Quote: (10-13-2012 07:12 AM)Neil Skywalker Wrote:
Based all the reactions I just read in this thread, all the likes given and the glorifying of the use of excessive force against women (no matter how offensive or loudmouth they are) all I can say is that I don't like where this is going.
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I'm quite disappointed in quite a few posters who I thought were intelligent guys with a good sense of just and who I thought would have more sense of what is normal in this society.
I think we all understand what is "normal" in this society.
The physical and verbal abuse offered by this woman was not normal, nor was her intoxication and willingness to endanger and harm her fellow citizens (every other passenger on that bus).
We saw an abnormal response to an abnormal aggressor.
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This Jerry Springer show level of cheering on brutal force against women is not normal behavior and comes dangerously close to straight up women hate. Are some of you still so butt hurt about being bad with girls in the past (which is your own fault btw) that you reside to women hate?
...did you seriously just try to use shaming language on us? What, because we think a
particular woman who engaged in a
particular set of actions that were
particularly heinous got what she deserved, we
hate ALL women now?
Because we think that a
particular woman who was
particularly physically abusive should not be shielded from physical consequences (but, rather, treated as an equal), we hate
ALL women?
If we don't believe in maintaining special standards of conduct for women without any regard for their own conduct, we hate all women?
This is your argument?
Nobody here has any patience for this kind of empty shaming language-it isn't an argument. You need to do better than this, dude.
Much better.
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The driver could have pulled the bus over and tried to push her of the bus. If she had hit him then and he slapped her one it would have been more understandable and I would be OK with a bitch slap.
1. She had already spit on and attempted to choke him.
2. She had already hit him.
3. She was already intoxicated.
4. She was already endangering the safety of everyone else on that bus by distracting the driver and ignoring all safety regulations.
His response was directly commensurate with the severity of her actions.
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And yes I have read what a dumb wannabee gangsta this girl is but that was not known in the first pages of this thread.
That was blatantly obvious to anyone who saw the video.
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Unless she was seriously threatening his life this was totally uncalled for.
She was threatening the safety of everyone on that bus, and that is aside from the physical and verbal abuse. His response was commensurate to her actions.
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Would you be ok with watching a video of a 30year old guy uppercutting a 13 year old kid like this because that's just about the difference in power there is.
This video involves two grown adults. I do not consider this a good analogy.
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I know this post is probably gonna give me lots of shit/memes/warnings whatever and is probably not gonna make me popular here but for my own core thoughts on moral and life principles I have to take a stand here and say that i'm not OK with this.
And said shit will be fully earned-you exemplify a problem we have in this society.
That problem is one of inequality. The concept of separate standards of conduct for separate genders
solely on the basis of their gender is as outdated as the concept of separate compensation tracks for female employees based solely on their sex.
If we are to continue to maintain this notion of gender equality, then we must also accept the existence of similar consequences for similar conduct between the sexes.
This woman decided she was going to engage in physical and verbal abuse of her fellow citizens while endangering the safety of many more. That is a severe offense that warrants a severe consequence, one commensurate with the harm she put forward. There should be no limitation of these consequences, lest they no longer be commensurate with the offense given.
This woman was certainly emboldened by the notion that, because of her gender, she was entitled to behave in such a manner with decreased (if not nonexistant) consequence. This is the kind of mentality that helps to cause incidents like this, and you evidence a point of view that is crucial to upholding this mentality. You cannot continue to incentivize negative behavior (i.e. minimizing consequence) and then proceed to get angry when said behavior occurs, as so many in this society do.
It is delusional, damaging to all, and inherently incongruent with equality. It will find little support here because it is not worthy of any support.
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If I stand alone in this then I would be highly dissapointed in lots of guys here.
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If this what having game/being Alpha or being part of the manoshere is about then I need to think about if I want to be part of it.
Too bad you feel that way.