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In some of the more shameless acts of liberal media bias against non-conformity, AOL has decided to post the "Men's Long Hair" website in a derogatory fashion.
http://comedy.aol.com/gallery-weird-web-pages
This is yet another reason why I am a centrist and a 2nd Amendment absolutist; both the left and right CANNOT be trusted to be fair and equitable in their extreme viewpoints and demands of the people to conform to THEIR standards of normalcy. - Reinhart
Unless they force you to cut off all of your hair, try not to let things like this bother you so much. Remember, thick skin... thick skin...
True.
But, it makes me wonder if they would try if they could.
And, there are some things to ignore but there are also some things that must be confronted.
I am of the belief that this is something requiring the latter. To me, this is just as bad as the same type of commentary of those of a different race. - Reinhart
last time I tried to keep and exercise my 2nd amendment right the government locked me up...
"last time I tried to keep and exercise my 2nd amendment right the government locked me up..."
Then you must not have been responsible with that right.
The 2nd Amendment is a check and balance of a last resort against tyranny in all forms, foreign and domestic. In the colonial days, this allowed the populous to defend against invading redcoats.
But, this was also a check against corruption of those in power; it was meant to empower the people to force change if those in power were resistant to the changes demanded by the people and to replace those in power with leadership that will represent the interests of the people.
It was also a way for people to fend for themselves against those who willfully and wrongfully act against the rights of others, such as a rapist attacking a woman. Especially since the reality of law enforcement is that the authorities cannot be everywhere at once and, until help arrives, you are on your own in a bad situation where you may have to act with deadly force to survive. - Reinhart
Wow, that's completely rediculous.
JeffL
Uhhh, care to elaborate?
It kind of sounds like you don't think rights come with responsibilities...which seems like a common sense issue to me.
I am not sure what the right of the People to keep and bear arms
has to do with this article... ???
The relevancy: The media should not tread on others. They recklessly cite opinion in an attempt to perpetuate an unfair stereotype that serves only to propagate unreasonable discrimination. Although they have a freedom to say whatever they want, that isn't without the condition to do so responsibly and with respect to others.
There's just letting things slide, like water off a duck's back. But, then again, the media can be so insistent on having people on their side of opinion rather than letting those have their own opinions that the problem cannot be ignored so easily.
It's also this same group of people who are insistent on control, including dictating what they feel should be the people's rights than accepting the "Bill of Rights" at face value. This includes dictating what is proper in regards to the 1st Amendment (freedom of press with disregard to the requirement of responsibility, such as invading people's privacy for matters truly not of public concern) and suppression of the 2nd Amendment, which disallows the people to defend their rights when those in power and station try to tread on them for their own advantage, and so on. - Reinhart
I always thought it was the right to keep and arm bears.
How to approach Teddy with this new info...
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Lol, No it's bare arms. Like in rolling up your sleeves.
This is yet another reason why I am a centrist and a 2nd Amendment absolutist; both the left and right CANNOT be trusted to be fair and equitable in their extreme viewpoints and demands of the people to conform to THEIR standards of normalcy. - Reinhart
I agree..My husbands hair is real long and he was fired after 12yrs of employment when his new boss came in who hated him, and when it came to the wire he was fired because of the thin minded lrft and rigters..shame.. he is a beautiful person with a beauitful soul but he was judged my his hair not his mind or that he was theve everyday and his customers loved him...shame on a society as this..beth
I am very saddened to hear of the unfair treatment your husband has been through. This is exactly the reason why I was kind of peeved when I saw the ridicule of those with long hair on AOL. It perpetuates an unfair attitude not at all different from Americans who were of Japanese descent during World War II or those who were black during the Civil Rights movement. - Reinhart
...rest assured his boss will get all his bad vibes dumped back onto him.
What a mean-spirited bastard: firing a man because of the way he wears his hair.
Happiness will flee from him...
Funny.
When I was a kid, libs were All About non-conformity.
Sometimes I wish I were around a lot of other long-hairs.
But I really don't care.
I have noticed that a lot of women say They Do Not Like Long Hair...Which might be because they almost automatically associate long hair to poverty.
The same women who say they don't like long hair, say that the Most Important Thing in a Relationship is Financial Security.
Thanks for saving me the time and money, ladies!
Comb on, Lads!
The real strange thing about liberalism are that the people behind it today have changed what it means.
Before, it meant change for the better. Now, it's no better than extreme conservatism in how they are insecure of independent thought, action, and expression. Now, the left is just as narrow-minded and lacking in vision and respect as those on the right; the only difference are in principles, but the similarity are that both detrimentally impede on the independence and true well-being of the people.
Maury Povich is one example of a liberal who has his forceful fashion makeovers that force others to change from what they feel comfortable with to what is flavorful of that time (fashions and styles which will likely face ridicule in the near or far future as those characteristics change over time). - Reinhart
Eh, I don't advocate group think, but it's a sad fact of life. It's real, and it's powerful, and it's disgusting.
It's why I would call myself a libertarian, if you had to ask me which party I sympathize with most.
JeffL
At least the guy who wrote about us can't be relied upon to do thorough enough research to learn that the site is anything but abandoned. We're still here. The url the piece links to just isn't used anymore.
They were either sloppy about their research or they deliberately has written it as such to falsely and unfairly augment the obscurity of the website for their own desired effect. - Reinhart
Ya know... when it all comes down to brass tax, you're making this whole issue sound significantly more important than it is. There are over 3,000 dead in Iraq, today. I couldn't care less about what some journalist says about our web site.
Might I suggest putting on some mood music and chilling out a bit? Enigma always works for me.
And it's those same journalists that try to demonize those troops... - Reinhart
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What? I see none of that. Just where do you see that? And post some proof man.
So, someone who has a web site does not like Victor's web site. If you put stuff on the web, you're eventually going to run across someone like that. The question is, are you going to go crawl in a hole and hide, or are you going to "be yourself" and let those who like you find you, and the rest be damned. This is really nothing more than the classic "coming out" decision.
If I pulled every page off my personal site that one of the six billion people on this planet did not like, I would not have any pages left on my web site at all. The hell with them.
Somehow I recall a similar thought going through my mind when I decided to grow out my hair. [grin]
Bill
The comment under my graduating high school photo said it, and I'll say it again.
I'M NOT WEIRD, EVERYONE ELSE IS!
Who cares.
Oh dear we don't have those amendments here in the UK!!!
John.B
Of course, most of our amendments got there in reaction to behavior of people from the UK. [grin]
...but we've since then, over the decades and centuries, become the best of friends. Too bad much of the world can't be as forgiving, letting bygones be bygones. We only have the future to live in; the past is so passe.
Longhairs are beautiful, no matter where they grow their manes.
Bill
I'm not pleased, but I don't care that much either. The media can bash long haired men all they want, I'm not going to cut it. I guess for me, it's all the more fun to know that there are people out there that would DIE of the idea.
Well, that's one side. The other is that in society you are a slave to the reigning culture. The culture that now reigns doesn't like long hair on men. That's a huge disadvantage at job interviews, for example.
But hey, maybe some day people will see the light and realise that it doesn't matter shit how long your hair is, male or female. That we may all be free like this soon :-)
They're using a stale link to the MLHH in the usual clueless AOL fashion.
Now I feel even better that for years as a contract systems admin, I've bad mouthed AOL whenever I encounter it among my customers/clients. I strongly advise them to use Yahoo, Gmail, etc. - anything but AOL. I long ago moved all the AOL dial-ups to other companies and broadband.
"Liberal media"? AOL is part of a large corporate conglomeration whose sole interests are share price and short term profit.
AOL may be a big outfit, but they are desperate for traffic so they create lots of pages to draw it. The page being talked about here is a backwater page. Few will ever see it, and those who compile such stuff are nobodies on the national media stage.
Don't underestimate ourselves on that stage, guys. We get 75,000 hits a day here, and that goes on 365 days a year, and it has been for a decade now. We've surely passed a hundred million hits by now. That AOL page will be replaced with something else before long and will never have a fraction of the audience we have.
When it comes to our field, longhaired men, we have little doubt which media outlet is number one. It is US!
Bill
You make a better point than I do. They state what they did just for that impact at that moment while the website here is more consistent.
But, it still doesn't feel right for another to go about and denigrate others, even if it's for shallow intentions. And, sometimes, shallow intent is worse when you think about it; the denigration it treated casually, as if nobody would ever be offended by it and when there was no good reason for making the remark. - Reinhart
I'll try to cut back on the reloading. Sorry.
Don't worry about it. We could triple our traffic before worrying about a price increase. Our traffic right now is at the bottom of our present pricing tier at the web host.
Bill
Really looks bad on them. Who are they to pass judgment? Not that I CARE what THEY think anyway...
"If I'm wrong, I don't want to be right!!!"
Actually, it makes not one whit of difference to me what "they say." If someone has to ask the question why any guy would want his hair long, that same person probably wouldn't understand the answer!!!
Yet more evidence of the ignorance and stupidity of a large proportion of people. Sometimes I want to live in a commune or become a hermit.