Posts by Lucy Stewart
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SST is not to be found today on the list of donee organisations on the IRD site
SST's home page today says it has "IRD approved donee and charitable trust status."
Anyone in the media feel like picking this up and running with it?
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I said "how's it going?" as we began the conversation, and watched four of my ten minutes being swallowed up with a list of his activities for the past fortnight... All I'd meant was "how are ya?"
I think we all know people like that. The amazing thing is how rarely they remember to ask how you're going afterwards.
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Whose side is "vanilla privilege" is going to harm most - the woman or the bunch of acknowledged sexual deviants?
The woman, because this scenario - unless it involves a great deal more gay sex than I think it ever has - makes her into "the slut".
And really, is that what the majority of men want? For us all to be wearing flannel dresses, and be scared to even talk about sex, let alone do it?
Well, it'd remove the danger of comparison.
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I Know. Sometimes that's the best bit.
XKCD: *always* relevant.
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While we're all being pendantic about science and logic and stuff, I feel compelled out that in that PhD. comic that Lucy posted, Galileo appears on the Medieval News Network, when in fact he lived in the early-modern era, or, for the Italians, during the late-Renaissance.
I'm gonna call Early Modern. Technically the Renaissance extends into the 16th century, but 1642 is well Early Modern.
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a) That defence was always likely.
b) The notion exists.
...because, what, you say so?
(I would also like to second Danielle's motion in re: Emma's awesomeness.)
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, something the police tell me is that hot Januaries where people are on holiday and the full moon - also at times when there genuinely is some unusual things that have happened - and it's well documented within the police - and the view is that we often get things happen in this month that we wouldn't have happening in winter.
I'd put this in the category of "dumb things to say" but not actively stupid, considering the widespread propagation of this particular myth.
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However the whole case hangs on her credibility and since she decided not to inform the police/prosecutor/court(?) of her fantasy she is trading on the notion that women are generally opposed to group sex to achieve an easier conviction. She is lying by omission, she has been caught lying - therefore her testimony is unreliable.
But you're assuming a) that she lied deliberately, rather than not realising it would be treated as crucial to the case or, indeed, relevant at all and b) that she *was* playing off the notion that women are opposed to group sex.
Both of which are entirely unsupported.
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The Campbell Live story may have had nude titties in it, but the story was about the frequent double-standards with respect to men's and women's toplessness, and one woman's challenging of that alleged inequity.
And, to be fair, the bit with the council workers was actually quite a telling moment, vis-a-vis the tendencies of those with petty authority to use it to project their own moral judgements into areas in which they do not actually have any authority.
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Gang rapes are surely easier to prosecute, because as everyone knows all women are abhorrently opposed to having sex with a group of men.
Oh, I'm sorry; you were actually aiming at the "can't rape a whore" argument. My mistake.