tom sarbeck

I wonder if the terrible trend of “liberals making conservatives angry enough to destroy democracy and minorities” might beget a terrible trend of “authoritarians making the populous angry enough to destroy government buildings and their autocratic occupants”?

Everyone grab your guns and ammo. Buy more, if necessary. Hey clueless assholes, YOU…[Read more]

Marginalised people should be left alone to live our lives. We should not be driven, by the words of others into:

Being told we are less human
Bullied during school into suicide
Encouraging others to take our rights away
Normalising abuse and discrimination against us
Being openly doubted when we are demonstrably hurt and discriminated…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Name as little as three movies about family life where the father is smarter than the mother or even the children. If you can, then they will be the famous “exception that proves the rule.”

I’ve not been vigilant in remembering movies that way. I hate the whole topic of woke now, but I may try to answer this specific challenge you…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Autumn, I don’t think I’m alone in wondering what you find attractive in men or even if you are attracted to men. I mean, other than complete and total congruity with your rather highly politicized way of looking at the world. I can’t imagine you’d get along with anyone who didn’t share it almost 100%

These opinions strike me as exa…[Read more]

Sorry Robert, listing a set of cliche undesirable traits does not prove that the overwhelming majority of women go for tall dark haired men. Evidence please, not stereotypes or your narrow experience. Evidence.

Indeed Simon, considering like, a third of Scottish men are ginger/blonde, does that mean that most of their girlfriends settled for them?

I’d be extremely interested to see evidence that the overwhelming majority of women are interested in tall dark haired men. Please back this up.

I’d also like to see evidence that men are turned off by strong women who could kick some douchebags ass. Please provide evidence for that.

Evidence please (and keep in mind, you didn’t claim this was a…[Read more]

Nice, good old days on tape, instantly accessible via YouTube. She was a groundbreaker, indeed. Maybe middle school teachers in Florida (and a few other states) could play a lot like these for their students? 🙂

_Robert_ wrote:
A humorless, romantically void, 100 lb stick (yet somehow physically strong) woman who is kicking the hell out of 200 lb bad guys is just never gonna be popular. Hero to no one.

Well then, I give myself permission to describe my taste in physically well trained woman heroes as eclectic, while some people just replace one fad or…[Read more]

You’re not a victim. You’re a survivor.

It was not your fault.

This!

Do you think she should’ve been locked away in a mental institution instead?  Society needed to be protected from her  inability to control herself, somehow.

Of course she blames you. You were the ‘Mata Hari’ that drove her to madness and despair etc etc.  When you got together with her, this behaviour wasn’t on the table with you saying fin…[Read more]

It just saddens me that many people here, who are otherwise progressive, tolerant and thoughtful, seem so “hard done by” at the face of demonstrably harmed people speak out about their struggles and are characterised as “woke people” and how they “go wrong”. I play on an ice hockey team in Edinburgh, filled mostly with working class construction…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
Liberals practically handed them the keys. So busy focusing on superficial suppression and political correctness that millions of people are looking for an authoritarian to come out and center it all.

Unseen wrote:
There’s a pernicious doggedness to resisting the notion that there exists more than one way of looking at things w…

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You might note that very little changed in terms of women being sexually harassed, assaulted or raped (at least in open dialogue about it) until the me too movement. Until then, no matter how much people asked politely for it to stop, it changed at a glacial pace. All the while, women being harassed, assaulted and rape in ridiculously high…[Read more]

Most people who are dismissed as woke, are simply standing up for their own equality and dignity. I’m sorry, quietly asking people if they would kindly treat others with respect and equality does not work. This is, once again, a conservative overreaction to people standing up for their rights, equality and dignity.

A few decades ago, the…[Read more]

Thank you. I needed someone to explain this to me like I was 10. Have been walking around doing my lawn, cutting the hedges, and power washing my driveway and the word woke is banging around the sides of my brain. I really had no reference or idea about WOKE. So thanks.

Any time.

Unseen, free speech is not absolute. If you don’t have any problem with curtailing free speech when it comes to libel, copyright, endangering others (shouting fire in a cinema), then I don’t see why you’d be against particularly harmful hate speech which demonstrably leads to violence and suicide against vulnerable people. Perhaps you don’t care…[Read more]