So I was in Houston this weekend, and I went to the Astros/Rangers game.

Afterward, coming out of the park, we noticed a woman walking up and down the street with a large-ish Texas flag and a big sign, sour-faced, silent, all by herself.

Her sign said:

TEXAS IS NOT A COLONY OF MEXICO!

:eyes: :puke:

My friend said right to her, "That's funny, too, since we STOLE TEXAS FROM MEXICO to being with, bitch! We WERE A MEXICAN COLONY, YOU IDIOT!". My friend was kinda... drunk. But, still.

I said, "Aye, Dios mio! Que idiota! Viva Mexico!".

She just kept walking. But the idiocy of it, and the venom and misplaced anger the woman must feel... well, it stayed with me all afternoon, and I've been getting more and more pissed.

I'm white, btw.

(cross-posted in GD)

we were part of the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon. ;)

dg

Taylor Buchholz was nails. Complete game shutout. You have a good time?

I had never been to a pro game, and only one baseball game - ever. That was in high school. I don't really like baseball. But it was a fun experience. For $10! :D

they'll probably get farther in arguing their point if they don't holler gender slurs. *sigh*

Like I said, she was drunk. :/

I think the problem there is more resorting to ad hominem attacks than any gender bias (both people in question being female). Her sign was stupid enough that we really didn't need to resort to calling her names. But they slipped out, as a shocked initial response. Plus I wanted to speak Spanish. I figured a white woman responding to her sign in Spanish would really piss her off.