I’m not an atheist either. I’m agnostic but if I’m honest with myself I think I’m a believer who just has a real problem with the people who use their religion as a whip. I also can’t stand the people who judge, condemn, subjugate but then when they inevitably fuck up its “let he who is without sin...”. I have a real…
Sex crazed yes molesters no
This. I always find it baffling when religious people ask atheists: But how do you know what’s moral if you don’t believe in god? What’s stopping you from just killing people/stealing everything?
That scares me. I don’t mean to sound dramatic or wussy but people like that scare me. You’re not supposed to kill because a fellow human being deserves to live just as much as you. You aren’t supposed to steal because that property belongs to someone else & you don’t have a right to take things that don’t belong to…
Always makes me think of this quote by Amanda Marcotte:
Well said. But there’s also something about the conservative Christian response that bugs me. ALOT. They act like men are thinking about sex & rape ALL. THE. TIME. They act like all men would molest/rape if they knew they could get away with it. One of the Duggar in laws seemed to imply that all men would have done…
Who defends a child molester? To one group of conservatives on the internet, the answer is: me.
I mean, I think it’s mostly just a matter of schools adopting policies and best practices on this stuff, and training educators well on it. The details of all that are better left to people who actually have the power to put it in action. But having public discussions about it (like this one) are also an important…
I actually agree that institutional trigger warnings might not be a helpful solution. It seems like trigger warnings are often talked about as kind of a stand-in for instructors generally handling these issues well. (And I think that’s in part because it’s kind of an easy band-aid—just slap trigger warnings on…
Bottom line, this is about treating serious topics with the appropriate level of sensitivity, and having a baseline level of respect for students who have had personal experience with heavy subject matter that comes up in class. I don’t personally give a shit about trigger warnings as long as instructors are bringing…
LOL, find me ANY studies about trigger warnings at all. There’s nothing out there but opinion and anecdote and studies about treatment of PTSD, which are only semi-relevant. Bottom line, this is about treating serious topics with the appropriate level of sensitivity, and having a baseline level of respect for students…
That rape and other serious subjects aren’t treated lightly and dismissively, but with the gravity and respect that they require. That is not too much to ask.
Issues like this illustrate just how white and male-dominated higher education has always been, particularly when juxtaposed with the uproar about Dr. Saida Gundy’s remarks that challenged the white patriarchy. Comparing the two, it’s quite clear that, while students want to be challenged in a context-responsive way…
This. I’ve always been a voracious reader and I delved into adult fiction and classics when I was rather young, which means I was exposed to adult themes at a young age - I definitely needed help to understand what I was reading. But I was lucky to have parents and teachers that saw teaching opportunities rather than…
Context, context, context, context.
The first time I read Euripides’ Cyclops, I was a college senior, and I didn’t notice the rape joke. Maybe I was too…
I don’t know how “easy” it is to actually get a doctor to prescribe it for someone, I just know it’s legal in all the states, even states that have no medical marijuana program, I think it doesn’t work anywhere near as well in people that have any sort of THC tolerance. I tried some I got off the street and they had…
This is why decriminalization isn’t enough.