Come on, if this were some guy who, say, looked at a woman and made some kind of gesture about her boobs, there would be calls for his head on a plate from the usual suspects. (I'm thinking of m. leblanc's recent sexual-harrassment episode on Unfogged.)

This guy crossed the line by hitting the woman's car with a bottle, but let's end the hypocrisy that says mocking a woman's sexuality is a hanging offense, while mocking a man's is acceptable; that raping a woman is a felony, but raping a man in prison is a punch line; and that beating a woman is shocking, but kicking a man in the nuts is hilarious. It's time to grow up across the board.

I'm not sure what all that's about, but making a hand gesture is not a sexual assault, no matter how you slice it.

Well it depends on where the hand making the gesture is placed, apo. I mean, if someone flashes you the shocker from another lane, sure, but if they did the same gesture while their hand was in your pants . . . .

But I agree with the first part of your sentence. "Usual suspects"? Opressa please.

Wow that was perhaps as lame in its low caste street way as the aw3s0meX shit-fit that that weird burned-out Protein Wisdom dude and his merciless interlocutors threw at the tbogg web-log the other day; that started out just merely lame but then built, before our eyes, to a magnificent crescendo of rising lame-itude that burst all the way out the dome of the sky into and through Infinity! where (due to the mirror effect, or else taking the long way allaround the entire Cosmos) it became, as I said, aw3s0meX, to the MaXXstr3am!!!1!

Link?

Dude: it's aw3someXness was beyond linking.

But my guess is, you should go here for Goldstein-centric hijincks.

1131 comments? Damn.

Wow man. On second thought you might want to avoid it.

Damn

I know -- not even Barack Obama the Antichrist merits that much attention. But about half the comments appear to be posted by PW poster Dan Collins, subject of the post.

Poor Jardak. You spend years in suspended animation traveling from your destroyed home planet to earth, and just when you're starting to feel at home, this happens.

1: GB, it may sound weird coming from me, but lighten up, man.

In other words, Mr. Jardack does, indeed, have a tiny one.

if they did the same gesture while their hand was in your pants...

They'd jam two fingers.

Lamest sexual assault ever.

Lamest response to sexual assault ever.

Wow.

The ad was aimed at young men who are susceptible to taunts of this nature, so as to get them to examine their driving habits. It followed a spate of accidents which involved multiple fatalities of young people.
Like every ill-conceived ad campaign it was counter productive, resulting in in young men responding by taking both hands off the wheel and making a large O with their fingers.
The 'pinky assessment' was not sexual abuse, it was an assessment of the motivation for bad driving.
The dude who threw a bottle in response was a bad- tempered juvenile who'd use any excuse to justify his bad driving and behaviour.

taking both hands off the wheel and making a large O with their fingers

Heh heh heh.

14 made me laugh and laugh.

taking both hands off the wheel and making a large O with their fingers

That reminds me of this.

Come on, if this were some guy who, say, looked at a woman and made some kind of gesture about her boobs, there would be calls for his head on a plate from the usual suspects. (I'm thinking of m. leblanc's recent sexual-harrassment episode on Unfogged.)

I'm pretty sure if m. leblanc had hit the kid with a bottle, we would have said she was out of line.