Matthew Certosimo NOT FIT TO LEAD
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The Stone: The Persistence of the 'Lolita Syndrome' From Simone de Beauvoir to Jimmy Savile, on the trail of the intellectual origins of the “culture of abuse.”
Jimmy Savile, Hugh Hefner, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Margaret Mead, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the horrid philosophical justification for sexually victimizing children…
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“Silence has the rusty taste of shame.”
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“ So, here is my challenge for those who want to tell rape jokes:
Ask every woman in your life if she has been sexually assaulted. Ask her to tell you her story. This means your mother, your sister, your girlfriend, your grandma.
Once you have heard all their stories, go watch a movie with a rape scene in it. One you didn’t mind before. One you thought people were overly offended by.
Now tell me a joke.
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Lebanese Man Rapes and Impregnates His Sister, Then Kills Her in 'Honor Crime' [Trigger Warning: Rape, Murder, Rape Culture, Extreme Misogyny]
A man has killed his pregnant teenage sister in south Lebanon in what was seen as an honor crime - the murder of a woman accused of shaming her family.
Voice of Lebanon radio (100.5) said Friday that the body of Baghdad Khaled al-Issa, 18, was found with stab wounds in her head and sides in the area of al-Wazzani.
Investigators discovered that her brother Jihad, 21, had killed her in what is described as an honor crime, VDL said.
It added that the victim was seven months pregnant.
Later on Friday, LBCI television reported that the investigation with Jihad revealed that he had raped his sister, which lead to her pregnancy.
“He confessed to raping his sister,” LBCI said, adding that Jihad claimed he was drunk when the incident happened.
The television channel added that he had only recently found out about the pregnancy and asked his sister to undergo an abortion, but she refused.
Every year thousands of women are killed for notions of family honor worldwide, mainly in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.
In 2011, the Lebanese parliament approved a draft-law to cancel article 562 of the penal code that calls for limited punishments for honor killings.
Destroy all patriarchy NOW!
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Above the Influence Podcast Episode 4: Sexual Assault Talk (Part 3 of 3)
Download the podcast on iTunes here: http://itun.es/i6xH2St
Check out the first and second parts of our conversation.
In this episode, I conclude my discussion with Meg & Nina, administrators at different sexual assault agencies in Massachusetts. In the first part of our conversation, we focused on Steubenville, Ohio, where a teenage girl was raped and sexually assaulted by at least two boys.
In the second, we talked about perpetrators and the role of risk reduction in preventing sexual assaults and rapes.
Here, we finish up our discussion of risk reduction and primary prevention strategies, exploring the importance of boundary work. We close by talking about how to intervene when you see something you don’t like (e.g. a wasted friend going home with a creepster from a bar).
—Tommy
© 2013 Tommy Jordan O’Malley
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I, too, am an abduction survivor The three Cleveland women became heroes as they seized the chance to escape from captivity.
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Can Rob Ford Respond to Crack Allegations By Suing Media Outlets for Libel? Given that Gawker has claimed that they have seen a video of Rob Ford smoking crack, and further that Toronto Star reporters have confirmed they saw what
Matthew, a legal primer on libel and suing Americans for it. As in “good fucking luck buddy”.
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Violet Baudelaire, the eldest, was one of the finest 14-year-old inventors in the world. Anyone who knew Violet well, could tell she was inventing something when her long hair was tied up in a ribbon. In a world of abandoned items and discarded materials, Violet knew there was always something. Something she could fashion into nearly any advice, for nearly every ocassion.i am the absent minded professor. i do put my hair up and make things out of parts and pieces at hand. i get lost in thoughts and possibilities, for hours, sometimes days. the physical world is only pertinent as necessary - food, sleep, work, and company. but mostly, i live in my head.
the material world has philosophical and ethical problems that can be solved by technology and transparency, by education and parity. that is what occupies me most of the time. the edge of broadcasting, emerging video technologies, streaming internationally instantaneously, and how that is part of the solution - there is where my brain orbits most hours of the day.
what i figured out, while i was young, was to sit back, observe, and have a variety of tools and plugins ready.
“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” - Marcus Aurelius
That is how it is done - assemble the options, know the platforms, understand the workflow, piece together the best solutions.
It is adult LEGOS. It is plug and play in real life.
It makes sense, technology. It never betrays its purpose, there is always a reason for failures, and faulty parts can be replaced. Code has syntax, order, scripts have process, language is set and understood.
People, on the other hand, make NO sense a lot of the time. sure, there are root causes for things, but when boundaries start to erode due to substance abuse and increasing mental illness, as well as decades of enablers supporting them, predictable behavior goes out the window.
The only predictable thing about that kind of person is selfishness.
so i retreated into my brain and my skills as early as i could remember. my mother had to pull me from my coloring books and making things to eat and sleep. in my head, i could build things and imagine things not yet created.
Science fiction was my favorite growing up - books, movies, tv shows. Things that did things - tricoders, scanners, lasers, computers - all these things i wanted to play with.
and now, to some degree, i do. if i got an offer to go to space, even if i would never return, i would go, and experience the pinnacle of human achievement.
my brain is a beautiful, beautiful thing. people say the heart is where love is, but for me, my brain saved me in so many ways - it gave me grounding logic and rational thought, it was hungry for information and data, it challenged and solved puzzles and problems. it gave me dreams, it fed me daydreams and fantasies, it was fun and terrifying and uniquely me.
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i baked you a pie. humble and crow.
(via we-r-stubborn)
