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You gotta love the Washington Times for splashing this story across the top of their local coverage today: "EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police probe officers' Facebook pages" reads the headline, with the subhead, "Complaint cites degradation of women, hedonism." Apparently a couple of officers are "members" of a public group on Facebook called the "Make-it-Rain Foundation for Underprivileged Hoes," which we gather means these guys want it to be known that they are fans of going to strip clubs. Talk about a snoozefest. But wait, there's more!
One of the three men also listed himself as a member of the "He-Man Woman Hater's Club" and founded a Facebook group called "Passed Out in Trashcans" - a three-member group geared toward "anyone else that has woken up from a long night of drinking to find themselves in the trashcan."Sigh. We get that law enforcement bodies are entitled to hold their officers to higher standards of conduct even while they're off duty, but people do understand that these are just Facebook groups, right? I myself am still a member of the "Save Scrabulous" group, an affiliation that marks me as a supporter of an online enterprise that has long since been determined to have been operating illegally. These Capitol Police officers may have bad taste, but last we checked, enjoying strip clubs isn't illegal.
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I'd be more concerned if they had Myspace pages, proof positive that the officer is either a teenage camwhore or a trolling pedophile.
At least they are members of the Facebook group "Building Burners".
Officer Bob became a fan of Donuts.
What's with the chick in the photo with the flying money?
I have money in my pockets. She'll be happy there. Real happy.
Is there a party in your pants?
If a police officer is a self-professed woman hater on facebook, don't you think he'd be likely to mistreat, abuse, and perhaps even wrongly arrest women on the job? In a profession where a person is given an enormous amount of power and control over others, it's easy for them to exercise their biases in ways that could unfairly harm others based on race, orientation, or gender. If an officer joined an anti-black or anti-Hispanic group, what do you think the odds are that he regularly performs racial profiling?
Not to mention, if an officer is stupid enough to put unproffessional items up on their facebook page, do we really want the person protecting us?
Take a look at your facebook groups. Do you take all of them literally?? While I obviously can't be sure without knowing the officer, I'd guess this was just a joke group that he joined ages ago, and no longer even remembered he was in.
Looking through my old groups, it's not like I truly believe that "Bears are the #1 threat to America", or that "James Knox Polk Could Kill a Man Just By Looking At Him."
Of course, I'm also in the "I Speak Sarcasm Fluently" group, so who knows what I believe...
there is a difference between innocuous absurdity ("bears are the number 1 threat in america") and the usage of gender slurs ("h-es"). you can say the name of your "bears" facebook group in the workplace with no repercussions. The second Facebook group name involves a gender slur and erroneously equates stripping (legal) with prostitution (illegal). Seems to me it shows both bad judgment and poor logical thinking skills, not necessarily the type of traits I look for when I think of who should be protecting the U.S. Capitol. I'd say some sensitivity training and maybe a bit of time off to read up on gender slurs might do these guys some good.
If a police officer is a self-professed woman hater on facebook, don't you think he'd be likely to mistreat, abuse, and perhaps even wrongly arrest women on the job? In a profession where a person is given an enormous amount of power and control over others, it's easy for them to exercise their biases in ways that could unfairly harm others based on race, orientation, or gender. If an officer joined an anti-black or anti-Hispanic group, what do you think the odds are that he regularly performs racial profiling?
Not to mention, if an officer is stupid enough to put unproffessional items up on their facebook page, do we really want the person protecting us?
Not to mention, if an officer is stupid enough to put unproffessional items up on their facebook page, do we really want the person protecting us?
This may be one of the most insane logical leaps I've ever seen outside of a political blog comment thread.
"He-man Woman Haters Club" is the name of an old episode of the Little Rascals.
I'm not defending the guys or saying they're not scummy misogynists, but that particular cultural reference isn't quite the same as being a "self-professed woman-hater". I mean, I could start a Facebook group called G.R.O.S.S., and it might just mean that I'm a Calvin & Hobbes fan, and not that I want to Get Rid Of Slimy GirlS.
Sorry, that was meant to be a response to comment 6/7, not the original post.
I feel sorry for anyone who creates a group for the National Association of Marlon Brando Look Alikes.
We all know that hating women ain't as bad as racism or intolerance, or hating little animals (microzoophobia). I mean more than half the world out there is female right, so who cares! I understand that that most police precincts are a bit like frats for old fat community college grads. But all that aside- these displays of misogyny are now found, and I take them sort of like I would take just finding out that a cop was a member of a facebook group named after that classic Honeymooner's episode: "Alice, I hate El Salvadorians!" Women make up 55% of DC.
If they are too stupid to know better than making that crap known on facebook, they probably should not be guarding the f*king capitol.
"wtf?" is all i have to say to anyone remotely defending this pig, clever pop culture references aside. btw, nice try. i don't buy it.
it's one thing to think such things, but to broadcast is quite another. sadly, this general tone of acceptance just shows how big the problem is.
it is not ok.
if you think it's ok, then yo mama's a ho. believe that.
What about WOOKIES passed out in trash cans?
THANK YOU! I'd been trying to remember this URL for weeks! Oh the glory of a freshly passed-out wookie!