Comments on: Defining Traits

By: joan brack

joan brack — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:57:36 +0000

Were not Italians the first Latin Lovers?
What happened? The term Latin Lover was invented for the Italian movie stars like Rudy Valentino. Do Italians not think of themselves as Latin anymore? Or is that title gone over to the Latinos?

By: MP V

MP V — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:52:00 +0000

what I want to know is, why can a fat person describe someone else as fat but a thinner person can’t? I have found myself describing someone as fat or big to a larger person…upon the realization of my faux paus…I simply said “I mean, they were bigger than you!” They are still speaking to me, so it must be okay. Geez…the first three questions I ask people when describing someone is black/white, tall/short, fat/thin. I guess I didn’t get the PC memo.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:24:00 +0000

I wouldn’t go so far as to say referring to our Prez as an idiot is patriotic, but that is our right.

By: kikkokatty2433

kikkokatty2433 — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:38:00 +0000

I have some confusion with my sexual orientation these days.

By: Tibetan Underworld

Tibetan Underworld — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 05:36:00 +0000

As for the guy who said “Stop blaming George Bush. Just remember he is our President”, i think Jenee blog title proves correct…

Isn’t your country based on a system of checks and balances? What is all this crap about questioning government officials as being unpatriotic. If you actually read your constitution I think you will find it is the most patriotic thing you can do in the United States.

Just a thought…

By: Tibetan Underworld

Tibetan Underworld — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 05:32:00 +0000

I couldn’t agree with you more. Being tactful and being PC are two completely different things.

If someone is black, he should be described as black. If someone is fat, he should be described as fat (or at least rotund).

Here in Australia we got of PC fairly quickly. For a while our Crime Stoppers programme couldnt describe perpetrators by their race because it was seen as evoking some kind of generalisation or stereotype. We cottoned on pretty quickly that that was quite ludicrous, and that ignoring characteristics such as race is just another form of marginalisation.

Now don’t get me wrong, I believe in tact. There is a time and a place for obvious descriptions. However, lets not destroy our ability to communicate by forcing ourselves to qualify descriptions to spare the feelings of somebody that probably doesnt care.

Wow, that was more of a rant than I intended…

By: theorangecast

theorangecast — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 05:12:00 +0000

point noted. but don’t think most people would like it if you called them by their most obvious faults.

By: david

david — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:20:00 +0000

Then there was the time when I was in a conversation with a black guy in the army. We had been having a nice conversation about differences, until I asked him if blacks had dandruff.

He laughed loudly until he realized that I was serious and then he got mad. Now I thought it to be a pretty good question. It was the 70′s and I had never seen a black person in a dandruff shampoo commercial, so I wondered.

I didn’t get an answer that day, because he was too upset. So maybe some caution is in order.

By: david@gommstudios.com

david@gommstudios.com — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:14:00 +0000

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By: rvds.design

rvds.design — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:36:00 +0000

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