have you ever pulled "the card"?

[malcolm]

im sure some of you know what i'm talking about....for those who don't-
"the card" is a reference to using one's ethnicity,religion,gender or sexual orientation eiteras an advantagous moment or to squash a fight/argumet/confrnation in the tracks byinsiting someone is descriminatley profile you.

im notashamed to say i have but the "gay guy" card doesnt work so well against stoppin someone from making the big mistake of geting scuffly with me. lol in fact, it sometimes encourages it.

[Amerist]

No, I can’t say that I have.

Of course, I don’t know that I have any cards at my disposal. I’m Irish. Middle class? (like I can really peg myself with a class, I’m too transient to really have any identity in that area.) Everything I could claim to be a minority of any other person would snicker at. So, instead, I just do my best to be the nice one who is friends with all the worthy people…

I am interested, however, in the way that people use perceived injustice (and real injustice for that matter) to manipulate others.

But, as for me, the best card I have to pull is one where I point out that I cooked the person’s previous meal.

[GnArKiLL]

haha, when i was in 8th grade i had this bitch of a science teacher. i hated her, she called a parent conference, i stated she hated mexicans, good times had by me.

[malcolm]

oh wow! good one,gnarkill! lol um.......i don't get alot of serious chances to use the gayguy card as indicated above but sometimes ifi say omething funny that makes people raise an eyebrow (quite often at work) i just lift up my necklace with my "fruit loops" on it and jingle them. do that sometimes when people start badmouthing gays too cus im kinda big and still kinda intimidating.....shuts em right up.

[Mr Karl]

'hard working german skilled labor'...........probably why I hate playing cards

[evilstonermonkey]

young middle class straight white boy.

if i hava a card, i never heard about it.

[Amelia G]

I'm sometimes aware that there are things which happen to me because I am female or whatever, but I think asking for special treatment is lame. Special treatment is prejudice whether it is favorable or negative. Then again, I take that sufficiently to heart that I'm opposed to affirmative action.

I believe in meritocracy.

[drewblood]

young middle class straight white boy.

if i hava a card, i never heard about it.

same here, but i play the stupidity card quite often. that's like a protected class or something.

[ForrestBlack]

...I was born a poor black child...

[Buster Friendly]

what?

you're telling me you've never played the 'stupid whiteboy' card?

it's hilarious, basically when ever you're in 'the wrong neighbordhood', or somebody's trying to pull the 'ghetto ass crazy motherfucker' card on you, you just act like you stepped off the set to 'leave it to beaver', and pretend to be completely oblivious to whatever's going on... of course it only works if you're not actually completely oblivous... it's a form of hyper agressive 'niceness' that's totally fake, and says "FUCK YOU" but in a way that can't be easily confronted without theother person looking like a complete fucko. of course an integral part of the act, is to deadpan, and say increasingly insane shit, with a shiteating grin on your face... act like a gameshow host...(actually it works for anyone, not just whiteboys...)



most folks who are stupid enough to 'play a card' with you, won't be smart enough to know that white people don't actually act like that... man, i've gotten away with so much shit with that one...

...especially once it dawns on them what my 'real card' is.

i'm batshit crazy, and will kill your entire family, pets, everyone you know, and your caseworkers if you make it seem like fun.

[keiko]

I have pulled the "Blond" card and the "Stupid American" card twice this week. But never before have I pulled a "Card".

~K

[malcolm]

i'm batshit crazy, and will kill your entire family, pets, everyone you know, and your caseworkers if you make it seem like fun.

sound like my old drinking buddies. lol

[sunkarma]

...I was born a poor black child...

I was born a poor white gal. I think we are even!

(loved that movie)


But no, I've never pulled the 'card'. I'm too mixed up and confused to claim one thing or another anyway.

[malcolm]

p.s: i am soooo loving that sk barbie esque avy!