So this thread is going to be me posting all my rather less that politically correct ideas and thoughts on all steps of life. Politics, religion, social structure and such.
I know a lot of you are not going to agree with me. I also know that some of you will get angry.
And I'm fine with that. Maybe it will start some good debates around here. Enough blabber, on with the show. ------ Women.
I'm sick of nearly every women I meet and interact with pulling the gender card. Acting like that because of them being a women, the are entitled to behaving certain ways, saying certain things. Based purely off of the fact that they are a women. Nothing more, nothing less.
Examples? Of course I have them. -1) At work, the shift changes and my relief comes. On one of them is a girl roughly my same age. Part of the job requires you to empty a mop bucket and change the water. Mop bucket holds only 4 gallons of water. She looks at me and says "Can you empty the bucket for me? It's too heavy for me." I ask her why it's too heavy since it is only four gallons of water. To which she replies "Well, I am a girl you know. Teehee." -2) Countless times I have women talk to me about something or another. During the conversation which they initiated, I put in my view and thoughts. They snap at me and go "Oh shut up. You're a guy. You wouldn't know about it." -3) Too many times I'll be talking with a current/past significant other about something important. Once again, I get the "You are a guy, your emotions are different. Illogical."
And so on and so on.
I'm sick of tired using their gender to their advantage or to stonewall conversations.
You want to be equal to men? Want the same amount of pay? Same levels of respect? Same everything?
Then -stop- using your gender as a disadvantage, dammit. If you can't do the same amount of work as your male counterparts then you should be payed less. If you always use your 'feminine feelings' as a fail-safe in any argument, then you should not get the same level of respect amongst your peers.
Suck it up or go home.
Now, do not think I'm all "Women are inferior and deserve less!" I'm far from it. I truly do think that men and women deserve the same rate of pay, respect and so on. Gender has no place in deciding such things. Yet if a women uses her gender as an excuse or weakness then no, you do not deserve the all of what you earned.
What would happen if a man did that? If he slacked on the job for no excusable reason? Used his gender to let him slide by? He'd get fired, sued, slapped around.
So the point of this all is such: Women expect the same everything as men, which I agree with. Yet they then use their gender as an excuse to be treated differently. If you want to be seen as weak and incapable then expect to be treated as such. -----
I even deliberately left points open for debate. There.
I read a while back that someone thinks that it's unfair that men shouldn't hit women, men usually are stronger. If I saw that person his a girl, he would be in the fetal position on the ground with a busted nose.
Crap, if some guy hit me, I would send him to the hospital with more than a broken nose. But for the record, I don't throw the first punch. I'm not that kind of girl.
Seeing as the Nazis did the same thing, it's a valid analogy.
You're right, I don't see anything wrong with you using this analogy.
Crap, if some guy hit me, I would send him to the hospital with more than a broken nose. But for the record, I don't throw the first punch. I'm not that kind of girl.
I can understand you hitting someone in self-defense, but if you're just angry at a guy and you hit him, that's not right. I say this because it is considered horrible for a man to hit a woman, but when a woman hits a man, as it has been said in this thread before, it is either ignored or encouraged. Just because the man can take it physically does not mean it's ok.
Crap, if some guy hit me, I would send him to the hospital with more than a broken nose. But for the record, I don't throw the first punch. I'm not that kind of girl.
You're right, I don't see anything wrong with you using this analogy.
Normally I don't like breaking Godwin's law: ''the further an internet discussion progresses, the larger is the chance of someone comparing someone else to Hitler or the Nazis''.
However I do find it interesting, that if reproduce Nazi policy in a slightly watered down form, how many people actually intuitively support them.
Well, this reached the point I deem as "ointless drivel." As expected. So onto the next view. -------- Happy Holidays.
Yes, I say it.
Yes, I'm also an atheist.
But that is not the reason for it.
Despite what Glen Beck or Bill O'Reily would have you think, I do not say it because I believe there is no god. I do not say it because I want to prove the point that Christmas is a made up fantasy day stolen from pagan believes to dig deeper the hooks of Christianity.
I say it because I would feel like a tool if someone did not celebrate Christmas. If they were Jewish or Islamic or Hindu. If they were anything other than Christian or Catholic. I do not want to be that fool who forces a religious holiday upon someone else during meaningless small talk.
And I know that if I tell Christians or Catholics "Happy Holidays" that they will get offended. On that point, I could not care less.
I do not care if Christianity is the dominant religion in this country. I do not care if they are one billion Christians in this world.I do not care if being an atheist in this country puts me in the 10% minority. I do not care is someone of Christian faith is aghast that I do not wish them good tidings on the day that their savior was 'born.'
I'm tolerant of all religions and faiths. I will not favor one over another, wish well for one but not another.
The fact is that there are several holidays this time of year. Even the youngest of children know this fact. There is indeed Christmas. The is also Hanuka. And Kwanzaa. And a myriad of several other ones depending on country of residency/religious background.
December was not made for one Christian holiday. Jesus is not the reason for the season. None of the religious agendas are. Not one of them is more or less important than the next.
And with that, I wish you all a Happy Holidays this year. Not because I am really afraid to offend or leave anybody out.
Only because, quite frankly, I don't give a flying hockey puck.
I partially agree with you on this subject. I personally say Merry Christmas, because that's the holiday I celebrate. I don't get offended when I see Happy Holidays or hear someone say it. I observe that there are other holidays that fall around this time of year, and even if I don't celebrate them, that doesn't give me the right to judge so harshly on two simple words. In my opinion, take the sentence for what it is, don't over-analyze it and make it into something it's not. For gosh sakes, just be happy something was said at all.
I do not say it because I want to prove the point that Christmas is a made up fantasy day stolen from pagan believes to dig deeper the hooks of Christianity.
You really think the Jewish Festival of lights had nothing to do with it. It begins on the 25th of their month system.
And there are 2 billion Christians out there in the world today. 1/2 of them are Roman Catholic, 3/10 of them are Pentecostal/Charismatic, and on it goes.
You really think the Jewish Festival of lights had nothing to do with it. It begins on the 25th of their month system.
Actually, it has more to do with the fact that several ancient cultures and credos based holidays around that time of year because it was time of the Winter Equinox. It's kinda a big deal when the sun has its own gods.
The Christmas tree is actually directly part of the pagan roots, much like the Easter Eggs. Now, I can not remember dates. Yet for a long while after Christmas was adopted, the Christmas tree was not part of it. That came several years after it was 'adopted' by the Church.
And there are 2 billion Christians out there in the world today. 1/2 of them are Roman Catholic, 3/10 of them are Pentecostal/Charismatic, and on it goes.
Eh, I was just going by what good old Beck said. A lot of people seem to believe him for whatever reason, so I found it sound to use his largely inaccurate and biased data.
And I know that if I tell Christians or Catholics "Happy Holidays" that they will get offended. On that point, I could not care less.
I am not at all offended. Just like I'm not offended by "X-Mas"
December was not made for one Christian holiday. Jesus is not the reason for the season. None of the religious agendas are. Not one of them is more or less important than the next.
Oh RLY? That DOES offend me a little. I would think Christianity would be the most popular reason, as well as the one that has survived the longest.
What makes me mad is that people try to control what I say. I can barely say x-mas and happy holidays without offending someone. Lets see what Wikipedia has to say on the use of x-mas.
The word "Christ" and its compounds, including "Christmas", have been abbreviated in English for at least the past 1,000 years, long before the modern "Xmas" was commonly used. "Christ" was often written as "XP" or "Xt"; there are references in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as far back as AD 1021. This X and P arose as the uppercase forms of the Greek letters Ï and Ï used in ancient abbreviations for ΧÏιÏÏÎ¿Ï (Greek for "Christ", and are still widely seen in many Eastern Orthodox icons depicting Jesus Christ. The labarum, an amalgamation of the two Greek letters rendered as â§, is a symbol often used to represent Christ in Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christian Churches. The occasionally held belief that the "X" represents the cross on which Christ was crucified also has no basis in fact. St Andrew's Cross is X-shaped, but Christ's cross was probably shaped like a T or a â . Indeed, X-as-chi was associated with Christ long before X-as-cross could be, since the cross as a Christian symbol developed later. (The Greek letter Chi Χ stood for "Christ" in the ancient Greek acrostic ÎΧÎΥΣ ichthys.) While some see the spelling of Christmas as Xmas a threat, others see it as a way to honor the martyrs. The use of X as an abbreviation for "cross" in modern abbreviated writing (e.g. "King's X" for "King's Cross" may have reinforced this assumption.
In ancient Christian art, Ï and ÏÏ are abbreviations for Christ's name.In many manuscripts of the New Testament and icons, X is an abbreviation for Christos, as is XC (the first and last letters in Greek, using the lunate sigma); compare IC for Jesus in Greek.
Today, with knowledge of classical languages being less widespread than formerly, some erroneously believe that the term Xmas is part of an effort to "take Christ out of Christmas" or to literally "cross out Christ";it is seen as evidence of the secularization of Christmas, as a symptom of the commercialization of the holiday (as the abbreviation has long been used by retailers).
In the United Kingdom, The former Church of England Bishop of Blackburn, Alan Chesters, once recommended to his clergy that they avoid the spelling.
