Is This Racism?

[octothorp]

Originally Posted by Mighty Tytan

well thats the sound of the point going over your heads.

fact is, the gym would never exist, men are not allowed to have their own clubs.

women, chinese, native and so on are ok, but you would never get away with making a mens only "anything" club.

Right, because there are no men's only basketball leagues around...

[Barnet Flame]

Originally Posted by Mighty Tytan

well thats the sound of the point going over your heads.

fact is, the gym would never exist, men are not allowed to have their own clubs.

women, chinese, native and so on are ok, but you would never get away with making a mens only "anything" club.

My brothers at the Men's Handlebar Moustache Growing and Erectile Dysfunction Club are gonna be pissed when they hear about this at the next EGM.

[Suave]

Originally Posted by Mighty Tytan

well thats the sound of the point going over your heads.

fact is, the gym would never exist, men are not allowed to have their own clubs.

women, chinese, native and so on are ok, but you would never get away with making a mens only "anything" club.

Doesn't the Bow Vally Club have a men's and women's Club?

http://www.bowvalleyclub.com/membership/mens-club

Also there are other men's only clubs in Canada and the States. There still mens only golf clubs as well.

[Traditional_Ale]

Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder

Yep right over my head. On the other hand, if I went to Men's Only Fitness nothing would go over my head, I'd make sure everything went right in.

Are you sure you meant this as it sounds?

[Weiser Wonder]

Well if I decided to go to Men's Only Fitness, I'd pretty much know what I was getting into.

I wonder if Mighty Tytan is pissed off that there aren't any Men's Only Bathhouses in the city.

[Traditional_Ale]

Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder

I wonder if Mighty Tytan is pissed off that there aren't any Men's Only Bathhouses in the city.

He can do whatever he wants in his own home...

[driveway]

NSFW!

[BigBrodieFan]

Originally Posted by Barnet Flame

And NASCAR.

and hockey.. for the most part

[ynwa03]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

When is white history month anyways?

Every month that's not called Black History Month.

[bc-chris]

Originally Posted by Mighty Tytan

well thats the sound of the point going over your heads.

fact is, the gym would never exist, men are not allowed to have their own clubs.

women, chinese, native and so on are ok, but you would never get away with making a mens only "anything" club.

i agree with Mighty Tytan that a similar double standard exists with men/women & boys/girls groups.

an easy example is how girls can join boy scouts, but i don't think that boys can join girl guides

i can understand the need for ladies only fitness clubs as i'm pretty sure that many ladies probably don't like guys 'checking them out' while they work out

[driveway]

The double-standard exists because white heterosexual men have held every other identifiable ethnic group down on their faces for hundreds, if not thousands, of years and taken everything and anything we want from them.

The idea behind the double-standard is to rectify some of the imbalance in opportunity that has resulted from these hundreds of generations of ultimately inhumane inequality.

If you're one of those people who believe that "equal opportunity exists now" and that such double-standards are examples of "reverse-racism" you're wrong. You don't have a valid point and should remove yourself from the conversation and read a book.

[Rhettzky]

Originally Posted by driveway

The double-standard exists because white heterosexual men have held every other identifiable ethnic group down on their faces for hundreds, if not thousands, of years and taken everything and anything we want from them.

Easy now, I'm not going to deny that you may be right in a couple of cases but "every other identifiable ethnic group"? A wee bit of an exaggeration, no?

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by driveway

The double-standard exists because white heterosexual men have held every other identifiable ethnic group down on their faces for hundreds, if not thousands, of years and taken everything and anything we want from them.

The idea behind the double-standard is to rectify some of the imbalance in opportunity that has resulted from these hundreds of generations of ultimately inhumane inequality.

If you're one of those people who believe that "equal opportunity exists now" and that such double-standards are examples of "reverse-racism" you're wrong. You don't have a valid point and should remove yourself from the conversation and read a book.

So when are we going to apply the same standard to the Mongols? Or those damn dirty Italians?

[Mightyfire89]

You'd have to pay me to care about this. Someone wants to have a tournament in which only a certain race or ethnic group can participate? F'n giver...I couldn't possibly care less.

Such an uptight a-hole world we live in now.

[Cain]

Originally Posted by driveway

The double-standard exists because white heterosexual men have held every other identifiable ethnic group down on their faces for hundreds, if not thousands, of years and taken everything and anything we want from them.

The idea behind the double-standard is to rectify some of the imbalance in opportunity that has resulted from these hundreds of generations of ultimately inhumane inequality.

If you're one of those people who believe that "equal opportunity exists now" and that such double-standards are examples of "reverse-racism" you're wrong. You don't have a valid point and should remove yourself from the conversation and read a book.

So to fix a wrong that occurred in the past, we should now victimize the whitey's?

Don't get me wrong, things like this don't really bug me so much, but the notion that we should just keep swinging the pendulum back and forth to try and "make right" what has happened previously rubs me the wrong way. Why not just flat out stop that pendulum? Any advantage or discrimination is noted, even if there is an underlying reason for it. This breeds frustration and anger until finally the group of people that are being marginalized feel that they deserve their time at the top. Maybe they do, but it is a never ending cycle once you go down this road.

I feel the same regarding native issues in canada quite frankly. There shouldn't be a continuous cycle of handouts and apologies. Do something substantial once, then treat them like everyone else is.

[icecube]

They aren't really handouts though. They're treaties. We all benefit from them. It's what was agreed upon in return for the land.

How are the "whitey's" being victimized pray tell?

Do you not live on canadian soil? Reap the rewards of the resources? Thank the treaties for that.

[mikey_the_redneck]

Originally Posted by driveway

The double-standard exists because white heterosexual men have held every other identifiable ethnic group down on their faces for hundreds, if not thousands, of years and taken everything and anything we want from them.

The idea behind the double-standard is to rectify some of the imbalance in opportunity that has resulted from these hundreds of generations of ultimately inhumane inequality.

If you're one of those people who believe that "equal opportunity exists now" and that such double-standards are examples of "reverse-racism" you're wrong. You don't have a valid point and should remove yourself from the conversation and read a book.

So .........it is acceptable punish current white people for the mistakes of white people from past centuries?

How ridiculous.

[icecube]

Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck

So .........it is acceptable punish current white people for the mistakes of white people from past centuries?

How ridiculous.

What is this punishment you talk of?

[Cain]

Originally Posted by icecube

They aren't really handouts though. They're treaties. We all benefit from them. It's what was agreed upon in return for the land.

How are the "whitey's" being victimized pray tell?

Do you not live on canadian soil? Reap the rewards of the resources? Thank the treaties for that.

I was attacking the train of thought that this was ok, not bringing up specific examples. I don't feel like "whitey's" are being super victimized at all.

[mikey_the_redneck]

Originally Posted by icecube

What is this punishment you talk of?

I'll use the word discrimination instead.