Coming. In Your Face.

Keep an eye on your kids, 'cause Pope Nazifinger is about to visit the UK, unfortunately not in leg irons, to the tune of eight million dollars a day.What could possibly be a better use for that money? 

This gives me an excuse to post this pic, but I would've anyway cuz it's so fucken perfect. The b3ta challenge this week is taking the piss out of the visit, so more pics here.

Things ain't looking good for the old perv. Lulz.

Rape Tips

Look up at the top, there's a new tab, with the whole story of this RPT project, with links and stuff. Also an email address in case you don't wanna put things in comments.

Thanks to everyone for their great feedback.

Here is the revised list, as it looks now.

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I. Know what rape is. Understand that any sex act, with someone who does not want it, is Rape; and that even though sex may be one motivation, the act itself is an abuse of power.

II. Treat rape with the seriousness it deserves. Learn who rapes, how, and why, and the damage they cause: not in the locker room but from professionals and survivors.

III. Don't think you are entitled to sex because you're horny, or you spent money, or this person dated you, or married you, or had sex with you before, or any other reason.

IV. Stop when you're asked to, either verbally or physically, even if it's in the middle of the hottest sex you've ever had.

V. Toughen up. Be man enough to take disappointment, frustration, and rejection without taking it out on others. Step up and work to change your gender's behavior so that rapes will not happen, instead of depending on women to do it for you.

VI. Walk the Walk. DO SOMETHING about it when you know someone is a rapist or a danger. Turn them in, warn any women who may be endangered, or do whatever you can to stop that person. DO NOT tolerate, excuse, or ignore.

VII. Speak up. Defend a woman's unconditional right to choose when and where to have sex, and who with, and insist your friends recognize that right. Don't laugh at rape jokes or catcalls, object to them.

IX. If you have raped anyone, get help, figure out what is wrong with you, and fix it. Make reparations if possible.

X. Send this to every man you know, and when you get chain letters telling women what to do to avoid men who rape them, substitute this list.

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It's not perfect yet, so don't be bashful to criticize it. Some reservations I have are

Notes:
The roman numerals just keep the old list separate from the revision, which is an attempt to moosh all 39 of them into a dozen or so. Only way I could see to do that was to make each tip longer than I'd like it to be.

V. is clunky, and I'm not happy with that be responsible for 'other mens behavior' bit. It's an attempt to include these ideas:
16 Accept responsibility for your own gender. Stop expecting and advising women to prevent rapes.
27. Face the fact that sometimes women will not like you, will think you are stupid, will make fun of you, will not treat you well, will fire you from a job, will laugh at you, will refuse your advances. Just like men will.

IX. Not sure about this one. Seda suggests adding "Then find the woman or women you raped, and, in the presence of her family and a mediator skilled in restorative justice, apologize and offer reparation." Good advice; should it be on this list?

V and VI, the tone is sorta pugnacious.  Bad?  Counterproductive?

Most Dangerous Job?

“Everybody knows” that

“... there is no doubt that the most dangerous and demanding jobs are done by men, in most if not virtually every society...”

according to professional crybaby Glenn Sacks anyway, but is this really true?

No.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics “does not consider "housewife" a job, nor is "prostitute", so the death rates and injuries in those occupations aren't recorded in the same place. Prostitution is by far the most dangerous job in America.”

That quote is from Skeptifem, who has a great, eye-opening post on this. It asks questions I bet you've never thought of before. Here's a chart I made of statistics from there.

• Notice the “cause of death” column? At one time or another I've worked at about half these jobs, but murder was never an occupational hazard in any of them.
• People keep track of deaths in every other occupation, but let's face it, when a hooker gets killed, nobody cares.
• To get the fatalities rate, I averaged out the figures mentioned in the post, which ranged from 3.91 to 5.93. That last number is higher than Combat Infantryman, which has been running at around 5.44 in Iraq / Afghanistan.

Keep this chart handy for the next time some jackass starts whining about 'male oppression'.
or,
as skeptifem puts it:

" People justify this devaluing of women in different ways, ...
What can you do to help fix it? Point out all of the information outlined in that post the next time you hear someone giving the verbal equivalent of "Woman should be happy in their inferior social position because at least women don't have to fear being killed on the job!"

Yeah, what she said.

Just for the record

Jesus, Asshole (Matt 21)

Oh shit, here's a test finding that our idea of Jesus is just projection. What's that say about me, cuz I'm making him out to be a colossal asshole. Here in Matthew 21 he's stealing livestock (1-11), then he vandalizes a temple (12-17), then he curses a fig tree (18-22). The guy has a rap sheet a mile long.

Growing up, I knew about him wrecking the temple, but I never followed his example and trashed the Church, even if I did steal some of their wine. Jesus stole donkeys. If he'd been in the Old West he'd've been hung on an old oak tree instead of a crucifix. A couple of things bother me about this story. One, how the hell did he pull this off:

7 They brought the donkey and the colt, placed their cloaks on them, and Jesus sat on them.

He didn't sit on just the donkey, or the colt, he sat on both of them. What the hell? 

 

Second, donkeys don't have colts—a baby donkey is a foal. You'd think the people who wrote this book would know that, at least. Even the KJV says colt, I checked, so what the hell again?

I'm not the only one who thinks Jesus was an asshole, it's a meme! See, look, 

there's even a slideshow, and it's funny as hell. Way better than the bible. 


Just for squees, here's a video of a foal. 

Debate

Been too serious around here lately, a lively debate is what we need.
I think the Ibex makes a good argument.