Jim

rape culture is a spectrum of behaviour from mild to severe..

Is some of it sort of OK when compared to the severe cases?

“He only slapped her once. At least he did not leave her unconscious and with a serious head injury”.

It would be better if all boys (and girls) were taught that any aggressive violence against another person is wrong,…[Read more]

Davis wrote:
I’m less concerned by men who get defensive over the above, and more by the general slowness in tackling rape culture in general.

I don’t seem to come across it much.  Andrew Tate is the patron saint of rape culture.  It was @robert who said that rape culture is a spectrum of behaviour from mild to severe, and this would be a goo…[Read more]

Yeah I’m quite aware of that. I tend to date big guys (rugby player types) and I have been in more than a few situations where I had to physically stop them after asking them to a few times and them ignoring me. I started becoming super careful afterwards. And I am a big guy who can fight back. So yes, could not agree more, on the whole, women can…[Read more]

Reg, I think you inadvertently changed the color of your post’s body text to white

Thanks Unseen, I was posting a photo of my soul 🙂

Nah, I don’t have one! I was trying to upload a picture and only getting PHP errors. Something up with WordPress, I guess.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Reg, I think you inadvertently changed the color of your post’s body text to white. I’m sure you actually wrote something, right?

But realistically, men aren’t actually being accused of being rapists, just of being dangerous, which I think is really a fair point.  It’s clear that men as a species are potentially lethal to women.  So, men should just suck it up if women are suspicious of them – it’s rational for women to be that way.

Also, men are the physically stronger (…[Read more]

I agree, that some men get offended when rape culture is pointed out, as in, pointing out that other men engage in rape culture is tantamount to lumping them in with that rape culture. That is seriously problematic, the sensible reaction should be “yeah, that is a problem, I stand with all victims of rape culture”. But if all men are being painted…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Don’t lump the innocent in with predators in the name of either religion nor ideology!

It would be good if the innocent weren’t so sensitive, because they shouldn’t mind being tarred with a brush because of the seriousness of the peril and danger for women coming from a minority of men.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Saying it out loud in public shows just how fucked religious morality is. I do not take his apology as being sincere.

That’s true – it shows how religion can warp normal morality.  I find that religion is a moral domain in itself, which has a slightly different agenda (worshipping God? – broadly) than mutual…[Read more]

Reg,

I feel soiled knowing that the barbaric sentiment of this Jack-legged preacher came from just a fairly short drive away from my town!

I equally take offense at both Bobby Leonard and Hemant Mehta saying: “Men are men” in regards to rape. Mere desire or lust does not equal violence and neither does being a man! Don’t lump the innocent in…[Read more]

The fact that he, an adult male, even had that idea in his head is disgusting. Saying it out loud in public shows just how fucked religious morality is. I do not take his apology as being sincere. He is a scumbag.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
After saying women who wear shorts deserve to be raped, pastor admits “I was wrong”.

This is the best news I’ve heard all week, in that not many people can admit they’re wrong these days.

Have a great week!

A baby was born in February 2020 from an embryo frozen in 1992. Although she looks and talks like a four-year-old girl she is to be recognized as a 32-year-old under the new Alabama embryo state Supreme Court ruling.  She is to move there over this summer in order to be able to purchase and consume alcohol and get a firearm…[Read more]

Maybe Putin envied Navalny?

The Catholic hand wringing over all the HERESY and APOSTACY in that bro-Jesus TV show was hilarious. I just don’t see how people take themselves so seriously–especially in an Era where they no longer can kill us for laughing at them.

Reg,

Now, now, Reg. Only if he slaps you with an Ikthes Fish. Then, Anton LaVey’s Golden Rule goes into effect. 👹😁

Anytime I see Osteen’s face I have an image of slapping him in the face with a wet fish.  I feel I could only prosper after that.

Reg and Fellow Unbelievers,

Judging from the details about the shooter at Joel Osteen’s megachurch, Allah was the God that was in control that day:

Shooter at Houston megachurch had lengthy criminal history including weapons charges, police say
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/12/us/joel-osteen-lakewood-church-shooting-monday/index.html

The shooter…

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I think (hope) that his murder will be a catalyst for change in the long run and that his legacy (his ghost) will haunt the coward in the bunker.

I’m not afraid and these 15 days convinced me there is nothing to fear. Let them be afraid instead.

Reg,

Alexei Navalny – The man the coward in the bunker fears.

Ackshuyally, that is past tense, though Navalny’s family and other dissenters like him are left to carry on in defaming the Putin regime.

Putin’s Putineers do a great job of calling attention to Putin’s evil as well. The coroner announced that Navalny died of “Sudden Death S…[Read more]