The Gossip Thread

Well honestly she never threatened me personally. Honestly her anger just scares me. Maybe scare isn't the right word..

Silly me. I was looking under the name Hattie. I knew your real name was Harriet.

This part, I want equality and good emotional health for my sons as well as my daughter.

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well, speaking of taylor...

she recently added me on flickr and her stream has several pictures of her in the almost nude, in very unflattering poses. one is called normalization of fat bodies. i understand that society has a distorted idea about beauty but i´m not sure pictures like those are actually helping.

man, those pictures made me want to cringe myself into a little ball and never come out again.

I unfriended her a while back for the same reason as Mike. I'm all for feminism but Taylor had a very limited and outdated view of it. Plus she started posting pictures of an embryo or undeveloped fetus or something, which was the last straw. It was just gross.

As a mod, most times, as soon as somebody is banned, they unfriend me. It's not my fault that you were a moron and didn't listen to the warnings... So that means I don't have to see any of these horrible things you speak of. Though I have seen the pics, and I'm glad I wasn't just being sexist when I cringed.

Great. Now I want to see the nudes.

I sort of want to see them too now.

They're all up on Tumblr. I hate gossip now but she recently really pissed me off by countering someone's legitimate argument by saying "I'm relevant. Who the fuck are you? You aren't relevant." She also once called me out on having "skinny privilege." Bitch I haven't eaten in three days. I bought this.

Who was banned?

Taylor.

Also some other people.

It didn't stick though.

So it's all good.

When did Taylor get banned?

When everyone else did.

Yes. I thought you meant recently.

well, i´m not providing a link though i´m sure people can find me on flickr and sort through my 800 contacts if they are really interested. i feel a bit bad for mentioning it, i wouldn´t if you guys hadn´t mentioned her. i guess she does´t mind anyone seeing them if they are on her tumblr too though.

Well Taylor isn't doing feminism right at all. Feminism is nothing to do with hating men.

Look what you did. Now we're getting fat spam.

We've got a whole political party that disagrees with you.

What political party is that?

The Republican Party.

Best known today as the Rich Old White Men Party.

You're listening to the wrong pundits.

Oooooh I misunderstood your point of view then, I thought you were saying there was a party of women who wanted to hate all men. Now I think about it I jumped to the least likely conclusion.

I don't listen to anyone.

Don't worry Barb. I'm not going to go looking for them. My surge of curiosity has passed.

Who are the correct ones?

This thread needs Missy Elliott.

The ones He listens to, of course.

There are no correct pundits. But people should stop judging Republicans by their pundits. Not everybody worships Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. I don't know why anyone takes anything they say seriously. They're only out for ratings and money anyway.

Why are you a Republican?

What is it of the party that speaks to you?

I'm honestly not sure what i am. I like guns and hate abortion. Mankind has been at war since the beginning and there's no stopping it. Prisoners need harsher sentences for violent crimes and Gitmo doesn't bother me. But I'm against the death penalty and i don't care how immigrants get to America. Gays don't bother me either. I love welfare and i think it should be even more expansive. Obamacare is fine by me and it even needs to be improved upon.

I just lean a little Republican because most Democrats i meet and work with are poor, aren't good coworkers and they don't show up to work half the time, come across as hostile and ignorant, and can't be relied on to pay their share of the rent. Most Republicans i know, however, are comfortable and stable, keep mostly to themselves, have money, and go to work, even when they don't feel like it. And i just can't see past the abortion issue. It's not even a religious thing for me, i just find it horrible and too easy an option for irresponsible people.

And the final straw is that because of the income tax increase, i worked 16 hours of overtime for my last paycheck but i only brought home pretty much the same amount i used to make just working the 80 hours.

There is absolutely no way to end a pregnancy that does not involve physical pain and emotional upheaval for the woman.

Birth, abortion, miscarriage.

All carry the risk of death as well.

The ending of pregnancy is never easy. No matter how it happens.

Whether you consider one particular way horrible or not, you should at least understand the facts of what you call easy.

Pepper, he knows what's better for people than they do. We need to just accept that.

Actually doing it isn't easy, i know what happens in an abortion. My mom had one and it turned out horribly. I'm saying for the people who don't think they can take care of a baby or think they're unfit, it's too easy for them to just abort it instead of Changing themselves. I'm not ready for a baby right now but that's what i'm doing, i'm Changing. I'm applying for better jobs left and right, applying for promotions, working on my maturity level as best i can. Not being ready for a baby is a stupid reason to have an abortion.

Pretty sure the physical process isn't what he meant by "easy."

EDIT: Oh, 3 minutes too late.

yes.

And I will regret anything I say so I am going to try not to say another word.

You guys asked him for an honest reason. He gave it. It's not okay now to tell him he's wrong for his opinion. He based it on personal experience. You base your opinion on personal experience. We've all lead very different lives.

I think he's being misunderstood about the abortion thing, too.

I didn't state an opinion or tell him he is wrong.

I stated facts about the ending of pregnancy that others may draw their own conclusions from, or dismiss entirely.

I haven't stated my opinion on abortion, nor my personal experiences.

I thought this was relevant.

True story:

Growing up the color red was not allowed in our house. On anything. No Red.

Don't wanna aggravate the bull that lives in the cupboard.