Sorry, but I’m foggy on my 14th century Italian poetry. Which venal or mortal sin is it you commit to have to go to the Orlando-area Tilted Kilt?

I dunno - you might not know that Ovid, specifically, loves a good rape joke, but it doesn’t seem hard to figure out that something wrote centuries ago is probably not going to live up to modern sensibility in one way or another. Literature and history seem emensly comparable, in that it’s fairly intiutable that a…

I think this is the best post here. It’s literally impossible to teach any kind of lit without bringing up some nasty stuff, so (to start) students should be aware that when they sign up for a class they might be getting into some dark territory (especially Greek mythology/early drama/etc). I also think a professor…

OH NOES!

Then put the disclaimer? I wasn’t a lit major, if there’s a class that has a lot of content about rape or violence towards women I’d want to be aware. You’re mistaking my bluntness for callousness, I think that it’s certainly polite to issue a disclaimer on the syllabus but the entitlement to constant comfort in…

I’m in the camp of “teach it, examine it, move on”. Some professors will give a warning before a class that covers topics like rape or domestic violence, but in history at least, that’s just not done — either learn history completely or not at all. Your mass comm or biology major isn’t required to take classes on…

More competitive league you say. La Liga was decided on week 37. EPL on week 12. Go figure.

What top club isn’t like that? Barcelona STILL might fire Enrique after he led them to the Liga title. Ancelotti was sacked at Chelsea the year after winning them the double. Bayern forced Heyneckes to “retire” even though he made it clear he didn’t want to leave (he even won the CL to boot). There are many more…

So it was too much work to deal with investigators to properly handle a rape case, but it was a lot easier to carry a heavy mattress around a college campus for a year?

Gotta agree — the lack of a proper mention was fairly insulting. The “little brother” comment was unnecessary and, in my experience, patently un-true.

I do belive I have heard this joke told with every mix of service being in both slots of the joke as far as “taught” and “don’t piss on our hands”

Back when I was in the Army we got a new guy who immediately revealed himself as an ex-marine by calling one of our sergeants first class the slang term “Gunny.” That sergeant called the ex-marine up in front of the formation and said he’d show us the difference between a soldier and a marine.

Felt kind of like those pictures of Catholic Archbishops applauding Mussolini with armed men standing behind them pointing guns at their backs.

If they need to move these games, I hear there are some empty venues available in Brazil.

might want to reconsider when you see what i’m getting

Bigotry is fine when (my side) does it. Bullshit non-apologies are craven when my opponents engage in them, but courageous when (my side) does it. Public discourse on the left is plagued by a bad case of “do as I say, not as I do” or “Shitty behavior isn’t shitty when it victimizes people I don’t like”.

The Right has…

On paper, the stadium in Recife should have been successful, but they chose a location far from the city center and Sport, the biggest team in the city, chose to build its own stadium instead. More or less, the same thing happened in São Paulo, where the original plan called for São Paulo FC’s Morumbi Stadium to be…

Because the World Cup was sold to the Brazilian people as a way of supporting development in poorer parts of the country that have historically received little large-scale infrastructural investment (with the exception of Brasilia). All of the troubling stadiums are located far away from Brazil’s wealthiest cities,…

#stonemenlivesmatter

Be honest, what you quoted is when you stopped reading. I know that’s where I lost interest in this. tl; dr.