You need to take a weekend and replicate the experiment, putting all of your bro culture knowledge into effect.
Evidently his dad set up a GoFundMe site to pay for the legal defense. If anyone gave one penny to it they must not have looked to find something more redeeming. There are only about a million.
Gross dude. I made out with a chick in college and she had a burrito for dinner. Terrible breath. I couldnt get it up and was disgusted the rest of the night. Sad day. She had a nice rack though.
I told a girl at a bar that she should take me camping and it'll be so hot if she didn't shower for a day. lol that one didn't work out.
Well, I think you're real nice and all but we're back to that supply and demand thing. At home I feel like I have to keep moving at all times because if I sit down on the couch for 30 seconds Mr. Spud instantly appears to start groping.
dviss, I have little to add to what you say. I realize your experience is different from mine, but appreciate that we have as much understanding as we can of one another. Tuesday I was on BART late at night, saw a BART cop, and knew as a middle aged white woman I had nothing to fear from him, that he would do no more than give me a cursory glance. You, in that situation, might well think of Oscar Grant at Fruitvale Station. OTOH, you might go to a sports bar to watch the Blazers on TV. I would never do that. Period. It's just not something a woman alone does, even if I have mercifully reached the age of invisibility. And I doubt you've ever been at a bus stop and have a strange woman grab your crotch. (No I DO NOT want to hear straight guys saying that would be hot. It would not. Assault is not hot. It is scary. It is painful. It is humiliating. Don't even try to give me that shit.) e_blazer, you say when a white person looks for a job or is involved with the justice system it's not white privilege to just expect the system to work fairly (not your exact words but something like that). But that is the definition of privilege. I mean, has anyone ever asked if the country is ready for a white CEO, a male president, a Christian general, a heterosexual college president? White and male is still seen as "norm" and the rest of us as "other".
You may not want to hear it but a good looking (important distinction) woman grabbing a guy is HOT if you're a guy. I don't know why you can't seem to grasp that men are different. I don't want a president that thinks a couple of hot high school female teachers having a three way with a 16 year old boy is the same as the reverse. That's where we are as a society, read the comments of the next story online where something like that happens. If that disqualifies most women, tough shit. PS, I feel bad for you if you don't do things you want because of your sex or age or whatever. I do whatever I want, I suppose that is white male privilege. I'll stand in a department store holding my wife's purse unafraid. Life is good without fear.
So assault is fun if the perpetrator is cute? But a crime if she/he is not? Good luck finding a woman who thinks so. Apparently not finding assault fun disqualifies women from being President! It's OK for teachers to violate trust and have sex with students if 1) student is male 2) teachers are cute 3) they are straight? Would you be OK if two cute male teachers had sex with a male student? What if the teachers were not cute? Is crime based on your subjective opinion of the physical attractiveness of the alleged perpetrator? It's not a crime if it's a straight woman you find attractive, but if it's a gay man or a teacher you don't find attractive then it's a crime? I disagree with many age of consent laws. It's one thing if a person is 5, but a 15 or 16 year old with an 18 year old should not be a crime. But a teacher, doctor, other in a position of trust is a different story. I don't want your fucking bad feelings. Shove them.
No, expecting not to be discriminated against in hiring or in the legal system based on race is a "civil right". The definition of "privilege" that pops up on a Google search is: "A special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people." Martin Luther King didn't do his work to attack "white privilege"; he did it to ensure that "civil rights" are available to everyone, regardless of race or (as it has grown over the years) sexual orientation, age, or other protected classifications. He wasn't looking to make whites be deprived of some special status and be treated the same way as blacks. He was working to make sure the opposite occurred. Sure, that ideal doesn't exist in practice. Society is composed of people, and people have the inherent ability to hate and discriminate. The goal has to be to improve our society until the civil rights that are spelled out in the Bill of Rights, Supreme Court decisions, and laws, which legally belong to us all, are practiced that way as widely as possible. You'd have to be blind or obtuse to think that civil rights, as practiced, are applied equally in our culture. You'd have to be equally blind or obtuse to deny that we've improved dramatically in the last few decades. We have a black president, a woman is the Democrat Party's candidate for president, Oregon has an openly bi-sexual governor and there are minorities of all types gaining positions of power and responsibility throughout government, legal, and corporate spheres. We've got a long way to go, but we need to keep pressing for everyone to be treated by the system in accordance with the rights they're due. It's a matter of honor and integrity, not privilege.
Not being discriminated against is the right. The comfort of being able to not have to deal with the systemic effects of discrimination is the privilege.
