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Driving home from work today, a truck passed us with a "Marriage. STILL one man, one woman" bumper sticker. Naturally I immediately hated the bitch of a driver. To my surprise, chick in the bright orange truck got off our exit. It appears we're neighbors. I look forward to seeing her at the grocery store.
How can anyone think that driving around with offensive bumper stickers is okay?! You don't know who you're sharing the road with. There are some crazies out there who wouldn't hesitate to confront you because you feel the need to sport your douchebagery on your car. Stupid, stupid people.
Have you seen any doozies?
My mom's ex drives around with a "No Immigrants" sticker on his truck. That's offensive and crazy to me. Even if you held that kind of view, why would you feel the need to publicly express such an inflamatory idea?
I don't mind. In they end, they'll know why their car was keyed.
@UpstateCait: I'm not proud of it but once I was in a parking lot with some friends and we saw a car sporting a similar sticker as the one you saw. We may or may not have ripped it off the car, and may or may not have replaced it with crazy glued paper that said "I'm an ignorant bigot."
Oh and best of all, this car was parked in West Hollywood which is a predominantly gay community.
All bumper stickers can offend someone in some form or fashion. Politcal ones, all kinds. Everyone has their opinion. I dont let it bother me.
@UpstateCait: What really boggles my mind is to see someone in a suit and tie, or other professional attire, get into a car with crap like that on it. There's no way I would drive to work with offensive stuff plastered on my car. Or campaign stickers for that matter. There's a woman at my office who has "Beautiful Disaster" on her back window. My professional opinion of her plummeted when I saw her get in that car.
As offensive as you find it, that is what this country was built on. Freedom of speech. People are way too sensitive these days and everyone is always offended about something. I disagree with the bumper sticker as much as you do, but I also agree with the right for people to have opinions and if they want to slap a sticker on their vehicle with said opinion, I stand behind their right to do so. Not to say I wouldn't drive past her and give her a dirty look though!
@AirForceWife78: Agreed. There are a lot of bumper stickers that make me roll my eyes, but everyone is entitled to his/her opinion. I know a lot of people disagree with my political/religious/other beliefs, and they have the right to disagree with me. That said, I'm not the type to display a conviction as a bumper sticker.
What bugs me more is when it's a really nice, expensive car, and there is some silly bumper sticker on it. It just looks tacky. Why would you spend so much on a car just to tacky it up? But, oh well, everyone has different tastes.
I agree with the PPs who said that any bumper sticker can be found offensive to someone. In high school, I rocked a Darwin fish sticker. Wanna guess how that went over in my uber-conservative Southern Baptist hometown?
As much as I support free speech, I'll be honest and say I'm disgusted by anyone who has something like that. Gross!
That's the wonderful thing about freedom of speech. It makes it easy to identify the bigots.
@Meowkers: Bwahahaha! That is awesome! I don't condone tampering with someone's property but in that case, the ignorant bigot deserved it. I wonder how long it took before they noticed the change.... I really hope it was a while later! :-)
@AirForceWife78: I'm all for free speech but I am not for discrimination (of any kind - racial, gender, sexual orientation etc), nor do I think that should be tolerated in our society in this day and age. I know not everyone agrees that being opposed to equal rights for gay people is discrimination, but I'm sure the white supremacists back in the 50s didn't see their views as discrimination either.
Anyway, I digress. OP, yes, when I see bumper stickers like that, it enrages me and I go out of my way to give the driver a very nasty look when I pass. I don't do anything further as it's not worth risking my safety but I make it clear that I am disgusted with their beliefs. Sadly, people like that are probably too ignorant and stupid to even realise WHY I'm giving them a disgusted look!
@Ree723: I agree that it's discrimination, and I agree that discrimination is intolerable. Unfortunately, free speech is still free speech. Everyone can have as backwards a viewpoint as they like. What that SHOULDNT translate to is laws that discriminate (or actions against others), but that's a different issue altogether, and not what we're talking about here.
@Ree723: Totally see where you're coming from. Gay marriage is a hot button topic and let's face it, this country is never going to totally agree on its terms. If someone is bold enough to put a controversial bumper sticker on their car, then that's their right, as ignorant as we may believe them to be.
There's this guy in my hometown who has the licene plate "IMPEACH," spelled exactly like that. He then has a bumper sticker of a president's name on the car next to it. Not saying which president because it doesn't matter. What matters is that it is a very bold statement to make about our country's leader, especially when living in an area mostly made up of people who voted for him.
I don't like bumper stickers at all in general, but hate any kind of political, opinionated, religious, or sarcastic stickers even more, regardless if I think the same way or not.
Sure, it's freedom of speech but that doesn't make it any less inappropriate and stupid.
@mrsbruff2b: You're right. There won't be any question why their vehicle is damaged.
@Meowkers: I would be DAMN proud of that! I told DH that I was going to rip it off if I ever saw her around town.
I agree with freedom of speech, and I like it in the form of bumper stickers. Then if someone with certain bumper stickers cuts me off or does something stupid, I say, "Oh it's okay, that person's clearly an idiot. Shame they let stupid people drive."
Actually no, I don't like that. It really brings out the ugly in me. As a big fan of courteous driving, I think bumper stickers are a bad idea because they put people in bad moods. Even something as simple as "Cats not kids," will put someone into a rage. Drivers are aggressive enough as it is, I'd never want anything on my car that would trigger an aggressive driver.
@HappierKate: My point exactly! Vehicles are not the place to express yourself. I once saw a car with a 5 page complaint letter taped to their rear windshield. We were stopped at a stop sign so I had enough time to get the basic jist. Lady took her car to a garage, had a problem with said garage for some reason, decided the best way to deal with it was to post her complaint on her car. Brilliant.
Ripping the sticker off and damaging a car because of a sticker, is going to far. Would you want someone to key your car because of a sticker you might have on there? Or have someone take off your sticker? Naa.........just let it go. :)
I agree with the PPs who said that, while it may be offensive, they have every right to shout their beliefs to the world.
I saw one that sticks with me.
"Let's Put the Fun Back in Funeral"
@UpstateCait: I agree - everyone is welcome to their opinions, but there is no need to post them on your car!
About the road rage/aggressive drivers - my FI read an article that stated people with more than 2 bumber stickers tend to be very aggressive drivers. (I'm assuming this doesn't include non-opinion ones, like Alumni stickers from universities & such.)
@UpstateCait: It's not offensive--this one is offensive:
The one you saw was a stated personal belief and honestly, if "the bitch of a driver" can't have that than I shouldn't be allowed to have my HRC sticker--alternative political message with the same delivery.
This one wasn't particularly offensive but funny. You know those family decals people are putting on their windows? Like the mom, dad, 3 kids and the dog stick figures? I saw one on a BMW SUV (which makes it funnier) of a man, a womand and a big ole pile of money. I thought it was funny that they were all like "Yeah, we're DINKs" (dual income, no kids). I totally want that for my car.
I am not a fan of pro-life bumper stickers. And it really bothered me when I was in Florda to see pro-life license plates. There were a TON of them. But I never saw any pro-choice plates and think that bothered me even more.
Oh the worst offender I ever saw (also in Florida) was the person who had a pro-life license plate and a pro-war bumper sticker, like something about how you should be ashamed if you're not in uniform or something like that. Really? So it's okay to kill children who are presumably loved and wanted in a war zone and guilt young people who are also loved and wanted to go to war where they could get hurt or die. But it's not okay to kill an unwanted child? I get that there's other options besides abortion, but really? What if the woman was raped? Or if she's addicted to drugs? Or just isn't ready for a child and doesn't want to have to go through all the crap that comes along with carrying a child for 9 months then giving birth to it only to give it away?
I see plenty of bumper stickers that I feel are offensive, but I assume many other people don't find them offensive. So the only one I have is of my university.
Pretty much all bumper stickers annoy me haha. I just think they're tacky in general.
I am not a bumper sticker person but have been considering one of these decals for my back window of my car. Someone will be offended. I don't know how, but someone will be.
@julies1949: True story.
Personally, any type of anti-gay bumper sticker isn't "opinion" to me, it's bigotry. I have no tolerance for it and in this day and age I don't feel that I should have to tolerate it.
@Carnival_Bride: Yea, no. I definitely still think its offensive. The one you posted is just stupid. If I saw that on someone's car I would just roll my eyes. The bumper sticker that I saw is clear bigotry, like Scc6a said.
I dont let stuff like that bother me. I think everyone is entitled to an their say so\beliefs but when you key a car or rip off their sticker; that is going to far in my opinion.
My husband is a Iraq\Afghanistan war veteran. Purple Heart receipient. His truck has the purple heart plates on it, a SUPPORT OUR TROOPS ribbon with his company logo on it, and a sticker on the windshield of his military job.
One day I came out of the grocery store and someone had wrote MURDERER\ Iraqi baby killer on his truck.
Did he deserve that? no way. I think THAT is offensive.
They could of kept their smartass dumb remarks to themselves!
@MrsRuby: Ugh, that is heartbreaking--I don't see how anyone could find any of those stickers offensive, regardless of their opinion on the war. I'm sorry that happened, and I hope your husband was able to brush it off as one idiot who doesn't represent the vast majority of people in this country.
Yeah... just because you don't agree with their bumper sticker doesn't give you the right to vandalize their car. Yes, you peeling their sticker off is vandalzing. That is immature, and pathedic and makes you as bad as them. I don't care if you think it makes them the most ignorant bigot ever, you stooping to their level doesn't make it any better.
I absolutely believe that bigots hide behind freedom of speech but if murderers and rapists become free men and women because of legal technicalities then nothing shocks me! Regarding bumper sticks eh I think theyre a lil stupid, no offense, I think it limits your individuality esp in others eyes
I learned never to put a bumper sticker on my car after my car was vandalized and my sticker was removed. And what was my sticker? A Duke University basketball decal. Tarheels fans in NC are cray....
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