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Main / Re: Dave Futrelle's Man Boobz - They Put The "Blah" In Blog!

Jan 15, 2011, 02:50 AM

I've taken a slightly different tack with david by telling him I'd had a look and wasn't interested. Even got into some of my womens' lib/feminist past and suggested he's a lightweight.

David won't respond, of course, although the odd lapdog did.

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Main / Re: Romanian Witches React To Government Tax With Curses

Jan 09, 2011, 01:06 AM

The new law is part of the government's drive to collect more revenue and crack down on tax evasion. It will force the likes of witches, astrologers and fortune tellers to register their professions and become liable for 16% tax in line with other self-employed Romanians.

This will be the actual reason.

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Main / Re: Sex violence against Haiti's women on rise

Jan 06, 2011, 05:56 PM

Apparently this happens at many disaster areas. I wonder if it is a genetic throwback to increase the devistated populations. It is too bad, and I feel for those women and girls, that is just adding insult to injury. I cannot imagine living through that and then fearing attack as you are already so vulnerable.  It would be helpful if the UN would donate more troops to help keep the camps safe, but of course the world will look to the US, as usual.

Firstly Amnesty has become a very blinkered organisation. I was a donor for a long time but I no longer trust anything they say.

I would remind everyone that many men were denied any form of aid in the aftermath of that disaster. And that it was justified on the basis of men being brutes. I can't help thinking there may have been some social consequences.

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Main / Re: An incredible blog for gender relations

Jan 05, 2011, 05:06 PM

This is a very high-level blog on gender relations:

http://www.feministcritics.org/blog/

I've seen very insightful posters there, like typhonblue (among many others).

Been around for five years or so. Similar moderation policies to Ampersand's Alas. Further proof that feminists will not open themselves to debate UNLESS the rules are rigged in their favour. There is no such thing as a fair fight.

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Main / Re: Female deputy killed in Clark County, OH -- gender-neutral terms used

Jan 04, 2011, 07:37 PM

I watched the interviews and announcements on the local news on this. They actually did a pretty good job this time though they missed some stuff in the origional story. We know the killer was undewr mental health care and had been harassed by his ex-wife, he had a previous charge but no conviction for shooting at the police over a decade ago too. I don't include the claim he pulled a knife on his girlfriend's son because both he and the GF claimed it was BS.

We ignore the mental health and other needs of men so often anymore, that is it no surprise things like this happen. It is not an excuse for his actions in any way but maybe we should provide the same kinds of support as we do for women and then we would see less of these kinds of incidents.

Yes Quentin.

Feminists and chivalrists need to understand that their idealised "equality" will not be realised until they are capable of demonstrating the same compassion for men and boys individually and collectively as they so readily do for women.

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Main / Re: Massage therapists sue Brett Favre and NY Jets

Jan 04, 2011, 07:34 PM

How did he get their phone #s?

They're on the staff.

(so to speak)

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Main / Re: Group 'disappointed' by province's efforts to help male victims of sexual abuse

Jan 04, 2011, 07:33 PM

Also notable is CBC not allowing comments.

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Main / Re: Texas man cleared by DNA after 30 years in prison declared innocent by judge

Jan 04, 2011, 07:24 PM

The compensation law, the nation's most generous, was passed in 2009 by the Texas Legislature after dozens of wrongly convicted men were released from prison. Texas has freed 41 wrongly convicted inmates through DNA since 2001 -- more than any other state.

How many innocent men have they executed?

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Main / Re: victim's matter

Jan 03, 2011, 02:07 PM

The survey found, however, that the violence experienced by women is tended to be more severe - and more often repeated - than the violence directed at men. For example, compared to men, women were:

•six times more likely to report being sexually assaulted
•five times more likely to report being choked
•five times more likely to (seek)require medical attention, as a result of an assault
•three times more likely to be physically injured by an assault (see prior)
•more than twice as likely to report being beaten
•almost twice as likely to report being threatened with, or having a gun or knife used against them
•much more likely to fear for their lives, or be afraid for their children as a result of the violence
•more likely to have sleeping problems, suffer depression or anxiety attacks, or have lowered self-esteem as a result of being abused, and
•more likely to report repeated victimization.8
Some researchers have noted that the survey also found that women experience higher levels of certain types of emotional abuse. Compared to men, women:

•were four times more likely to report being threatened, harmed, or having someone close to them threatened or harmed
•were four times more likely to report being denied access to family income
•were more than twice as likely to report having their property damaged or their possessions destroyed
•reported a higher incidence of being isolated from family and friends, and
•reported a higher rate of name-calling and put downs.

Note all the key words. Simply put, male victims don't report. Where IPV is concerned the reporting - by which I mean acknowledging that they ARE victims - ratio is twenty to one.

Absolutely none of this proves anything.

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Main / Re: it never stops

Jan 03, 2011, 01:26 PM

It isn't obvious that the accused woman was his girlfriend; the owners of the rental place said that one of the basement apartments was rented to the victim, the other to a couple in their twenties.

your right--cbc never says whether or not it was a girlfriend

maybe i jumped the gun on this one

I'm going to suggest it's deliberate.

In my home town there have been about eight such events in the past year. The local media has not told us what the relationship was between any of those involved.

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Main / Re: Daughter, wife of AZ official accused in sex case

Dec 30, 2010, 11:42 PM

Seems the girls look after one another in Arizona.

It's also the home of the Brewster Centre which attempted to cover up the rape of a twelve year old boy by an adult female client in their DV shelter. When it did get to trial the female judge looked the twelve year old victim in the eye and told him it was his fault.

Wonder how many of these rape apologist bitches also rant ceaselessly about "patriarchy" and "rape culture"?

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Main / Re: Atlantic Ballet focuses on domestic violence

Dec 29, 2010, 10:48 PM

seems the mra's are kicking some ass--none of my comments are being allowed anymore

Nor are mine.

The 9:43 post by Denis P stood for a while before being replaced by "This comment has been removed by the moderator". It only really consisted of a couple of quotes relating to victims being denied services.

I posted after that. It stood for long enough to accumulate five various "thumbs" before being removed outright. Not even the courtesy of a "...comment has been removed...". I've since tried to question the mods regarding that with no response.

That post - which mods deleted whilst I was in the process of copying all of them for safe-keeping - pointed out that "domestic violence" actually includes much more than just partner abuse and that women are definitely the majority of perps where all domestic abuse is concerned. I also pointed to women who are victims of partner abuse being 7% of all the victims of abuse and violence in our communities.

I suspect the last bit may be the most problematic. It does give some real perspective to what Atlantic Ballet's journey into ideology is premised upon.


This whole thing has been a really interesting exercise for me. The patterns in the downvoting indicate clearly that at least two sets of people have downvoted as a co-ordinated bloc in very short time. My first post to "Meggsy" seems to have attracted particular wrath from numerous folk, all of whom declined to actually speak to me.

The folk concerned are cowardly to say the least.

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Main / Re: Pedos, Priests & Pupils

Dec 22, 2010, 07:25 AM

Demographics relating to the relationship between perps and victims. Among female perps about 9% are teachers. Among male perps it's a bit above 0.5%. If a teacher abuses a student it's at least three times more likely to be a woman than a man. Given that males abuse boys a third of the time and females almost exclusively abuse boys the most likely victim of a teacher is a boy by a factor of nearly five.

Pity our broader prejudices deny parents knowledge of this.

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Main / Re: this should be interesting-opening pandora's box

Dec 17, 2010, 02:00 AM

The stupid thing is abuse, child brides, sexual abuse are all ALREADY illegal. I don't understand why they think it would be seen as ok if polygamy were legal.

This is what happens when reality meets propaganda. Most of the abuses to which you refer aren't real but are, rather, exaggerations made for political reasons of one form or another.

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Main / Re: Woman who hit gunman with purse gets own CNN article(but not the security guard)

Dec 17, 2010, 01:51 AM

Shouldn't the wife of a snowplow driver be exactly the kind of person who should know how to handle herself in this kind of situation?  

Nah. She has staff to do that for her.