After Empowerment, Retribution
It is too often true that when a group struggles for equality, it is still not pleased when it reaches that. Rather, the group takes its newfound empowerment and seeks retribution upon those who they feel scorned them and caused their previous hardship.
In the U.S.A., it's too common for men and boys to become the scapegoat for problems for which both genders need to share responsibility.
Glenn Sacks writes consistently about the other side of the pendulum, where all men have been painted with the same brush. I can't speak for his politics (I haven't looked them up) but his reports are so spot on they hurt.
While we may become more enlightened in certain ways, we've slipped so far back in others.
Labels: empowerment, family, feminism, glenn sacks, men, rape, women
Cops focus on naked tushie when they should go after creepy grandpa
Virginia Beach cop says
a guy's tushie is obscene:
Police, saying they were responding to citizen complaints, carted away two large promotional photographs from the Abercrombie & Fitch store in Lynnhaven Mall on Saturday and cited the manager on obscenity charges.
The photos were pretty
tame. It's ridiculous that we actually consider the naked body to be obscene; being naked in public will get you registered as a sex offender which is automatically assumed to mean you're a child molester.
Oh, speaking of child molesters, some sick fuck in Canada-ay
molested another grand-daughter when he was on parole for impregnated the first. Yet the family welcomed him back with open arms.
At the time of the incident, the man was on parole after serving two years of a five-year sentence for incest. He had sexually abused another granddaughter several times when she was 12 and 13, and only admitted it when DNA tests proved he fathered his own great-granddaughter.
On a humorous note, the Winnipeg Sun had a slight ad mishap when I looked at the article:
Labels: government, law, obscenity, politics, rape, sex
Stripping Rights, One Group At A Time
In the United Kingdom, the House of Lords has
overruled the High Court and removed a limitation that said victims had only six years to sue their perpetrators for compensation. How long do they have now? Eternity. Yup, sexual assaults are a special case where the idea of a speedy trial is absurd.
Yeah, the newsworthy case is the one where the rapist got 7 million pounds in the lottery, after the time limit had passed. Here's a news flash--good things happen to bad people along with the bad things that happen to good people. I'm sorry, that's life. But don't go around fucking up established law for one or two cases that are egregious.
The limitations are there to protect the rights of everyone. There are some rights people cannot have taken away. Even when those people commit crimes, even the most abhorrent.
Don't be jealous, though, the government will get around to stripping your rights soon.
Labels: government, house of lords, politics, rape, united kingdom
QOTD: Double Entendre
14:45:56 <+chaosite> Shadow42: the only difference between myspace and facebook is that facebook doesn't let you redesign your own page without 1337 skr1p7 k1dd1e sk1llz
14:46:05 <+Shadow42> mm
14:46:18 <+Shadow42> And Myspace is more likely to get you raped.
14:47:28 <+chaosite> Shadow42: rape is such a strong word... "suprise buttsex" is much nicer
14:47:42 <+Shadow42> chaosite: It rolls off the tongue more easily too
14:47:49 <+Shadow42> Dammit, I hate double entendres
--#freenode-social on irc.freenode.com, 20061106
Labels: facebook, freenode, irc, myspace, qotd, rape
