Comments on: You Know, We Do Live Here

By: Dresden

Dresden — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:48 +0000

is rape supposed to be funny?

when referring to safe-as-can-be status,
why the fuck not?

By: ricmac01

ricmac01 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:00:57 +0000

I think you misunderstood who the “Miss Priss” comment was aimed at. There was no ridicule aimed at the commenting reader.

By: Dresden

Dresden — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:19:26 +0000

Oh, that’s right, some of us have integrity and all that –

Well, good thing my real name isn’t Dresden.

Lol.

By: Dresden

Dresden — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:18:27 +0000

I took my math from a Vice magazine. So it’s sound, in that regurgitated hipster soundness -

A hipster chick complains about some bullshit caption that’s perhaps sexist in some slight way. I use her own culture’s most popular bullshit toilet paper as a source on a statistic that buries her argument.

How could I go wrong?

By: pierogieconpollo

pierogieconpollo — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:39:22 +0000

“Dear Miss Priss: Go Away.”

By: Jeremy Sapienza

Jeremy Sapienza — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:31:00 +0000

Um, nobody is giving the girl a hard time. At all.

By: pierogieconpollo

pierogieconpollo — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:21:48 +0000

jeez, lighten up on the girl. can readers only contribute to the blog if they have something positive to say about bushwick? i think that people will think twice about sharing stuff if they think they may be ridiculed in a public manner.

also, i relate to her. when i walk around here i get sexually harassed at least once per block. and hasidic men are the worst. they have tried to lure me into their blue minivans on numerous occasions… once with the promise to “make [me] feel good.” (they are overzealous about “protecting” the women in their own community, but i guess shiksas are fair game?) truly, i would be surprised if all the broker wanted was a plug for the apartment.

i have lived here a long time, and can take this stuff in stride, but it does contribute to what some women feel is a threatening environment (are you female? no? ok then), and i think it is worth mentioning. relating a particular unpleasant experience is NOT a dis on the neighborhood. it’s just one experience, and she shared hers.

also, dresden, can you back up your math?
# of women in the US > # of men in prison. i think that algebra is F’d.

By: Dresden

Dresden — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:45:11 +0000

did you know if you include prison men are 10 times more likely to be raped??????????

guess not.

By: Preethi

Preethi — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:21:07 +0000

Very well said!

By: Someone

Someone — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:08:11 +0000

that caption there is a little offensive
is rape supposed to be funny?