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Old 11-12-2014, 07:50 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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Ummm, I didn't say it was accepted, however, rather than you assuming, it's best to be specific.
I'm confused. Are you going to argue that racism, sexism, and homophobia weren't accepted in the 50s?
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Old 11-12-2014, 07:55 PM
 
Location: Downtown Cranberry Twp.
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I'm confused. Are you going to argue that racism, sexism, and homophobia weren't accepted in the 50s?
By everyone? No.
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Old 11-12-2014, 07:56 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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By everyone? No.
By enough people to significantly and negatively and continually impact on the lives of women and members of minority groups?
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Old 11-12-2014, 07:58 PM
 
Location: Downtown Cranberry Twp.
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By enough people to significantly and negatively and continually impact on the lives of women and members of minority groups?
Wow, friendly compliments to discussion of the 50's. As I said, it's a sensitive world and growing by the day.
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Old 11-12-2014, 08:06 PM
 
Location: Manchester
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The thread started off with a topic of flirting, evolved into catcalling, then devolved into an example of a visitor asking where someone got their haircut, and now has become about the sensitivity and the ills of American society in the 1950s and 60s.

A lot of people on here like to poke the hornet’s nest by using a broad stroke and then pick an extreme example such as “all women” or “saying hello.”

It really is quite simple. If chatting up a stranger in an elevator, don’t say anything you wouldn’t feel comfortable saying to your grandmother. I really think that some people are so socially backwards with the opposite sex that they don’t know how to behave around them other than acting like a horny teenager.
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Old 11-13-2014, 08:11 AM
 
Location: Virginia
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I would probably agree with this if I had not lived in Seattle, which I liked as much as SCR liked NOVA. It did me wonders to get out of that hellhole, and I have not complained since about anywhere I've lived.
Jay, I used to live in Portland and visited Seattle alot. Seemed like a great place (I didn't really mind the months of overcast.. the otherworldly natural beauty, perfect summers, loads of tech companies made up for it for me). Why did you think it was a hellhole?

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Old 11-13-2014, 08:54 AM
 
Location: North Oakland
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Jay, I used to live in Portland and visited Seattle alot. Seemed like a great place (I didn't really mind the months of overcast.. the otherworldly natural beauty, perfect summers, loads of tech companies made up for it for me). Why did you think it was a hellhole?
Put simply, the people. They hated newcomers. A columnist for one of the newspapers even had a fund to pay for people to move back to wherever they had come from. I had never, and have not since, lived in such a hateful environment.

I moved to Portland next, btw. Loved it.
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Old 11-13-2014, 08:59 AM
 
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Put simply, the people. They hated newcomers. A columnist for one of the newspapers even had a fund to pay for people to move back to wherever they had come from. I had never, and have not since, lived in such a hateful environment.
When we were on vacation, quite a few Seattle residents GLARED at me when they saw the California license plate on my rental. I wondered if their reaction would have been different if I had a Pennsylvania license plate.
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Old 11-13-2014, 09:05 AM
 
Location: Virginia
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Put simply, the people. They hated newcomers. A columnist for one of the newspapers even had a fund to pay for people to move back to wherever they had come from. I had never, and have not since, lived in such a hateful environment.

I moved to Portland next, btw. Loved it.
Ah.. the Seattle freeze thing, right?
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Old 11-13-2014, 09:09 AM
 
Location: Virginia
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When we were on vacation, quite a few Seattle residents GLARED at me when they saw the California license plate on my rental. I wondered if their reaction would have been different if I had a Pennsylvania license plate.
Yah.. saw this a bit in Oregon too. Pacific Northwesterners resent the migration of Californians. They see it as an invasion of their little slice of paradise. Their view is that they have the positives of the West Coast (beautiful geography, etc) without the negatives. The migrating Californians are majorly increasing cost of living, bringing overpopulation and crime with them. It's similar to what you see on the East Coast.. resentment in some southern/sunbelt cities about New Yorkers, etc.. just in the opposite direction.
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