Posts by BenWilson
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Up Front: Oh, God, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
And a grand lesson it is.
Not convinced. Yes, it's good to know that some kids come through unscathed, and certainly good advice to keep thoroughly engaged with them to the best of your ability. But it's not an excuse to let their time be wasted on something suboptimal at best, harmful at worst. This is the 21st Century, there's so many genuinely good things that could be done instead.
To put it another way, consider how you'd feel if someone said you had to take bible lessons yourself, now. Sure you'd probably be "unharmed". Would that make it OK? And that's an adult, far, far more able to critically evaluate what is happening to them.
Nope, no way should this be allowed in state schools. No fucking way.
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Speaker: Not even a statistic, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Clarification would be good, on what you mean.
No problem, Jacks. But which part? I don't want to be writing essays on this thread.
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Hard News: Going solar?, in reply to ,
Cost an absolute fortune.
What? You didn't forge it yourself? You soft city slicker.
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Speaker: Not even a statistic, in reply to BenWilson,
Rape culture itself has only theory on its side, and it’s got plenty enough voices to fight feminist theory, shouting match for shouting match
Rereading that, it sounds terrible. I'm not saying feminists only shout. Just that when it's them vs rape culture that's how it goes down, because they've got an opponent that's got no interest in good faith. And because of that, more likely, it goes silent on one side. I've seen this over and over since I've been paying attention.
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Speaker: Not even a statistic, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Women are already doing as much as they can to stop rape, if we want to change this culture it has to come from changes to the other half of society.
I don't know about that. Rape culture isn't just about raping or not raping, it's about the conditions that make it easier to get away with, and how women react to rape victims, and how they talk about the problem of rape is quite important. It all sets the backdrop. But certainly men must do way, way more.
On that, though, it's hard to actually make practical advice. I don't even know that we're at a stage where advice is something even worth giving. It seems to me that the biggest inroads are simply the stream of factual information about rape and what it is really like that makes the biggest difference. Cold hard statistics like "most rapes are not by strangers", and powerful personal accounts like Katrina's. The more normalized it is to know these facts and stories, the more progress I think we will make. Considering that they are set against absolutely no facts, and very few actual stories on the other side, it's a battle that should slowly get won. Rape culture itself has only theory on its side, and it's got plenty enough voices to fight feminist theory, shouting match for shouting match. But on the facts, it's got nothing.
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No. I would not, and it breaks my heart to say that.
I understand. What would you advise?
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Hard News: Going solar?, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
Don't forget all the wood collecting, chopping and stacking too. You probably should have a decent chainsaw unless you're really handy with an axe.
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Hard News: Dotcom: Further news of the unlikely, in reply to TracyMac,
The clown with the chequebook might take away the chequebook, too. In which case it will fail for more prosaic reasons. Letting him dance seems to be the least they can do.
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The Hydra meat works at the top of College Hill had "Pigs Disown Muldoon" scrawled on it for years.
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Hard News: Going solar?, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
It’s to be noted that gas is way cheaper than electricity, which changes the (financial) economics if you have a mains gas connection.
Changes again if you don't, though? And changes again if you're making your own electricity at the time :-).
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