It's totally okay to make fun of silly people, no matter how darling they imagine themselves to be.

Yes/correct, and learn these ten names.

Entertainment for a change...

Read this twitter stack and feel its power.

Stop-motion animation.

French parents, Druckerman observes, love their children just as much as American parents. They give them piano lessons, take them to sports practice, and encourage them to make the most of their talents. But French parents have a different philosophy of discipline. Consistently enforced limits, in the French view, make children feel safe and secure. Clear limits, they believe, actually make a child feel happier and safer—something that is congruent with my own experience as both a therapist and a parent. Finally, French parents believe that hearing the word "no" rescues children from the "tyranny of their own desires." And spanking, when used judiciously, is not considered child abuse in France. (Author's note: I am not personally in favor of spanking children).

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/suffer-the-children/201203/why-french-kids-dont-have-adhd

When boys are victims of sexual assault.

"I’ve spent the last seven years interviewing high-school and college students about sex and emotional intimacy — the last year-and-a-half talking exclusively to boys. Of course, we discussed sexual violation. I’d assumed, at least for heterosexual boys, that we’d talk about what they thought it meant to get consent from a girl, how they’d define assault. What surprised me was how often the boys brought up their own experience of unwanted sex: encounters in which girls did not respect 'no' or, as with Dylan, took advantage of them when they were drunk."

"I want to be clear: Girls bear the brunt — both physically and psychologically — of sexual harassment, assault, and rape, but they’re not its exclusive targets. Middle- and high-school-aged boys report being the victims of dating violence, including physical abuse, at rates similar to girls. In a 2015 study, 43 percent of high-school and college boys said they’d been the victim of some form of sexual coercion — verbal, physical, substance-related — and 95 percent said the aggressors were girls. And large-scale surveys of college students — including the 21,000 who participated in the Online College Social Life Survey and the 9,616 involved in Columbia University’s Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation — have found that roughly one in eight men have experienced something that meets the criteria for sexual assault; in over 80 percent of those cases, one study found, the perpetrators were female."

AND

"Even so, my first instinct was to dismiss boys’ accounts. They’re bigger than girls, stronger. How hard could it be for them to get up and walk away? Why not drink less? Were they really describing “assault” or just “bad sex?” Then I realized how I’d react if someone lobbed those same questions at a girl. Was it truly so different? ... After all, the notion that all boys are sexually insatiable, incapable of refusal, regret, or injury reinforces the most retrograde idea of masculinity. What’s more, if a boy is supposed to deny his own violation, how can he feel compassion for — or even recognize — a girl’s?"

AND

"I ask Dylan one last question: What would’ve happened if the genders were swapped, if she’d been drunk and he’d been the sober aggressor. He laughed, without amusement. 'Yeah, I’d be expelled. I’d be in jail right now. Because it was textbook, right? I was basically unconscious, I didn’t want to do it. There was no consent.'"

... learn these ten names. ~ Crid at March 25, 2018 2:07 AM

Add my name to that list. A study of human history is a study of miseries overcome, of ignorance enlightened - a journey of spiritual, mental, physical, and emotional progress.

But no one wants to hear "We've come a long way, baby." Everybody wants to have the saddest story at group therapy, the story that make the others say, "damn, dude."

And spanking, when used judiciously, is not considered child abuse in France. ~ from the article linked by Sixclaws at March 25, 2018 8:08 AM

I think the key phrase in that sentence, and the argument several people made in an earlier thread on spanking only to be denounced as child abusers, is "when used judiciously."

"I want to be clear: Girls bear the brunt — both physically and psychologically — of sexual harassment, assault, and rape,

Middle- and high-school-aged boys report being the victims of dating violence, including physical abuse, at rates similar to girls.

These two sentences contradict each other. Either females are the majority sufferers or males and females are victimized at similar rates meaning neither gender is the majority of victims

What’s more, if a boy is supposed to deny his own violation, how can he feel compassion for — or even recognize — a girl’s?"

While this seems an insightful question, my guess is the type of guy who gets assaulted is not the type of guy to assault women

Interesting read on a great sci fi author

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6468136

These two sentences contradict each other. Either females are the majority sufferers or males and females are victimized at similar rates meaning neither gender is the majority of victims ~ lujlp at March 25, 2018 10:15 AM

They're not necessarily contradictory. The first talks of sexual harassment and assault today and in general (i.e., all ages). The second talks of what's happening to our teenagers, of what could very likely be a coming societal trend as women become comfortable wielding power over others.

Look back in history on the behavior of queens and empresses, and even less-royal women who gained absolute power over the lives of others. Are we to assume all of Catherine or Elizabeth's sexual conquests were willing paramours? The abuse of power knows no gender.

While this seems an insightful question, my guess is the type of guy who gets assaulted is not the type of guy to assault women ~ lujlp at March 25, 2018 10:15 AM

On the other hand, the sad sack who is life's victim is precisely the type to lash out. Remember, most of the school shootings are being done by students who were outsiders and loners, perennial losers in the hormonal teenager social status lottery.

Globalism in action -

http://www.omaha.com/columnists/hansen/hansen-omaha-man-liked-a-tweet-and-then-he-lost/article_74b9021a-3753-5b33-b096-f0af3c8372d6.html

The GOP's strategy for youth outreach is beyond parody

https://twitter.com/ScottMGreer/status/977972148533911552

"And spanking, when used judiciously, is not considered child abuse in France."

Funny that this should be accepted of the French, yet vigously shouted down when not willfully misrepresented here.

Yeah Raddy, everything we read about Trump reminds us that he's a totally classy guy who knows a lot about money, which for some reason very important to you in a President. And a television game-show host.

Or as George Will put it yesterday:

Much is made of the fact that Bolton is implacably hostile to strongman Vladimir Putin, whom the U.S. president, a weak person’s idea of a strong person, admires.

(Your misapprehensions are so glaring, and your pride in them is so fartingly inflated, that I will never not love tormenting you for this.)

"Yeah Raddy, everything we read about Trump ..."

Get help. You're making things up again. It's not, "we".

I can't believe anyone would be so offended by an observation that a billionaire probably has a secure cell phone, and that ordinary folk don't have a right to know how secure the WH Signals Office or whoever has made it. Freak out some more.

But "we'll never know"[!] if he has a secure cell phone or not[!]. You said so yourself!

We don't know why you said that, but we could tell it meant a lot to you.

Watch any TV tonight?

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