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1  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Re: Poor Atwat.... on: 2008 June 21, 01:48:01
People excuse certain behaviours from long-standing members around here all the time that newer members would be chewed out for.  Same deal--you might be excused or get a talking-to if you're a pirate, but chewed out if you're a paysite supporter.  It's their choice where to draw the line, considering the forum is largely unmoderated.
2  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Re: Poor Atwat.... on: 2008 June 21, 01:32:07
"Carrier" means basically the same thing as "owner" in a biological sense, and I have a hard time believing that "womb-carrier" wouldn't raise a few eyebrows, if not hackles, in this particular forum.
Because she wasn't the target.  Like I said, it's easy to skip over certain things if they look "okay", especially when the bigger issue at the moment was dealing with Sheyza and sharing intimate details that are not his to share and making jokes about rape.

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It still pretty much comes across as "womb on legs" (to use your own example) and not in the innocuous sense of lungs, cars, etc. All I meant was that many of us would have been extremely upset to see something like that written, but we were totally willing to ignore "penis-owners," and that seems quite hypocritical to me.

Besides, lungs are neutral territory. Everyone has them. Nobody can say "Well, you have lungs" and mean it as an insult

And every male is born with a penis and every female with a uterus.  Lungs can be a point of contention if one of them has only one lung, or lung cancer due to smoking, or has asthma and someone is mocking them for always being out of breath or out out of shape, or anything.  People will fight about anything.  You can accidentally nudge a person while walking by them and suddenly it's Armageddon.

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All I'm getting at is the fact that gender and sexuality are hot button topics, and, in the wrong hands, can be used in a misguided attempt at insulting another person, whereas lungs and cars are not.
Then you've never seen people argue about their cars before.  Tongue  People can get heated if anyone insults their vehicle, maybe say they can smoke the car in a race or something.  I've hung around even people who are obsessed with their cars, getting upgrades, taking care of their "babies".  You scratch or dent it, you pay in blood.  You beat them in a race and they go around telling people you cheated.  Tongue  I'm not trying to downplay the issue of sexism, but it isn't the only issue on the planet.  People have killed for less.

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I might say that a friend of mine is gay and mean it in the entirely innocent, honest sense, whereas a bigot might call someone "gay" in an idiotic attempt to insult them.
I doubt the person who used "penis owner" meant it in a hostile manner.  If you can do it with "gay", why not her with "penis owner"?  I doubt she's a sexist who hates all men.

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I doubt that the poster of the comment (I'm intentionally leaving out names) meant what she said in a nasty way. I was just trying to point out that it's hypocritical to jump all over one person for doing something very similar, while excusing it from others.
I don't think it's that similar that they deserve equal punishment.  One flippant comment in contrast to several posts demonstrating a great amount of insensitivity?  Instead of leaving out names, just say who it is.  I doubt she would have been up in arms about it much if you said it earlier.  Slap on the wrist, sure, but I doubt she needs to be taken to the firing squad.  But like I said, she wasn't the main target, it's easy to miss a post like that, and I doubt she would have fought much about it if someone had said something about it instead of dancing around it.
3  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Re: Poor Atwat.... on: 2008 June 20, 21:55:34
The "penis-owners" comment, in particular, got me up in arms. How can we sit here and get all high and mighty about how sexism goes both ways, and then just let that comment go relatively unnoticed? If the term "womb-carriers" had been used to describe women, would we all have been okay with it?
I had to go look for that comment.  It's almost, almost like "car owner".  Or lung owner.  Slight distinction between "penis on legs" and "penis owner".  I don't know.  It's easy to skip over posts if they are not the target.

Anyway, hindsight's 20/20.  Tongue
4  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Re: Look at what I made and worship me! (Post Your Creations) on: 2008 June 20, 05:29:41
You mean pictures in the Clean Installer?  It's just a preview.  It does the same with Body Shop items.

Unless you mean something else.  Sorry!  Tongue
5  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Re: Poor Atwat.... on: 2008 June 20, 03:24:54
Because your grandmother was married to him.  If your grandmother didn't know about it, your mother probably didn't want to tell her that her husband raped his daughter.  It can be very difficult to admit things to a parent, and given the circumstances, I can see how difficult it could be for her.
6  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Re: I win the prize! on: 2008 June 20, 03:10:10
Huh  I wasn't trying to be rude about it.  I was just poking fun at myself for reading all the threads and making a suggestion (I never said, "STOP THIS ONE WORD NONSENSE NOW BEFORE I SMITE YOU").  I thought it was obvious that most people don't memorise entire threads, but apparently I keep forgetting that I need smilies on my posts.  Tongue  Tongue  (Disclaimer: Again, not trying to be rude, just being facetious.)

You posted more than you needed to.  Huh  All you had to say was, "Sometimes you don't need to say much."  Yet you threw in a mention of masturbation and a nitpick about how I worded my post.  "Cool" and "Inorite" is pretty content-free to me and short--hence the slash.  Yes, just because something is long doesn't mean it is useful, but I never said there was a minimum word count or that longer is better.  Besides, when a post is coupled with avatars, signatures, and report to mod/logged/thanks/quote buttons, it's just a hassle to go check out a thread and have to scroll past that kind of thing.

Again, I wasn't trying to be rude.  I was making a suggestion and tried to throw in some humour to make it less whiny.  I'm not a mod, just a user.  My apologies.
7  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Re: I win the prize! on: 2008 June 20, 02:00:18
Could you guys keep one word/content-free posts to a minimum (or not at all)?  For those of us who compulsively check every thread and memorise its contents, seeing posts that only say, "Oh", "I see", "Thanks", "You're welcome", "Awesome" can be annoying.
8  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Re: Poor Atwat.... on: 2008 June 20, 00:54:58
I was just going to say, anyone can get raped, regardless of sex, age, orientation, or appearance.  Undecided  It doesn't matter whether the guy was gay or straight--he didn't want to have sex with that woman.  I'm straight--I would reject sex, even oral sex, from any male who isn't my boyfriend.  Of course, I'm female, so I guess people are more willing to accept that I've been raped than they would be if it was a man who was raped.

I don't really understand the whole "Hur, what straight guy would turn down a blow job" line of thinking, even if it's facetious.  Not every guy is a hopeless horndog who wants to screw every woman he sees, nor does it mean there's no such thing as raping a male.  And like Calalily said, just because you get aroused doesn't mean you want it.  Undecided
9  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Re: More Smutty Than You: TSR's Hall of Shame on: 2008 June 19, 17:35:29
Oh, I saw something like that on MATY.  I'll go look for the link.  Tongue

Fake edit:

Link to MATY discussion in Retardo Land:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,10824.0.html

Link to site regarding accessory for urination:
http://www.femalefreedom.ca/

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"Pmates give women the freedom to discreetly pee standing up
[...]
The P-Mate gives women the freedom to pee like men. "

I daresay we all need something like these.  Tongue
10  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Re: Carla Niven must be destroyed! on: 2008 June 19, 16:41:20
It's entirely possible that Carla is not aware of grammatical gender and just picked it.  It happened a lot in my Latin I class, where people would pair feminine nouns (that are feminine by nature, such as the words for "woman" or "girl") and pair that with a masculine, or worse, neuter adjective.  If she isn't learning French and only pulled it out of a dictionary or online translator, I doubt she's going to care that she has the wrong gender.
11  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Re: More Smutty Than You: TSR's Hall of Shame on: 2008 June 19, 16:36:04
A lot of the time it seems like I end up in the stall with the broken lock, so I end up having to hover while keeping the door shut.

It's a good work-out, I suppose.  Work on your squats.  Tongue
12  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Re: More Smutty Than You: TSR's Hall of Shame on: 2008 June 13, 05:32:47
I don't mind people quoting images if the image is from a previous page.  I mean, I can't be the only one who's too lazy to go back a page or thirty just to see what someone is talking about.  Tongue
13  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Re: The teutonic TWATS! on: 2008 June 03, 01:04:09
Well, could think of it in terms of fan fiction/art again.  While Rowling may not care about Suzy the Fan drawing pictures of Harry Potter and writing slash fiction 'shipping Remus and Ron and sharing it for free online, she'd probably be more than willing to make a fuss if Suzy the Fan started selling her art and writing.
14  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Re: A Very Interesting Discovery... on: 2008 May 26, 18:59:40
I wanna be a spy!  Will I get a cool trench-coat?

Peggy could paint a picture and sell prints of that picture all she wants.  If Peggy takes that same picture she painted, recolours a painting in the game, and sells that package, she is in the wrong and shouldn't be selling it.  Although the painting is still her own artwork and intellectual property, once it is in that package format, she doesn't reserve the right to sell it.  (Am I right?)  The booty is just making files free--no one is claiming that anyone other than the original creators made the items.  All of Peggy's gap-tacular hairs are credited to her, it's just free now.
15  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Re: Ahoy! New guy, new idea. on: 2008 March 21, 21:00:18
Wark isn't a word
It is if you're a chocobo.

I never really know what I want in my game, so creators not taking any requests is fine by me.  I always find something nice that I never would have thought of in the first place anyway.  Tongue
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