Comments on: Intense, Intimate Eye-Sex with the Security Guard at Walgreens

By: Karla

Karla — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:25:16 +0000

I am followed by security all the time too, but then again, I do shoplift ANY chance I get.

By: Eve

Eve — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:48:52 +0000

I was, and still am followed by security guards all the time. And I worked retail, and followed people myself. In neither case, not due to any minority status, but because I (or they) had big bags or looked glassy-eyed and out of it (Beth, forgive me, but I suspect that was your case). olu, I am a member of a minority group: I am followed by security guards: security guards only follow members of a minority group does not logically hold as truism or otherwise.

Would *I* be overreacting to infer from the tone of your comments that the problem might be something other than your ethnic heritage?

By: Holden Helena

Holden Helena — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:32:28 +0000

Almost forgot: Nazis.

Annnd, scene.

By: Holden Helena

Holden Helena — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:28:56 +0000

My stars. Olu, obvi Beth’s post was more “That’s life in the Big City” than having anything to do with race. What’s up with your thinly veiled correlation between looking “bad” and being of color? If you got that out of the crazy-Walgreens-security-guy story, I honestly suggest a tailor to thicken your skin a bit.
If we’re gonna make that post all political n shit, obviously it’s a feminist issue. And don’t start with me and my bleeding heart UCSC edumacation.

By: Brock Keeling

Brock Keeling — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:36:22 +0000

While doing some afternoon shopping at South Coast Plaza’s Saks store in Orange County, I was followed by a security guard. Endlessly. But, as luck would have it, the guard was actually a hair model scout looking for readheads. A few days later I was booked in a fashion show.

So I totally know where you’re coming from. Kind of.

By: olu

olu — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:15:57 +0000

I did say treated like a minority because that was the equivalence it seemed you established. I did not call you a racist – that was your inference. While I love ad hominem attacks(it makes the internet great!) I don’t think I have an unnatural emphasis on PC.

Being followed around the store by the security guard is what happens to minorities. I didn’t think that was unfair or unusual thing to say. I thought it was a well established truism. I may be wrong. But it certainly isn’t a PC thing to say. It is an experiential account.

Sorry that my response was not as free of typos as was yours.

By: Brock Keeling

Brock Keeling — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:10:57 +0000

“A link to Spotswood kinda veers from the mission theme but whatever.”

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By: Beth Spotswood

Beth Spotswood — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:56:21 +0000

Actually, they ARE your words, olu. And if you’re going to comment in the internet, announcing that I felt “treated like a minority” when I said (and felt) no such thing, at least have the courage of your convictions to own your implications and sign your name.

For example, Dear olu, I think you are an uptight alarmist with too much emphasis on political correctness and not enough on punctuation. Regards, Beth Spotswood

By: olu

olu — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:42:24 +0000

Your words not mine Spots.

By: Allan Hough

Allan Hough — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:23:21 +0000

Beth is my hero.

By: Beth Spotswood

Beth Spotswood — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:12:30 +0000

Really.
I live in the Mission.
And I don’t think the post warranted that grasp as calling me racist, “but whatever.”

Anyghetto, thanks for the link, Allan! And I swung by Pirate Cat on my way home, a day late and a dollar short of Bourdain. Foiled…

By: olu

olu — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:34:43 +0000

Really? A link to Spotswood kinda veers from the mission theme but whatever. (by the way, did I read it correctly? was it that she looked so bad, that the security guard thought she might shoplifting? that he treated her like a minority or something? as someone who gets regularly followed in stores no matter how nice I look, and how ‘ghetto’ the store i’m sure i’m overreacting).