JTarrou
7hr ago
It's two separate things, morality and risk mitigation. "Victim blaming" begs the question, the answer in many cases is that there is no victim, just two people in a weird situation created by hormones, drugs and alcohol. Which is why most moral systems have a web of rules about that sort of thing that don't make much direct sense but serve to reduce such craziness.
If there is a clear crime, the victim is not morally responsible for it, but may have contributed by carelessness or sheer idiocy. We shame them for being dumb, not for provoking the crime. The criminal bears the moral responsibility. The equivocation between the two papers over the differences between and holes within moral systems.
JTarrou
1d ago
The "free pussy" thing doesn't strike me as proving anything except that there was some sort of group/sequential sex going on.
It may strike some sheltered folks as crazy that there are women who will turn up to a mostly-male venue for a gangbang of their own volition. First one I saw was in the hotel at MEPS, some aspiring airwoman made good use of the free hotel room. I passed a few guys waiting outside in the hallway and got the lowdown, and "free pussy" was about the extent of what they'd heard. I didn't figure to bat sixth at best.
Leftism struggles with the hole their deracinated religion removed from sexual mores. We have an intuition that women should not be doing that, and neither should the guys. People with sexual mores in their belief system can chalk it up to weakness, sin, moral failings, just bad ideas, daddy issues, unhealthy behavior etc. For leftists, the only value in sexual morality is consent, and thus all bad sex has to be rape, and if consent was explicit there must be some arcane emanation from a penumbra to make it not count.
JTarrou
5d ago
Yeah, I wish I could count on masked people having a cold.
As it is they're either brain-broke on politics, currently stealing or reinventing human sexuality from first principles....badly.
JTarrou
5d ago
From the limited contact I have, it's a combination of covid conspiracies (they have a whole raft of unique ones), surveillance conspiracies (ditto) and avoiding identification for criminal acts.
JTarrou
6d ago
Ah, a story I can root against everyone involved! Shitty artists! DEI bullshit! The French! Lit snobs with terrible taste!
At this point, any aspiring writer who isn't faking six disabilities, four genders and three ethnic groups is just plain lazy.
Most of all this fighting is not about the bulk of human relationships. It's about dating, which is heavily selected for people who are bad at relationships and good at getting laid. Most people dip into the dating pool a couple times, then settle down. People who stay in the pool for a long time, and thus do the most dating, and thus make up a majority of most people's failed dating relationships, are not the norm. The Professionally Single are a small and pathological part of Heterosexuality, but they get a lot of press.
The whole structure of dating is not some eternal truth, it's a specific social ritual invented in the last century and fast outrunning its usefulness. It's a sort of conspicuous consumption.
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