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Old 06-14-2010, 03:08 PM   #1261 (permalink)
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It's more a matter of respect for those around you than simply bumbling about in life concerned for only your own desires and no concern for who you may be offending. Especially children. If I was at that game with my kids, I'd have something to say.

Again, it's a matter of respect and decency, not conforming.
I disagree...I think what pisses people off is that Lady Gaga is *not* conforming to your or other people's view of decency and respect. I feel people should be able to dress in a conforming fashion (jeans, T-shirt, baseball cap, red neck) or non-conforming fashion (such as Lady Gaga's attire), as they wish.

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And the whole "if you don't like it, don't look" argument fails when lines are crossed. The mistake people make is thinking they themselves define that line individually, but when you're sharing a world with the rest of society, the lines are drawn by all and are wide enough to be obvious.
The lines...she was within legal lines, I assume, in what she wore? As for social lines about what people should wear, as long as the clothing isn't dangerous (jagged points), then I feel complaining vocally with hostility about what someone else is wearing is MUCH worse than the offending clothing itself. If she wore those pointed breast covers that could gauge out a person's eye, then probably even *I'd* complain!

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I would say the opposite. I would say she wants people to judge her based on her clothing. She wants people to think she's 'unique', and he rmusic alone doesn't do it.
Yes, I think you are right...she wants people to feel she's unique...though I think she intends the fashion to blend with the music as one whole entity.
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Old 06-14-2010, 03:12 PM   #1262 (permalink)
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I disagree...I think what pisses people off is that Lady Gaga is *not* conforming to your or other people's view of decency and respect. I feel people should be able to dress in a conforming fashion (jeans, T-shirt, baseball cap, red neck) or non-conforming fashion (such as Lady Gaga's attire), as they wish.
I find it funny that she feels the need to be non conformist in a stadium full of people and a television crew.
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Old 06-14-2010, 03:35 PM   #1263 (permalink)
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I disagree...I think what pisses people off is that Lady Gaga is *not* conforming to your or other people's view of decency and respect. I feel people should be able to dress in a conforming fashion (jeans, T-shirt, baseball cap, red neck) or non-conforming fashion (such as Lady Gaga's attire), as they wish.

The lines...she was within legal lines, I assume, in what she wore? As for social lines about what people should wear, as long as the clothing isn't dangerous (jagged points), then I feel complaining vocally with hostility about what someone else is wearing is MUCH worse than the offending clothing itself. If she wore those pointed breast covers that could gauge out a person's eye, then probably even *I'd* complain!
Scenario: Relatives are having a funeral for their recently departed loved one. Do you:
A) Run through the graveyard screaming and yelling with barely any clothes on, disrupting the entire funeral?
B) Quietly and reverently show up to the funeral with barely any clothes on, disrupting the entire funeral?
C) Put some fucking clothes on and have a little empathy and respect for someone other than yourself?

If we're going to get down to respecting lines drawn by society, we can go all the way. Do you think rapists are just non-conformists? What's so different from a rapist forcing his will on a woman than a woman forcing her will on someone else who may not want to be exposed to it? Why is relevance to law the only thing you apparently think matters in the scheme of society?

If you think I'm blowing it all out of proportion, you're perfectly correct.
I am. Wouldn't want to conform to your sensibilities or anything...
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Old 06-14-2010, 03:49 PM   #1264 (permalink)
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Scenario: Relatives are having a funeral for their recently departed loved one. Do you:
A) Run through the graveyard screaming and yelling with barely any clothes on, disrupting the entire funeral?
B) Quietly and reverently show up to the funeral with barely any clothes on, disrupting the entire funeral?
C) Put some fucking clothes on and have a little empathy and respect for someone other than yourself?

If we're going to get down to respecting lines drawn by society, we can go all the way. Do you think rapists are just non-conformists? What's so different from a rapist forcing his will on a woman than a woman forcing her will on someone else who may not want to be exposed to it? Why is relevance to law the only thing you apparently think matters in the scheme of society?

If you think I'm blowing it all out of proportion, you're perfectly correct.
I am. Wouldn't want to conform to your sensibilities or anything...
Well at least you realize that those comparisons are completely out of proportion...they're also kind of useless...and if you were joking, it's terribly distasteful.

She wore a bra to a baseball game, not a funeral, it's an acceptable non-conformity that only upsets those of delicate temperments. I don't think any of the guys there will be rushing to a rape support centre anytime soon.
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I think he was emphasising the situation.
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Well at least you realize that those comparisons are completely out of proportion...they're also kind of useless...and if you were joking, it's terribly distasteful.

She wore a bra to a baseball game, not a funeral, it's an acceptable non-conformity that only upsets those of delicate temperments. I don't think any of the guys there will be rushing to a rape support centre anytime soon.
You're missing the point.

The comparisons weren't meant to prove a relationship between being almost naked at a baseball game vs a funeral. I didn't think I'd have to spell that out.
I'm talking about placing a general importance on what affects other people when you have to share a planet with them, and not calling it 'conformity' when it's damn well not.
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The comparisons weren't meant to prove a relationship between being almost naked at a baseball game vs a funeral. I didn't think I'd have to spell that out.
I'm talking about placing a general importance on what affects other people when you have to share a planet with them, and not calling it 'conformity' when it's damn well not.
Yes, but you used two much more extreme situations to illustrate that point, and then tack on the whole ''Im not conforming. I'm just as inconsiderate as GaGa'' thing, when really, that doesn't compare either.

Anyway, I've been to some sports matches, and a lot of guys go topless, some showing just as much skin as GaGa. And yes, people should be aware of what impact they have on others, but people are responsible for their own emotional reactions to non-harmful behaviours. This shouldn't be a one way street either, the guys who are booing GaGa are honestly far more immature and inconsiderate than she is. I recently read about a lesbian who was denied access to her prom because she wanted to wear a tuxedo; were the organizers of that event considering the feelings of the girl in question? No.
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Yes, but you used two much more extreme situations to illustrate that point, and then tack on the whole ''Im not conforming. I'm just as inconsiderate as GaGa'' thing, when really, that doesn't compare either.

Anyway, I've been to some sports matches, and a lot of guys go topless, some showing just as much skin as GaGa. And yes, people should be aware of what impact they have on others, but that people are responsible for their own emotional reactions to non-harmful behaviours. And this shouldn't be a one way street either, the guys who are booing GaGa are honestly far more immature and inconsiderate than she is. I recently read about a lesbian who was denied access to her prom because she wanted to wear a tuxedo; were the organizers of that event considering the feelings of the girl in question? No.
What do I have to do for you to stop critiquing a comparison we already established wasn't the point of the discussion?

About that poor lesbian, that's just wrong.
But if we want to get into ridiculously non-comparative comparisons again, which I don't....


Look. I just think GaGa looked like a trailer ho at that game, and I personally thought she could have maybe put aside her whole "individuality" act aside for at least (but obviously didn't because she really did want the attention) long enough to actually be at a ball game to watch the ball game and not cause a ruckus and probably offend multiple people and their children who paid for a fucking ball game and not a pair of fucking Lady GaGa tickets.
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I find it funny that she feels the need to be non conformist in a stadium full of people and a television crew.
Meh...maybe there were all sorts of women wearing bikinis at the game, but only GaGa got the attention because she is famous. I see ads all the time on TV for Victoria's Secrets lingerie...and even here in our tiny Iowan mall, they've got a Victoria's Secrets with gigantic pictures of women in panties and skimpy bras...so I don't know how "non-conformist" wearing a bikini to a ballgame really is.

And anyway (like Goblin Tears says) a lot of men go completely topless and no one gets their undies all in a wedgie over that. Or maybe they do, depending on who it is going topless!

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Scenario: Relatives are having a funeral for their recently departed loved one. Do you:
A) Run through the graveyard screaming and yelling with barely any clothes on, disrupting the entire funeral?
B) Quietly and reverently show up to the funeral with barely any clothes on, disrupting the entire funeral?
C) Put some fucking clothes on and have a little empathy and respect for someone other than yourself?
B. I also wear running shoes when I go visit people's churches, because running shoes are the most comfortable, and I don't like this "dress for respect" idea. If the dead person felt, when alive, that I needed to dress up to please him or her or to prove that I liked him or her, then probably that person wasn't much of a friend, anyway.

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If we're going to get down to respecting lines drawn by society, we can go all the way. Do you think rapists are just non-conformists? What's so different from a rapist forcing his will on a woman than a woman forcing her will on someone else who may not want to be exposed to it? Why is relevance to law the only thing you apparently think matters in the scheme of society?
The difference between me showing up in my skimpy bikini at a ballgame, forcing the sight on people who look in my direction, and a man raping me is that in the former case I cause no direct physical damage or physical harm to anyone. They may be shocked, even horrified...but not a hair on their head will be damaged (if their heads have hair).

Yes, rapists are non-conformists, because they are violating our society's strongest line that we are not supposed to cross: they are physically violating someone, crossing the boundary of space and physically manipulating and handling someone against the victim's will. They are also conformists, conforming to the tired and ancient notion that men "should have power over women."

I actually don't think the law *is* the most important thing, Freebase. I disgree with the laws in the U.S. that allow a man but not a woman to go topless at a sports game. The law is unfair and sexist.

If people are offended by someone wearing something scanty in public, and berate the person, this is no different than people being offended by and targeting someone who is homosexual or bi or transgender and wears "non-conformist" clothing. (And GaGa *was* kissing a woman). I side with people's right to freedom of dress.

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Anyway, I've been to some sports matches, and a lot of guys go topless, some showing just as much skin as GaGa. And yes, people should be aware of what impact they have on others, but people are responsible for their own emotional reactions to non-harmful behaviours. This shouldn't be a one way street either, the guys who are booing GaGa are honestly far more immature and inconsiderate than she is. I recently read about a lesbian who was denied access to her prom because she wanted to wear a tuxedo; were the organizers of that event considering the feelings of the girl in question? No.
Bingo! Yes, yes, and yes, Goblin! I agree with you completely. I also read about the girl denied access to her prom. The school district ended up canceling the prom, and a federal judge said that not allowing Constance (the girl) to go with her female partner was a violation of constitutional rights.
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I think Gaga felt she had to get people's attention somehow. And she was probably aware that not many guys find her that attractive so she had to be a little more creative than just dressing like a slut.

One thing can't be denied, she is an absolute genius at marketing herself.
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