good. I gots about 1000 hours of trolling on it already with no hiccups.

Yeah, so now that you've done your trollish bit, why not take a breather. 40 troll-comments/day ain't good for your health.
 
The right never thinks that women have anything to do with serious political matters and it is 'political and religious trolling' that is forbidden.
*smirk*

Who did you just paint-into-a-corner with that 'never' comment, yourself, "the right," or both?

word to the wise: trying to steer every other post of yours (it seems) into the politcal side of the ledger in order to launch another one of your "soapboxe" forays usually results in the thread getting 'axed' (quite a few this week alone).

The capitalist world in general, the fascist US in particular ...... yeah we get it .....

Chill

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Bartelby

Bionic Poster
This whole thread is political and rhetoric allows for my comment and permits its form.

I do realise you right wing types go around begging for threads to be closed down when you come off second best, but if you want to take a dump in our play pen why should I worry?

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This whole thread is political and rhetoric allows for my comment and permits its form.

I do realise you right wing types go around begging for threads to be closed down when you come off second best, but if you want to take a dump in our play pen why should I worry?

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I'm just going to talk for myself here, but I am not right wing, nor am I left wing. I have varied views, and in general I consider politics nothing more than a three ring circus.

Furthermore, I claim that the difference in true politics between Republicans and Democrats is nearly nonexistent. Just enough to give the average moron the illusion that there is something to it.

Your fate is governed by interests which transcend politics.

Also, my previous comment about people who believe in God, to which you took exception, was involving a comment from the OP in another thread deriding Djokovic's tendency to display his faith publicly. I think the words she used were "people believe in their silly god" or something like that. Even if you don't believe in God, that comment is arrogant and offensive. And I'm not particularly religious myself.
 
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Manus Domini

Hall of Fame
I'm just going to talk for myself here, but I am not right wing, nor am I left wing. I have varied views, and in general I consider politics nothing more than a three ring circus.

Furthermore, I claim that the difference in true politics between Republicans and Democrats is nearly nonexistent. Just enough to give the average moron the illusion that there is something to it.

Your fate is governed by interests which transcend politics.

Yes, because Republicans and Democrats define left and right.:roll:
 
Yes, because Republicans and Democrats define left and right.:roll:

That's what 90% or more Americans associate left and right with. That's just a fact. Of course there are fringe sectors, but socially they are basically inconsequential. I myself appreciate many of Chomky's positions, and also part of the libertarian theories. But I don't agree with anyone 100%.
 

Manus Domini

Hall of Fame
That's what 90% or more Americans associate left and right with. That's just a fact. Of course there are fringe sectors, but socially they are basically inconsequential. I myself appreciate many of Chomky's positions, and also part of the libertarian theories. But I don't agree with anyone 100%.

Doesn't mean they're correct. If 90% of Americans defined left and right as pasta and pizza, would you believe them?

Believe it or not, we don't hold a monopoly on either term, and the Democrat Party isn't even remotely left. Anyone who tells you otherwise probably watches Fox News.
 
Doesn't mean they're correct. If 90% of Americans defined left and right as pasta and pizza, would you believe them?

Believe it or not, we don't hold a monopoly on either term, and the Democrat Party isn't even remotely left. Anyone who tells you otherwise probably watches Fox News.

I guess my point is that it doesn't matter. The system is rigged, but it could be much worse. The United States is a great country. Flawed, yes. But still the system is better than most. And the flaws that afflict the U.S. also afflict all other civilized countries (since everything is actually run by a bunch of supercorporations and powerful interests anyway).
 

Manus Domini

Hall of Fame
I guess my point is that it doesn't matter. The system is rigged, but it could be much worse. The United States is a great country. Flawed, yes. But still the system is better than most. And the flaws that afflict the U.S. also afflict all other civilized countries (since everything is actually run by a bunch of supercorporations and powerful interests anyway).

Actually, it matters quite considerably. Historically, there have always been pulls to the left or the right, and that matters for what direction this country is heading.
 

Manus Domini

Hall of Fame
You think it does. I know it doesn't. But prove me wrong, by all means. :)

Well, I'll just do it trivially.

1} You are a citizen.
2} The citizen has certain duties.
3} Among those duties is participate in politics.
4} Such participation can be done by voting or running for (and holding) public office.
.'. You have a duty to vote for or run for (and attempt to hold) public office.
 

Bartelby

Bionic Poster
After the revolution we'll all be eating free-range bacon and eggs for breakfast and all McDonalds restaurants will be liberated and turned into senior citizens clubs.
 
Well, I'll just do it trivially.

1} You are a citizen.
2} The citizen has certain duties.
3} Among those duties is participate in politics.
4} Such participation can be done by voting or running for (and holding) public office.
.'. You have a duty to vote for or run for (and attempt to hold) public office.

It's not a citizen's duty to participate in politics anymore. Things are not what they used to. I take not voting as a badge of honor. And I avoid reading about politics as much as I can. Worst waste of time ever.
 

Bartelby

Bionic Poster
I avoid taking sides in politics and I avoid all the daily minutiae of the political circus, and I almost always avoid voting as there is an insufficient difference between the main parties, but the great political ideas and trends are never a waste of time.
 
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