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Rolling Stone Retracts Rape Story..

I think this is a bunch of BS. Rape isn't about sex -- it's about power.

Yes, and what precisely is trying to sexually repress people about?

It wouldn't be power, would it?
 
When did we start? :shrug:

I only considered them serious for music, and even that was 30+ years ago.

ETA: Doh!!! "The Rolling Stones" :lol: (The 30+ years comment still stands, though :cool:)
Their politics are aimed for the same market as the Comedy Channel, and we can often read the consequences on this forum.
 
It's not a "who."

*sigh* What's with this people not reading my posts thing today?
Perhaps your points are not as clear as you think they are.

Yes, and what precisely is trying to sexually repress people about?
Then "what precisely" is trying to sexually repress people?
 
Nope. I said America is among the most repressive in the West, and it has relatively high rape rates to match.

I did not say it is getting more so. I said other places that are more repressive have even worse rape rates. Reading comprehension. It's a thing.

I think you just wanted a chance to take a stab at the US.
 
Yes, and what precisely is trying to sexually repress people about?

It wouldn't be power, would it?

Okay.... WHAT is trying to sexually repress people? LOL!
 
I think you just wanted a chance to take a stab at the US.

So I come to a debate site, critique things, and people get up in arms?

Dude, this is weird.
 
Perhaps your points are not as clear as you think they are.

Then "what precisely" is trying to sexually repress people?

I dunno. They could just try looking at the words I used and stuff.
 
I dunno. They could just try looking at the words I used and stuff.

That's exactly what I did. You say I'm looking at it wrong, but won't explain how.
 
You have the opportunity to respond to the weird critiques with those of your own, Dude.

The more verbose version of "You're a poopy head" is not a critique.
 
That's exactly what I did. You say I'm looking at it wrong, but won't explain how.

Already answered this in my first post with a single, common English word. There's no way you don't know it. Read the words I wrote. I have very limited patience for repeating myself.
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/business/media/rolling-stone-retracts-article-on-rape-at-university-of-virginia.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.

Well that's gonna be a lawsuit.
 
Already answered this in my first post with a single, common English word. There's no way you don't know it. Read the words I wrote. I have very limited patience for repeating myself.

"Culture", I presume? You do know that culture is created by people, right? So my question still stands... WHO is sexually repressing anyone?
 
"Culture", I presume? You do know that culture is created by people, right? So my question still stands... WHO is sexually repressing anyone?

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

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?
 
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