I have the same issue with tramp stamp and wife beater! Ah, the delicious hive mind.
Reavers ain't men. Or they forgot how to be. Now they're just nothing. They got out to the edge of the galaxy, to that place of nothing, and that's what they became.
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Scrappy - Sep 15, 2010 8:24:01 am PDT #2698 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Trudy Booth - Sep 15, 2010 8:28:30 am PDT #2699 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Oh, and "wife beater" isn't improved at all by abreviating it to "beater". No, you did not make it unoffensive by doing so, clothing marketing person.
Steph L. - Sep 15, 2010 8:29:37 am PDT #2700 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I have the same issue with tramp stamp and wife beater!
Me, four. BIG time.
brenda m - Sep 15, 2010 8:37:20 am PDT #2701 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Yep. One reason ass antlers is so much better - aside from being funnier. It's a judgement on how some of them look, not on the person as a whole. And even so - Trudy, thanks for pointing out the gender differential on tattoo placement. It's an excellent point, and makes it even more frustrating that that particular placement has gotten so denigrated.
Sean K - Sep 15, 2010 8:39:59 am PDT #2702 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Huh. I've never ever thought of "wife beater" as derogatory to women. I consider it derogatory to a particular class of men, actually. And for that reason, I wont wear those kinds of shirts. ETA: Well that, and they look like ass on me, and almost everybody else.
Trudy Booth - Sep 15, 2010 8:41:30 am PDT #2703 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Not interested in derogatating men either!
brenda m - Sep 15, 2010 8:42:04 am PDT #2704 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
It's not derogatory to women in particular, I would say, other than the fact that it's making a joke out of something that is seriously not a joking matter.
Sean K - Sep 15, 2010 8:45:15 am PDT #2705 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
While an admirable notion, I don't think that's entirely true, Trudy. I never known you to shy away from calling a douchnozzle a douchenozzle, whether male or female.
And the point I was making is that I consider it derogatory toward a particular group of men, whose one common trait is being a douchnozzle. The penis thing is kind of incidental, at that point.
Kate P. - Sep 15, 2010 8:46:32 am PDT #2706 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
ITA with Trudy (edit: re: tramp stamp). I've gotten used to the term, but it's still shitty. I love my lower-back tattoo, and the placement was pretty damn deliberate for personally meaningful reasons. And I think it looks lovely there.
Sean K - Sep 15, 2010 8:51:26 am PDT #2707 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
It's not derogatory to women in particular, I would say, other than the fact that it's making a joke out of something that is seriously not a joking matter.
I don't find it particularly jokey.
I'm in total agreement with everyone on "tramp stamp," but I must say, I'm surprised to see objection of the term "wife beater." I guess I'm coming at it from a different place in my head, but I always considered the term derogatory of men who beat their wives, which is a group I would argue deserve derogation.