philosoraptor
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philosoraptor
1mo ago
Drugging someone so they can't meaningfully resist has been a central example of rape for as long as I can remember, and I seem to be on the older end of this forum. I definitely agree with the complaint that modern feminism has expanded the definition beyond reasonable limits, as the "social justice" crowd is prone to doing with all sorts of terms, but this is not an example of it. The solution to revisionist history is not revisionist history in the opposite direction.
philosoraptor
2mo ago
What was this in response to, originally? It seems interesting but without the original context it's hard to know what to make of it.
philosoraptor
4mo ago
or be defeated in a way all regard as fair.
I think people are judging such things in such a biased way that this has become impossible. This goes for all points on the political spectrum, not just the R base.
(Which, I suppose, might reasonably be parsed as "the nightmare scenario you're trying to avoid is already here".)
Taking a shower there is different.
Where I'm from (Canada) you routinely see the sort of thing JFKay talks about at crowded bars, concerts, and similar events, as long as the restroom in question allows for a reasonable amount of privacy.
philosoraptor
5mo ago
This is nice. I always assumed the intended meaning must be something related to this, until I learned the real origin. IE, something like "Okay, we admit this is an exception (points at really weird special case), but look how far we had to go to come up with an exception - clearly the rule is going to apply the overwhelming majority of the time."
I don't think anyone self-describes as "sex-negative", and I kind of agree with the "skinsuit" theory on what "sex-positive" means in practice, i.e. feminists feel a need to publicly identify that way whether or not it actually fits. Even from feminists who self-describe that way, the overwhelming majority of the messaging seems to be "sex hurts" and ideas about "rape culture" et al that I would characterize as extremely paranoid. (Granted, I'm mostly around people with upper-middle-class values where sexual violence is quite rare and any appearance otherwise is largely an artefact of expanding the definition beyond reasonable limits. But so are most feminists. These are mostly academic-adjacent notions we're talking about here.) When I deal with these people I'm constantly asking, or at least thinking, "If you're so sex-positive, why do you never seem to have anything positive to say about sex?"
philosoraptor
7mo ago
Okay, seems weird to me, and I'm reasonably sure that's not how it would work here, but clearly there's settled law on this in the US. TIL.
philosoraptor
7mo ago
One thing, or rather a couple closely related things, I don't understand. If Carter left the union, how would she still fall under their CBA, and why would they be expected to represent her? Seems like she wanted to have her cake and eat it too. These are exactly the things she'd be voluntarily giving up by choosing not to be part of the union.
Honestly I'm surprised leaving the union is even something you *can *do at SWA - most workplaces I'm familiar with are either unionized or they're not, and in the former case you either belong to the union or you don't work there. Or maybe that statement was misleading? What exactly is meant by "had left the union several years prior" here?
philosoraptor
7mo ago
Heck, add a stripe of a second colour and you're talking millions.
philosoraptor
9mo ago
Well, in philosophy people act like that's true but I'm not convinced it actually is. Can't speak to any other field with any real authority.
philosoraptor
9mo ago
With the sheer number of Ph.Ds being minted in comparison to the number of available positions, I doubt spousal hiring hurts the quality of research or teaching much. You won't optimize, but you'll still get someone pretty good.
philosoraptor
9mo ago
Well, SMH only said a cock, not your cock...
philosoraptor
11mo ago
Is he actually omitting stuff, or is the original like that? I was assuming the former, but if the latter, that's just plain incorrect. It's like ending this post with a comma,
philosoraptor
11mo ago
Not that many males are either, if they don't share that specific interest. Or at least that's my experience, of being on both sides of conversations like that.
philosoraptor
11mo ago
Is it still the same band? I think they have one original member left, and if it's not Paul Kantner (dead) or Grace Slick (retired), I don't see much point. Same with a lot of these "bands of Theseus" that are still running around with names made famous in that era.
philosoraptor
11mo ago
It’s really prohibitively expensive to attend games in person. Taking a family of four to a ballgame, buying each person a snack and a beverage is easily $100.
That's prohibitively expensive? I wish two people could get out of a hockey game for that, and I live in one of the less expensive cities in the NHL.
philosoraptor
11mo ago
the possibility of a human being choosing to disobey the law is just not something that exists within their philosophy even as they complain about rampant criminality.
As others have pointed out aspects of, neither half of this seems even remotely true of the woke progressives I know or the ones I see online (two groups that are quite different in some other ways). Plenty of both break laws all the time or cheer on others' doing so, and they don't seem nearly as likely to complain about rampant criminality as deny or downplay it at best, and not infrequently cheer it on.
Last I checked Facebook was still waaaaaaay bigger than all the alternatives proposed by people who say it's dying put together. I think that's mostly people trying to be all hipster-y.
(EDIT: Looked up some numbers and this is no longer true as stated. Insta in particular is far closer to catching up than I would have guessed. But it's still only close to catching up, not in danger of eclipsing it or anything.)
philosoraptor
1yr ago
Yes, I see this all the time in commentary around certain boardgames, for example. A lot of the time it's acknowledged that it's worse with the second part, but a lot of people seem to object to the first as well, at least if the word "colony" is explicitly used. This is far from universal even among the hard-core progs I encounter, but it's definitely noticeable.
The second sentence of this post does make sense, but I don't see how it's related to the first sentence. It looks more like an argument for a more robust and technologically sophisticated system for tracking voter registrations. In principle, that need not involve any change in the laws at all.
In practice, it probably would, in the specific case of Florida in 2022, but only because the system has been made intentionally confusing, if not incoherent. Implementing such a system would require creating clear rules a computer can administer, which might not exist to be programmed in without reforms to the law. I would probably be in favour of this, but that's partly because I think clear rules would make voting easier, not harder.
philosoraptor
26d ago
The teacher in Batley is still in hiding, the groveling of the West Yorkshire mum is still on full display to see
These could use links or at least slightly more explanation.
philosoraptor
1mo ago
I took it the way 2rafa says she intended, but I kind of want to post that "How about both? Both is good" gif here. (Although the "good politics" kind of cancel out, at best.)
philosoraptor
2mo ago
His views are still much more extreme and controversial than are acceptable to pretty much anybody right-of-center.
Did you say "right" when you meant "left"? Or possibly omit a "not" or similar word?
philosoraptor
2mo ago
It’s a shame he was simply unable to follow the rules.
Not unable. Unwilling. He used to be a mod in the Reddit days for Pete's sake (not that I was terribly thrilled about that), very few people know more about how to toe the line. No way was he incapable of doing so. He made an active choice not to.
Even here, very few people have a problem with this when it really is "continuing to". I think even some of the overt racists would see that as a case of "play stupid games, win stupid prizes". It's when you get in shit for doing it once five years ago in a completely unrelated context that people start taking issue.
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