That’s just an asshole thing to do. I’d counter-sue in that family’s circumstance, it’s more than justified.
I think that’s the alt-text for the image, and it got messed up when he copy-pasted it.
That does make sense.
I have new sympathy for blind internet users, though. Captions are supposed to describe images, not restate the textual content for effect.
So I brought my two best friends out for dinner last night before a nice party we were attending, and we were having a wonderful time. Next to us was a couple, two girls, who we paid no attention to at all. Anyways, as dinner came to a close, we got the bill and I said I’d handle it (as that is the polite, gentlemanly thing to do for your date or dates in this case) and we were joking about it afterwards before we left. I said to them, after they jokingly complained about me paying for them, that “I’m the guy, I gotta handle the brunt of the bills!” Which they laughed at. Knowing them, they took no offense to this at all, knowing I’m not out to assert my masculinity in any way. However, the female couple next to us stopped eating and the smaller one stood up, walked over, stood over me, and glared while snarling “What, because they’re girls they can’t DO anything for themselves? They’re just as capable as you are, you filthy man. I can’t believe how rude you are to them!”
Mariah and Amanda (my friends) were sitting there staring at her like “What the fuck…?” And I kinda just sat there staring blankly, cause I had no clue what I’d done to her.
I figured this belonged in the WTF thread, since I’m not really raging haha it just made my friends and I say “what the fuck” when it happened.
Sounds like you just ran into some social justice warriors.
Yeah, sounds about right. Probably spend a bit toooo much time on Tumblr.
I don’t understand how people can be so presumptuous and call you rude. The reasoning just eludes me.
The irony is that it was the social justice warriors themselves that assumed those girls needed them to speak for them. They were the ones being sexist, even calling you a filthy man 
Some people are stupid and misinterpret social behaviors (including but not limited to body language) and tone of voice. It’s pretty common. I’m in agreement here though, the couple was rude to you and your friends imo.
Out of curiosity, what happened after that? Your friends pipe up and tell her to git or something else?
My sister just asked me if robots can be gay.
I laughed at first, but then I realized I don’t know the answer either…
I tried (and failed, due to their views) to explain what was really going on, and my friends tried to interject but she told them “it’s ok, I have this” and eventually stopped getting mad and left.
Robots as in actual robots that exist today or as in the general idea of a robot and the possibilities it entails?
If it’s the first one, then no. If it’s the second one, I guess someone could program a robot to be “attracted” to any other robot, but then you would need to decide if that’s actually being gay or not.
Deep stuff. /s
Well considering currently (and I’m assuming future here as well) robots technically don’t have a gender… no.
@22one I applaud you for keeping your cool in that situation. People act differently to situations, I’d not have gone off on her, but I’d have calmly asked with a very serious face as to why she was interrupting my date in that situation. The nerve of some people, it’s annoying.
One could theoretically give them separate genders.
I’d like to reply with “well in starbound they have a gender” but obviously that’s not the right way to think about it.
Given the fact that robots neither have freewill nor any legitimate possible feelings I suppose they couldn’t. But even if we’re talking about the way sci-fi stories (err, some of 'em) depict robots, with emotions and freewill, it’s still a bit fuzzy. Does a robot have one gender or no gender? Do they reproduce asexually? Is there any creature with a single gender that already exists that has the power of mind to be gay? Moreover, why does my sister want to know the answer to this?
From a certain point of view, everything is a robot, therefore it is impossible for a robot to love anything non-robotic, therefore all robots (and, by proxy, all things that can feel attraction) are in fact gay.
Thanks haha it was an odd experience. I work in the food industry, so I deal with situations like this often. But the timing was just horrible, and (to be honest) in hindsight, it was kinda comical. Annoying, yes, but I laugh at how awkward it really was and how absolutely sure she was of her views and their correctness.
The waiter came over and even offered for us to move, and nearly everyone in the restaraunt was staring at her as she ranted.
But from that point of view, homosexuality as a term would never have been established because robots x robots was the norm
They’re arguing about robots having genders and being gay… wat?
I used to work in that industry as well, I know your pain. I got fed up with it after a month, couldn’t stand the fast paced environment. I do my own pet projects on my own time now.
Surprisingly, despite what I type, I apparently have great people skills; this is second hand for me, a lot of the people I dealt with told me so, I personally thought I had shitty ones myself (I still think I do).
Tell that to the psychos who “fall in love” with a blow-up doll (which is an inanimate object)…
Well, in psychology, that has a name xD it’s object sexuality haha
And yeah, it sucks. But I’ve found it enjoyable enough (though I’m pursuing a career in medicine currently while working as a bartender/waiter at a Applebee’s). I understand the people skills thing. Despite being introverted as all hell, I can get people to warm up to me fast. It’s a little weird, since I don’t try to do anything, they just start to wanna talk to me a lot and tell me stuff that they don’t normally tell others.