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Post by papamihel on Aug 12, 2023 6:25:39 GMT
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Post by cinemachinery on Aug 12, 2023 6:33:04 GMT
I don’t find this confusing at all. You find this dynamic in veneration of mobsters, vigilantes, all manner of criminal roles that people romantisize from the safe confines of a policed society.
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Post by papamihel on Aug 12, 2023 7:18:09 GMT
I don’t find this confusing at all. You find this dynamic in veneration of mobsters, vigilantes, all manner of criminal roles that people romantisize from the safe confines of a policed society. I think it's a little different. I grew up in such a society. "Antiheroes" they might be but they still see themselves as heroes of sorts. With rules, laws and standards. Rapists are despised and a pimp might only aspire to be a useful source of income. Not someone they would welcome in a "polite" gangster society. |
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Post by PaulsLaugh on Aug 12, 2023 7:40:31 GMT
I don’t find this confusing at all. You find this dynamic in veneration of mobsters, vigilantes, all manner of criminal roles that people romantisize from the safe confines of a policed society. I think it's a little different. I grew up in such a society. "Antiheroes" they might be but they still see themselves as heroes of sorts. With rules, laws and standards. Rapists are despised and a pimp might only aspire to be a useful source of income. Not someone they would welcome in a "polite" gangster society. Tony Soprano is a pimp. Which is worse, him or Walter “Heisenberg” White? |
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Post by lunda2222 on Aug 12, 2023 8:25:13 GMT
It's complicated.
The word has also been applied to a person who is considered a ladies' man (without the criminal connotations). And has been used different contexts as well such the TV show Pimp My Ride.
You can say that the word is used on people who dresses flamboyantly, which many of pimps in the 70'ies used to.
The word probably stems from the French infinitive pimper meaning to dress up elegantly and from the present participle pimpant meaning alluring in seductive dress.
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Post by papamihel on Aug 12, 2023 9:28:23 GMT
It's complicated. The word has also been applied to a person who is considered a ladies' man (without the criminal connotations). And has been used different contexts as well such the TV show Pimp My Ride. You can say that the word is used on people who dresses flamboyantly, which many of pimps in the 70'ies used to. The word probably stems from the French infinitive pimper meaning to dress up elegantly and from the present participle pimpant meaning alluring in seductive dress. I'm not talking about a slang word. |
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Post by jeffersoncody on Aug 12, 2023 9:37:09 GMT
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Post by WarrenPeace on Aug 12, 2023 9:40:52 GMT
Good question and they should not be since they are infamous for murdering their own prostitutes who hold back on them and for other reasons. This was depicted in the Dirty Harry movie Magnum Force. I doubt they would kill her this way or with a witness but the stories of them killing their own girls are out there or I have heard of it once before which I believe the story was real. They are also depicted in movies as wearing loud, tacky clothes. I dunno how true that is but that is just asking to be pulled over or frisked or charged with being a pimp.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2023 10:59:04 GMT
I considered using Upgrayedd as my new screen name when I registered.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 12, 2023 11:56:34 GMT
I think it's a little different. I grew up in such a society. "Antiheroes" they might be but they still see themselves as heroes of sorts. With rules, laws and standards. Rapists are despised and a pimp might only aspire to be a useful source of income. Not someone they would welcome in a "polite" gangster society. Tony Soprano is a pimp. Which is worse, him or Walter “Heisenberg” White? Tony Soprano ran a strip club, among various illegal activities. I don’t remember prostitution being one of them. |
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Post by PaulsLaugh on Aug 12, 2023 11:58:16 GMT
Tony Soprano is a pimp. Which is worse, him or Walter “Heisenberg” White? , among various illegal activities. I don’t remember prostitution being one of them. That clears up his reputation. |
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Post by pathfinder on Aug 12, 2023 12:47:15 GMT
Because a lot of Black people haven't got the brains to realize they are being exploited by the White Liberal elites. That's why. It plays up a racial trope of the worst kind.
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Post by peachy on Aug 12, 2023 12:48:05 GMT
We live in a society where they erected a statue in honor of a petty thug for getting killed by a cop.
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Post by Boricanator on Aug 12, 2023 12:51:04 GMT
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Post by Boricanator on Aug 12, 2023 12:52:55 GMT
Tony Soprano is a pimp. Which is worse, him or Walter “Heisenberg” White? Tony Soprano ran a strip club, among various illegal activities. I don’t remember prostitution being one of them. Did you watch the show? What do you think was happening in that Strip Club? |
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