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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]Bennyboy
(10,440 posts)after deciding not to open any SI swimsuit issue thread until I had the issue in my hand< i went to my mail box and there it was. A day late which is unusual for SI. And it reeked.
I cam on here with the "I got my SI issue today" thread. I posted no pictures. I posted nothing whatsoever sexual in any way at all. I said it was late which was unusual and that it smelled.
My objective here was NOT flamebait. I was under the impression that for once, (lately) we could have an honest discussion about the mag.
my next post was something equally innocuous, aobut my favorite swimsuit, how the line between the layouts and the advertising was blurred.
No pictures. No "Hubba hubba", not "she's hot". Nothing. My next post, which i could not post, was going to be about walter Ioss and how much he has meant to me as a photographer.
The respondents to that thread really are some of the most incredibly mean people I have ever encountered. The suggestions that if a man sees a pretty girl that he immediately satisfies himself, is so sexist it is not fucking funny. (for the record, I have once "treated my body like an amusement park" to SI. in the fifty years I've seen it..... Cheryl Teigs).
I have never ever not one fucking time ever on this board, ever been that fucking mean to anyone, yet it is a constant with the crowd lately.
Yet, I see flamebaiting threads all day here. Right now there must be five of them on the front page. Of course they all see to have the same flavor to them...
So then, because I would really like to spit in the face of a couple of posters here (you know who you are), I thought some sarcasm was in order. I thought a funny story with my female friend (who is hot as hell) who photos golfers did a strip club tourney would do the trick. (I thought it was pretty funny) Well that was def flamebait, but again, so fucking what? That too (Once past my obvious sarcasm) could have become a discussion about how much my friend (who is hot as hell) has to make little compromises to do her job. Or how she (even though she is hot as hell) is fortunate enough to not have to become a stripper in order to support herself. Or how she works all day taking photos for a few bucks but the strippers get that stuffed in their G string every five minutes. Or how Walter Ioss is HER favorite photographer too and she thinks that being an SI photographer is THE DREAM JOB.
really I've been here a long time and we used to be able to discuss stuff. I know that I have added to it myself, sometimes, probably because I am not with a female partner now, and every once in a while I feel the need to piss someone (a woman or women usually) off, and I do it on DU. But look at my past posts and you wills ee that I seldom post int he sex wars thread. I'd much rather talk about important stuff but the posts die. The list of shit DU don't care about is getting longer everyday (see the TTP thread today for an example) and this board is becoming a one issue forum. (See the anti men threads today for example)
But it is so bad now, Coming to DU now is like having your Mom, your wife, you ex wife and your daughter telling you how to behave every minute.