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seabeyond
(110,159 posts)what a stupid fuck. and totally diminishes all he is saying.
though many will applaud and not get it.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)nail on head?
LisaL
(46,156 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)upi402
(16,854 posts)and being extreme for effect.
we on the left are hyper-sensitive at times and miss the forest for the trees.
my .02
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)the forest. the tree.
and damn straight i am going to point out the forest while the OP is pointing out the trees.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Its in astonishingly bad taste.
I wonder how they would feel if they were a white woman in a mixed racial relationship.
I can understand making a racist feel small, but what is the point of throwing red meat at them?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1240156289
LisaL
(46,156 posts)Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,553 posts)MattBaggins
(7,938 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,553 posts)DU has been a good fit for me for the past ten years.
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)upi402
(16,854 posts)must be the mold into which we must fit.
you must be a secret moslim tarrisss
Zalatix
(8,994 posts)(mra, not MRA as in capital M R A because those MRA groups attack women more than they fight discrimination.)
This shit is insulting to women and it turns white women into a fetish.
I am in shock that you can get a post hidden for accusing a DUer of being an outright liar when they actually are lying, but not when someone totally objectifies women in a way no self-respecting woman, to say nothing of a feminist, would tolerate.
PS: Feminism is still allowed on the DU, right? Or are they the so-called "sisters of outrage" of which you speak?
4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)is turning them in to objects?
Why? Because he didn't, in that one paragraph quote, describe every aspect of the personalities of the women he's ever slept with?
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)PERFECT!!!!!!!
4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)opiate69
(10,129 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(102,238 posts)I can't tell from that quote. To 'Fuck' is a commutative act - men fuck women, and women fuck men. So what 'attitude' do you see in him?
Please tell me you're not objecting to the use of 'girl' rather than 'woman' - I can see a silly objection like that downthread. People talk about 'girls', and 'boys', beyond the age of 18.
demwing
(16,916 posts)and while I don't think its all that funny, neither is it the steaming pile of insensitivity that you're seeing.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)or are you saying you need to be sensitive to other minority groups when you are hitting back at bias?
Which is it, I get confused.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Zalatix
(8,994 posts)2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Granted, there's an extremely good point that women should not be used, abused, treated like life-support systems for vaginas, or otherwise disrespected.
At the same time, contrary to popular belief, lots of women enjoy having sex. I know, shocking.
With the proviso that so long as the women in question are fucking consensually, enjoying the experience, aren't being put upon, abused or disrespected, then I approve this message!
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)Or that he is having sex with them?
Which one is making you so angry? And how does it insult women? Should women not be having sex? Or should the people they have sex with not be allowed to talk about it?
Is it the word "fuck" that you object to? If he said "I'm having sex with white women" would you be OK with it?
Seems like a lot of outrage and assumptions for someone just saying that he is having sexual relations with women.
mr_hat
(3,410 posts)tarheelsunc
(2,117 posts)or just ones involving white women?
dawg
(10,705 posts)Shows zero respect for the women he is "fucking".
Plus, the guy looks Indian or Middle-Eastern to me, which is just a darker-skinned variation of Caucasian. Which makes his point all the more stupid.
dawg
(10,705 posts)This could just be one of those "meme" thingies where people put different captions on a picture. The fellow in the picture may be a really nice man and have nothing at all to do with the words that have been placed under his photograph.
Peepsite
(113 posts)dawg
(10,705 posts)Who the hell is he?
Peepsite
(113 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(102,238 posts)or place, beyond "probably an actor".
Peepsite
(113 posts)Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)He's hilarious. At least I think so.
win_in_06
(1,764 posts)It's disrepectful to talk about it like they were just toys for his amusement. The tone implies major disrespect.
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)in existence has been marriage. Do you think there would have been the same outrage if he'd said "I married a white woman"? No, the whole of DU would have stood up and cheered.
Sex is not disrespectful.
Racism is disrespectful. Homophobia is disrespectful. Slut-shaming the women that chose to sleep with him as being "toys" for making that choice? That's disrespectful too.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)dawg
(10,705 posts)You can accuse me of slut shaming *him* if you want to, but I haven't said anything about the women who slept with him.
I think his attitude is disrespectful, and I'm entitled to my opinion just as you are entitled to yours.
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)You are stating that they were just toys for his enjoyment, so you are making a commentary on their behavior as well. Since you've implied that they weren't also freely enjoying it ('cuz women don't enjoy sex, y'know), what were they there for? Just being rather stupid obedient dolls? Just in it for the fame and money?
If that's not what you were saying and they were also enjoying it (horrors!) then how were they disrespected?
Disrespectful AND misogynistic.
dawg
(10,705 posts)They were people.
Only I don't think *he* sees it that way.
muriel_volestrangler
(102,238 posts)I think you need to tell us why you think you have such an insight into his mind. Do you know him personally? Are there other quotes from him that reveal his thoughts, in the way that the OP quote doesn't?
dawg
(10,705 posts)The truth is probably somewhere in between.
But, you know, I really don't care. I don't know this guy, and I probably don't know anyone he's fucked.
I suppose I just bristle a little at the notion that my opinion is invalid.
muriel_volestrangler
(102,238 posts)Something has made you talk about 'toys', 'conquests', and 'zero respect'. But you won't tell us what.
No, I don't buy "the truth is probably somewhere in between". I'm taking what he said - that he "fucks white girls" - and you are claiming there's a lot more than that. You can't then say "well, there's probably still a bit to what I say" when you have given no basis for it. Your opinion remains unsupported.
dawg
(10,705 posts)I stopped caring. Marry him if you want to.
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)BainsBane
(54,309 posts)While my marriage certainly sucked, I don't think marriage is necessarily is misogynistic. Now that we can choose whether to marry, we have far greater input into the type of marriage we want. Also consider that in some states two men can and do marry. So that can't be considered misogynistic, can it? I agree that that now passed idea that women had to marry was sexist. I wouldn't call it misogynistic, however. It was a patriarchal way of ordering society.
Edit: I just realized how old this thread is. I happened to come across it in a Google search.
muriel_volestrangler
(102,238 posts)which is, ironically, the point of what he said. But somehow, many DUers have taken what he said as a literal "where the white women at?", rather than following his point about interracial relationships being an earlier target of bigots, as same-sex marriage is now.
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)What he said is true, and it doesn't make any subjective point about the circumstances under which the fuck happens. He could be talking about a fiance', and all his past girlfriends. really.. people here are so easily offended.
demwing
(16,916 posts)to enjoy it
dawg
(10,705 posts)Enjoying it is fine.
Don't get me wrong, I'm willing to fight to preserve this guy's right to act like a jerk and then brag about it afterwords. It's a free country and I want to keep it that way.
But I don't have to respect someone with his attitude. And I don't.
demwing
(16,916 posts)I don't "respect" it. I just don't think it means what you think that it means.
muriel_volestrangler
(102,238 posts)Do you have another quote from him that isn't in the OP?
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Wow.
Maybe it shoud be up to the indiviuals themselves, as to how they choose to describe their own sex lives? If I hear feedback from one of this guy's girlfriends that they object to their coital manoeverings being referred to as "fucking", then I will take into consideration that he might be out of line.
However, if its a Bunch of non-involved strangers fulminating over their gravlax that "YOU CANT CALL THE TENDER ACT OF HUMAN CONGRESS 'FUCKING', YOU HEARTLESS BASTARD!" I will take it with a grain of salt, as DUs outrage-of-the-week (already! starring! in! meta!) yet anothet tempest in a t-shirt, if you will.
dawg
(10,705 posts)I didn't even know who the guy was, but I thought (and still think) his comment makes him sound like a jerk.
Ultimately, I really don't care.
I didn't take this to meta. I don't object to anything anyone has posted. They have the right to their opinions just as I have a right to mine.
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)When I was 20, I envisioned all this anti-sex nonsense being a footnote in history by this time.
These threads have gotten so out of hand and so out-there ridiculous, that it's become like watching one of those anti-smoking ads and craving a cigarette. I'm leaving the conversations with the vague desire to host a Saturday-night orgy, just because I'm a woman and I can.
I am never going to understand this stuff.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Even without an orgy, it'll be better than my 40th, which if I recall centered around a torrential downpour, a pediatricians office, a sick kid, a mysteriously missing diaper bag and several soggy diapers full of poop.
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)and I am receiving the e-type of birthday hugs. The granddaughter is pooping her diapers in Virginia. I sent her my love from Utah. Everyone's happy.
demwing
(16,916 posts)judging him by the color of his skin?
wow
dawg
(10,705 posts)If you're going to make a big deal about "fucking white girls" shouldn't you at least be something other than caucasian yourself? Does this guy being with a "white" woman even qualify as an interracial relationship?
demwing
(16,916 posts)Well, no, not really.
But go find a clan rally, and ask some fuck in a hood if he'd let his sister date the comedian in the photo.
It's a joke for crying out loud...
dawg
(10,705 posts)But there are plenty of racist Southerners that probably would let him date their daughter. Based on all the stereotypes they believe, they'd be more likely to think he's a doctor than they would be to think of him as black.
demwing
(16,916 posts)but racism isn't just directed against blacks.
To many, Aziz Ansari look like a A-Rab. We're not talking bright people here.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)from Southern India. Are you under the impression that Muslims are hyper popular in the US these days?
My guess is that Ansari knows more about this issue than either of us.
MADem
(135,425 posts)REP
(21,691 posts)Ansari is on Parks & Rec and was on Uptight Citizen's Brigade with Poehler; Jay Holy Mother of God Chandrasekhar did Super Troopers, etc.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)WTF is this shit?
chaska
(6,794 posts)Racist and sexist.
quinnox
(20,600 posts)Xedniw
(134 posts)Democrats are hypocrites.
Yes, the Democratic platform is woman-friendly, but do you think that will matter to Breitbart.com or Drudge? Remember, FACTS DON'T MATTER to conservatives, but if they can find a good "gotcha!", they'll use it.
With the closeness of the election, do we really want to take that chance?
demwing
(16,916 posts)to land a punch to the nosy noses of conservadumb.
thanks for the concern, your request will be passed along to the manager.
Xedniw
(134 posts)And it can backfire.
And I am gravely concerned about your concern about my concern. In other words, son, I've been a Democrat longer than you've been shaving.
I've been shaving for 40 years. if you've been a Democrat that long, congrats, but what's the point?
muriel_volestrangler
(102,238 posts)What 'gotcha' do you envisage?
And how are 'we' taking a chance? He's not a Democratic candidate, is he? Is he a major Democratic supporter? What is his connection to you and me?
2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)porphyrian
(18,530 posts)LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)I'm just going to throw my boots on and go for a nice ride in the sunshine, without making any actual comments on this thread.
Once my blood pressure has dropped to normal, I'll maybe swing back through with some popcorn and enjoy all the silliness.
You all have fun.
MadrasT
(7,237 posts)This comes off as him offering forth his sexual conquest of "white girls" as a trophy in some kind of good guys vs. bad guys battle.
Women are not goddamn trophies.
Zalatix
(8,994 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)Dr. Strange
(25,991 posts)Who is this pedophile? Is he a celebrity? Is he this week's SNL host?
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Paladin
(28,664 posts).....as a trade-off for how this guy's statement is going to the rile the racist right wing.
to that
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)You act as if women are something to be fucked with, that they have no say in the relationship.
It's funny as hell. Sad that too many liberals have become so touchy and PC that they can't even laugh at things anymore. It's not offensive in the least. And yes, I'm a female.
So if Wanda Sykes said something similar about fucking a white person, would you freak out? Or it just outrage reserved for men?
LisaL
(46,156 posts)upi402
(16,854 posts)call the whaaambulance for us all!!!!!!!
grantcart
(53,061 posts)guys picture and put the words there.
My brother in law looks like this guy.
I have lived in countries filled with guys looking like this guy and I have never heard anything like this outside of the US.
This is a very idiomatic understanding of a racially charged point of view that is 30 years old.
If it is somebody using somebody else's image then certainly even you can see that it would be not only misogynistic but racist.
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)The video is unavailable at the article but I'm sure you can find it.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Once you put into context it is even more revolting.
Look, if you're opposed to interracial relationships, guess what: I'm fucking white girls, there's nothing you can do about it!"
Ansari added that every time he has sex with a white girl he thinks of those antigay folks opposed to interracial relationships "for a couple of pumps."
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)The Cardinal and Colbert: Humor, Joy, and the Spiritual Life" was the name of their first on stage outing together, at which Colbert, who plays a conservative opposed to marriage equality on TV, while claiming to be inclusive in reality, announced out of character that he loves every aspect of his faith, including the 'warts' which means he loves the anti gay dogma, which explains why he calls Dolan a 'witty, lighthearted guy' and does shows with him to promote the Chruch that hounds my people. Colbert, huge raving hypocrite pumping both sides for money. Aziz? On my side, a person like me, not like Stephen who'd drive the van that took us to reeducation camps or lynchings, because he loves those 'warts' his faith has, loves them. Warts like prop 8 and sermons against minorities they don't like-'warts' Stephen calls it, I call it ignorance and bigotry. Colbert says he loves that stuff, loves it.
So of course it is not offensive to the straights that Colbert is promoting intolerance on the side, with one of the nations permier hate mongers. Oddly what offends straights is mention of straight sex in the same breath as a support of equal rights for all. How offensive! How dare anyone mention real realationships along with 'those people'. Why is Aziz not doing something good, like launching a promo tour with some hate preacher like Colbert is doing?
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)"I have never heard anything like this outside of the US." Wow. 'Guys looking like this'. Wow. Aziz Ansari is an American guy, born and raised in South Carolina no less. His parents Muslims from Southern India.
Of course Americans often look like 'this guy'. He's American. A minority American raised in South Carolina....
What exactly was your point? Could you be specific and less round about?
Taverner
(55,476 posts)There's nothing on Earth wrong with people fucking.
demmiblue
(37,725 posts)Reminds me of Romney's 'if'.
ismnotwasm
(42,402 posts)Not any more maybe.
I get what he's saying but it's an asshole way to say it
Taverner
(55,476 posts)Texasgal
(17,138 posts)and a
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
RC
(25,592 posts)Try reading the whole message slowly to understand what the message is.
It is a Slam against Conservatives/Republicans and their bigoted views against anyone not them.
And the last line is nothing more than an in-your-face tweek to piss those types off.
"How dare someone not pasty white, mess with our white women. Oh, the horror!"
Too many here seem to assume the women involved had little to no say in the matter. The women I know are stronger than that. They choose who they want to have sex with. They know how to say no.
Maybe it's because I am not racist and respect women as equals and prefer stronger women over subservient women, that I can see the message better.
Yeah, respect. It's a two way street. A lesson many need to learn here.
They demand respect for their views, but offer little to none in return for differing opinion.
A voice of reason and sanity. Thank you.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)I am guessing and hoping that you don't have daughters to pass your nonchalance at this type of remark to:
Look, if you're opposed to interracial relationships, guess what: I'm fucking white girls, there's nothing you can do about it!"
Ansari added that every time he has sex with a white girl he thinks of those antigay folks opposed to interracial relationships "for a couple of pumps."
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Briggs Amendment and all. At one of his lectures, I stood up and said 'You continue with your bigoted message, I have to leave early to go home and fuck your son.' Which is what I did. His son and I were fucking. Pissed the Dean off to no end.
What would you have had me do? Sit politely and say nothing? Because if I said his son and I were fucking, that would objectify his son? Or me? Both?
Feel free to explain how offensive I wast that day, then procede to explain why you keep claiming Aziz is not American....
JI7
(90,198 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)BUT, we applaud him when we post it in a positive manner, or when this man says it cause the greater point is a jab at racists and homophobics.
i dont think we need to diss one group to stand up for two others.
instead of being a better person, it makes us the same.
Comrade_McKenzie
(2,526 posts)porphyrian
(18,530 posts)Actually, never mind, I take that back; I'm not amazed.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)porphyrian
(18,530 posts)janx
(24,128 posts)Into the garbage you go.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)Comrade_McKenzie
(2,526 posts)polly7
(20,582 posts)where people who do are coming from. All he's saying is that opposition to gay marriage is just as ridiculous and dated as it was to interracial relationships ... get over it, we're evolving. Would this have been as distasteful to some here if it came from a woman? I doubt it.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)More sexist, racists "jokes" on DU. Object? You're trying to be PC. You're part of the "sisters of outrage" (or whatever the fuck the above poster said to make fun -- it's the only way to beat down these goll dern feminists don't 'cha know). I haven't read the rest of the responses but there's got to be the "why do you hate women?" and "you're just mad because he didn't pick you" or "your ashamed of your body." There are thousands more I just don't care to reach back into my memory and utilize all the anti-women rhetoric that is perfectly acceptable on DU.
Let the good times roll, DU!
ButterflyBlood
(12,644 posts)That has been made many times, the same people against gay marriage would probably be complaining about interracial marriage 50 years ago.
ambistoes
(1 post)Just watched his special on Netflix. His attitude towards women is despicable. He jokes about sending penis pictures to a woman who tells him to stop texting her. He proudly says that he texts her again with another penis picture. To me, this is the mentality of a sexual predator. He doesn't care if the woman says no to a sexual organ picture. He just thinks he's so funny by violating her rights by sending her another penis picture in another attempt at humor...or is there something more he's doing like maybe getting kicks out of violating that woman's rights to not be subject to the image of a penis?
I liked his first standup that focused on his celebrity connections and his nephew. However, recently, he is much more sexually aggressive about women, not to mention claiming he'd be a much smarter and more vocal child than all of those children who've been molested. I will never watch anything he's in from this point on. He's gone over the line.
Also, I do find his revenge sex with white women very disconcerting. Obviously, he sees that he's a victim and must revel in a "triumph" of having his way with a white woman at every opportunity. What a very empty existence. Can't say this last special will make him any more popular with any ladies of quality.
gopiscrap
(24,112 posts)In_The_Wind
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I seriously doubt if his attitude will make him popular with any lady.
mercuryblues
(14,860 posts)if he is indeed fucking girls, I'd say he is doing something illegal.