What, in Spiral's observation that the behavior he witnessed is, indeed, the source of certain stereotypes, do you find so obscenely objectionable?
In fact, as we all know. stereotypes exist because enough people have seen enough evidence on enough occasions to create the 'simplified image' or understanding of "…
What, in Spiral's observation that the behavior he witnessed is, indeed, the source of certain stereotypes, do you find so obscenely objectionable?
In fact, as we all know. stereotypes exist because enough people have seen enough evidence on enough occasions to create the 'simplified image' or understanding of "X" whatever "X" may be. First impressions are based on stereotypes. Our conversations are filled with them. We all use them, rightly or wrongly...accurately or inaccurately....explicitly or implicitly. They exist because they contain, on average, a certain element of truth (they can be useful shorthand summaries....as in "He's your typical football player"); they're dangerous, especially if used indiscriminately, because they also contain a significant exaggeration or untruth. They also, needless to say, do not universally apply to everyone who shares that category. Brian May, as a for instance, does not really fit the stereotype of 'lead guitarist for a major rock band'.
If you google the word 'stereotype' and combine that with 'WalMart shoppers'... 'Valley Girls'....'Goths'....'Teenage Gangs'....'Football Players'.... 'Karens'.... 'businessman'.... 'addict'....'Feminist'... 'Gay'.... 'Computer Guy'... you name it....you'll find a collection of images and descriptions which play off the stereotypical understanding of each one of those categories.
If Spiral had said, speaking of a ComicCon he happened to visit, and the people he saw gushing enthusiastically about the costume accuracy of the latest Thor movie, "these guys are keeping the stereotype alive"...would you find that equally disturbing?
Of course one way to avoid such kneejerk stereotyping is to pay attention to what is actually being said...vs what we may fear is being said or implied or even felt. Easy to say, sometimes hard to do.
the floor with uncontrollable laughter. She's wondering how spiral compensates for his very small manhood. Why did insecure great-grandpa castrate black men during the Jim Crow era in connection to white women? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I don't apologize for my so-called vitriol comments about a bigoted clown like spiral. Spiral is a passive-aggressive loser. Spiral has a backstory that encompasses a pattern of denigrating comments about the descendants of American slavery and the savage legacy of Jim Crow (semi-slavery).
My career involved working in a very ruthless environment around assholes like spiral. It makes no logical sense to sing, "We Shall Overcome" when some asshole is crushing your head in with various sorts of inanimate objects, figuratively speaking.
If spiral wants to have real adulterated discussions without the childish games (passive-aggressive bullshit), I have no problems. I would respect him more if he wore a blood-stained white hood or sported a swastika, expressing more direct feelings.
BTW, you would have been an interesting nerd to manage.
And your vitriol has nothing to do with the substance of his comment here, which stands alone and seems inarguable, but with something he said somewhere else, at some other time, on some other subject, to someone else, that evidently tweaked (and still tweaks) your exquisite sensitivities intolerably???
Well...nothing we can say to that. The rest of us have no idea what you think you've read or how you might have imagined it; we can only marvel at the response. Oh well.
You would be much better served restricting your sputtering rants to the subject at hand, but hey -- feel free. You have my permission to rant to your heart's content.
Why so vitriolically angry?
What, in Spiral's observation that the behavior he witnessed is, indeed, the source of certain stereotypes, do you find so obscenely objectionable?
In fact, as we all know. stereotypes exist because enough people have seen enough evidence on enough occasions to create the 'simplified image' or understanding of "X" whatever "X" may be. First impressions are based on stereotypes. Our conversations are filled with them. We all use them, rightly or wrongly...accurately or inaccurately....explicitly or implicitly. They exist because they contain, on average, a certain element of truth (they can be useful shorthand summaries....as in "He's your typical football player"); they're dangerous, especially if used indiscriminately, because they also contain a significant exaggeration or untruth. They also, needless to say, do not universally apply to everyone who shares that category. Brian May, as a for instance, does not really fit the stereotype of 'lead guitarist for a major rock band'.
If you google the word 'stereotype' and combine that with 'WalMart shoppers'... 'Valley Girls'....'Goths'....'Teenage Gangs'....'Football Players'.... 'Karens'.... 'businessman'.... 'addict'....'Feminist'... 'Gay'.... 'Computer Guy'... you name it....you'll find a collection of images and descriptions which play off the stereotypical understanding of each one of those categories.
If Spiral had said, speaking of a ComicCon he happened to visit, and the people he saw gushing enthusiastically about the costume accuracy of the latest Thor movie, "these guys are keeping the stereotype alive"...would you find that equally disturbing?
Of course one way to avoid such kneejerk stereotyping is to pay attention to what is actually being said...vs what we may fear is being said or implied or even felt. Easy to say, sometimes hard to do.
... stereotyping? Becky is here rolling on
the floor with uncontrollable laughter. She's wondering how spiral compensates for his very small manhood. Why did insecure great-grandpa castrate black men during the Jim Crow era in connection to white women? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I don't apologize for my so-called vitriol comments about a bigoted clown like spiral. Spiral is a passive-aggressive loser. Spiral has a backstory that encompasses a pattern of denigrating comments about the descendants of American slavery and the savage legacy of Jim Crow (semi-slavery).
My career involved working in a very ruthless environment around assholes like spiral. It makes no logical sense to sing, "We Shall Overcome" when some asshole is crushing your head in with various sorts of inanimate objects, figuratively speaking.
If spiral wants to have real adulterated discussions without the childish games (passive-aggressive bullshit), I have no problems. I would respect him more if he wore a blood-stained white hood or sported a swastika, expressing more direct feelings.
BTW, you would have been an interesting nerd to manage.
Ah, so you and Spiral have a history?
And your vitriol has nothing to do with the substance of his comment here, which stands alone and seems inarguable, but with something he said somewhere else, at some other time, on some other subject, to someone else, that evidently tweaked (and still tweaks) your exquisite sensitivities intolerably???
Well...nothing we can say to that. The rest of us have no idea what you think you've read or how you might have imagined it; we can only marvel at the response. Oh well.
You would be much better served restricting your sputtering rants to the subject at hand, but hey -- feel free. You have my permission to rant to your heart's content.
Good luck, my friend; I'm afraid you'll need it.
You control nothing here buttercup. 🤡🤡🤡🤡