Is Krazy Ivan listening? Samoans got themselves another gender?

I can't believe it. After I put my blood sweat and tears into this post, properly got it out there ahead of time for a seamless integration of grouplistening/groupretort, now I'm left on the outside as everyone flocks to a thread by beni hanna, a man so callous he never even had the thought to stop and look and see if there was a thread today.

Lighten your load. I did look, but didn't go down 14 freaking threads.

I can't believe it. After I put my blood sweat and tears into this post, properly got it out there ahead of time for a seamless integration of grouplistening/groupretort, now I'm left on the outside as everyone flocks to a thread by beni hanna, a man so callous he never even had the thought to stop and look and see if there was a thread today.

But what about my feelings, man? I am from the SHARK school of posting where I take pride in my posts and now I'm going to have to live the rest of my life knowing that I was a second fiddle, a fifth wheel, the 37th man in a bukakke video. This kind of hurt doesn't just go away, oh no, it festers until a trained mental health professional is handsomely compensated to clear out their day and take a gander into my damaged existence!

THE LOAD WILL NEVER BE LIGHTENED! IT WILL BE BROUGHT INTO THIS WORLD WITH THE LUST AND PASSION USUALLY RESERVED FOR BEING THE 37TH GUY IN A BUKAKKE VIDEO.

/me runs off and weeps

[They also don’t consider being a fafafini the same as being a homosexual or a drag queen. A fafafini won’t have sex with another fafafini, only straight men. They are physically men, but they are accepted as women because they look and act like women so when they have sex with men, it’s not considered homosexual. Usually a young Samoan man’s first sexual experience is with a fafafini.[/i]

So Bernstein talked abo0t these gender folk. How do we work these fellers into an enlightened society?

From Wikipedia: Fafafini (Samoan - Fa'afafine) is a third gender specific to Samoan culture. Fafafini are biologically men who have been raised to assume female gender roles since early childhood.

The Samoans’ gender roles are shaped by society. Men handle the heavy labor and the women take care of the domestic affairs, like cooking and cleaning. The use of Fafafini originated due to a lack of women to perform domestic tasks, combined with an overabundance of work. Being raised as a female, the Fafafini do not object to the female tasks.

In Samoan culture there is an emphasis on the group and family than on the individual. Therefore, whatever is best for the group is best for the individual. So raising a boy to be a woman is not taboo because they have been given a role in society as a third gender. Even so, some boys don’t submit to being a fafafini.

Fafafini think of themselves as better than men and women at domestic skills. Because they have the body of a man, their extra muscles offer extra power to do chores.

They also don’t consider being a fafafini the same as being a homosexual or a drag queen. A fafafini won’t have sex with another fafafini, only straight men. They are physically men, but they are accepted as women because they look and act like women so when they have sex with men, it’s not considered homosexual. Usually a young Samoan man’s first sexual experience is with a fafafini.

Just stop.

This isn't the OFFICIAL THREAD.

I feel shame. Crapped on Sini's thread start.

and that is #7000. No more throwing stuff against the wall today.

Thanks, SHARKeroonie! * sniffles * It.... me---me---means a lot to me that you're here! If I had the autobot matrix of leadership it would be lighting our darkest hour right now.

Incidentally, man, the full-on supercorporate Danny-Bee-dichotomy is enacted in full force. One side of his mouth appeals to his listeners to keep their kids out of football because it's gonna destroy their brains, yet the other side of his mouth LOVES THE NFL and DEMANDS that they stand pat and resolutely steadfast in their resolve to not change a damn thing about player safety because he loves their product.

To me, it's kind of ?!!??!!??? that he can facilitate all of that outrage over CTE ("STOP SAYING THAT THEY'RE CONCUSSIONS!!! THEY. ARE. NOT. THE. SAME. THING.") a topic that he's spent countless hours with, and then turn around and ALSO be outraged that people want to change the NFL becase he loves the game.

Seriously, if I may be allowed to don my beardown hat for a second, there's almost some sort of a subtle "us" versus "them" thing going on re: CTE/concussions/football. He's never directly said that people shouldn't have their kids play football growing up, however it's been implied and insinuated time and time again that GOOD. PARENTS. DON'T. LET. THEIR. KIDS. PLAY. FOOTBALL. but at the same time, he's all for the actual sport (I reckon you wouldn't last long on a top-market CBS Sports Radio outlet if you seriously went after football) and he WANTS there to be carnage, destruction, and inevitable personal injury.

Well, which one is it? Like I said, I swear that there's a wink wink nudge nudge that reminds me of when George Carlin once disclaimed a PEOPLE-ARE-STUPID rant by saying "when I say everyone I don't mean YOU" and uhm, you know, I just get this weird undertone that the one side of his mouth is appealing to the intellectual upper/middle-class listeners to save their kids the injuries and look out for their future, but by constantly reiterating his love of the cerebral carnage that ensues from a lifetime of playing football, he's basically saying that he WANTS "them" to keep on playing football the way he grew up with it because he loves the sport so damn much.

Of course, Bernstein is an intelligent man well versed in the art of radio so he'll never even come close to saying the kind of stuff I'm talking about here, but like, given what we've heard Beardown speculate about DER SCHNORR and "them", welp, you distinctly get the impression that Dan has an "us" and "them" mentality and the one side of his mouth is appealing for "us" to be smarter/better than letting our kids destroy themselves on a football field, but at the same time "they" better let their kids play football without restriction limitation or evoke cuz he's so damn entertained by it.

Obviously, "them" refers to a demographic that is assumed to not necessarily be listening to the show in droves. You know, the "them" that has an extra muscle in "their" legs that makes "them" superior athletes and prevents "them" from being able to skate well enough to play hockey.

Look at the excellent posts I miss when we have two show threads.

I, too, have said all along that "all this brain damage is awful" is fundamentally incompatible with "I like watching people kill each other," and no, I don't care how much that one neurologist likes the Packers. The only way to reconcile the two is, like you alluded to, a smothering corporate culture of never ever saying anything remotely bad about the NFL, which would certainly cede their beloved moral high ground about those Booyahs being nothing more than a marketing arm of the league. Uh huh, and I don't suppose CBS is in the NFL business at all? I mean, shit, we can't even speak ill of the new Bears coach who has spent two Olympiads out of the NFL and coaching a summer league for the players who couldn't secure one of nearly 1,800 job openings on the actual circuit. How are we supposed to say that the entire sport of football might be, of all the forms of bullshit between commercials for beer and cars that are professional sports, a particularly dehumanizing and insidious form of bullshit?

The racial implications are spot on, but then it really gets confusing when you consider the guy who does the whole "golly gee, I learned in the CBA that black people are actual human beings who eat the same people-food as I do and everything!" act is also the same guy who has no problem with poor southern blacks being put through an adolescence and adulthood of repetitive brain trauma for his Sunday enjoyment. What a weirdo.

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I'm pretty sure he's done more than hint around at this. If I recall correctly, I have heard him say outright, words to the effect that "the lower classes have to do what they can to move up; if a guy has to sacrifice his brain to create generational wealth for his family, so be it." Of course, as much the show injects race into all sports conversations, l'il danny would never directly address the racial implications in this case.

Can someone distill what we are criticizing Dan for, so I can pick a side?

Is Dan racist? Yes. Is he a hypocrite? I'm not seeing that one....yet.

Can someone distill what we are criticizing Dan for, so I can pick a side?

Is Dan racist? Yes. Is he a hypocrite? I'm not seeing that one....yet.

The hypocrisy come from the constant hand-wringing over CTE coupled with the enjoyment of "big black studs" bashing each others brains in.

He does the same thing with respect to the military. This is a job for poor balcks and rednecks. He would not consider for even one fucking second to allow his kid to join.