Thread: Rolling Stone Retracts Rape Story..

Originally Posted by SmokeAndMirrors

*sigh* So you've just found the word, which is a behavioral concept and not a personal one, and you're still asking me "who"?

This is why I've been sticking to the silly side of DP lately. It's less traumatic to my forehead and my furniture. I'm headed back there again.

Your entire line of reasoning is painfully desperate, sorry.

Originally Posted by SmokeAndMirrors

*sigh* So you've just found the word, which is a behavioral concept and not a personal one, and you're still asking me "who"?

This is why I've been sticking to the silly side of DP lately. It's less traumatic to my forehead and my furniture. I'm headed back there again.

People create culture. It doesn't exist without the community.

Originally Posted by Henrin

Jesus. Yes, the US is totally sexually repressive. /facepalm

Seems I was lucky enough not to stumble into those areas where this repression occurs. Same in other countries also. Must have been a long series of happy coincidences.

Originally Posted by Fenton

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/bu...inia.html?_r=0

Rolling Stone magazine retracted its article about a brutal gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity after the release of a report on Sunday that concluded the widely discredited piece was the result of failures at every stage of the process.

The report, published by the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and commissioned by Rolling Stone, said the magazine failed to engage in “basic, even routine journalistic practice” to verify details of the ordeal that the magazine’s source, identified only as Jackie, described to the article’s author, Sabrina Rubin Erdely.

Maybe someday, people will learn not to believe these pundits in journalism.

Does true journalism even exist any more?

Originally Posted by bubbabgone

I've tried to follow your line of thought and the obvious question that arises is ... How is it you've been able to overcome this terrible sexually repressive culture? ... did you say it was the worst in the world?

Nope, I didn't, actually. Yet another one who apparently can't read.

Originally Posted by Josie

So continuing with this logic....

The US is the most sexually repressed nation in the West.
The US has a high rape rate.
Therefore, rape is caused by sexual repression and people who rape are sexually repressed.

Now... let's name the people who are "sexually repressed" and those will be the people committing the rapes in this country. Right?

If that sounds silly to you -- it is.

The "therefore" is not part of my argument, and would only make sense to someone with a painfully simplistic view of sociology that is basically impossible to correct without going back to middle school social studies.

What's amazing about it is that we have already discussed the main factor they share too, and somehow you couldn't make that out either.

This is an incredible thread, seriously. But then, threads about rape always are.

Originally Posted by SmokeAndMirrors

The "therefore" is not part of my argument, and would only make sense to someone with a painfully simplistic view of sociology that is basically impossible to correct without going back to middle school social studies.

No, the "therefore" came from your own words:

Originally Posted by SmokeAndMirrors

Actually, America has the most sexually repressive culture in the West, and simultaniously some of the highest rape rates in the West.

That is not in any way surprising. Rape rates rise as sexual repression rises in most cultures. Eventually, once you get to an extreme enough level of sexual repression, cultures just stop recognizing rape as being any different from sex at all.

Originally Posted by SmokeAndMirrors

What's amazing about it is that we have already discussed the main factor they share too, and somehow you couldn't make that out either.

This is an incredible thread, seriously. But then, threads about rape always are.

You seem to be having a hard time discussing this without playground insults.