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It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh
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with us inside the treehouse. Today is Fred Day, August first,
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two thousand, twenty five. Let me double check that. August first,
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two thy twenty five. My goodness. Welcome to August, gentlemen.
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I'm going to share something with you today that you
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are going to remember for all future August firsts Okay, okay.
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There's a man, a Texas man, Brandon Booth, was arrested
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after a more than two minute struggle with a Sigeville
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police officer. He faces multiple felony charges, including robbery, aggravated
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assault against a public servant, unauthorized use of a vehicle,
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evading arrest, and two counts of unlawful possession of a
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firearm by a felon. But that's not why he's about
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to go viral. Oh no, he's about to go viral
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because of his gang affiliation bill Alone.
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Booth had a warrant for a parole violation for unlawful
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possession of a firearm by felon. According to Sigeville police,
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who say he's a documented gang member.
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I just know that he's a Peckerwood.
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Peckerwood, and that's his gang.
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That's his gang afiliation.
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Is he's a Peckerwood.
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All right, So let's go to the reference materials for
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those that are curious Peckerwoods are real. Currently, the term
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peckerwood is used to refer both to white youths with
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loose ties to white power gangs in and out of prison.
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This is according to Urban Dictionary, as well as to
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actual skinhead gangs who have incorporated Peckerwood into their name.
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The various Peckerwood gangs appear to be concentrated largely in California,
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where they participate in the methamphetamine trade and have ties
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to other white supremacist gangs such as the Nazi Lowriders.
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Peckerwood gang members have been charged with a variety of crimes,
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ranging from dealing drugs to attempted murder. Many gang members
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sport peer would wood tattoos to display their affiliations.
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Can you imagine what that gang sign looks like when
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you're like throwing out the gang signs?
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Yes, I can. I think it's more of a gesture.
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And for those for those that need a little more
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historical context for Peckerwood's, Southern Blacks used peckerwood as a
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derogatory term to describe poor and or rural Southern whites.
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A Dictionary of African Americans Slang explains that the term
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peckerwood had its origins in the word woodpecker, black saw
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blackbirds and a symbol of themselves, and the contrasting redheaded
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woodpecker as representation of whites. Eventually, the word woodpecker was
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inverted to become peckerwood in an attempt to hide the
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meaning an origin of the term. Later, peckerwood came to
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be used in the North as well as a general
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description for white people. Then, at some point peckerwood involve
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peckerwood evolved into a term used to describe white prison inmates.
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In prison, slaying, a peckerwood or wood was a white
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inmate who was willing to fight to avoid being raped
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or robbed. Over time, white inmates appropriated the term peckerwood
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and made it a source of pride. I'd like to
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point out how very wrong you all are. I don't
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think any mama looks down on her children and says,
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I'm so proud to have all these peckerwoods in my family.
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But then again, I don't. I don't know, mister boots mama.
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So let's go back a little bit on this story.
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Paral authorities say the Peckerwoods is a white supremacist gang.
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The video highlights how dangerous the chase was, but police
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say it could have been worse, as two handguns and
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ammunition were found inside the stolen pickup.
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We're just happy that the officer's okay.
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Once again.
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Booth had a warrant for a parole violation for unlawful
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possession of a firearm by felon, according to Sigeville police,
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who say he's a documented gang member.
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I just know that he's a Peckerwood.
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Peckerwood and that's his gang.
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That's his gang of physication. Is he's a Peckerwood Federal authorities.
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I can't imagine the amount of glee in the heart
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of Cigaville's public information officer right there saying, finally my
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moment on TV is about to happen. I'm going to
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draw the curtain back on the Peckerwood gang. Is Is
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this the worst gang name of all time?
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I'm gonna say, are you drawing the curtain back on
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the Peckerwood.
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Or the Foreskin whatever? Thank you?
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Right?
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Maybe that's their maybe that's their baby brother gang, the
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for Skinners.
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That's why it's like being a wee blow.
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If your gang name is the for Skinners or the Peckerwoods,
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your weep high. So once again I asked a very
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important question, is Pecker would the worst gang name of
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all time?
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Yes?
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Okay, because let's go down the let's go and let's
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go down the gang names that we're all aware of. Okay,
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let me see me get me what. Okay, so we're
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all aware of the Crips, the bloods, MS, thirteen, Latin Kings,
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the Chinese Triads. I don't really know if those exist.
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I just don't that they're in movies. So I assume
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the Yakuza, east Side Locos. Thank you, thank you, Jerry.
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I think that's the extent of gang names that I'm
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really familiar with, unless you would just include the generic
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Cosonostra Italian Mafia. I don't know if they have any
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cool straight street names like the Broken Noses or the
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or the Tony two names is.
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But this is where Google disciples. Latin Kings, Latin.
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Kings, Ye have got them. So that's where Google comes
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in hand off for all of us. Olds. Some other
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East Asian gangs in the United States, the Bamboo Union
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that just sounds racist. The fourteen K Triad, the Bamboo Union,
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Big Circle Gang, Black Dragons, Flying Dragons, Flying Dragons. Wasn't
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that the gang that was in Tropic Thunder. Weren't they
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the ones that kidnapped Simple Jack? Oh no wait, I
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think that was the Yeah, that was the Flaming Dragons.
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My bad.
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No disrespect to the Flying Dragons. I don't want to
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bringing about their ire. So yeah, Peckerwood, Yeah, I mean,
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I don't know, does that really instill fear into the
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hearts of your rival gang members?
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If someone yelled that out? And if you're in a
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club and someone just yelled out Peckerlwood, would you be frightened?
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People yells out like rolling thirty Crips' I'm leaving. Yeah, Peckerwood,
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I'm like, that sounds good, buddy.
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I feel like it's just a group of kids that
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are hanging out at the Dairy Queen after hours.
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It's like that scene in Guardians of the Galaxy where
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Rockets giving that guy crap.
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He's like, your name's Taser Face. Oh yeah, that's true.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. You're thinking it's supposed to be this intimidating thing,
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and I don't really think it is.
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Yep.
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I don't know any other worst gang names off the
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top of my head, but Peckwick's pretty bad.
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Uh.
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If you have suggestions, we'll take them. Treehouse on Era
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at gmail dot com. Uh, but I did bring up
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a list of other gang there's some really interesting ones
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going down on Wikipedia. You got thirty one Gang Almighty,
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Black Piece Own Nation, Almighty, Vice Lord, Nation for Corners, Hustlers,
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Bailey Boys, Black Disciples, Black Girl of Family, Black Mafia,
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Black Mafia Family, Black Spades, Bloods, and then all the
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offshoots of the Bloods, the Chambers Brothers, Columbia Point Dogs,
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the Council, the Crips, all the offshoots of that DC Blacks,
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the Decepticons. Ooh, that's a good gang name. I feel
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like you might get sued by, you know, a movie
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studio or something.
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But the Autobots, right, I.
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Don't know if that's cool enough for them, but yeah,
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uh after the Decepticons, the Errol Flends. Okay, come on, okay, okay,
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now we're bordering.
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That's an all white gang too, right now.
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With the whispy mustaches.
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not new to us inside the Treehouse, but it does
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seem to be making headlines around the country. Why single
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men aren't approaching women in person anymore? Guys say, I
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am so sick of this. In today's digital dating world,
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where single people would often rather meet a potential suitor online.
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One of the main complaints, especially from women, is that
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people rarely approach someone they're interested in anymore. Trey, You've
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talked about this quite a bit on the show because
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working in the bar industry for as long as you have,
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this is something that you've seen you've seen this trend
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where guys just don't go up to women anymore. And
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it's not necessarily for any one particular reason, is it.
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I would say, if there was a prevailing reason, it's because, uh,
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for a while, you know, if you approached a woman
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and said the wrong thing, you know, you were basically
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accused of being creepy, of doing something untowards and just
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you know what a lot of people considered a base
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basic social and interaction became something that you know, you
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would hear people say they're being threatened or they feel
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threatened or this or that. So if people are like,
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you know what, I'm kind of the don't disturb my piece. Fine,
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you know that's uh, we'll just leave you alone.
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And what you're describing, those are things that happened just
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in the moment at the time, in person, without the
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added element, which is also I think part of it
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being shamed online for it. Like if you approach someone like, hey,
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I just want to say, can I buy you a drink?
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And then five minutes later you're going viral on Twitter
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and social media because you had the audacity to ask
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someone to buy them a drink and they took offense
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to it or whatever reason that they think you absolutely
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should never have done that, and now you're on black
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and thinking, all I did, thank you? She was cute.
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Thinks well, I'm glad she showed her dragonness to me
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immediately as opposed to waiting a year or so into
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a potential relationship. But I think that social media aspect
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of brutal online shaming plays into it. One North Carolina model, though,
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has her version. She says she hasn't been on a
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date in almost a year, and she blames her good
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looks for intimidating men and preventing them from striking up
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a conversation with her, she said, it's difficult being this hot.
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Men think I'm too beautiful to date or worry that
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I'll turn them down. Okay, first of all, all right,
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she's not entirely wrong. I mean, if you're a guy
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and you see a woman that is just ridiculously attractive,
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you might think, yeah, she's out of my league. I
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have no chance. But that's where there's two types of men.
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There's the guy that says, I'm not even going to
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waste my time. That's ridiculous. It's going to be embarrassing.
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And then there are the Jerrys of the world, who's
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I don't care. I'm going to shoot my shot, right, Jared,
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Sorry you miss of the shots you don't take. Yeah,
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it was true in college basketball when John Wooden said
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it to his UCLA basketball players, and it's true to
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players in general. Other women explained in a Reddit thread
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they blame men for not knowing how to appropriately approach
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women in the wild. One said, I think they can
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approach women for non sexual conversation. Somehow these fools refuse
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to recognize that we are humans with whole lives that
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we could talk about without going straight to insert body
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part and how that's attractive. If they can't have a
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respectful conversation, then please do not approach. And then someone
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else said, the men who care about not making women
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uncomfortable don't talk to us anymore because they think hello
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is enough to upset us.
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Yeah, and it can. Yeah. Yeah.
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There's four of us that are male inside the treehouse
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right now, and in Unison we're all just shaking our
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heads like yeah, yeah, I'm seeing Yeah, that's happened. Hm,
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it's your fault. It's your fault. Ladies, Keeping in mind
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there are a bunch of us that are creeps. However,
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that's not all of us. And just because one creep
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said hello doesn't mean every other guy that says hello
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subsequently is also a creep. And sometimes you just got
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to let the creeps show that they're creeps and not
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just assume.
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I was gonna say or or pickup lines like still
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a thing, like you know, back in the day you
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had you had your line, you had to go to line.
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I don't even know if that's still a thing.
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Now you should find out because otherwise you're going to
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be single forever.
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Oh I don't I don't mind that.
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I know you're actually you're actually being taken under Trey's
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wing because now that like you're almost fifty years old