Rape/Sexual Assault Culture

Holy shit! That's terrible. Like reprehensible to a disgusting degree.

 

Have you discussed this with your neighbors? Our street isn't exactly the sort to through block parties, but if that happened to somebody on my street, we'd work as a group to get that changed. We'd get the story in the local press, and we'd be at the town meetings. That is flat-out unacceptable. Those people need to change the hell out of what they are doing, now. Or be fired.

 

Your wife is an immigrant, IIRC? That had to amplify the Kafka element exponentially.

 

I'm so sorry to read about this, regardless of when it happened. That policy should never have been in place to begin with.

 

Do they assume that victims of burglary shouldn't have all that stuff lying around too?

 

That is atrocious. And cops wonder why nobody trusts them.

 

Just saw this.

Regarding the bolded part, is there another article because, in the one you linked to it doesn't address the issue of his regret or remorse one way or the other, does it?

It says he plead 'guilty to breaking and entering and assault' and was 'sentenced to a suspended sentence that involves a nightly curfew and requirement he perform community service work'.

Maybe he's absolutely mortified and has promised never to do anything like it again... or maybe he gave the judge the finger and told him to go feck himself... but it doesn't say... does it?

Am I missing something?

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/devos-...ithholding-school-funds-for-assault-inaction/

DeVos is 59. Former President Obama is 56. Former President Jimmy Carter is 92. For more context, Viola Liuzzo would be 91 were she still alive. Bernie Sanders is 76.

Somebody's mama made poor marital choices. You people have got to do better.

 

India really appears to have a problem regarding sexual assault but I wonder if it's just that in India victims are finally feeling strong enough to speak up and in many developing nations these sort of stats would be similar.

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The Washington Post just ran an interesting article on this topic.

 

So a mixture of lack of education and harmful views of traditional male/female roles/relation in India are contributing factors. It is crazy to think India rates lower than Saudia Arabia for a G-20 country for women to live in. Hopefully those in power in India will read/listen to Pandey's study.

 

Well the Government in power gets votes by pandering to Hindu religious conservatives, so probably not that much.

 

As an female expat who's lived in India off/on for almost 7 years now, this does not surprise me at all.

 

When I was in India, my guide said that rapes were a common way of keeping young working women in line. They think they're as good as men ... rape them. He claimed it was mostly the village guys who had moved to the cities, and who were enraged by the urban wickedness of permitting women do what they want. Just the word of one person, of course. Lil one would surely know better than I do.

 

http://www.richmond.com/ap/commenta...cle_ea4ab4c3-3463-54df-afbe-82f051205133.html

Didn't know whether to put this link here or the Weinstein thread.

Found this article that has made its way through my Facebook friends. It sounds like 2 or 3 articles cut and pasted together. Not great writing. I like how it uses the "but" argument (ex. but what was she expecting wearing that dress?)

 

I'll just blame the city of Richmond. It's always seemed to be a backwards place.

 

Er... well... it's a viewpoint I suppose

 

Note the byline: Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.

He's a graduate professor at that. A few people I know that would have interactions with this guy.

 

Just an FYI image for anyone who doesn't know who Walter Williams is.



He's been cooning as an op-ed writer since I was in 6th grade, at least- might have been before, but I didn't start paying attention to conservative writing until then. The editorial page of my local fishwrap carried his and another "POC" named Clarence Page's nonsense, along with Bruce Tinsley's duck art silliness for years.

 

His bio on economics.gmu.edu has this ditty.. "He is also occasional substitute host for the "Rush Limbaugh" show."

 

This ought to tell him something... he's to the right of Limbaugh, betrays his people in ways that Limbaugh would never attack them himself, but he can't get Limbaugh's gig. That niqqer's an idiot outside the scope of his econ training, and even that is a bit twisted by conservatism, I'll bet.

 

Apparently every black economist is a traitor to his race. No wonder they call it the dismal science.