Sometimes you just can't fix stupidRPBrown wrote:Charles L. Cotton wrote:apostate wrote:. I noticed as we entered the auditorium that a lady was really staring at us but I just figured that she didn't know why 3 men not affiliated with the school were there. After the program as we were leaving she made it a point to come up us and say " I wouldn't let my child have one of those kits. I'd be afraid you devil worshipers had put poison or drugs on them". As much as I wanted to say something, I was a good boy and laughed it off.
It just goes to show that no matter what, you will run into people that will not agree with you views and won't even try.
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- Wed Apr 18, 2018 1:20 pm
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Re: Benbrook PD Called for Gun Tshirt in Park
- Wed Apr 18, 2018 7:57 am
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Re: Benbrook PD Called for Gun Tshirt in Park
Does anyone remember the movie "To Sir With Love" Sidney Poitier.
The main basis of the movie is trying to move these underprivileged high school kids into the real world. In one part of the movie he takes them on a field trip and does a social experiment. He has one of the young boys dressed down into their street clothes and another in a business suit. He then sends them out to try and (please excuse as I can't remember 100%) either get directions or a light for their cigarette (this is the 60's)... Anyway... What they discovered was the reactions to both young men.. The one in the suit was given respect and what he had asked for. The ruffian wasn't. He was treated with disdain and discarded and not worth their time.
There is a huge lesson to be learned here... You will be judged on your dress, your manners, your overall appearance. I don't care who you are.. That's life folks.. I believe the annoyed man in a few posts above did an excellent job on this very subject and I agree with him.
The main basis of the movie is trying to move these underprivileged high school kids into the real world. In one part of the movie he takes them on a field trip and does a social experiment. He has one of the young boys dressed down into their street clothes and another in a business suit. He then sends them out to try and (please excuse as I can't remember 100%) either get directions or a light for their cigarette (this is the 60's)... Anyway... What they discovered was the reactions to both young men.. The one in the suit was given respect and what he had asked for. The ruffian wasn't. He was treated with disdain and discarded and not worth their time.
There is a huge lesson to be learned here... You will be judged on your dress, your manners, your overall appearance. I don't care who you are.. That's life folks.. I believe the annoyed man in a few posts above did an excellent job on this very subject and I agree with him.
- Mon Apr 16, 2018 8:59 am
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: Benbrook PD Called for Gun Tshirt in Park
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Re: Benbrook PD Called for Gun Tshirt in Park
Interblog wrote:Quote the linked story: “I figured I might get some comments or looks,” Johnston said.
If Johnston didn't want to go to Chicago, then why did he get on that train? He fully knew that he was getting on the train - he said so himself!
Johnston wearing that shirt is analogous to the young woman with the perky little bottom wearing the short skirt discussed in a thread gone by. In that other thread, most of this forum's commenters acknowledged that, if the woman wears the skirt, then she has to accept the consequences that it brings her. We have to conclude that the very same principle of responsibility applies for a male wearing a provocative piece of clothing as it does for a female, or else we run the risk of endorsing a blatant double standard.
In other words, I see Sailor's point on this one. Yes, Johnston had every right to do what he did. He had every right to bait that woman just as young women have every right to bait men by wiggling their short-skirted bottoms in front of them. But Johnston is engaging in a form of showboating. That, to me, does not embody the humility and the respectful presence that should be projected by gun owners. Johnston erodes the image of gun owners just as Ms. Short Skirt erodes the image of us women.
