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KitchenWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:13 PM Original message |
I got called a Lesbian today - was I supposed to be offended? |
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RevCheesehead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:14 PM Response to Original message |
1. You should have told her you were a drag queen. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:14 PM Response to Original message |
2. I dunno... |
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Whoa_Nelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:15 PM Response to Original message |
3. I would have laughed my head off! |
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Floogeldy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:15 PM Response to Original message |
4. Yes, you were "supposed to be" offended. |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:15 PM Response to Original message |
5. Yup. But she sounds senile. I wouldn't have told her that, though. |
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edbermac (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:16 PM Response to Original message |
6. You should have told her you were a Republican. |
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nini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:26 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. this reminds me - someone told my mom she looks like Barbara Bush once |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:16 PM Response to Original message |
7. It's sounds like she was using the word 'lesbian' pejoratively. |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:53 PM Response to Reply #7 |
25. I'd certainly never use the word "lesbian" as an insult. |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 08:05 AM Response to Reply #25 |
40. Well, of course you wouldn't, Redstone. That's why you're my favorite. |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 11:51 AM Response to Reply #40 |
46. Why, thank you, BI. I like you, too. Even when we disagree. |
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momophile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:17 PM Response to Original message |
8. dang! are people really this terrible? |
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jonnyblitz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:17 PM Response to Original message |
9. you get mad that it's presumed to be an insult to be called that. |
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elshiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:19 PM Response to Original message |
10. Homophobia is crap. |
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KitchenWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:22 PM Response to Original message |
11. I find the whole situation to be surreal! |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 12:23 AM Response to Reply #11 |
29. One of the best comebacks to that is |
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KitchenWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 12:25 AM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Duck |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 12:27 AM Response to Reply #30 |
32. In that case, I guess jump. |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 11:49 AM Response to Reply #29 |
45. Or: "Yes, I am, wanna go over to my place?" |
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nini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:25 PM Response to Original message |
12. You should have asked her if she was asking you out on a date |
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KitchenWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:26 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. I will remember that next time! |
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Montauk6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 12:05 AM Response to Reply #12 |
28. I was thinking the same: "That's your best pickup line? Sad..." |
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UncleSepp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 12:35 AM Response to Reply #12 |
35. I've done that before |
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Thtwudbeme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 12:23 PM Response to Reply #12 |
51. GMTA!! |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:26 PM Response to Original message |
14. Next time you gotta say, "Your husband can tell you otherwise" |
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bleedingheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:36 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. that was the best one!!! |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:43 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. *cheeky grin* |
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NMMNG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:36 PM Response to Original message |
16. What was she, 12 years old? Using "gay/lesbian" as an insult is so |
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complain jane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:37 PM Response to Original message |
18. "Don't flatter yourself, honey" would have been my response. |
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CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:41 PM Response to Original message |
19. I think you handled it just fine, my dear KW.... |
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bammertheblue (391 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:44 PM Response to Original message |
21. Oh jeebus... |
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KitchenWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:45 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. That is exactly how I felt too |
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Lady President (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
23. How Odd |
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LuCifer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:51 PM Response to Original message |
24. You shoulda told her she looked HOT! |
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Err (887 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 11:57 PM Response to Original message |
26. I hate it when people use terms like that as insults. |
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KitchenWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 12:01 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. You got me by the ass |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 12:26 AM Response to Original message |
31. That's truly bizarre, and I would have been mad too |
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KitchenWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 12:27 AM Response to Reply #31 |
33. And I am the type of person who is actually aggressive enough |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 12:29 AM Response to Reply #31 |
34. Or they stand at the end of the aisle, talking to someone else |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 02:15 AM Response to Original message |
36. "You want me." |
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purr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 07:19 AM Response to Original message |
37. I got called that in hs.. |
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Mad_Dem_X (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 06:42 PM Response to Reply #37 |
63. In HS, that was one of the prime insults |
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Love Bug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 07:44 AM Response to Original message |
38. Dang, KitchenWitch, were you at Byerlys? |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 08:00 AM Response to Original message |
39. No, no...you've got it all wrong. She called you a "Lebanese". |
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ucmike (999 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 10:27 AM Response to Original message |
41. you should have just wagged your tongue at her suggestively. |
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MissMillie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
42. Someone got upset at you because you wouldn't let her block your way? |
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anarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
43. that is truly bizarre |
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jane_pippin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 10:57 AM Response to Original message |
44. What is she, in 1st grade? That's ridiculous. |
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ET Awful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
47. At least she didn't call you a Republican |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
48. I would not be offended being called a lesbian |
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Metta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 12:18 PM Response to Original message |
49. Did you take her anger with you? |
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KitchenWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 04:36 PM Response to Reply #49 |
54. Part of letting it go |
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MsAnthropy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
50. HAHAHA! So much for "Minnesota Nice"! |
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El Fuego (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
52. When my freep friend calls me a "liberal," I know it's an insult. |
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KitchenWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 04:35 PM Response to Reply #52 |
53. Oh, I told her she was rude |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 05:17 PM Response to Reply #52 |
55. You have freep friends? |
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khashka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 05:21 PM Response to Original message |
56. You mean you're not? |
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KitchenWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 05:22 PM Response to Reply #56 |
57. LOL |
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Brewman_Jax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 05:28 PM Response to Original message |
58. You should have asked her |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
59. Kitchy, what I think I might do |
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KitchenWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 05:37 PM Response to Reply #59 |
60. Funny idea |
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City Lights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 06:29 PM Response to Original message |
61. Been there! |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 06:35 PM Response to Original message |
62. Lesbian? I could understand if she had used the D-word, but that's just.. |
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MiniMandaRuth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 06:49 PM Response to Original message |
64. People call me lesbian all the time. |
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Maestro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
65. Hey I've been hit on by more gay men |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 07:42 PM Response to Original message |
66. Hell, I got called a "baby bloodsucking vampire lesbian whore"! |
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khashka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-11-05 03:20 AM Response to Reply #66 |
70. "baby bloodsucking vampire lesbian whore"? |
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Ally McLesbian (395 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 07:58 PM Response to Original message |
67. There is only one response to that. |
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6000eliot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 08:05 PM Response to Original message |
68. Do lesbians park their carts differently? |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 08:31 PM Response to Original message |
69. I was called a faggot once... |
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Maine Mary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-11-05 03:27 AM Response to Original message |
71. Why be offended? |
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