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Lewd remarks - banter or not?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Get them out for the boys


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Depends if she's a 5 or a 9.

    /sarcasm


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,494 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    This'll not end well!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,436 ✭✭✭kasper


    who goes cycling wearing high heals ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,926 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    The world has many arseholes. It always has. We haven't 'become' anything, it's always been that way unfortunately.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,340 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Hitchens wrote: »
    Spotted this article and wondered have we become totally desensitised to peoples feelings.

    http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/making-lewd-remarks-to-women-on-the-street-is-not-banter-1116509-Oct2013/

    I haven't, you haven't, therefore we haven't.

    This part offended my senses too.

    being gawked at by a group of neanderthal men.

    The neanderthals were a fine species. Have we become totally desensitised to the feelings of their descendants?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    Patriarchy! Feminazis! Privelege! What about the menz! Rape culture! Cultural Marxism! Third Wave! Dworkin! Brainwashing! Domestic violence!

    There that should get things going nicely.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,949 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    I just don't like the word banter or worse still bants.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,731 ✭✭✭✭josip


    If I was more cynical, I'd see this as a "I got some attention today. Let's write an article about it and get some more attention."
    But I'm not more cynical.
    So it's terrible altogether.
    Joe.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Other people don't give a continental shíte about what you think about them, why should you give one about what they think of you.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    anyone fancy a diet coke?


  • Posts: 3,539 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    While she definitely seems highly strung, she's 100% right.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,949 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    BBDBB wrote: »
    anyone fancy a diet coke?

    Is there shirtless men involved?


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,409 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    BBDBB wrote: »
    anyone fancy a diet coke?

    Only if it's sugar tax exempt.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,555 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    so we're not even allowed look at or talk about women now?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    Is there shirtless men involved?


    only if its essential to the plot and not a cheap gimmick to sell more diet coke to groups of ladies in high vis


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    Hitchens wrote: »
    Spotted this article and wondered have we become totally desensitised to peoples feelings.

    http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/making-lewd-remarks-to-women-on-the-street-is-not-banter-1116509-Oct2013/

    Started out as a good enough article, but girlfriend needs to learn how to edit.

    As to the thread subject, definitely not banter in the situation she describes. It might, might qualify as banter if it was addressed to her rather than about her. But it wasn't, so it's not.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    What brand of arsehole goes cycling in high heels?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,926 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    so we're not even allowed look at or talk about women now?

    Not making lewd comments about people when they're in ear shot would be nice.

    Falls within the whole 'don't be a dick' life rule everyone should live by.


  • Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    BBDBB wrote: »
    anyone fancy a diet coke?

    Honest to god, it's starting to become kind of funny that the same argument has to be trotted out when these kind of discussions come up. I think that say a lot tbh.

    I agree with a poster above, she does seem highly strung. If it was me I'd shrug it off and think no more about it, but she's right, why should anyone have to hear comments like that when they're just trying to get to or from work.

    Now granted, this shouldn't be a gender issue - some people are just **** - male or female.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 129 ✭✭valknut


    Commentator is an arse but he makes some good points, http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4JA4EPRbWhQ&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D4JA4EPRbWhQ


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    Honest to god, it's starting to become kind of funny that the same argument has to be trotted out when these kind of discussions come up. I think that say a lot tbh.

    I agree with a poster above, she does seem highly strung. If it was me I'd shrug it off and think no more about it, but she's right, why should anyone have to hear comments like that when they're just trying to get to or from work.

    Now granted, this shouldn't be a gender issue - some people are just **** - male or female.


    I agree with your last point

    Im not sure why you have quoted/addressed me with your first couple of paragraphs tbh:confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    I've never liked banter, I prefer straight cash. "Swap me for my lawnmower."..pfft, feck off.


  • Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    BBDBB wrote: »
    I agree with your last point

    Im not sure why you have quoted/addressed me with your first couple of paragraphs tbh:confused:

    The diet coke ad is always brought into discussions where a woman claims to having been "objectified".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    The diet coke ad is always brought into discussions where a woman claims to having been "objectified".

    is it? right ok, why do you think that is?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    BBDBB wrote: »
    anyone fancy a diet coke?

    Aspartane, like... ew.


  • Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    BBDBB wrote: »
    is it? right ok, why do you think that is?

    I don't know tbh, because it's the only argument there is?

    Like I said, it shouldn't be a gender issue. It's a classless asshole issue!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 402 ✭✭The Big Smoke


    The diet coke ad is always brought into discussions where a woman claims to having been "objectified".

    Until it becomes equal to objectify both genders in ads, it should be repeated again and again. I'm sure you would be rabbiting on in whatever ladies forum about the poor wimminz being objectified in lynx or hunky dory ads. Problem is that most ads objectifying women are pulled after a while, whereas beauties like "he drives she dies" is perfectly acceptable.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,555 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    I was too busy spluttering with anger that someone, a professional, would inform me that he would like to be next to my genitals.


    best sentence ever?


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  • Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Until it becomes equal to objectify both genders in ads, it should be repeated again and again. I'm sure you would be rabbiting on in whatever ladies forum about the poor wimminz being objectified in lynx or hunky dory ads. Problem is that most ads objectifying women are pulled after a while, whereas beauties like "he drives she dies" is perfectly acceptable.

    Did you even read my post about it not being a gender issue? no? didn't think so.

    Find me a post of mine where I ever have "rabbited" on about the objectification of women - I bet you can't because it has never ever happened.


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