Posts by Danielle
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to DexterX,
Men tend to be more resilient in dealing with being on the receiving end
If you mean "they tend to be killed by their partners a lot less" then yes, I suppose that could be considered "more resilient".
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Bart Janssen,
If you want to modulate testosterone driven behaviour you must acknowledge it is real.
I don't buy "the hormones made him do it" as a reason for any crime, whether it be sexual harassment or mass murder. The Animalistic Penis-Brain (TM) seems a terribly... convenient, status-quo-maintaining explanatory theory.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Testosterone.
You know how I feel about essentialism, Bart.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Well, the same reasons that most violence is committed by men upon men, I guess. It’s hardly exclusive to mass gun killings.
The thing is, no one ever talks about that except we feminist harpies, and it certainly would be nice if it was a broader conversation.
You know you can hide people’s feeds on Facebook and only check in on them when your blood pressure is dangerously low, right?
The problem is that I want to know what's going on with the peeps, and see the family pictures, but I don't want to implode with rage over all the annoying Republican photomemes. Is there a filter for that? :)
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Russell Brown,
I guessing that saying “here’s the DATA!” isn’t working for you.
Noting that my non-christened, non-church-going, non-school-praying children would not be killed by gunfire in their local school because GUN CONTROL made... no impression whatsoever. :)
But … the South has way more gun homicide than the rest of the US. What’s God saying there?
Oh, silly Russell. Don't you understand that it's because people have REJECTED the word of the Lord that all these bad things are happening? The Lord has politely bowed out and Lucifer is in the schools because of the separation of church and state! (Also, Christians are totally persecuted in America something something Obama is a Muslim.)
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Oh, and while I'm having a moan: can we also talk about gender? Why are these shooters pretty much always dudes? What is it about the ways in which we construct masculinity which allows this to happen? How do we change THAT?
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I have been arguing (SO POINTLESSLY, Jesus Christ on a bike) on Facebook with my sister and some other people (southern, Christian, Republican, rural) since this happened. Apparently the lack of dedication to the Lord in public school is to blame and Lucifer has taken over the actions of the shooter. "The finger pulling the trigger is the problem not the gun. Fighting Satan on that one".
I... honestly, I spend a lot of time defending my relatives from dumb stereotypes about southern people, but I've found some of them talking about this particular issue absolutely infuriating. Even if the magical sky fairy theory is correct and Lucifer is in charge, WHY ARE YOU LETTING HIM BUY THE GUNS AT WALMART, you dumbasses?
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Hard News: Friday Music: Hits and Shitters, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Dave Dobbyn writes solid, quality songs that can withstand all manner of extremes.
Belatedly: this is so true. I don't know why he gets dismissed out of hand so much.
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"Yeah, nah" is my Twitter bio, FWIW. :)
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Hard News: The Public Address 2012 Word…, in reply to Rachel Prosser,
Also “yeah yeah yeah” When did we start saying that in threes?
My husband theorises that in any large social gathering of New Zealanders, if you listen carefully, there will be regular exclamations of "yeahyeahyeah" around the room. It's a Thing We Do and I don't know why.