devilkingx2 said:
I was with you until this post... so what you're saying is that you felt superior to the less popular kids(plebeians/philistines) because you were popular(blue blood) and they weren't and that's what lead to this post...
you're kidding right?
That isn’t it. The point is that there were differences between the two groups, one of which I felt comfortable in because I was simular to them and the other group where I felt out of place.
What I’m trying to do here is to show that the process that led someone like Stagger Lee to be so hateful towards women and the so called feminization of the US is the exact same process that led me to feel a great deal of pleasure being around women and being grateful that the feminist movement has helped to make America a better place.
This socialization doesn’t end when one becomes an adult but continues throughout life. To show how this comes up I’ll describe a bit of some legal trouble I’ve recently resolved.
I was accused of a crime that not only didn’t I commit but a crime that never happened. The original charge came because an accuser made the argument that since I did A I must have also done B. There was never any evidence to show this. The whole of the charge rested on the accuser and the arresting officer claiming that I had admitted to the two of them and another officer that I had indeed done B. I never made such an admission – they were in essence, liars.
Long ago I had participated in a court watching study. I came away from that experience with the clear understanding that the outcome of most cases could be predicted by the appearance of the principle players – their dress, their posture, their grooming, their looks, their skin color…
Anyhow back to my case and the trial. My accuser was dressed nice, by Walmart standards that is. He wore boots, dungarees, and a sweatshirt under a zip up hoodie. The arresting officer wore his police uniform which looked as if it was designed for walking in fields. Both men had shaven heads that revealed oddly shaped angular heads that were usually covered with hats. My accuser also had one of those circle around your mouth mustache – goatee things. The prosecutor was overweight, had sloppy fitting clothes, and sat and stood in an ungraceful manner. His head was also shaved.
My lawyer and I, on the other hand were dressed in well fitting suits, had well groomed hair on our heads and freshly shaved faces. The judge was an upper middle class middle aged woman.
Even though the same group, the accuser, the cop, and the prosecutor had previously convicted more than a dozen persons on pretty much the same crap, at every step, at every decision the judge sided with me. When the prosecution rested, my lawyer made a motion for acquittal on account of the lack of credibility of the witnesses. It was an easy decision for the judge to make.
The socialization comes in that my accuser and the cop lacked the socialization that would have informed them how to appropriately dress and act. The judge, if she was anything like Valerie, and there were indications she was, would have picked up on this and judged them harshly for it. If I had been more like them I most likely wouldn’t have succeeded.
In any case this is just another example of why I have such a low opinion of those who operate the criminal justice system in the US.
