It's super weird, and frustrating that one can't do a thing about it. I was an active commenter on Jez before Kinja, and I have a pretty decent history of comments that at least add to the discussion. Maybe if I was a giant troll I'd stand a chance of being noticed, but it's starting to feel a little like I'm…
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At least XOJane appreciates my sense of humor! Seriously, I've even had my posts "liked" by authors, but I guess that's just not good enough.
I mean, I suppose it's a great way to both drive away traffic AND make sure that they only show the dozen or so approved commentors.
"Put a scrunchie on your rapist's dick". Wait, wrong tip.
Actually, the "Don't be that guy" campaign decreased the number of rape reports in Vancouver by 10% in 2011. The campaign was inspired by a UK report which found that 48% of the canvassed men 18-25 didn't think it was rape if a woman was too drunk to know it was happening, so that category was the target audience…
Unfortunately, the idea of consent is so widely misunderstood that many men who have in fact committed rape don't even understand WHY what they did was rape. So, sure, maybe telling psychopathic stranger rapists not to rape is futile, but the reality is that most rapes don't occur in that context, so education related…
Making analogies like the OP made does absolutely nothing to combat that problem, since the original comparison between abduction prevention and rape prevention fails to identify a key distinction - the complete lack of victim blaming that occurs after a child abduction, due to the way we view/treat child abductors…
It reinforces the idea that women get themselves raped rather than the fact that rapists rape them. These prevention programs are rarely aimed at potential rapists, and that's both counterproductive and sending the wrong message.
OK, I'll bite. You tell a child not to talk to strangers because strangers could potentially hurt your child right? It's a simple rule to avoid the person who might be doing the hurting. It's not a behavior change really. You aren't asking him to stop talking, just to not talk to someone that he doesn't know. …
There are a number of ways the analogy fails, but the one that sticks out the most is the last part - "it'll just excuse child abductors." Society doesn't routinely excuse the behavior of child abductors by focusing on a child victim's own behavior as either an explanation or part of the narrative of an abduction…
Listen, we all know the best option is to just accept life as a sexless shut-in reliant on grocery deliveries and a pack of trained attack dogs.
If you're incapable of drawing distinctions between those two scenarios, you are part of the problem.
Would rather watch this.
Jesus, this whole thing boiled down to "how dare the public have an opinion about my show!!"
A related reason for why we don't see black actors in fictional roles is probably because the larger white society isn't comfortable (or "used to" or whatever) with seeing blacks in contemporary settings, real or fictional. Mainstream society "knows" black people from being taught about them in school, more or less,…
Just looking at the movie recognized, I notice that a lot of them are based-on-true stories about real Black men. That makes me think:
i think the key being your understanding that the store is perfectly ok with you taking said diamonds...so when you run out of the store and they are yelling "stop thief!" ... clearly that means "have a good day!"
I usually have people say "Can I have a kiss?" or something like that. They sometimes say yes, sometimes say later, sometimes say no. They tend to even have an explanation for the no, which is extra cute. Like "No, I will not hug you. I'm too mad at my sister!".