What in the world? I always do this, but not just with my guy friends, but also with my female friends. Why do they have to be good looking/young? Gay men can't be ugly/old? I've been out with two beautiful girls for dinner, did it look like I was going to have a menage a trois after? Wow, that's incredibly shallow thinking

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well, my thinking is that raggedy football player guys having dinner together would come off to people as two straight friends, since gays tend to care more about appearance and would therefore look nice.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

There are just as many gay people who care about their appearance as much as there are who don't... that's like saying, since "blacks" tend to care more about robbing/murdering/raping people, you should be scared of them when you see them on the street. But it's as much likely they'll rob/murder/rape or some gruesome combination of the three as they will do none of those things or maybe some other person of a different race doing or not doing those things to you.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Why did you just vote my comment down AND argue against it? You only do one you know. But any way, no, it's not always 50-50. Like for example girls are more organized than guys, right? And if you'd heard of a Most-Organized-Student in the school reward or something, then it'd be safe to assume she's a girl. Same goes here, it's NOT 50-50 guys being very neat and appealing normally, especially not to their guy friends, but since they DO look nice for dates, you could guess that they're both on a date. Doesn't mean that all nice-looking guys are gay, just a majority.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Are those first two lines your feeble attempt at making a joke? If you must know, I didn't vote on your comment, up or down. The only time I do that is if you have more ups than me and your argument was extremely stupid. I know it's not 50-50, but I can't imagine the difference being THAT dramatically noticeable. For example, after work I go out with a buddy, sometimes two. I'm usually wearing something business casual, so some khakis and a nice sweater (and it's my personal preference (to dress well)) and my friend usually dresses in an eerily similar fashion, so we both dress nicely and enjoy a nice dinner. Which is immediately followed by raging homosexual intercourse. Jk, but we do this often. And I have tons of other friends that invite me to outings like this. And at the restaurants we go to, it's really a common occurrence for two friends (well dressed) to be out and having dinner, because people visit it right after work.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No... How could that be a joke? I was just saying that it's odd. And that's probably why the post says "young" people, as in teenagers, who don't give a fuck what they're wearing when they're with friends of the same gender. Besides, most teens don't have a personal preference to dress well, and therefore if you were a teen you would be in the minority of the well-dressed straight guys (if you're straight). It's normal for adults to dress nice, though.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Young doesn't mean teens... I'm 20 and I think I'm young... my friends are also around my age. Sure some of the people at work may be older, but the people I hang out with are young. People just don't understand the meaning of bromance... it's something special, that one guy can share with another, without being considered gay. You might be right though, at least in America.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well, I'm a teen, and if I ever see a well-dressed guy my age I stare in awe. So I guess yeah, it depends on location. We might both be right.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Except statistics show blacks DO committ more crimes than whites...it's not a stereotype it's fact.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Which statistics have you been looking at? O.o I've seen some statistics and they point otherwise... let me give you an example that maybe your apparently uneducated self would know. This little thing I like to call colonialism... when Europeans went all over the world and enslaved pretty much anyone who isn't them. This includes black people, brown people, red people, yellow people and any other colour of people under the sun. They raped the women and the killed the men and they robbed the people their prized possessions. And yet, if you tried to study or research this topic, it will show you that minorities are the criminals, because the poor and starving individuals are robbing and killing each other for a slice of the American pie. Are you a fucking idiot? You just make an extremely ignorant statement and expect people to believe you? Have you taken into account what types of crime your "statistics" are talking about? The region? Anything that makes your stupid comment even slightly reliable? Show me your statistics.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

EThat colonialization is outdated. Look up statistics from the last 50 years....almost every year it shows way more blacks than whites comitting violent crimes. It got so bad that the "white collar" jurisidixtion is made of non violent crimes...bc the majority of whites dont commit crimes like blacks do. Dont be so PC you can't see facts. Slavery is not an issue today, black people committing more crimes than whites are.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That colonization is just an example so you can understand what goes on now. Have you considered the people who are getting arrested and their inability to get a good lawyer? If you are poor and you steal a dollar from a person, you will get more jail time than a millionaire who became rich robbing millions of people.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Who cares what they stole? It's still a crime. And the fact is blacks committ more.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No, it's not just what they stole... it's can they afford a better lawyer... if you have a good lawyer, they can make rape look like a jaywalking incident, if they can't afford a good defense attorney, then the prosecuting attorney will make a jaywalking incident seem like a first hand murder.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Again who cares about the lawyer, they wouldnt need one if they hadnt done something wrong in the first place. All you're doing is going "yea they committed a crime but they have shitty lawyers so you know whatever"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yus, but smoking pot isn't a crime... jaywalking isn't a crime... at most it's a misdemeanor. Also, there's also a chance they're not even guilty of the "crime" that they are being accused of.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

From Wikipedia: "For men in their early thirties, African-Americans are about 7 times more likely to have a prison record than whites. They are more likely to have been in prison (22.4 percent) than in the military (17.4 percent). 30 percent of those without college education and nearly 60 percent of high school dropouts had prison records.[35]" The history of European colonialism isn't really relevant here. The fact is that in the year 2011, an African American is much more likely to commit a crime than someone of any other racial group.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's not as simple as that; you need to look at specific areas at a specific time, and then look at the distribution of race in each area and the distribution of crimes by race. Then you need to adjust your data for other variables that could influence these things - socioeconomic class, educational status, net household income, household size and number of children, consistency between generations, health (that is, the WHO's definition of health) just to name a few. You can't just pull a few sentences from an article on Wikipedia that describe crime statistics from the 1960s.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

So because they live in a different place that diminishes the fact they committed a crime? No, regardless of if they're rich or poor, if a person committed a crime then they did. Just because you're poor doesn't mean you don't know any better.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No, you're completely missing my point. Yes, a criminal is a criminal, but a black criminal is not more likely to have been a criminal because they are black. There is more to a statistic than just the number of people it represents, and a lot of information about those people is lost when you reduce it all to a number or a percentage. Lots of factors come into play when someone commits a crime, and I very much doubt that living up to racial stereotypes is top of the list. You are correct in saying that being poor is not an excuse for ignorance, but nor is being rich or having a comfortable income. I said nothing about these factors 'diminishing' crime; turn your thought processes upside down and you might then come to realise that, in fact, these factors all each play their own role in why a person might be motivated to commit a crime in the first place.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Colonialism isn't really relevant? Okay let's ignore that completely INCORRECT statement. Let's also ignore that racism still exists in America. And let's look at where and when these crimes happen. What does your "source" wikipedia tell you about the situation of the person. One, just because someone has been in prison that doesn't mean that they had actually committed a crime. Two, does it tell you if they are rich or poor? Because I feel like lawyers play a bigger role in your sentence than the actual crime. Also look at where in the US these crimes happen and then consider the type of people that live there. I've heard of a case that was appealed, because a (black) man caught smoking was sentenced to 5 years in prison or more. The man had done nothing wrong, except smoke weed. He didn't distribute, no crimes before hand, nothing. I had heard about it, because one of the African American rights people had made a huge case about it and it ended up on the news, this was 2 or so years ago. There are tons of cases where people are wrongfully/unreasonably convicted for crimes, just because they couldn't afford a good lawyer.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Shhhh, ignorant anon. Just shhhh.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

What a stupid post.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

So they're best friends?

by Anonymous 12 years ago