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Do Harley's Attract More Women?

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General: Anything and everything to do with motorcycles.

Where do these 14 pages of non-moto discussion belong?
 
Daks said:
This is barf

if people are allowed to be blatant racists, sexists and xenophobes because enough assholes yell "free speech" and the admins and mods cave in, what's one more rape joke?

I don't come here for the people. Once you start expecting more from a community you just end up disappointed.

I don't come to barf because it makes me feel included in the motorcycling community. I post shit about motorcycles, maybe ask a question and fuck off.
If you want meaningful conversation with good people, meet them offline. The apologists don't tend to rear their heads in public and don't last when they do.
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I am actually glad we don't limit this much, it lets me know who I want to hang out/ride with ahead of time. I would much rather discover someone is an ass on the internet that in person. BARF is more like a crowded bar than your living room, your going to overhear the obnoxious ass in the corner, no need to go hang out with them.

Despite some of the more offensive comments in this thread, I still don't see anything offensive about asking "will x make me more attractive" We all do that constantly, whether by the clothes we wear, the bikes we ride, or any number of other things.

The other very important thing about such a question is that it could be actually factually answered. It might take some expensive research and the answer may or may not reflect well on women as a group, but it is a question with a answer. We could even correlate this research to the attractiveness of the women. Limiting discussion/research on anything that might reflect poorly on a specific group is a really bad idea since without it we cannot make good choices as a society. There is actually lots of research with online dating on what makes men and women attractive to potential partners. Some of it is a bit embarrassing (women like tall men with high paying jobs, men pretty much only look at the pictures) but we should still encourage the research since it helps us learn about ourselves and maybe encourages us to change a little bit.
 
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jumph4x said:
I've been with the same life partner for a quarter of my life so far. Still with that same person. You have to try harder to bruise my ego.
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Wow, so empathetic: You felt that? I make a self-deprecating joke and you take it personally. For the record: It's not about you or yours.

I don't know people here well enough to make pointed comments about their personal lives (although I have spoken out of turn about other things). A certain familiarity is required for the intimacy of ball-busting.

BTW - My life-partner, known first as my girlfriend for 4yrs and for the last 27yrs as my wife , has stuck with me for nearly 60% of my life. Go figure.
 
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Lunch Box said:
Like any community, we have bad seeds. Instead of taking their posts to heart and checking-out, try to help educate and enlighten them.
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Bad seeds? Have any of the posters in this thread been nominated for sexual offenders registry? Bet its a Harley rider
 
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Bad seeds? Have any of the posters in this thread been nominated for sexual offenders registry? Bet its a Harley rider
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I was speaking about the community as a whole. I don't think that there are any particularly bad seeds in this thread. There are some folks who could use a bit more understanding about how their words impact others, but that doesn't necessarily make them bad people. That's why it is important to have awkward discussions like this one. Without people expressing their reactions to certain words, phrases, and viewpoints, many of us would be completely unaware. There is a difference between someone who says something without knowing its impact and someone who says the same thing knowing full well how it might affect someone else. Discussions like this help to reduce the number of the former group, allowing the rest of us to make more informed decisions about with whom we associate.
 
planegray said:
I think he just lost the other engine, the hydraulics are on fire, and the rudder's gone.... brace for impact !
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Wreckage everywhere. Reports that the crash was heard from up to 50 miles away. Emergency crews are doing there best to get to this remote location. All we can do now is wait and pray some survived. The information we are receiving now shows outlook is grim. :(
 
Lunch Box said:
Clearly, you are new here. This is not even close to the worst thread ever; not by a long shot. :|
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Really? Lol :laughing
I've read the fr0ng stuff.. and the one that the guy wheelies his gf off his bike and didn't care.. I put this thread up there with those..

ARE YOU TELLING ME THERE ARE WORSE :wow

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You must be new around here. Maybe the internet is not for you
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I think you're right.. Time to get ride of google and go back to britannica's encyclopedias :twofinger
 
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ilikefood said:
You disagree with what exactly? I only explained why many people are upset with this thread. It's not a starting point for a debate, it's an explanation of a fact. You really can't "disagree" with someone being upset about something. You can't debate someone out of being upset. You can only understand why that person is upset so you can avoid doing the same thing again. Or you can ignore everything if you don't care about upsetting people. By the way, I'm using the general "you" here; this isn't directed at you specifically.

If you're talking about the actual intention of the OP, I already said earlier that I don't think his intention was quite like what I described. He most likely wrote it without thinking about it much. But his intention really doesn't matter. The main point here is why what he wrote upset people, not what OP's intentions were.
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You're right, I can't debate whether someone is upset, but I can debate the LOGIC of them being upset. The reason you provided for being upset didn't seem logical to me. When someone wonders what attracts women, it doesn't objectify them IMHO. Objectifying = treating someone like the only thing they have to offer is sex or physical attraction. Just because I use something to attract women doesn't mean I think they're dumb robots who are only worth fucking and nothing else.

Plus I think any guy over the age of 13 is smart enough to realize that women demand more from a guy than just a cool bike.
 
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