tom sarbeck

So I’ve moved to Scotland. I have to say it’s been a bit of an adjustment living in an Anglo-Saxon country (you guys and a couple other websites have been my only outlet for the English speaking world for the last couple decades). It makes me a little dizzy speaking English with native speakers every day 🙂

Anyhoo…one of the biggest benefits of…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!!!

I’m hearing “free will of the gaps.”

Nice try Unseen. I’m not biting. But nice try.

I see more books and philosophy journal articles arguing for free will than against it. 99% of philosophers arguing against free will is one of the most ludicrous statements I’ve heard about what philosophers believe in a long time. It is simply not true. It is one of the most contentious topics in philosophy at the moment. The claim:

Free will…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg!

What is at the root of all of this…do you suppose?

Religion plays a notable role (let there be no doubt). Obviously this is the case when secular humanist societies show less (and only less) racism, homophobia, money worshipping, war aggression etc. But the ugly side of human nature plays as much of a role. All of our primate relatives are c…[Read more]

“Rape culture” is going to stick because it’s snappy and catchy.

I am not longer surprised how effortlessly these conversations turn into the surreal and grotesque. Jesus leaping mother fucking shit-stick garbage dumpster crap-fest bonkers zheeeeesh!

Who wants to be thinking about rape the whole time?

Uhhh…that’s the problem Simon. People want to ignore how serious of an issue it is. Calling it something less horrific is downplaying the problem. Let’s call gay bashers beating up stupid little faggots a “gender-norm disagreement rudeness” or the number of gun death massacres in America a…[Read more]

That is a logical interpretation; however, I believe they are advocating for men collectively segregating. Basically:

Shake shake shake that sack!

What is not needed is harping on a “rape culture” without firmly defining terms.

Harping on rape culture? Pointing out the scale and severity of rape culture is “harping on it”? Oh no. Poor rapists and sexual harassers. If only someone would clearly tell them that no means no, harassing people is vile and that confirming consent is the wise way…[Read more]

Ooh, that was a bit predictable.

Well, a “free market” in anything is, by definition, between consenting rational beings and without initiated coercion or fraud, most especially initiated coercion or fraud by the State, which is only supposed to act as an agency of defense and an arbiter of disputes.

And the operative term here is “co…

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A distinction, sure, but eventually and with effort and hope, they all become one of a single piece.

WTF?

Men viewing women as potential sex partners is normal

I cannot be sure but I believe he was referring to things like: someone hitting on someone and not taking five NOs in a row for an answer. Or telling someone to fuck off and the person still bugging you. Or politely putting someone down and that person insulting you or even screaming at you. Or…[Read more]

Enco…you have pretty sneakily shifted the focus from being believed to getting sympathy. Why did you do that?

Thanks, Reg!!

 but is the solution to be running around with suspicious statistics

Again I think you are over-exagerating the extend of how suspicious these statistics are. Perhaps you are simply loathe to believe that sexual assault occurs as frequently as it does.

My point is, when you say “society is changing,” you are talking about some people, some segm…

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Given the size and strength differential of most men and women, that doesn’t seem likely that the claim against the woman would be believed.

There are all sorts of documented cases of women drugging men and raping them. If the facts are known…why wouldn’t they be believed? Statutory rape is also a widely reported phenomena (especially famous c…[Read more]

But minimizing the number of falsely convicted will re-focus time and resources of the law towards bringing the unpunished guilty to justice. Really, both causes are two aspects of the same fight for justice.

Then why Eco do we almost only hear outrage of unjustly accused rapists as opposed to unjustly accused everything else? Not only is the…[Read more]

I think you’re straw-manning the diagram to fit your agenda that feminists, and their scientific integrity, can’t be trusted.

Indeed. It is curious the incredible energy some people put into trying to discredit or simply question the veracity of these statistics (and in very much particular sexual assault statistics). Even if a statistic such as…[Read more]