NationStates Jolt Archive


People who assume. And why I want to do violence to them.

Sinuhue
05-12-2005, 17:50
I friggin' hate people who assume shit about you. They look at you, and say, "oh, this person is (insert category), and therefore must believe (insert belief) and probably (insert verb)." You don't know shit about me, you don't know shit about her/him/them...so shut it. I have long hair....and I'm a hippy? How about, I have long hair because I'm a chick with long hair? I don't agree with you, so I'm a commie? How about you don't know shit about my political affiliation, and I cram that smug smile up your *** where it belongs? I eat tofu because I'm for peace? I like my meat still quivering, thank you.

So what stupid, pointless, unfounded crap have strangers said about you?
Kecibukia
05-12-2005, 17:52
So what stupid, pointless, unfounded crap have strangers said about you?

I've been told I must not be intelligent because I joined the military (by someone on this board). Been told I'm a Nazi because I'm a WWII re-enactor. Have a small penis because I own firearms. just for a few.
GuerredeFache
05-12-2005, 17:54
People don't assume much about me, or rather, I don't know what they assume. I'm so quiet around most people that I can hardly think that I come off as anything other than quiet and college-student poor.
Drunk commies deleted
05-12-2005, 17:55
I friggin' hate people who assume shit about you. They look at you, and say, "oh, this person is (insert category), and therefore must believe (insert belief) and probably (insert verb)." You don't know shit about me, you don't know shit about her/him/them...so shut it. I have long hair....and I'm a hippy? How about, I have long hair because I'm a chick with long hair? I don't agree with you, so I'm a commie? How about you don't know shit about my political affiliation, and I cram that smug smile up your *** where it belongs? I eat tofu because I'm for peace? I like my meat still quivering, thank you.

So what stupid, pointless, unfounded crap have strangers said about you?
Well, as a white American male, nobody ever has anything negative to say about me. They all assume I have a job, am a god fearing christian, a law abiding citizen, and vote for one of the two mainstream political parties. It's kind of nice when most of your stereotypes are fairly positive.
Eutrusca
05-12-2005, 17:57
I friggin' hate people who assume shit about you. They look at you, and say, "oh, this person is (insert category), and therefore must believe (insert belief) and probably (insert verb)." You don't know shit about me, you don't know shit about her/him/them...so shut it. I have long hair....and I'm a hippy? How about, I have long hair because I'm a chick with long hair? I don't agree with you, so I'm a commie? How about you don't know shit about my political affiliation, and I cram that smug smile up your *** where it belongs? I eat tofu because I'm for peace? I like my meat still quivering, thank you.

So what stupid, pointless, unfounded crap have strangers said about you?
Wellll ... let's see:

I've been called a neocon, a killer, a conservative, a liberal ( but never a centrist ... God forbid! ), a loser, a dickhead, an asshole, a mercenary, a homo, a queer, a gay lover, a male chauvinist, a nazi, etc. The list is long and mostly profane.

( shrug ) Merely people speaking out of either ignorance or their own sick prejudices. I usually just ignore them, take them to court, or revert to "killer" mode and go all flashback on dey azz! :D
Eutrusca
05-12-2005, 18:01
Well, as a white American male, nobody ever has anything negative to say about me. They all assume I have a job, am a god fearing christian, a law abiding citizen, and vote for one of the two mainstream political parties. It's kind of nice when most of your stereotypes are fairly positive.
How the hell did you pull THAT off?? I'm ( mostly ) white, American, male, retired and I still catch hell. Must be they're jealous of my stirling personality, eh? :D
Drunk commies deleted
05-12-2005, 18:03
How the hell did you pull THAT off?? I'm ( mostly ) white, American, male, retired and I still catch hell. Must be they're jealous of my stirling personality, eh? :D
I was half-joking. Seriously I've never had problems with people stereotyping me, but I realize that there are negative stereotypes to all ethnic groups.
Safalra
05-12-2005, 18:03
So what stupid, pointless, unfounded crap have strangers said about you?
My conservative brother calls me a commie. On forums I've been excused of being extremely right wing or extremely stupid by people not realising I was being satirical (in fact, you once did that, and then encouraged me to use smilies more often :-).
Safalra
05-12-2005, 18:05
I'm so quiet around most people that I can hardly think that I come off as anything other than quiet and college-student poor.
Or a sociopath. :-)
Eutrusca
05-12-2005, 18:05
I was half-joking. Seriously I've never had problems with people stereotyping me, but I realize that there are negative stereotypes to all ethnic groups.
No! Please don't destroy all my childhood illusions. ;)
Smunkeeville
05-12-2005, 18:06
Just last week someone accused me of being brainwashed by the GOP because I expressed my dislike for Nancy Pelosi. It was quite funny, they kept going on and on about how my views are those of a brainwashed person, when I hadn't really expressed any views to them except my dislike for one congress person. :p


Oh, and I can count quite a few times that people have assumed that because I am from the south that I am brain-dead, that because I am a Christian I don't listen to anything but gospel music, that because I am Southern Baptist that I am against gay marriage, and that because I believe in abstinence before marriage that I am anti-choice.

I could go on, but you are bored (I assume)
Sinuhue
05-12-2005, 18:06
Well, as a white American male, nobody ever has anything negative to say about me. They all assume I have a job, am a god fearing christian, a law abiding citizen, and vote for one of the two mainstream political parties. It's kind of nice when most of your stereotypes are fairly positive.
You're a liar. That's why the stereotypes are positive. If you told them you were Italian, things would be a lot different:)
Lunatic Goofballs
05-12-2005, 18:07
People assume I'm evil because I'm a clown. :(
Sinuhue
05-12-2005, 18:07
I could go on, but you are bored (I assume)
*does violence to you for assuming*:p
Eutrusca
05-12-2005, 18:08
You're a liar. That's why the stereotypes are positive. If you told them you were Italian, things would be a lot different:)
Heh! [ makes Sinuhue a offah she can't refuse! ] :D
Eutrusca
05-12-2005, 18:08
People assume I'm evil because I'm a clown. :(
Not so! People assume you're evil because ... well ... because you ARE! :D
Drunk commies deleted
05-12-2005, 18:09
You're a liar. That's why the stereotypes are positive. If you told them you were Italian, things would be a lot different:)
Still positive though. Nobody wants to mess with someone who just might be able to make them disappear.
Smunkeeville
05-12-2005, 18:09
*does violence to you for assuming*:p
I knew you would understand;)

btw did you check out the "Trust" thred? you are the only person on general that I would trust to watch my kids for a week. :p
Sinuhue
05-12-2005, 18:10
The worst thing is, I can't help but get pissed off when people make loud public statements about me that are based on ridiculous assumptions. You can't fight it though...if you protest and deny, you sound like you're hiding something, and if you say nothing, it seems as though you agree, or are too chicken-shit to defend yourself. Which is why I sometimes want to use my fists. Grr. I had this great dream last night actually, where I went into boxing again, and just ran around punching people out. It was great, because it was ONLY A DREAM. Maybe I should get back into boxing though...just to work out this agression in an acceptable way...and hey, I no longer care about getting my nose broken (one of the reasons I quit)...
Pure Metal
05-12-2005, 18:10
few stupid ones cos i'm actually a walking stereotype (been told that many times) :p

but none of the stereotypes i fit are really me, and i don't particularly care what other people have to say or think anymore, so whatever *shrugs*
Sinuhue
05-12-2005, 18:11
Still positive though. Nobody wants to mess with someone who just might be able to make them disappear.
Ha! I guess:) Never said to your face...yeah, I'd prefer that.
Sinuhue
05-12-2005, 18:11
I knew you would understand;)

btw did you check out the "Trust" thred? you are the only person on general that I would trust to watch my kids for a week. :p
Wow. !

Thank you very much!
Dempublicents1
05-12-2005, 18:11
I've been called a left-wing liberal nutjob and a right-wing Bush-supporting poopiehead all in the same week. I've been called a militant atheist and a schizophrenic who believes in a fairy in the sky all in one thread on NS.

People have assumed that I am anti-gay because of my religion and assumed that I am gay because I am not anti-gay. People have assumed that I am a man because I am worried about gender issues from all sides, not just from the feminine one. People near constantly assume that I am a Democrat when political talk begins, unless it is economic, then they think I like Bush (haha). When I had short hair, people were much quicker to assume I was a lesbian. I've even had one guy insist, despite my telling him otherwise, that I *must* wear contacts.
Lunatic Goofballs
05-12-2005, 18:12
Not so! People assume you're evil because ... well ... because you ARE! :D

I actually have a very innocent face. People usually find out I'm evil the hard way. But by then, it's not an assumption. Nevertheless, people do assume I'm evil when they find out I'm a clown. I am evil. But the assumption hurts. :(
Sinuhue
05-12-2005, 18:12
few stupid ones cos i'm actually a walking stereotype (been told that many times) :p

but none of the stereotypes i fit are really me, and i don't particularly care what other people have to say or think anymore, so whatever *shrugs*
"It's easy not to care, what people say...it's harder to pretend, to try..." - K-OS

You care. Just not too much. But you care. We all do, to some extent.
Revasser
05-12-2005, 18:13
Assumption is unavoidable. You show me someone who doesn't assume things about other people and you'll have shown someone with a lobotomy and/or in a completely vegetative state.

I like assumptions. When I make assumptions about people, they're usually negative ones. If they're proved wrong, then yay, the person doesn't suck quite as much! If they're proved right, then yay, I was correct in my initial judgement. I win either way.
Sinuhue
05-12-2005, 18:14
I can usually come up with some comment to wither idiots who say stupid shit to me...but every once in a while, I'm caught speechless. And that's when I want to react violently...say it with my fists instead. People are such asswipes.
Sinuhue
05-12-2005, 18:15
Assumption is unavoidable. You show me someone who doesn't assume things about other people and you'll have shown someone with a lobotomy and/or in a completely vegetative state.

I like assumptions. When I make assumptions about people, they're usually negative ones. If they're proved wrong, then yay, the person doesn't suck quite as much! If they're proved right, then yay, I was correct in my initial judgement. I win either way.
Oh, assumptions are natural, for sure. But voicing a stupid assumption, and framing it as an insult...that's my beef. I can't stop you from thinking...nor would I want to.
Vaitupu
05-12-2005, 18:17
I got called an american hating nazi for outlining why congress apologized to Hawai'i...odd when you consider the fact that for me to be a nazi, I would have had to have killed myself.
Revasser
05-12-2005, 18:17
Oh, assumptions are natural, for sure. But voicing a stupid assumption, and framing it as an insult...that's my beef. I can't stop you from thinking...nor would I want to.

What you say?! You must be a COMMUNIST NAZI JEWISH MUSLIM!!!! GO BACK TO CANADA!!
Bolol
05-12-2005, 18:18
I've been called anything (but not limited to) you see on the list below.

Fag
Bleeding Heart
Commie
Facist
Baby Killer
Tree Hugger
Gun Lover
Non-Believer
Bible Thumper
Cathylic (spell dammit!)
Hypocrite
Dweeb
Spaz
Paranoid

and

Flip Flopper

If some of those contradict, that is how messed up my image is.

Wellll ... let's see:

I've been called a neocon, a killer, a conservative, a liberal ( but never a centrist ... God forbid! ), a loser, a dickhead, an asshole, a mercenary, a homo, a queer, a gay lover, a male chauvinist, a nazi, etc. The list is long and mostly profane.

Centrist motherf***er!

You've been called a centrist...happy now man? :p
Drunk commies deleted
05-12-2005, 18:18
People assume I'm evil because I'm a clown. :(
http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Spring05/Charney-Perez/hannibal.jpg
Lunatic Goofballs
05-12-2005, 18:20
http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Spring05/Charney-Perez/hannibal.jpg

One measly serial killer, and we're branded for life! :rolleyes:

Most of us are too smart to get caught. :D
German Nightmare
05-12-2005, 18:23
People assume I'm evil because I'm a clown. :(At least you didn't say "MIME". That's worse than the walking dead!

Anyway, when I'm in the States and my country of origin comes into play - you should see how people react. They can't tell by my accent anymore most of the time (or just find it a little off) but once I say "I'm German" all hell breaks loose.

Why am I not wearing a uniform, am I a nazi, the typical nazi gestures and remarks - and people believe they're being funny.

Now, that pisses me off beyond belief - And more than once I've asked to please refrain from pissing me off...
Bitchkitten
05-12-2005, 18:26
Mostly Bitch.
Notice the capitalization.
Hi to LG, Bolol, Sinihue and all my other much missed friends.

Liberal
treehugger
prick-tease

But mostly bitch. And nut-case.
Smunkeeville
05-12-2005, 18:26
At least you didn't say "MIME". That's worse than the walking dead!
I take offense to that statement, when I was in between clown jobs, I would work as a Mime. ;) I even annoyed myself though, so I guess I see what you mean.


btw LG, when I was young and people asked what I wanted to be when I grew up and I said "a clown" they always thought I was kidding.........that used to piss me off too.
Lunatic Goofballs
05-12-2005, 18:26
Mostly Bitch.
Notice the capitalization.
Hi to LG, Bolol, Sinihue and all my other much missed friends.

Liberal
treehugger
prick-tease

But mostly bitch. And nut-case.

*waves* Hiya! :D
Bolol
05-12-2005, 18:28
Mostly Bitch.
Notice the capitalization.
Hi to LG, Bolol, Sinihue and all my other much missed friends.

Liberal
treehugger
prick-tease

But mostly bitch. And nut-case.

WEEE!

*hugs*
Lunatic Goofballs
05-12-2005, 18:28
I take offense to that statement, when I was in between clown jobs, I would work as a Mime. ;) I even annoyed myself though, so I guess I see what you mean.


btw LG, when I was young and people asked what I wanted to be when I grew up and I said "a clown" they always thought I was kidding.........that used to piss me off too.

If a tree falls on a mime, does he make a sound?
Eutrusca
05-12-2005, 18:28
Centrist motherf***er!

You've been called a centrist...happy now man? :p
Ecstatic! :D
Eutrusca
05-12-2005, 18:29
If a tree falls on a mime, does he make a sound?
Yeah. It's sorta like "squish/crunch!" :D
Smunkeeville
05-12-2005, 18:30
If a tree falls on a mime, does he make a sound?
I don't know..................I will find a mime you find a big tree and a chainsaw, and we will meet up.



a week from tuesday good for you? :D
German Nightmare
05-12-2005, 18:30
I take offense to that statement, when I was in between clown jobs, I would work as a Mime. ;) I even annoyed myself though, so I guess I see what you mean.

btw LG, when I was young and people asked what I wanted to be when I grew up and I said "a clown" they always thought I was kidding.........that used to piss me off too.
I probably am simply too scared of mimes, that's all. I find them kinda... well, you know, you've been one... mimish? Just don't scare me ;)
Sinuhue
05-12-2005, 18:31
What I detest the most about people making baseless statements, is the kind of pinguid smugness that goes along with them, as though they've 'figured you out'. If you're left wing, you're automatically a crazed vegan/animal-rights-activist too...and you don't shave your legs or bathe.

Hey Bitchkitten!

Don't worry, I'm branded as a bitch quite often. But I'd rather be a bitch than a vapid, somnific ditz.
-Magdha-
05-12-2005, 18:31
Many communists have called me a "fascist," just for being anticommunist (they evidently ignore the fact that I'm also anti-fascist).
Eutrusca
05-12-2005, 18:31
... once I say "I'm German" all hell breaks loose.

Why am I not wearing a uniform, am I a nazi, the typical nazi gestures and remarks - and people believe they're being funny.

Now, that pisses me off beyond belief - And more than once I've asked to please refrain from pissing me off...
You're definitely not a Nazi. More like a frakkin' Commie! :D

At least now you know how it feels when Eurotwerps cap down on me simply because I'm American. :)
Deep Kimchi
05-12-2005, 18:32
1. Everyone makes assumptions. Often, they are wrong.

2. I don't offer violence to people unless they offer it first, or announce in no uncertain terms that they intend to offer it. I then ride the legal limit in offering it back.

Generally speaking, violence is a last resort, but I don't wait for the other guy to go first.
Smunkeeville
05-12-2005, 18:32
I probably am simply too scared of mimes, that's all. I find them kinda... well, you know, you've been one... mimish? Just don't scare me ;)
you should work out your fear of mimes by scaring one, once you hear a mime scream then it's all over.............they are funny after that..........:p


I wasn't a mime because I wanted to be or anything, just people knew I was a clown and wanted to hire a mime and thought that us "white faced people" all hung out or something and asked for a recomendation...............I needed money, so I did it. (I was so ashamed:( ............and well paid at the same time)
Eutrusca
05-12-2005, 18:32
Mostly Bitch.
Notice the capitalization.
Hi to LG, Bolol, Sinihue and all my other much missed friends.

Liberal
treehugger
prick-tease

But mostly bitch. And nut-case.
BK!!!

Where da heck u been, wonder-biatch? :D
Lunatic Goofballs
05-12-2005, 18:33
I don't know..................I will find a mime you find a big tree and a chainsaw, and we will meet up.



a week from tuesday good for you? :D

Remember to bring one of those invisible boxes so he doesn't escape. :)
Drunk commies deleted
05-12-2005, 18:34
One measly serial killer, and we're branded for life! :rolleyes:

Most of us are too smart to get caught. :D
The world may remember him as a serial killer of young men, but I will always remember him as an artist.

http://www.findadeath.com/About%20Us/gacy%201.JPG
Smunkeeville
05-12-2005, 18:37
Remember to bring one of those invisible boxes so he doesn't escape. :)
yeah, and an invisible straight jacket so I don't have to sit there watching him paw at the sides to try to get out...............:D
German Nightmare
05-12-2005, 18:47
You're definitely not a Nazi. More like a frakkin' Commie! :D

At least now you know how it feels when Eurotwerps cap down on me simply because I'm American. :)
Wow. Now I've been called a "frakkin' Commie" :D And that from a (US-)American... We all know how they all are ;) (Not getting started again!)

you should work out your fear of mimes by scaring one, once you hear a mime scream then it's all over.............they are funny after that..........:p
OMG, that would be funny. But there aren't many mimes around where I live - never saw one in the city nor near campus.

I wasn't a mime because I wanted to be or anything, just people knew I was a clown and wanted to hire a mime and thought that us "white faced people" all hung out or something and asked for a recomendation...............I needed money, so I did it. (I was so ashamed:( ............and well paid at the same time)
And I can totally respect mimes and their reasons for being mimes. And yet, they are still mimes :D
Carnivorous Lickers
05-12-2005, 19:45
People that make assumptions about me must keep those assumptions to themselves.

They're probably right anyway.

And I never give a flying-fuck anyway.
Cannot think of a name
05-12-2005, 20:43
I get a pretty big range, from the way off (hesher) to the close enough to joke about (hippie).

I do have long hair and a long goatee, wear boots etc. but I listen to jazz and classical.

Which then feeds the hippie thing. Honestly that's too convoluted to untangle for people. I'm certainly no hippie and living around them that's patently obvious to anyone paying attention, but people need a short hand so they don't need to pay attention so, whatever. If thier attention span is that dwarfed their opinion frankly doesn't matter much.

The other common assumption is usually dissassembled moments after talking to me, that I'm some big scary dude that's about to unleash on someone. Talk to me for a minute and that's not only out the window, you'll feel silly for thinking it. But pretty often I'll be talking to people who will embaracingly admit to me that they where scared of me when they first met me. I don't get that really, I don't look like a bad ass, I don't try to look like a bad ass, I don't want to look like a bad ass. I think people are just skitish.
Economic Associates
05-12-2005, 20:49
Lets see I've got the whole twin stereotype thing going for me but thats really stoped when I went to a different college then my brother. I've been called a selfish, greedy bastard by Lyric when I said I was against the government forcing people to give money for welfare. But otherwise I'm a pretty middle of the road guy.
Portu Cale MK3
05-12-2005, 20:55
I assume that there are plenty of people here with legitimate issues about being labeled incorrectly by others.

"ducks"
Asylum Nova
05-12-2005, 23:47
My co-workers often thought I was stuck-up, just because I'm quiet and don't like talking much. But as usual, the assumptions died down pretty quick once one of them mentioned a topic I knew something about.

It's hard for me to take assumptions about my personality to heart for very long though, because I know I am kind of difficult to read at times. A comment that might anger me one day, might cause me to laugh the next.

-Asylum Nova
Alliskababa
06-12-2005, 00:03
i hate that too. people judging you by the way you act, look, or live. its like they're saying this stuff just to say something. people are always saying im quiet. that's because i dont talk to them! if they knew me, they would know that i dont like offering answers in class or participating much. if they want me to talk, i could go on for hours saying crap about them, but then i would be a hypocrite. :) :sniper:
Damor
06-12-2005, 00:10
hmm.. Making assumtions is bad?
I guess I'll have to refrain from assuming you know what you're talking about. In fact, I probably shouldn't assume you're all different people, ... or in fact people *starts getting paranoid*
Eutrusca
06-12-2005, 00:37
i don't particularly care what other people have to say or think anymore, so whatever *shrugs*
:eek:
Eutrusca
06-12-2005, 00:41
Wow. Now I've been called a "frakkin' Commie" :D And that from a (US-)American... We all know how they all are ;) (Not getting started again!)
ROFLMAO!!! Yeah!

Besides ... "getting started" around here has been right hazardous to your health of late. :eek:
Enn
06-12-2005, 00:43
Chardonnay sipper, Teetotaller (sometimes those two by the same people, strangely)
Elitist
Commie, Anarchist (apparently because I happen to think taxes should actually be used to pay for services)
Cultural imperialist, moral relativist (again, often by the same people...?)
Straight (obviously, since I don't have a lisp, I must be straight. The pink shirts just mean I'm metro, apparently.)
Eutrusca
06-12-2005, 00:45
I assume that there are plenty of people here with legitimate issues about being labeled incorrectly by others.

"ducks"
[ slaps Portu Cale MK3 upside da hed wid a truly massive loaf of French bread! ] Behave! :p
Eutrusca
06-12-2005, 00:48
hmm.. Making assumtions is bad?
I guess I'll have to refrain from assuming you know what you're talking about. In fact, I probably shouldn't assume you're all different people, ... or in fact people *starts getting paranoid*
We're not! We're aliens from Tau Ceti who have decided to monitor earth for future invasion by having discussions with your best and brightest on NS General ... uh ... oh, wait!
Eutrusca
06-12-2005, 00:49
Chardonnay sipper, Teetotaller (sometimes those two by the same people, strangely)
Elitist
Commie, Anarchist (apparently because I happen to think taxes should actually be used to pay for services)
Cultural imperialist, moral relativist (again, often by the same people...?)
Straight (obviously, since I don't have a lisp, I must be straight. The pink shirts just mean I'm metro.)
A "metrosexual?" HERE? OMG! :eek:
Amarnaiy
06-12-2005, 00:55
Goth.

I wear black. Right now, it's 16 degrees outside. I'd rather not be wearing a life is good tee and abercrombie pants. I hate abercrombie. I don't like stereotyping. Even though I'm a huge stereotyper... Oh hypocrites!

Main lists of things I've been called:
Lesbian (I hug chicks. That don't make me a lesbian.)
Goth
Emo
Muslim (Wtf?! I'm a white female, who wears a cross to school every day...)
Satanist (My friend made me a shirt that says Satan Is my Home Dawg. But it's an inside joke!!!!)
Druggie (By someone on marijuana.)
Gamer (...?!)
Nazi (I take German... And I shoved a kid into a locker and told him to fuck the wall in German.. Does that make me a Nazi? Nooooo... I didn't know he was a Jew!)


There's others, but I'm too busy gloating over my latest triumph: Convincing all the sixth graders my name is Laura! Which it is not.
Enn
06-12-2005, 00:57
A "metrosexual?" HERE? OMG! :eek:
Nonono. That's the assumption. I'm gay, but nowadays when you wear a pink shirt people think it means you're metro, not gay.
Europa Maxima
06-12-2005, 02:05
Hmm lets see I have been called a racist, a Nazi, a femi-Nazi, a cynic (not a bad guess :p), an elitist (also true), a goth (heh...so what if I am? :rolleyes: ), shallow, a dreamer (true :rolleyes: ), overly serious (yeah...shallow and overly serious, wow :rolleyes: ...could be true though), a white supremacist, an imperialist/monarchist (read the Republic if you don't get what I mean by an elite) and even straight. Some people get it right though and call me gay :p Oh yeah, I forgot psychopath.
[NS]The-Republic
06-12-2005, 02:29
People assume I'm evil because I'm a clown. :(
Do you mind if I put this in my sig?
Lunatic Goofballs
06-12-2005, 04:09
The-Republic']Do you mind if I put this in my sig?

KNock yourself out. :)
Avertide
06-12-2005, 04:26
Well, I've been called gay by, I think the number is, two writers in their essays/articles about homosexuality. Basically their message was roughly to the point of, because I was a misfit that didn't fit in with either society's status quo or sexual status quo, I had to be gay, bisexual, or some sort of transsexual subset.

But then, I could just be assuming that based upon my perceptions of their tone and style in their writing.
Avertide
06-12-2005, 04:27
Nonono. That's the assumption. I'm gay, but nowadays when you wear a pink shirt people think it means you're metro, not gay.

Whoa! I didn't think people still remembered that word anymore, much less used it.

First time in approximately 6 months that I've seen metrosexual used.
CanuckHeaven
06-12-2005, 04:47
I friggin' hate people who assume shit about you. They look at you, and say, "oh, this person is (insert category), and therefore must believe (insert belief) and probably (insert verb)." You don't know shit about me, you don't know shit about her/him/them...so shut it. I have long hair....and I'm a hippy? How about, I have long hair because I'm a chick with long hair? I don't agree with you, so I'm a commie? How about you don't know shit about my political affiliation, and I cram that smug smile up your *** where it belongs? I eat tofu because I'm for peace? I like my meat still quivering, thank you.

So what stupid, pointless, unfounded crap have strangers said about you?
What other people think of you, is really none of your business? Are you judging them in the same manner that you are judging them?

And just how important is it anyways?

If they don't like you, that is their problem and not yours.
PasturePastry
06-12-2005, 05:48
What annoys me is people who want others to assume and then get all pissed off when people actually do assume, like these teenagers that get all dressed up like they are some sort of gangsta/thug/something-or-other and have the nerve to act suprized when the cops stop them for looking suspicious. That and the person with the pink mohawk and a dozen facial piercings that yells "What the #$%@ are you looking at!!?"

Once I figure it out, then I will stop looking.
Murderous maniacs
06-12-2005, 05:54
there are alot of people who think that i am never sober and that i have a filthy mind.
to be correct: i am sometimes sober
Cuthroatia
06-12-2005, 06:09
At the risk of being obtuse.

Some of you need to look at the definition of the word "Assume"

You are actually complaining about presumptions not assumptions.

Assumptions are something you believe with some valid reasons but cannot absolutely prove. For example: I assume that the world will be pretty much the same world tomorrow as it is today. I don't absolutely know that is true but I have today and yesterday to judge my belief by. Some evidence but not conclusive evidence.

Presumptions are something you believe either without reason or in spite of reasons. I believe the sky is going to turn green and yellow plaid because Brad Pit said so on Ophrah = presumption

Assumption that people make about you may not always be bad or wrong, presumptions are always wrong even when they are flattering.

Arrrgh
Lizpow
06-12-2005, 06:54
At the risk of being obtuse.

Some of you need to look at the definition of the word "Assume"

You are actually complaining about presumptions not assumptions.

Assumptions are something you believe with some valid reasons but cannot absolutely prove. For example: I assume that the world will be pretty much the same world tomorrow as it is today. I don't absolutely know that is true but I have today and yesterday to judge my belief by. Some evidence but not conclusive evidence.

Presumptions are something you believe either without reason or in spite of reasons. I believe the sky is going to turn green and yellow plaid because Brad Pit said so on Ophrah = presumption

Assumption that people make about you may not always be bad or wrong, presumptions are always wrong even when they are flattering.

Arrrgh

People often say I'm pretentious and elitist because I correct their bad grammar :D buddy!

But they're right. Let's move onto things they've been wrong about:

Goth, because I shop at Hot Topic (which I affectionately call Not Gothic).
Lesbian, and I really don't know why (half right. I'm bi...but I don't think they were going off of anything substantial).
Flaming Liberal (I'm very, very moderate. But you can't help looking liberal in a room full of spoiled rich kids with Republicans for parents :rolleyes:. No, that wasn't supposed to be insulting - they are ridiculously rich, and do have Republicans for parents. Straight fact.)
Slut...again, I don't know why (seriously)
Tease, because I refuse to date any of my friends...?
Punk/Emo/Whatever (I wear black and dyed my hair to match)

Those are just your typical high school ones. The rest sort of follow the same trends. Evidently short hair makes me a lesbian - I just tell everyone I keep my bangs long because I'm only half gay.