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DevsBro posted...

I mean, sure maybe it doesn't appeal to you, and you're non-white, but it doesn't appeal to me either and I am white, lol.

Do you think BET appeals to every black person, too?

Trigg3rH4ppy posted...

No, zikten is absolutely right on this one and the people that think its problematic are just morons who dont understand the context of how a "proper lady" was expected to act in 1940's

It's problematic because of a couple different reasons.

1. When someone says "what's in this drink?" nowadays it is accepted to be alcohol or drug related, leading to date rape.
2. Women in our society are conditioned against saying no. Having a woman in a song say 'No' several times while the man is pushing is setting up people who are listening for failure. Men are shown in media that persistence will let you "win" the girl. This is problematic regardless of gender.
3. Society marches on. Men and women can have casual sex and no one cares what "the neighbors" are thinking. Shaming people for sex is a problem too.

Things that were acceptable 50+ years ago are not done today because we know better. Like I said, I'm not calling for it to be banned. But to ignore the many problems the song has because "B-b-b-but it's a product of its time" is just willfully ignoring reality out of some sense of misguided "but the SJWs" and "muh censorship"

The fact is, context changes. Why does Zikten keep on getting modded for posting mandelas? Because of Nazis ruining it for everyone.
It happens all the time, something gets ruined by something else in the future. This song is no different.

Zikten posted...

when she says whats in this drink she is asking if it's alcoholic. that's all. the song is about her wanting to stay and have sex but pretending like she has all these excuses to go. because she doesn't want to appear like a slut. the song was written by a husband and wife. and it's not about date rape at all. people in 2019 fail to understand the society and humor style of like 100 years ago

You can understand that it has historical context while also acknowledging that society has changed
Not that I agree with banning it, but it does have a few problematic lines in 2019

--Zero- posted...

Posts ITT are out for blood over a booty slap lol

Sexual assault should always be punished, yes.

What I don't get is why people using "ok boomer" are attacked worse than the constant "millenials ruin x, y, and z" we've seen used for the past decade.

Person A in a relationship with Person B.
Person A finds themselves alone with Person C and ends up having sex with them. Person A immediately tells Person B that they can no longer be together.
Fin.

I judge them heavily because most of them think they know what the flu is when they don't. A flu knocks you on your ass for days, if not weeks. A little stomach bug is not what the virus is stopping.

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/on-the-100th-anniversary-of-the-federal-reserve-here-are-100-reasons-to-shut-it-down-forever

Choice arguments such as:

The Federal Reserve is actually independent of the government.

According to Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, the U.S. Congress is the one that is supposed to have the authority to coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures.

If you look at a U.S. dollar, it actually says Federal Reserve note at the top. In the financial world, a note is an instrument of debt.

In 1963, President John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order 11110 which authorized the U.S. Treasury to issue United States notes which were created by the U.S. government directly and not by the Federal Reserve. He was assassinated shortly thereafter.

The Federal Reserve determines what levels some of the most important interest rates in our system are going to be set at. In a free market system, the free market would determine those interest rates.

From the time that the Federal Reserve was created until now, the U.S. dollar has lost 98 percent of its value.

From the time that President Nixon took us off the gold standard until now, the U.S. dollar has lost 83 percent of its value.

fenderbender321 posted...

You can't possibly disagree that this is often the case. You'd have to believe that people don't sometimes just feel like anatagonizing others.

Like think about in school. Some kid with acne throws a pencil at you. So you stand up and call him pizza face. Does that mean you hate everyone with acne? Or did you just want to get under his skin and make him uncomfortable?

You're basically saying that you're not bigoted because the only reason you say offensive things is because you know it hurts them.

It's ridiculous. Imagine if you raped someone and said "I'm not a rapist, I only raped them because I knew it would give them years of trauma"

If she's post-op, then it does not matter. You're obviously attracted to her and you'll never know otherwise. There is no reason for her to disclose that she's trans outside of you having your own personal issues to get over. It's like when a kid who says they hate chicken turn around and say they love nuggets, until they find out they are made of chicken. Like, you obviously like chicken (attracted to her) before you found out they were made of chicken (she is trans), so get over it.

Pre-op? Nah, she should disclose it. You are setting yourself up for disappointment and risk getting in danger if someone finds a penis where they're expecting a vagina.

Tell me about it. I used to work out a lot but over the last couple of years I've gained a little bit of a belly.
I make jokes about getting fat and women everywhere tell me that I'm not fat. I know my BMI puts me in the obese category, but I guess I carry it well enough that it doesn't stop me from getting laid?

Without knowing anything else about her, I don't think she's racist, just an idiot who deserves to fade into obscurity. The kind of person who gets pissed off enough to tweet and take a picture of a person doing something that harms no one, solely for the fact that she's upset it's against policy, is the kind of person who should get fucked over on a book deal.

TennTux posted...

He was probably just having a bad day. If it was over that quick I wouldn't put much thought into it

Yeah, I'm trying not to get worked up over it, in part due to the fact that he's not really wrong. It's frustrating to have to constantly watch my dog when we're walking so she doesn't start to bark at people around us.
I just feel like a bad owner even though I've gotten her so much better than when I first got her.

I'm walking my dog. She's a rescue and easily gets excited and startled. Not the best combination, but she's getting better (was abused in her first home).
I was walking her around my neighborhood and a jogger ran by. My dog jumped back and barked at him, he turned around and got in my face and told me I needed to train my dog better. I couldn't even process it properly before he had turned around and gone away.

RoboLaserGandhi posted...

No but we do call ourselves by our ancestral background sometimes (English, German, Irish, etc.), often in the context of physical looks.

TBF that's a uniquely American thing that tends to weird out people from those countries.

It's dumb and meaningless, but it's only a dog so it's not like it's worth being upset about.