Sailorlal79 wrote:

Empty threats are lame, as are clothes from Hot Topic.

It's not an empty threat.  I will hurt someone over my kids.  Hot Topic has the best selection of band t-shirts, she's 14 and she likes band t-shirts.

I will hurt someone over my kids.

So you'd commit assault on someone because they don't like where you buy clothes for your kid.  Nice.

I dunno.  There are times when I find it difficult to respect men as a whole.  All you ever see on TV or in movies is that they only want casual sex and don't care about the woman they're with, only care about looks and only want slutty women, and hate their relationships and significant others.  Then in real life you see how prolific porn is and how many people cheat and how most men can't keep their eyes to themselves when a scantily-dressed woman walks by, and you think, "gosh, what I see in the media is true.  Why on earth would I want to be in a relationship with a man and if I were, why on earth would I trust him???"

Barði wrote:

What if someone is wearing a shirt that has a giant swastika on it?

What if it was a joke about rape or domestic violence?

People are judged by their appearances.  It's a fact of life, and just as a man who wears a stained shirt with an offensive joke on it with his gut looking out won't be looked upon favorably.  Women who dress up "slutty" can't complain if men aren't treating them with all due respect as an intelligent and sane human being.

And granted, I don't follow the latest men's fashions so I am sure I make quite a few fashion no-no's.  I do at least bathe at least once a day, take care of my teeth, work out, and give away clothing when it becomes stained, torn or no longer fits.  Hell, I don't even go to work unless it's in a clean t-shirt and clean blue jeans, and I work with a bunch of men doing sweaty manly things.

Respect is earned, not granted by virtue of being human.  People who dress up in a sloppy manner just make it harder to impress people and influence them.

What does that have to do with MY KID???  She would never wear anything like that.    It's not my job to protect the world... Just the people I happened to bring into it.

Feb 22, 2009 -- 8:15PM, Tmarie64 wrote:

Barði wrote:

What if someone is wearing a shirt that has a giant swastika on it?

What if it was a joke about rape or domestic violence?

People are judged by their appearances.  It's a fact of life, and just as a man who wears a stained shirt with an offensive joke on it with his gut looking out won't be looked upon favorably.  Women who dress up "slutty" can't complain if men aren't treating them with all due respect as an intelligent and sane human being.

And granted, I don't follow the latest men's fashions so I am sure I make quite a few fashion no-no's.  I do at least bathe at least once a day, take care of my teeth, work out, and give away clothing when it becomes stained, torn or no longer fits.  Hell, I don't even go to work unless it's in a clean t-shirt and clean blue jeans, and I work with a bunch of men doing sweaty manly things.

Respect is earned, not granted by virtue of being human.  People who dress up in a sloppy manner just make it harder to impress people and influence them.

What does that have to do with MY KID???  She would never wear anything like that.    It's not my job to protect the world... Just the people I happened to bring into it.

But in my experience, every Tool fan I've met was slovenly and stoned out of their mind.  Just as you instinctively clutch your purse and cross the street when you see a group of young men in obvious gang attire in a dark alley or perhaps a man in an anorak and wire framed glasses lurking out in the parking lot, I tend to ignore most of what teenagers wearing the shirt of a band they've never seen live have to say.