How to tell if your girlfriend is a psycho.

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It would have been a better title if they said date instead of girlfriend, either sex can act that way.

This seemed thread appropriate

^^^ LOL.

Another perfect example was today's two episodes of "Mystery Diners" http://www.foodnetwork.com/mystery-diners/love-hurts/index.html (Wish there was video for it somewhere...)

The first was a male supervisor groping and fondling every female patron and freaking out on anyone who called him out on it... the second was a female supervisor who went berserk if she wasn't the prettiest girl in the room - punishing all the staff around her (firing all the pretty girls, groping the waiters and punishing the ones who didn't like it) and giving free food to male patrons she could successfully hit on, charging them more for rejection.

Freaky, mentally-unstable stuff from both sides... blecch!

You're taking the meat cleaver seriously.
and the video doesn't say to dictate her but to show her that you're not ok with that - big difference.

Again, you're talking things not related to the vid.

@boo
The point I'm trying to make is stereotyping certain, banal behaviours into indicators of some bigger, badder thing is not helpful to anyone. It's prejudice, and it only leads to marginalisation and discrimination, which I think is not helpful to any society.

In the video the makers took a set of behaviours and painted them into something bad ie, a 'psycho'. IT is no different than say for example
getting an African American male, who listens to rap music, wears bandannas and grew up in a certain neighbourhood and turning them into signs of a member of a gang, someone that should be feared and not trusted, because they are likely to rob you, or shoot you at any moment.

Or or taking a guy, that likes drinking cosmopolitans, listens to Kylie Minogue, and takes a lot of pride in his appearance and then saying he must be gay because of it. That he will likely corrupt your children, and is probably some perverted sexual being who is just waiting to take advantage of anyone with a penis and an as*hole at the first opportunity.

Or taking a Muslim woman, who chooses to wear a hijab, watches Al Jazeera and expresses anti American sentiment and turning those things into indicators of a terrorist, a likely suicide bomber with a bomb under her chador just waiting for the moment to pounce.

Alll of those traits I listed, regardless of the situation, do not mean anything in particular. They are not indicators of being a psycho, of being gay, of being a thief or a terrorist. But due to the way they've been stereotyped in society, they've created prejudice and caused entire groups of people who exhibit those behaviours to be subjugated and discriminated against.

I believe that social equality and justice are indicators of a mature, intelligent and civilised society. Taking a set of activities or behaviours and turning them into signs of what constitutes 'bad' people does nothing to further that cause it only creates prejudice, division and inequality amongst people. And as I said at the start, this is not helpful to anyone.

But if you want to live by the words in that video, ok, you are entitled to do that. But don't get pissy when you see some thing that could be
you, painted as some evil, awful thing that deserves being shunned by society. Because supporting this stereotyping of behaviours, only perpetuates the problem, and there's nothing to say that they next stereotype is not going to be you.

Wow people took this way too damn serious. Even for an aspergers forum. If you cant tell the parts in that vid that are serious and what is joking or at minimum be able to imagine how those things can be bad then just don't bother making such a big fuss.

So, in clear English - what do you claim is this awful "bigger issue" we apparently keep missing?