Gay pride, Black pride,... what's the problem?

Question

1st, I'm a feminist so I make it a point to 'call-out' anti-female statements that are detrimental especially to young girls.

The other day I was telling this guy friend of mine that using the phrase, 'runs like a girl', when referring to running away like a coward was detrimental and teaches young girls who hear it that they are less than the boys.

In the conversation, he said, 'why is everything with you all about being a female.' I told him so what if I wanted to dedicate every waking moment of my life to women's issues. So what? How exactly does that affect him, ya know.

So with that said, I asked him a question that I am asking now to ppl who get upset when oppressed groups protest, "Take a look within yourself and ask yourself why that bothers you so much?" Then can you explain that one to me?

Answer 1

I do not appreciate anyone demeaning anyone else.

I remember in college I was a scrawny little 100lb 5'3 girl. One day a friend and I went to a local pub. While there we decided to play a couple of racks of pool. I went up to the table and put my dollar down. The guys who were playing picked up my dollar and told me "this table is for serious players only." My friend who happened to be a guy put a $50 down and said he had the table next against the winner of that game. When it was his turn - my friend turned to me and said "table's yours". This brought about an uproar by the other players. At this point my friend says "I bet my fifty that she can beat any one of you lot."

They gave me the "break" because they didn't want me to say I had an unfair disadvantage. What they didn't know was that my friend and I were the local collegiate champions in mixed doubles billiards. I ran the rack off the break 3 times.

My friend kept his fifty - I made fifty, and we drank fifty!

Just goes to show you that you can't judge a book by it's cover!

Answer 2

I believe the phrase "runs like a girl" is offensive when applied to me. It is offensive to girls. They run much better than i do.

And i believe a person should take pride in what they are.....as long as that pride doesn't demean or otherwise hurt somebody else.

I am a Caucasian male. I was born that way. My ethnicity and gender in NO WAY makes me better or worse than anybody else.

And if a group is oppressed.....then they are the ones who need to protest their treatment. Because who else can they count upon to look out for their interests?

(Let us hope our great-grandchildren won't even DREAM of asking a question like yours.....because the subject will have long been retired to the boneyard of history.)

Answer 3

So you'll support male pride and white pride too then?

The only reason this is a problem for you is because you want it to be. If you were just secure in your own abilities you wouldn't keep victimizing yourself and all other women because you'd realize his comment is a meaningless figure of speech used in some conversation to make a point.

You're the type of person that thinks there shouldn't be grades in school and that all the kids on little league should get trophies regardless of how they play, aren't you.

Answer 4

it truly is racist with the aid of fact different persons make it so. the entire "delight" ingredient is ridiculous. we ought to constantly be pleased with who we are, yet to no longer the factor of disallowing others to experience the comparable way approximately themselves. the entire issues began with somebody attempting to be politically superb. it truly is the stupidest ingredient i've got ever heard. i do no longer think in civil rights, i think in human rights. basically with the aid of fact somebody is black or gay does not supply them any further rights than all of us else. they are human, basically like something persons. Lee Greenwood says it maximum suitable: "i'm proud to be an American, the place a minimum of i comprehend i'm loose. and that i won't be able to overlook the lads who died who gave that good to me. and that i gladly arise next to you and shield Her nonetheless in the present day. 'Cuz there ain't little doubt i admire this land. God bless the country!"

Answer 5

It's like using "gay" to say something is bogus or phony.

Have you ever seen Jackie Joyner Kersee run? I'd like to run like that!

Answer 6

Because all those groups are trying to make me accept them, their beliefs and morals as right even while mine are the opposite, why don't you accept mine as right & yours as wrong? There is your answer.

Answer 7

because in the long run...it really doesn't matter

Answer 8

.... White Power