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I think we can agree that Sweden has a profoundly different social development than France, let alone the US. Anyway, corporal punishment isn't directly correlated with a large-scale system of oppression whose effect can socially linger. It would only be truly possible to excise patriarchy with eith...

Domestic violence laws will NEVER be effectively enforced in a society still dominated by patriarchy and male privilege. Statistical analysis of crimes against women indicate that 15 - 18% of men commit all of those crimes.... And those crimes are all imprisonment offences. So, 15 - 18% of the US po...

Mass incarceration has already failed as a method to end patriarchy; all we got out of it was MRA shitheads bitching about how the world is unfair. That's not the sole cause for them, but, you cannot simply imprison your way to a solution to something all-pervasive in society.

I mean look, I'm not going crazy on men. My dad had an affair with my mother after meeting her with as a psychotherapy patient. That was wrong, and immoral; it created me. My dad deserved some kind of punishment for that, but in the context of being raised in the 1910s, his psychology education with...

And yes, it works both ways... A lot of male-on-female DV would, when we have really committed to dismantling patriarchy, be handled by some equivalent to the gacaca courts in Rwanda than by the regular criminal justice system. Simply because otherwise we'd end up imprisoning at least 15% of the mal...

It is not an obligation but rather it should be an objective , and historical influences MUST be a part of the process of resolving it. I'd say an emphasis on female-male DV is a good example of the oppression Olympics, and by treating broad systems of power and oppression equally, I'm intentionally...

I didn't write anything about punishment; you're bringing that up right now. A woman hurting a man is also not automatically an act of resistance. It can be, for sure, but I'm talking about actual domestic abuse here. Please stop conflating that with 'bitchiness' or 'nagging'. But that's exactly wh...

It isn't like I haven't talked this one over with a women's studies professor or anything before... It's probably one of the more legitimate beliefs I hold. Patriarchy, gentlemen, is an entity which has existed for thousands of years, resulting in the de facto slavery of women for thousands of years...

ugh some woman who runs a women's shelter on the radio, seems like exactly the kind of person who I should be nodding along to and agreeing with but no, today they're talking about domestic violence against men, and she's spending so much time trying to minimise the problem this isn't the first tim...

We were at least having a steady alternating sequence of good and bad for a while: "When the news came down the wire that the Maine had exploded..." "...Orville and Wilbur's first airplane flight..." "...11 Minute of the 11th Day of the 11th Hour when the Great War finally e...

Yeah but that's exactly it, isn't it? These are just fantasies that you construct because you like constructing them. I mean it's the internet, so go nuts, but you're basically playing a pseudo-intellectual RPG. I thought to just briefly note that since my religious beliefs are inextricably interli...

Socialism and capitalism both derive from post-enlightenment modernist ways of viewing the world, founded in scientific rationalism; that's why they can be discussed as two sides of the same coin. Both the modern democratic capitalist system and international socialism presume that the entire world ...

^ For what it's worth I find your ideas very interesting. I disagree with a lot of them but I find them interesting. I love the fact that we have been able to correspond so civilly for so long despite our profoundly different points of view. That's the kind of world I want to exist. ...Of course, i...

thejester wrote:you are an actual loony tune

just fyi

It is glorious to be mad. Embrace the Mad! Sanity is for the weak...

Of course I'm speaking from a very conservative viewpoint, so your mileage on my proposed solutions may vary -- since I see culture and cultural innovations as something inherently worth preserving, and a fundamental part of the human experience that is not worth completely destroying for the sake o...

The easiest answer to the very legitimate conundrums you all raised is to not have a deracinated culture, but rather one in which each subcultural/ethnic group is able to negotiate its position relative to others. Saxon (my error-- Saxtonite ) and I had an interesting conversation on this and broadl...

*shrug* My perspective is that I broadly and strongly support the rights of indigenous peoples, including native Americans, Australian natives, etc, but that it isn't logically consistent to do so if you don't also allow that, whether or not you personally would be in that situation, native English ...

Both are wrongs. One serves as a cheap band-aid for the other.

Why is it a human right for populations to cross boundaries? This ideology presupposes that human individuals should be allowed to choose wherever they live on the planet... Essentially breaking down the boundaries and virtues of the state as a body. Since I believe there are actual benefits to the ...

States I won't live in due to Gun Laws: California, New York, Massholistan, Jersey, Maryland, Hawai'i. States I won't live in over LGBT issues: Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Idaho, Tennessee, Kentucky. The incredible thing is that in the past five years, the first list has gotten longer by one state; the...

joviwan wrote:orange county, southern california

So Aaron was right, Hell.

That was a total miscarriage of justice even by our standards here in Texas. Since prostitution is illegal, he basically killed someone while committing a crime (indeed, in an effort to compel them to commit a crime) and should therefore be facing, under Texas law, the death penalty. YES. That is e...

I first knew Star Wars existed by buying the WEG sourcebook before I knew what roleplaying was... My parents didn't either so I got away with it. I then read the second of the Thrawn trilogy, then the third, finally got the first, then bought a bunch of sourcebooks. For me, the Star Wars I know isn'...

Growing up in Florida = "generators for everyone!" not just rednecks :P Pffft, I can make you look like a redneck. Just let me find a flannel shirt, a John Deere cap, and an early 90's F-150 and I can make ANYONE look like a redneck with that. .......... I could start a terrible Youtube v...

I have a generator and also battery pack that I can recharge off my car. Grew up rural, live rural, etc. Afforded it via a Harbor Freight discount sale (immediately started modding it so it would work better). Collectively it's enough power to keep the laptops going and the food in the fridge cold, ...