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Squashing Machine posted:A local hero averted a catcalling incident today by dumping an entire magazine of .45 FMJ into the driver side door of the perp's LeSabre, a response which this sicko will be unlikely to forget in this life or the next, having died outside of battle and thus being unable to go to Valhalla unironically this
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Girlfriend [21 F] is furious at me [21 M] after my grandmother spoke badly and derogatorily about her in Spanish right in front of her.quote:I’ve been dating this girl; we’ll call her Olivia, for 4 months. She is of Jamaican descent but born in the US. I was born in Cuba but came to the states when I was 1. I would say I’m very, very Americanized though I grew up speaking Spanish at home. The area we currently live in doesn’t have many Latino people so it's not assumed that people understand Spanish. When I started dating her I asked her if she could speak Spanish and she said “not really” and that her Spanish “sucked” and we didn’t really address it further. [UPDATE] Girlfriend [21 F] is furious at me [21 M] after my grandmother spoke badly and derogatorily about her in Spanish right in front of her quote:Original Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/8sf4ql/girlfriend_21_f_is_furious_at_me_21_m_after_my/
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Milotic posted:Expensive jewelry was stolen from my [27 M] GF's [26 F] house. I am a recovering addict and her parents [60s M/F] accused me of stealing it. does he have a question in that post? or even a relationship problem? if there's one thing that smack addicts do other than heroin it's steal things. sorry, good for you for being on the mend, but you're gonna deal with that stigma for a very long time. business as usual also he totally stole it and he's probably relapsed
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Nessa posted:Until I was 19 and was really sick on the toilet from my period, so she took me to get tested for anemia. No anemia, just dysmenorrhea like she had when she was my age. Honestly read that as "dysmenorah" and had a weird mental image of secret bat mitzvah practices. 
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Haifisch posted:Dad’s (61M) wife (34F) was gifted a shirt at her baby shower that’s insulting to my late mother. I (23F) want her to believe that I’m not upset. "I threw a surprise baby shower for a pregnant person who didn't want one, because I did. It went badly because I'm an idiot who had no idea who to invite. How do I make sure she knows I'm not upset that it went so badly she cried in front of everyone?" Milotic posted:
Also, lol at being shocked that a woman had those experiences. I had a guy harass me when I was walking to school last year. We were alone street, like 8 am, and he kept engaging when I'd try walk away. Luckily after stopping me twice to hit on me he gave up. No idea if telling him to gently caress off would have worked or escalated. Wasn't going to turn my back and walk away and hope he didn't do something. I posted on Facebook because it annowed me, but also because like c'mon, using "do you cheat, because I'd gently caress the poo poo out of you!" is a shameful pick up line and deserves to be ridiculed. Most of my guy friends were shocked, especially the young college kids. Shocked! I live in a city, this happens every time I leave the house, just usually with less persistence. e: quoting is hard Araenna fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Jul 5, 2018 |
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Nessa posted:Buy her the feminine hygiene products that she needs, take her to a store to get fitted for a bra and try to be there for her if she has any questions. I wasn’t afraid to talk to my mom about that. She just went ‘well I wear a medium in this brand of bra, so I bought you some mediums’. When my breasts were spilling out the bottom? ‘IDK, buy a large’ She also said my hellish cramps were ‘what every woman has, stop being dramatic’, and when I had to use tampons because of swim team? ‘There’s instructions in the box of OBs’ I didn’t see an OBGYN until I turned 18, when my dad said I was ‘an adult now’ and it wasn’t until grad school that I found out I was wearing a ridiculously wrong bra-size. One of my cohort saw the outline of my bra band through the back of my shirt one time and started pulling at it, asking what size I wore. I’d been wearing a 36 B for about a decade by that point. She measured for me, since she worked at a lingerie store before. I was a 34 D. Thanks Mom. LadyPictureShow fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Jul 5, 2018 |
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LadyPictureShow posted:I didn’t see an OBGYN until I turned 18, when my dad said I was ‘an adult now’ and it wasn’t until grad school that I found out I was wearing a ridiculously wrong bra-size. One of my cohort saw the outline of my bra band through the back of my shirt one time and started pulling at it, asking what size I wore. I’d been wearing a 36 B for about a decade by that point. She measured for me, since she worked at a lingerie store before. I was a 34 D. If it helps this is apparently a ridiculously common problem. I learned about it when I was maybe 20, when I had a bra-sizing-evangelist girlfriend who literally had to special-order her bras from some specialty site in England because American bra-sizing is so hosed-up. She probably would have done the same thing with accosting you over it at random. Apparently the issue is that most women get sized at stores that want to give them the most common sizing so they can offload the bra size they have the most of rather than the one that would actually fit best, and so a disturbingly high percentage of women think they're a 36C or B loquacius fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Jul 5, 2018 |
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Milotic posted:My [24 M] girlfriend [23 F] said some shocking things about being harassed in the past. She casually mentioned always keeping pepper spray and a knife on her, and wanting to get a gun too This is such stupid rear end American logic. It is very much not normal to consider carrying a gun for any situation in which you may feel in danger. Have pepper spray, your friends and family on speed dial, maybe a knife, etc when you go out partying with your friends, definitely, but concealed carrying a loaded firearm is, uh, not the answer to deterring harassment as a woman. Sexual harassment is a major fuckin issue, but goddamn, don't carry a gun to combat it. A huge slice of America thinking exactly like this is one of many reasons why we have systemic societal issues with gun violence.  Dude is a dang moron for disbelieving his girlfriend's experiences with sexual harassment and her uneasiness when out on the town, as if his mind has been blown. That stuff happens all the time and is extremely underreported and swept under the rug.
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Cough Drop The Beat posted:This is such stupid rear end American logic. It is very much not normal to consider carrying a gun for any situation in which you may feel in danger. Have pepper spray, your friends and family on speed dial, maybe a knife, etc when you go out partying with your friends, definitely, but concealed carrying a loaded firearm is, uh, not the answer to deterring harassment as a woman. Sexual harassment is a major fuckin issue, but goddamn, don't carry a gun to combat it. A huge slice of America thinking exactly like this is one of many reasons why we have systemic societal issues with gun violence. Disagree Street harassersIncelsNice guysPunksThugsWeirdos
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Cough Drop The Beat posted:This is such stupid rear end American logic. It is very much not normal to consider carrying a gun for any situation in which you may feel in danger. Have pepper spray, your friends and family on speed dial, maybe a knife, etc when you go out partying with your friends, definitely, but concealed carrying a loaded firearm is, uh, not the answer to deterring harassment as a woman. Sexual harassment is a major fuckin issue, but goddamn, don't carry a gun to combat it. A huge slice of America thinking exactly like this is one of many reasons why we have systemic societal issues with gun violence. stop minimizing her experience you misogynist
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Cough Drop The Beat posted:This is such stupid rear end American logic. It is very much not normal to consider carrying a gun for any situation in which you may feel in danger. Have pepper spray, your friends and family on speed dial, maybe a knife, etc when you go out partying with your friends, definitely, but concealed carrying a loaded firearm is, uh, not the answer to deterring harassment as a woman. Sexual harassment is a major fuckin issue, but goddamn, don't carry a gun to combat it. A huge slice of America thinking exactly like this is one of many reasons why we have systemic societal issues with gun violence. why is it normal and good to carry a knife for protection, but carrying a gun for the same reason is crazy...?
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like surely thats an either or neither, you can't have it both ways
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Crimpolioni posted:why is it normal and good to carry a knife for protection, but carrying a gun for the same reason is crazy...? If you're going to carry around a talisman to ward off predatory men, it's probably better to make it one that is more difficult to successfully use in an attempted suicide, poses less of a risk to your immediate family/housemates, and is less likely to accidentally go off and strike a bystander when you attempt to drunkenly retrieve it from the floor of a 4am bar
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Doesn't have to be sexual harassment, I get harassed on the street regularly and I'm a fat ugly white man. Sometimes people just son't leave you the gently caress alone, and by sometimes I mean all the time.
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oh poo poo that guy yelling at me on the street has escalated to assaulting me, I'd better call my mom
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John Lee posted:Doesn't have to be sexual harassment, I get harassed on the street regularly and I'm a fat ugly white man. Sometimes people just son't leave you the gently caress alone, and by sometimes I mean all the time. How many have you shot?
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I have many weighty and important opinions on America's rampant plague of women-shooting-catcallers gun violence, for example: fart
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Squashing Machine posted:If you're going to carry around a talisman to ward off predatory men, it's probably better to make it one that is more difficult to successfully use in an attempted suicide, poses less of a risk to your immediate family/housemates, and is less likely to accidentally go off and strike a bystander when you attempt to drunkenly retrieve it from the floor of a 4am bar yeah but like my point is either there's a reasonable expectation that your night on the town is going to end in mortal kombat, in which case you deffo should have a gun or even two guns and some body armour or there's not, in which case you shouldnt be carrying around a lethal weapon at all when you go out drinking, even if it is just a safe and harmless knife
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CheesyDog posted:unironically this Hell yeah
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I just put keys between my knuckles. I mean, I doubt it'll help if I get attacked but it makes me feel badass. 
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Crimpolioni posted:yeah but like my point is either there's a reasonable expectation that your night on the town is going to end in mortal kombat, in which case you deffo should have a gun or even two guns and some body armour or there's not, in which case you shouldnt be carrying around a lethal weapon at all when you go out drinking, even if it is just a safe and harmless knife Eh, yeah, but a decent amount of people feel the need to carry something around to make them feel safer and more in control of their circumstances regardless of how much clear and present danger they're in, so it's probably a lesser evil to encourage them to opt for the Leatherman in their purse over a giant Dirty Harry cannon (though it seems in OP's GF's case to have progressed from knives to guns by bits and measures anyway, so maybe it's all a slippery slope toward Total Gender Warfare)
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loquacius posted:Every once in a while in every thread the topic of gun control comes up and you are reminded you're in GBS *tosses a golden apple labeled CIRCUMCISION into the middle of the crowd*
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How long until the NRA becomes #woke and invokes street harassment to make unrestricted access to fully-automatic weapons a feminist issue, I wonder What if you're swarmed by waves and waves of dozens of overaggressive gropers, huh? What then???
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loquacius posted:How long until the NRA becomes #woke and invokes street harassment to make unrestricted access to fully-automatic weapons a feminist issue, I wonder I see you missed out on their "did you know guns can be pink, laaaadies?" campaign
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The NRA is already pushing guns to women playing on those fears (and doing way better than the old "but pink!!" tactics), check out this month's Glamour https://www.glamour.com/story/how-the-nra-is-trying-to-reach-women
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Anne Whateley posted:The NRA is already pushing guns to women playing on those fears (and doing way better than the old "but pink!!" tactics), check out this month's Glamour https://www.glamour.com/story/how-the-nra-is-trying-to-reach-women It's a no-brainer for them really
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:*tosses a golden apple labeled CIRCUMCISION into the middle of the crowd* Do you have to tip the doc, or only if he’s over 6ft?
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Crimpolioni posted:why is it normal and good to carry a knife for protection, but carrying a gun for the same reason is crazy...? There's a huge massive major difference between pulling out a knife to threaten/stab and a goddamn gun that fires lethal ammo at your target. If you can't see that, then you're probably American and think shooting another human being is the answer to every problem.
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luv 2 get in a fight with a safe, nonlethal knife
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:luv 2 get in a fight with a safe, nonlethal knife Hmm yeah, a knife certainly has the same lethal killing power as a firearm. Thanks for informing me. 
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Once you pull out the weapon, there's a chance you'll scare someone off with a gun (brandishing is illegal though), and guns are way easier for untrained idiots to use. If you pull out a knife, there's a good chance the bad guy will try to take it away, you'll have no loving idea how to use a knife, everybody is going to wind up bleeding to death. In conclusion, take a self-defense class where they'll teach you to run the gently caress away.
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loquacius posted:How long until the NRA becomes #woke and invokes street harassment to make unrestricted access to fully-automatic weapons a feminist issue, I wonder There's organizations like the Pink Pistols that are left-wing and market specifically to LGBT people and women. They're the ones who are likely at risk of attack simply from existing at times (especially trans people) and being armed is a very good equalizer for the kinds of situations they can end up in. Cough Drop The Beat posted:Hmm yeah, a knife certainly has the same lethal killing power as a firearm. Thanks for informing me. I'm honestly much more scared of blades than guns because a gun has to be pointed at you and the trigger pulled to do harm. You can grab it and push it away or yank it out of someone's grasp. With a knife, even accidental contact is going to cut you open and there's no real way to get it away from you without hurting yourself.
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Anne Whateley posted:Once you pull out the weapon, there's a chance you'll scare someone off with a gun (brandishing is illegal though), and guns are way easier for untrained idiots to use. If you pull out a knife, there's a good chance the bad guy will try to take it away, you'll have no loving idea how to use a knife, everybody is going to wind up bleeding to death. It's really, really hosed up to advocate for people pulling out a gun when they feel threatened. Once again, it's one of the very many reasons why we have systematic gun violence issues in America. You should be pulling out your gun if and only if you are willing to kill your target. That's the whole point and why a gun is hugely massively loving different than a knife. I agree that a self-defense class is much more effective than a firearm or knife to combat sexual harassment, yes. Cough Drop The Beat fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Jul 5, 2018 |
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