Yay articles! Its not from the a government source, but one of the links cites a study so there's that.
In my experience, the people who say "We have a mental illness problem, not a gun problem" are often the same ones who want to abolish taxes (which, you know, pay for a lot of mental health services and fund the NIMH) and repeal the ACA (which made it so I couldn't be denied insurance coverage for my big fat…
It's yet another college shooting. Not my alma mater, but several of my friends', less than 2 miles from where I lived in college myself, and 20 miles from where I live now. Not that it matters in the least — it could be anywhere. What will we argue fruitlessly about for weeks about now?
The short answer is the 2nd Amendment to the federal constitution. It's worded in such a way that people who have no problem ignoring the rules of English syntax can say that gun control is illegal. The National Rifle Association (aligned, I assume, with manufacturers) is an incredibly powerful lobby and uses the 2nd…
I don't know if you're trolling, but I am so with you. I'm sick of this shit.
you forgot white. 20 something, male, white (or racial majority of given country), college educated, and middle/upper middle class. That's the common profile of mass shooters, terrorists, and serial killers.
So sick of this shit. Next there will be a few news items and discussions about how the suspect was mentally ill and our country needs to do something to help mentally ill people. Then everyone will forget about it. By Wednesday of next week there will be another shooting. Another half-assed discussion about our…
Are there more shootings lately or am I just noticing all the shootings?
The rape is also frequently needless on this show. It's used to tell us something about the rapist and uses the women who are raped as props.
don't confuse me with the other poster. i never said anything about you being any of those things. you complained earlier about words being put in your mouth, i believe? well, you're doing that.
Because people are awful, the new commenting system makes it easy for trolls to pick fights, and denying that rape culture exists is all the rage these days.
And yet you still don't understand that none of that matters. It doesn't matter if it was said to the actress, it doesn't matter if it was said to viewers, and it certainly doesn't matter if you work in the business and hear directors describe all kinds of things as beautiful. The core fact is that he glamorized a…
Because we live in a world where the threat of sexual violence for women is real, where something like a third of women are victims of sexual assault, where rape is minimized and cast as "just sex," where rapists are unlikely to face social consequences (let alone jail time), and where sexual violence and the threat…
Men get raped in war too yet when has that been screened? You seem to have internalised rape culture to a disheartening degree, worse still, you're not alone.
Sexual violence IS violence-violence.
Please stop. Just stop. You clearly have no idea what it means to be raped, how damaging it is to a woman's body AND psyche. You honestly have no fucking clue what you are talking about if you claim that "violence-violence" is worse than "sexual violence" (wtf even with this bizarre distinction?!). There are, for some…
My problem with the show is what they choose to show us. Two weeks ago, Khaleesi and the bearded dude finally hook up. He's hot. She's hot. I wanted to see some action. I'd been wanting to see it since last season. It was consensual sex, and how much did they show us? Not a damn thing. But if a woman is being…
I disagree. It's not the use of violence/sexual violence, it's the portrayal that differs. Martin seems to have a much more sophisticated understanding of the ramifications of violence than HBO does.
Probably didn't read it at all.