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Is it just me, or is the discussion involving DT memories so much better than the demise of DD at State?
My DT degree of separation involves getting a game-day-worn DT jersey that he ended up signing. It is safely vacuum sealed in my safe and awaiting an eventual day of being framed. I tried it on once, and it felt like wearing a dress. The thing is huuuge at size 52 XXL!
And how do you go about regulating whose plumbing matches…? Is there an actual paying position for that? Some people are simply androgynous looking and it’s hard to tell either way.
It’s a ridiculous law, and most certainly needs to be repealed. The perv-gaining-access-to-my-daughter/wife-via-dressing-like-a-woman-argument is ridiculous. Unless said perv is a “professional” drag queen, it’s not easy looking like a woman. Do you think the skills used by most women to apply make-up, etc. is an easy thing to do? I certainly couldn’t do it without years of practice, yet my wife can do it while driving to work and look flawless. I get the sentiment, I really do. While I don’t have daughters, I do have a wife and two sons. Pervs are gonna do what they’re gonna do, regardless of what laws are in place. Rarely has a man dressed as a woman simply to gain access to a woman’s restroom, locker room, etc. What worries me more is the fact that more boys are sexually assaulted in the men’s room than there are assaults on women in women’s restrooms.
In 2002, in Concord, NC, a neighbor/friend of mine went up to the local community college (Cabarrus County Community College) regarding some paperwork as he was attempting to take some classes. He brought along his 8 year old son. While he was speaking with an official his son indicated he needed to go to the bathroom. When he didn’t come back after longer than normal, he went to in to the bathroom, which was right around the corner from the office he was in. As he entered, some dude bolted past him. His son was crying and told him that he was assaulted by the guy who ran past my friend. The guy was later caught and pleaded guilty. the perv was a student at CCCC and was previously arrested for the same type of assault. It was pure coincidence that a child on a college campus was using the same restroom. The point is that you hear more about boys being assaulted in their “own” restroom by other men that you do about women in their appointed restroom. Again, I get the sentiment, but the chance that something “could” happen, or in cases in which they actually do happen, shouldn’t outweigh the vast majority of other people’s rights. I don’t get the identification aspect of identifying as another sex, but that’s not how I’m wired. I’m a dude through-and-through and would probably kill a perv if I witnessed an assault on anybody’s family member, not just mine, but I’m not going to blame an entire subset of our society for the atrocities of one fuq’d up individual. The “safety” argument is simple rhetoric. Here are other examples akin to the “safety” aspect of HB2:
– A guy killed another guy with a gun; we should outlaw all guns
– A Mexican raped/assaulted/murdered that white guy; let’s get rid of all Mexicans and do everything that we can to keep them from entering our country
– A football player for (enter name here) University raped that co-ed, all football players should be removed from campus and kept from attending this fine university
– That Muslim just killed 49 people at a night club; let’s ban all MuslimsThe list goes on. This is a knee jerk reaction to the attempted passage of Charlotte’s LGBT-friendly ordinance. Along with all of the other bills out there from other states allowing businesses, etc. to discriminate based on “religious freedom”. It’s simply a way to legalize bigotry and discrimination because a subset of our society feels discriminated against. Like my mama said, “two wrongs don’t make a right”. It’s not like the LGBT community is out to “get you” because you’re of a certain religious background. People simply don’t like what they don’t understand, and view it as an attack on their precious values and moral standards, when in reality, if ya don’t like how somebody lives their life then you don’t need to be a part of it. It’s as simple as that. The gays aren’t out there recruiting to fill their ranks, only Christians do that. Oh…and university/college sports.
I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again…People CHOOSE to be offended. What was written/said was not offensive, people are choosing to biatch and complain because of one of the “Alltime Greats” recently passed. Unless you devoutly believe in Hell and firmly believe in the Devil, should you interpret the remarks as anything other than tongue-firmly-planted-in-cheek? If you don’t get the decades of the “sold our soul to the devil” aspect of the previous article, then whose fault is that? Don’t jump to conclusions about comments made last night in the euphoria of a-once-in-a-decade win. The folks at SFN are good people. I’m not sure anyone associated with SFN is truly insensitive to people’s beliefs as to be purposely inconsiderate of their feelings. It should be evident by the re-writing of the article and subsequent partial “retraction”.
The only “situational awareness” needed is that the Pack won an ugly game in Chapel Hill, but, by all means, don’t let that stop the whining. People’s feel-bads are hurt and they need an Band-Aid for their emotional boo-boos.
