What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[The Brain]

She be crazy yo.

If "Merrimack College in Massachusetts" is an actual college at least now I know that it can be safely dismissed.

[HVC]

I also don't like that she calls herself a survivor of sexual harassment. to me it diminishes the actual people who survived sexual assault. but maybe i'm not allowed to have that opnion.

[Habbaku]

I also don't like that she calls herself a survivor of sexual harassment. to me it diminishes the actual people who survived sexual assault. but maybe i'm not allowed to have that opnion.

She might be referring to an incident other than bad-joke-on-an-elevator.

[HVC]

I also don't like that she calls herself a survivor of sexual harassment. to me it diminishes the actual people who survived sexual assault. but maybe i'm not allowed to have that opnion.

She might be referring to an incident other than bad-joke-on-an-elevator.

Been even then she uses the term sexual harassment, not assault. So even if it was another case of harassment using the term survivor seems inappropriate.

[garbon]

how exciting

[merithyn]

Politeness is about censoring the tone of a statement.  Political correctness is about censoring the content of a statement.

I'd like to hear the Languish SJWs' take on this "incident":

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/she-called-his-elevator-joke-offensive-he-called-her-complaint-frivolous-whos-right/2018/05/03/43ba4084-4ee1-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0561347c17e6

The complainer is from Romania. The context was lost on her. Rather than take her to task, the professor should have simply said, "It was a cultural joke regarding department stores, not a comment specific to women's lingerie. I'm sorry if it made you feel uncomfortable. That was not my intent."

[The Brain]

Politeness is about censoring the tone of a statement.  Political correctness is about censoring the content of a statement.

I'd like to hear the Languish SJWs' take on this "incident":

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/she-called-his-elevator-joke-offensive-he-called-her-complaint-frivolous-whos-right/2018/05/03/43ba4084-4ee1-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0561347c17e6

The complainer is from Romania. The context was lost on her. Rather than take her to task, the professor should have simply said, "It was a cultural joke regarding department stores, not a comment specific to women's lingerie. I'm sorry if it made you feel uncomfortable. That was not my intent."

Yes let's surrender to retardism.

[merithyn]

Sorry. I forgot that bring kind is now considered a weakness. Carry on.

[The Brain]

Sorry. I forgot that bring kind is now considered a weakness. Carry on.

If she had acted as an adult there wouldn't be a problem. The response to a comment you don't like is to file a formal complaint? That's retardism. She could have confronted him in the elevator, like an adult. She did not. And if her origin or grasp of English was a problem she could have refrained from jumping to conclusions, and I don't see how her grasp of English could be a problem.

It took me a while to figure out that this man thought it was funny to make a reference to men shopping for lingerie while attending an academic conference.

Why would this be a problem at all? She is a kook and should be treated as one, unless we want to be overrun by rampant kookism.

[dps]

Politeness is about censoring the tone of a statement.  Political correctness is about censoring the content of a statement.

I'd like to hear the Languish SJWs' take on this "incident":

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/she-called-his-elevator-joke-offensive-he-called-her-complaint-frivolous-whos-right/2018/05/03/43ba4084-4ee1-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0561347c17e6

The complainer is from Romania. The context was lost on her. Rather than take her to task, the professor should have simply said, "It was a cultural joke regarding department stores, not a comment specific to women's lingerie. I'm sorry if it made you feel uncomfortable. That was not my intent."

Do we know that he knew where she was from?

At any rate, it's not his job to educate her on our cultural norms.  At any rate, he was correct--her complaint is frivolous.

[Admiral Yi]

Why would a reasonable woman who didn't associate the gag with department store elevators feel that the words "ladies' lingerie" constituted sexual harassment?

[PDH]

I'd like to hear the Languish SJWs' take on this "incident":

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/she-called-his-elevator-joke-offensive-he-called-her-complaint-frivolous-whos-right/2018/05/03/43ba4084-4ee1-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0561347c17e6

We live in an age of over-reaction, of being the victim, and of seeking immediate redress for injustice.  Unfortunately, for all the spectrum, this is true.  The right's being attacked for being a member of the majority religion forced to recognize other faiths, the left's umbrage and outrage at any perceived slight - they are two sides of the same coin.

Language is imprecise and prone to misunderstandings, and we all muddle through a web of misunderstanding every day.  Yet somehow people who really should know better think that words they cannot fully appreciate in the context they are spoken (a basic fact, we are not robots and we try to use a system of metaphor to communicate), manage to become in their own minds the victim of assumed attacks.

You know the fuck what?  You own a bakery and someone wants a wedding cake for a gay marriage - fucking bake it while loving the sinner and hating the sin if that is how you define it.  You are in a public space (say, an elevator) that still contains private space (say, a person and their friends joking), let it the fuck alone.  Rather than assume we all know what is said, assume we don't know the fuck what another person means to them.  If you unclear, ask for clarity - at least it might help.

In part, Brain was right, we are in an age or retardation, but not one of developmental disorders.  Instead we are in an age of self-imposed Down's Syndrome in which everyone gets to feel that they win the prize, they are the best, and their own precious views should be the best.  This goes for all the spectrum, we just pick the side that seems more egregious and ridicule them.  Fucking bake the cake, fucking shut the fuck up and let someone make a mild joke that you might (MIGHT, omg) misunderstand be there.

Of course, I could be wrong.

[PDH]

And really, I think this whole bit should be split off into its own thread.

[Valmy]

At any rate, it's not his job to educate her on our cultural norms.  At any rate, he was correct--her complaint is frivolous.

No, he was not correct. He was busted by the disclplinary committee.

I mean it is pretty ridiculous but it has been this was for the past 20 years. You shut the fuck up in a professional environment if you are a man. That ivory tower professor was clearly too isolated to have gotten the message.

Ultimately I think it is better than the Mad Men type of deal of the past and American society seems to loath moderation.

[Valmy]

And really, I think this whole bit should be split off into its own thread.

Probably. Not sure why Spicey put it here.