"I can't get you out of my head. I'd cut my head off but then I would be dead."
-Insane Clown Posse, Another Love Song
The Girl I Love.
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This seems pertinent.
This seems pertinent.
the beautiful harshness pleases my soul
[QUOTE="metroidfood"]the beautiful harshness pleases my soul :lol: ouch
This seems pertinent.
Jandurin
This seems pertinent.
metroidfood
That does seem applicable to the situation at hand, but I sort of take offense to the implicit suggestion. The implicit suggestion that the only reason that a man would ever really want to be "just friends" with a woman is because he secretly wants to have sex with her. That's sort of offensive on several levels. It implies that men really DON'T really care about friendship. It implies that men are scheming conniving little bastards that you really can't trust. And it implies that if a man is being friendly, that he's probably even MORE of a douchebag than the guy is just openly a huge douchebag. But most importantly, it has the suggestion that a man must be planning something sinister if he in any way falls outside of the "typical male" stereotype. And that's blatantly sexist. As sexist as suggesting that women who want to join the military have a secret agenda to destroy the country. Because WHY would a woman want to serve in the army instead of staying in the kitchen and looking after the house while The Man is out doing REAL work? That's the woman's place. And if a woman wants to violate that kind of natural order by actually wanting to have a CAREER and ****, then she's probably a soviet spy or something. And it's also comparable to the gay agenda". You know, where a gay dude doesn't fit the stereotype of being a sleezy degenerate. The gay dude has an important job, a loving same-sex partner, and all he wants to do is live his life like a normal human being, and get the same rights and privileges as everyone else. He wants visitation rights to be ensured to his "husband" if he ever gets sick, that sort of thing. He wants his 50 year long monogamous relationship to be recognized as being AT LEAST as legitimate as a weekend Las Vegas marriage between a man and a woman. But no...He's actually been MONOGAMOUS. He actually wants to get MARRIED. THAT sure doesn't fit in with the stereotype of the gay man as a promiscuous and deadly social menace. So if he doesn't fit the STEREOTYPE, then he must be part of the GAY AGENDA. Sure, he ACTS like a fine upstanding individual. But every day after waking up, he pulls out a list of "things to do today". And the first thing on that list is "destroy the sanctity of marriage". Yeah, sure that gay guy doesn't fit "The Stereotype". But that's PRECISELY why you can't trust him. If he doesn't fit "The Stereotype", then he is SURELY up to absolutely no good.
Reminds me of back in the early 00s when I used to work at a grocery store. One of our regular customers was this obviously Muslim man who actually sort of beared a superficial resemblance to Osama Bin Laden. He was a regular customer there, one of the nicest men you could ever meet. SERIOUSLY. He always dressed in traditional garments, had the stereotypical turban, long beard, etc. He was probably deeply religious, but he was always nice to EVERYONE. I never saw him get visibly annoyed, he was always openly friendly to everyone who I saw him meet, and I never saw him come off as the LEAST bit judgemental about anyone else's life**** Then 9/11 happened. Shortly after that, I was chatting with another employee when that same dude came into the store. A coworker said something like, "I can't believe he has the audicity to come in here like that after what happened."
I then pointed out to that coworker that that was the EXACT SAME guy who had been a regular at our stores for YEARS. And that he has ALWAYS been one of the nicest, most reasonable, and most pleasant customers to deal with. To which the coworker replied, "yeah, that's what he WANTS us to think."
THAT'S what this cartoon is like.
Is it really THAT hard to believe that a highly traditional Muslim man of middle eastern descent can ACTUALLY be a genuinely nice and pleasant guy?
Is it THAT hard to believe that a woman or a black man (or a black woman) can ACTUALLY just want fair treatment without having any sinister motives being applied to her complaints?
Is it THAT hard to believe that a gay man (or woman) can ACTUALLY just want to be able to get married, without getting paranoid about wacky conspiracy theories about how she's just hiding her REAL agenda to destroy YOUR marriage?
And is it THAT hard to believe that a straight man can ACTUALLY just want to be friends with a woman, and not have any intention of making nefarious plans to eventually have sex with her?
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