Damn these men and their damn spitting!

[LisaM]

Why is that men cannot walk down the street without spitting? I can't stand it anymore. IT GROSSES ME OUT! STOP DOING IT. It's way more offensive than perfume and it makes me want to throw up.

[Blue-Jay]

1. Ptooey!

<scratch scratch scratch>

[jpgray]

2. Do your balls itch too? Because damn, mine do. Want some of my chaw?

PA-TOOEY!

...

Ding!

[LisaM]

5. Okay, that does it!

I'm going to start wearing the strongest, most lung-lining perfume I can find until the men cut it out!

[BiggJawn]

3. I don't get it, either...

Unless a bug just flew in your mouth, or you're chewing tobacco, just SWALLOW!

Hell, ain't that what you're always telling HER?

It's gross.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. And what's worse

it used to be almost unknown, having been wiped out about sixty or seventy years ago in public health campaigns. People traveling to China used to complain about how everyone spit on the sidewalk "something you'd never see here." Ha!

Well about five years ago, I started noticing it in Portland, especially among teenagers. There seemed to be an aggressive quality about it, too. I swear, some of those guys were aiming straight at my feet. Is there some media character popular with teenage boys who spits a lot?

I haven't seen it so much in Minneapolis. Maybe it's a West Coast thing?

[Exultant Democracy]

6. This is the second post on this in as many months

where do you people live? The only people I ever see spit are jogger, and this is to be expected.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. Maybe you don't live on the West Coast?

:shrug:

As I said, I haven't seen it in Minneapolis.

[Exultant Democracy]

7. dupe

[CBHagman]

9. It's funny you should bring this up.

As I walked home from the Metro last night, I kept stepping around spittle on the street and sidewalk. The following phrase flashed across my brain: "Men: The world is their spittoon." It's like that line in "The Big Chill" about the great outdoors being one big toilet.

Anyway, there's very little in this area that men don't spit all over, including the tiles in the Metro station. GET A GRIP, PEOPLE. Or at least carry some tissues to spit into.

[Piperay]

10. UGH, gag...

spitting in public is disgusting, repulsive and I would think dangerous to public health. They used to have up signs way back when that said "no spitting" have seen them in old movies, maybe signs need to be used again.

[Snow]

11. Is there some compelling reason to use the gender designation here?

I don't spit. I don't see it happen. I go out & walk, & I live in LA. This looks almighty like another "those disgusting males" rant. I'd like to see a lot less of that sort of overgeneralization. And it wouldn't improve things to add in adjectives such as 'white' or 'young' or 'lower-class'. It's tiresome, it's bigoted, it isn't worthy of you. You're better than that.

[Bunny]

12. Ooooooooooookay.

Seriously, how many women do you know that spit? Is it sexist to point out that spitting is done overwhelmingly by men? And that it is incredibly disgusting?

Or are you joking, and I just don't get it? I've been preoccupied lately, maybe I'm taking your post too seriously. :)

[Piperay]

15. Yeah, I don't believe

I have ever seen a woman hock up a big one. Once a bug flew into my mouth (yuck) but I just kind of blew it back out disgreetly. :shrug: :-)

[Snow]

18. No, I'm not joking.....

sorry, but I truly do find this offensive. There seems to be a wave of male-bashing going on here lately, and I'd like it to be seen for what it is. Granted, spitting does seem to be something indulged in, at least in the US mainstream culture, by males - but what is the relevancy of that? I hold that by bringing gender into it, the poster is calling forth the 'dirty disgusting boys' sterotype. She's free to do so, of course, but she should be aware that that's what she'd doing.

[Flaxbee]

13. But...but... Shrubya does it, so it must be OK!

Have you seen the footage David Letterman rejoices in showing of Shrubya walking across the WH lawn and spitting? Lord, it makes Dave laugh, it really is funny although it is truly gross.

What do you expect with 'leaders' like that?

[LisaM]

14. Just responding to the "women and their perfume" threads...

However, while I have been around men who wear very heavy aftershave, I don't think I have ever seen a woman spit the way men do.

[Bill McBlueState]

16. I have!

There was this girl in high school who spit all the time. But it's a reflection on how rare that is that she had quite a reputation for it, while it was unremarkable for a guy to spit.

[Mrs. Venation]

17. That Is One Of The Few Things I Dislike About Baseball

The other things are the designated hitter rule, and singing "God Bless America" in the seventh inning stretch instead of "Take Me Out To The Ball Game."

[dpbrown]

19. Pretty girls in China hawking loogies all the time

I always thought that was kind of parallel-universe weird when I was there.

And then there are the men who can't use a urinal without expectorating, either. I just don't get that.

I don't see too many people of any gender spitting in the Twin Cities, but I do expectorate sometimes when I'm working in my backyard. I hope you're not looking.