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[Clutch Munny]

Say what you will, I have no problem with succeeding via my pretty face. I'm confident that people attend my talks at conferences to check out my ass and stuff.

That's totally what men like me have to worry about.

[The Lone Ranger]

On a related note: I may have mentioned this before, but a few years ago I attended a conference in which the keynote speaker was talking about populations of Pacific seabirds. After he was finished, a bunch of us were gathered around him, discussing his research.

A young woman who was a tenured professor at a nearby university said something along the lines of "Professor 'X', I think your research is very interesting, and I've sent you several e-mails about it over the past few months, but you've never replied." I should point out that she was, in fact, drop-dead gorgeous. She was also a tenured professor; a highly-educated, highly-intelligent, very accomplished professional.

He turned, looked her up and down in a very obvious manner, and finally replied, "If I'd known what you look like, I'd have answered those e-mails."



She didn't slap him, but I think a lot of people would have applauded if she had.

[The Lone Ranger]

If the movies have taught me anything, it's that when you go to a conference like this, the odds are overwhelming that you'll meet a really attractive member of your preferred sex and wind up back in the hotel room having hot steamy sex.

For some reason though, this hardly ever happens to me when I go to a conference.

[Clutch Munny]

We philosophers call this Modus Tollens.

[BrotherMan]

Originally Posted by The Lone Ranger

For some reason though, this hardly ever happens to me when I go to a conference.

That's because you're far more interested in what people are saying.

[livius drusus]

Real World/Road Rules contestant was raped with a toothbrush while passed out; Viacom's responds that she was asking for it. No really.

"In addition to failing to avail herself of [Viacom]'s policies and complaint procedures, Plaintiff failed to avoid the injuries of which she complains. For example, while she was a contestant on The Ruins, Plaintiff was frequently intoxicated (to an extent far greater than other contestants), rowdy, combative, flirtatious and on multiple occasions intentionally exposed her bare breasts and genitalia to other contestants."

The lawsuit was settled out of court.

[The Lone Ranger]

So wait, let me get this straight: Slapping someone is a sufficiently-serious offense to get you thrown out, but raping someone isn't?

[BrotherMan]

As if any of those so called excuses are reason enough to violate somebody in any way let alone sexual assault. I loved, as in hated very much, that Viacom tried to poo poo the lawsuit by saying none of the vents for which they were being sued happened in American and thus were not under the purview of the California legal system.

[Janet]

So, I don't know the whole context of this because all I've seen is what my friend just retweeted. It seems a British Conservative MP resigned because of child custody issues and a Labour MP was an ass about it on Twitter. Here's her open letter to the Labour leader and deputy leader.

Part 1
Part 2

[erimir]

Would A Man Who Doesn't Support Women Let His Wife Pick Out Any Oven She Wants For Her Birthday? | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

[The Man]

They just won't fucking stop

John Koster, GOP House Candidate: 'The Rape Thing' Does Not Excuse Abortions

I hope every single one of these assholes loses his election.

[Nullifidian]

Originally Posted by The Man

John Koster, GOP House Candidate: 'The Rape Thing' Does Not Excuse Abortions

In response to the controversy over his comments, Koster campaign manager Larry Stickney told the AP that Koster clearly takes rape seriously because he has strongly advocated cracking down on sex offenders.

Apparently he also advocates cracking down quite strongly on rape victims.

[LadyShea]

The American Spectator : The Morning After the 'War on Women'

And most voters understood that the real debate with the Obamacare mandate was about religious freedom, about whether religious institutions should be forced to pay for their employees' birth control and abortion-inducing drugs.

FREEDOM!!

[Janet]

Wow, does that guy project much? He keeps banging on about abortion and birth control being of low priority to voters, but doesn't even get that it's Republican candidates who keep making it a central issue of their campaigns.

[The Man]

Larry Flynt Offers Richard Mourdock $1 Million Rape Challenge

So this is pretty great.

[The Man]

John Koster’s Rape Comments Demonstrate Conservative Inability to Understand Consent | The Raw Story

Good piece. The piece linked at the end of the column is worth reading too.

[The Man]

We don't really have a "Creepy Motherfuckers Who Are Probably Paedophiles" thread, do we? I guess this can probably go here.

Arizona church ‘standing behind’ youth pastor who gave ‘sex toys’ to 14-year-old girl | The Raw Story

[lisarea]

What's probably worst about both of these is just how little things have changed. People are still making the same stupid arguments and constructing the same ridiculous straw(wo)men:

A Cultural History of Mansplaining - Lily Rothman - The Atlantic

War on Women, Waged in Postcards: Memes From the Suffragist Era | Collectors Weekly

[LadyShea]

Gotta love Larry Flynt

"accept for purposes of this reward any verifiable transcript of
your personal conversations with God; letters, email, text messages or videos from God, or messages addressed to you from God transmitted by any third party, including the Republican National Committee or the Romney/Ryan campaign."

Flynt also suggests that divine intervention must have happened for Mourdock to make the statements in the first place.

"I assume that you would not have made this statement unless you had been authorized by God. No one who believes in God would ever use the Almighty's name in vain. That would be blasphemy.".

[The Man]

Todd Akin Campaign Features Rape Victim In Ad Targeting Women

I hope he dies in a fire.

[The Man]

School district calls 12-year-old rape victim ‘negligent’ and ‘careless’ in her own abuse | The Raw Story

That's it, H. sapiens. I'm done with you.

ETA: nvm, this may have restored a little of my faith:

Tea party’s Richard Mourdock now trails in Indiana Senate race, poll shows | The Raw Story

[Qingdai]

12 years old is a baby.


I am here to share this feminist programmer's work, sick of "that's what she said" jokes, she made a bot that responded with feminist quotes "that's what she really said. " Nicely, how she did it included.

What she really said: Fighting sexist jokes the geeky way! | Geek Feminism Blog

While I'm here I might as well mention the Smurfette principle. You're not really writing a strong female character when you only have one woman in your principal cast and they're written this way.

Watch Nostalgia Chick: The Smurfette Principle | Nostalgia Chick Episodes | Blip

Disney and Lucas are crap writers of female characters. Lazy, lazy, lazy,

[Qingdai]

Also, since I'm in sharing mood. A friend wrote, this article about rape and struggling to respond to rape when it's a friend of yours.

I Know Who You Raped Last Summer — The Good Men Project

[lisarea]

Originally Posted by The Man

School district calls 12-year-old rape victim ‘negligent’ and ‘careless’ in her own abuse | The Raw Story

That's it, H. sapiens. I'm done with you.

Think of it this way, though. It's been like that forever. We're only hearing about it so much now because people are starting to notice it and call it out.

Things are actually improving.

[Ymir's blood]

Originally Posted by Qingdai

I am here to share this feminist programmer's work, sick of "that's what she said" jokes, she made a bot that responded with feminist quotes "that's what she really said. " Nicely, how she did it included.

What she really said: Fighting sexist jokes the geeky way! | Geek Feminism Blog

Can we throw stuff at Bort now?