Runner who slapped reporter’s butt in road race arrested for sexual battery

Armstronglivs wrote:

yawntown wrote:

The guy is clearly not capable of rational thought, which is why his analogies suck. If the reporter had her ass slapped in a bar (which I'm sure she has), it wouldn't be national news either.

I wouldn't count on it.

At this point I would be surprised if you can count at all.

Armstronglivs wrote:

Thread Translator wrote:

"I'm not interested in discussing your inaccurate comparison but expect everyone to weigh in on all of my inaccurate comparisons"

How attempted cleverness only reveals stupidity. The example I gave was of an actual incident, not a dreamed up example. There was nothing "inaccurate" about it - it happened. Come back when you've looked up the meaning of "hypothetical".

Incomparable is incomparable. You said hypothetical, not I.

Should have asked for some fries with that shake.

Thread Translator wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:

How attempted cleverness only reveals stupidity. The example I gave was of an actual incident, not a dreamed up example. There was nothing "inaccurate" about it - it happened. Come back when you've looked up the meaning of "hypothetical".

Incomparable is incomparable. You said hypothetical, not I.

You obviously still need to look it up.

yawntown wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:

I wouldn't count on it.

At this point I would be surprised if you can count at all.

Surprise, like understanding, must be a novel experience for you.

Armstronglivs-

Must you constantly be so critical of everyone who has a different viewpoint of yourself?

With your extreme intelligence you would have thought that by now you could enlighten all of us with your revised State Law language, for every state, on appropriate and inappropriate touching, and the the settings where each apply... instead of just trying to belittle every poster.

Please Be BETTER and Merry Christmas!

Out of proportion wrote:

How many violent attacks against conservatives on college campuses go unpunished and a butt slap is now being treated as a major crime?

This woman can GTH as far as I'm concerned.

What? Jesus dude. You aren't living in reality. I'm not going to unpack all the stupidity in your response but geez it must suck to be you.

cxz wrote:

Out of proportion wrote:

How many violent attacks against conservatives on college campuses go unpunished and a butt slap is now being treated as a major crime?

This woman can GTH as far as I'm concerned.

What? Jesus dude. You aren't living in reality. I'm not going to unpack all the stupidity in your response but geez it must suck to be you.

It would be interesting to do a poll on this subject and see which act is considered more threatening... I personally would side with Out of proportion...sorry, cxz.

My Christmas Wish wrote:

Armstronglivs-

Must you constantly be so critical of everyone who has a different viewpoint of yourself?

With your extreme intelligence you would have thought that by now you could enlighten all of us with your revised State Law language, for every state, on appropriate and inappropriate touching, and the the settings where each apply... instead of just trying to belittle every poster.

Please Be BETTER and Merry Christmas!

I don't have a problem with someone differing with me. But when disagreement comes with dumb personal insults, as it usually does, I'm happy to reward it appropriately.

Armstronglivs wrote:

My Christmas Wish wrote:

Armstronglivs-

Must you constantly be so critical of everyone who has a different viewpoint of yourself?

With your extreme intelligence you would have thought that by now you could enlighten all of us with your revised State Law language, for every state, on appropriate and inappropriate touching, and the the settings where each apply... instead of just trying to belittle every poster.

Please Be BETTER and Merry Christmas!

I don't have a problem with someone differing with me. But when disagreement comes with dumb personal insults, as it usually does, I'm happy to reward it appropriately.

Seems like YOU DO have a problem with the people that have a different opinion as you, since that is when YOU throw out the insults.

He's an obsessive attention seeker. Hadn't you noticed?

Macdaddy wrote:

Out of proportion wrote:

How many violent attacks against conservatives on college campuses go unpunished and a butt slap is now being treated as a major crime?

This woman can GTH as far as I'm concerned.

This post is freaking hilarious.

Talk about being a conservative snowflake ?

The actual number is: one. And, it was Out of proportion accidentally walking into a door.

Mirror Mirror on the wall wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:

I don't have a problem with someone differing with me. But when disagreement comes with dumb personal insults, as it usually does, I'm happy to reward it appropriately.

Seems like YOU DO have a problem with the people that have a different opinion as you, since that is when YOU throw out the insults.

I'm always intrigued at those who think using capitals adds something to what they have to say. And all you have to say is a personal jibe. The irony clearly escapes you.

ignore him wrote:

He's an obsessive attention seeker. Hadn't you noticed?

I don't have to seek it. You freely offer it.

Armstronglivs wrote:

stupid comparison wrote:

Right, and my point is that the man is a victim and could/should bring charges against the perpetrator of that indecent assault. Perhaps the better question to ponder is why the man in this case does not see himself as a victim. Clearly you are outraged by the woman's actions as am I. Why shouldn't men hold women to the same standard of civility and decency?

No, I am not outraged. I am fairly indifferent to it - like most people apparently, or there would be an sizeable number of prosecutions for such incidents. You "outragees" are in quite a minority.

OK, well even if you find ass slapping and crotch grabbing by strangers an acceptable form of social interaction, be advised the majority of people do not. Just be forewarned this type of behavior may result in legal charges being filed and court proceedings. Personally, I find your feelings of indifference around such gratuitous behavior slightly baffling. I would use the term 'indifference' to describe my reaction to more innocuous forms of interpersonal greetings like whether someone chooses to shake my hand or not. Cracking people across the butt, slapping them in the face or grabbing their crotch is not acceptable. If there's still any remaining confusion in your bizarro head about this, hopefully recent events have clarified things for you and others who share your persuasions.

Guys we've let him thoroughly embarrass himself. No need to pile on.

It's certainly not acceptable behavior and incredibly dumb of the guy do that while a reporter is covering an event. Not to mention the 32 minute 5K. There ought to be rules and regulations for being that stupid and pretty slow!

He'll probably get some community service and a fine for this.

I can't remember when/where but I was at some social function in the past 10 or 15 years--it might have even been a work related picnic or something like that at a previous job I had--or club social event or who knows--where a middle aged guy swatted (40s-50s) a younger woman (30s) on the behind in front of some 50 people. And they were not married/a couple. She was shocked and everyone kind of was like woah! But everything went back to normal within 5 seconds. And there was no follow up that I heard about. Maybe only one or two other times have I seen that in a public setting (including parties and casual social events). And do not recall ever seeing that in high school or college. And that's going back some years.

I don't think there's a lot (any?) of people who are claiming this is 'acceptable'. Where the disconnect lies is the outrage and victimhood. The guy apologized, said it was inappropriate, and she's doubling down on the 'you stole my power' routine.

If you want to strictly go by legal definitions, a hearty slap on the shoulder can probably be found to be some sort of assault or battery, if someone goes a bit to hearty and actually hurts the person they're greeting, technically they could probably make a case. No one does because it's understood to be a mistake.

While I certainly don't want anyone slapping my wife or daughter's butt, I certainly hope I haven't married or don't raise a woman who emotionally crumbles should said act occur. That speaks volumes to weakness and a lack of resiliency, particularly when the guy publicly apologizes. And as many people have already pointed out, un-asked-for butt slaps happen to/from all genders all the time. What are we to make of this? Am I some sort of superhero cause I got my butt slapped a dozen or so times by male and female alike and still 'have my power'? No. I am not the exception, I am the rule. The exception(s) are the people who are so emotionally fragile they can't handle such minor acts. They are the vast minority, we don't need to be empowering them into further victimhood. Maybe teach them resilience instead.

My Christmas Wish wrote:

Armstronglivs-

Must you constantly be so critical of everyone who has a different viewpoint of yourself?

With your extreme intelligence you would have thought that by now you could enlighten all of us with your revised State Law language, for every state, on appropriate and inappropriate touching, and the the settings where each apply... instead of just trying to belittle every poster.

Please Be BETTER and Merry Christmas!

Don't even bother with him. He's a d*ck in every thread. Ignoring him is the only answer. It won't cost you anything as the content of his posts are 99.9% nonsense, so you'll be fine.