saaame. i'll always fondly remember that fake commercial she did on snl where she had extra fingers so she uses this paste to remove them.. and they just like, harden and fall off lol /csb
rme @ her. He should have disengaged which he probably was told to do before he was put out to canvas. You're not really suppose to engage with people like this. Disengage and move on, their views will never change especially if they are walking around the DNC looking for trouble.
I am always amazed on how well people do when being put on the spot. I can't quote anything worth shit and the one time I attempted to stand up to a religious protestor, I decided to make a show of ripping up his pamphlet in front of him. Which was made to be tear-proof. Really. I looked it up. They made non-rippable religious tracts. I just sort of threw it on the ground and he said my parents must be ashamed of me.
Fighting for what's right and fucking it up along the way!
LMAO, at least you tried! I don't even try to deal with people like that because I know I'll just get flustered and too upset to make any kind of point.
same here. I can't come up with anything on the spot, even if it's a topic I'm really passionate about. I can't make an argument worth a damn if I'm having a face-to-face debate with somebody, but if I have time to sit down and write out an argument, then I'm fine.
I wish I were better at it too. I live in Denver and during the DNC I got into it with these girls my age holding anti-abortion signs outside the convention center and told them they were tools of a woman-hating movement. They totally didn't get it.
A few days later, on the mall, there was some dickweed and his son holding one of those huge boards with all the groups who are going to hell. They were preaching in front of like 200 people and I kinda lost it and screamed for them to get the fuck out of my city, go fuck themselves (the son said "you wish I would!") and my now-husband had to semi-tug me away because I went BALLISTIC. Someone said something about him "needing to get control of [his] woman" and "those red-headed ones are wild" or something. I just kept screaming profanities and calling them all names.
Two years later at an anti-personhood press event, some older woman came up to me with her fetus pamphlets and started telling me I'm going to hell and that I "suck out babies' brains" and I looked her right in the face and said "yup, they go great on toast." Then I tried to grab one of her pamphlets and she wouldn't let me have it. I told her there was no such thing as hell, and if there were, at least all the interesting people would be there. She retreated.
I then went up to some canvassers and signed up to be a monthly Planned Parenthood donor. XD
I know exactly what you mean. I went to the Reason Rally (the secular/atheist/humanist festival, not the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert thing) with a friend, and the entire time we were getting approached by religious fanatics freaking out about how we were going to hell. One of them actually gave us an opportunity to debate with him. My friend was amazing, spouting off facts and very logically reasoning with the guy. Me? I sort of stuttered and came out with something along the lines of, "Because I say so!"
lol me i would stutter and crumble on the spot. i have a lot of knowledge to back me up and witty comments, but I probably won't remember anything until 5 minutes later.
when the gay marriage law passed in NY i was so excited for some of my friends who were finally able to get married, i made a post on facebook congratulating them and telling them how proud i was.
well....my father who likes to talk a lot about shit he doesn't know about, decided to make a comment saying "it's not right" and then i went right down the list of other things in the bible, right in that same place that it says something about gays, that were also a "sin" and i quoted the bible right to him and boy did he and my mother get angry with me. they were all "DON'T QUOTE THE BIBLE TO ME! I KNOW WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS! I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU'RE GETTING YOUR INFORMATION FROM!"
i was like "well then you shouldn't have said something stupid on my facebook. i'm not deleting my comments, sorry"
then they got even more upset because i knew more about the bible than they did....these "Good Christian church going people" so then my mother decided that they needed to go to "bible study" to learn more about the bible(honestly it's amazing how people think that just because they go to church it equals them knowing everything in the bible. they don't actually READ most of the bible in church).
the good thing in all of this tho, is that one of my mom's good friends' daughter came out as gay last year, and i really think that's helped in changing my parents around about their views on gays and gay marriage. they've come a long way and even tho they're not where i'd LIKE them to be on the topic, they're a lot better than where they were.
This bitch has been fucking cray since the 90's.
He should have disengaged which he probably was told to do before he was put out to canvas. You're not really suppose to engage with people like this. Disengage and move on, their views will never change especially if they are walking around the DNC looking for trouble.
The guy is cute, though.
http://kakuranger.tumblr.com/
Fighting for what's right and fucking it up along the way!
I wish I were better at it too. I live in Denver and during the DNC I got into it with these girls my age holding anti-abortion signs outside the convention center and told them they were tools of a woman-hating movement. They totally didn't get it.
A few days later, on the mall, there was some dickweed and his son holding one of those huge boards with all the groups who are going to hell. They were preaching in front of like 200 people and I kinda lost it and screamed for them to get the fuck out of my city, go fuck themselves (the son said "you wish I would!") and my now-husband had to semi-tug me away because I went BALLISTIC. Someone said something about him "needing to get control of [his] woman" and "those red-headed ones are wild" or something. I just kept screaming profanities and calling them all names.
Two years later at an anti-personhood press event, some older woman came up to me with her fetus pamphlets and started telling me I'm going to hell and that I "suck out babies' brains" and I looked her right in the face and said "yup, they go great on toast." Then I tried to grab one of her pamphlets and she wouldn't let me have it. I told her there was no such thing as hell, and if there were, at least all the interesting people would be there. She retreated.
I then went up to some canvassers and signed up to be a monthly Planned Parenthood donor. XD
Edited at 2012-10-01 02:58 am (UTC)
well....my father who likes to talk a lot about shit he doesn't know about, decided to make a comment saying "it's not right" and then i went right down the list of other things in the bible, right in that same place that it says something about gays, that were also a "sin" and i quoted the bible right to him and boy did he and my mother get angry with me. they were all "DON'T QUOTE THE BIBLE TO ME! I KNOW WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS! I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU'RE GETTING YOUR INFORMATION FROM!"
i was like "well then you shouldn't have said something stupid on my facebook. i'm not deleting my comments, sorry"
then they got even more upset because i knew more about the bible than they did....these "Good Christian church going people" so then my mother decided that they needed to go to "bible study" to learn more about the bible(honestly it's amazing how people think that just because they go to church it equals them knowing everything in the bible. they don't actually READ most of the bible in church).
the good thing in all of this tho, is that one of my mom's good friends' daughter came out as gay last year, and i really think that's helped in changing my parents around about their views on gays and gay marriage. they've come a long way and even tho they're not where i'd LIKE them to be on the topic, they're a lot better than where they were.