[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

"the American culture?" Seriously? Do you really want to go there? The American culture exists because undocumented immigrants showed up from the other side of the planet, invaded the continent, and attempted genocide on the natives living here. Once they wiped out most of the tribes and took their females to OWN and rape, they then tore up the native lands and gutted their sacred graveyards and sanctuaries to build buildings. Of course they couldn't build the entire country themselves, so at some point early on, they imported slaves from Africa to do most of the hard work, including raping THEIR females and selling the offspring to other landowners.

That is the "American culture."

Which - thankfully, has evolved over the past couple of centuries. You might prefer to continue murdering native Americans, raping the women and forcing black men to plow your fields at the end of a whip, but most Americans have a different culture now.

It's probably in your best interest to catch up.

I must have failed to push "send" because I was sure I answered this.

I remember typing that this thread was about the use of gender in advertising and how someone or someone's were fiddling with it.

BUT since you view what I think of as American Culture differently than I do, I will say this; I do not think of American Culture as you have portrayed it at all. When I think of American Culture, I think of strong, self reliant, hard working people taking not much and making it into a home and a life. I do not know of any single soul in my 81 years who would want slavery. Those people are dead. We, here in this culture of The Villages, A very alive American Culture, do not rape people or force them to work in the fields against their will, nor would anyone I have ever met here or anywhere condone that. It was things that happened to people who no longer live. Women died in childbirth before surgery and antibiotics but I do not think of THAT as American Culture. No one would wish THAT either.

Some people are fixated with arguing and have completely lost their humor. I refuse to be lectured. The "you" you speak of is not me nor anyone I would ever know.

I hope this post makes it through edit.