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Sexual Misconduct

I perfectly understood his claim about time solving problems and pointed out it is wrong. He responded by claiming I didn't comprehend what he actually claimed.

Your Einstein story means nothing.

I'm impressed. We already know metaphor confounds you, now you are brighter than Einstein. Yes, for some all telling must be explicit declarative narrative for meaning to be discerned. Jack and Jill went up the hill, Jack declared "Yo one hot mama!" Jack and Jill went down the hill.
 
I get that your idea about time solving problems is not supported by facts.

I get that you're desperate for attention and an over the top contrarian.

Agree to disagree, and all of that... keep banging your head against the wall with people who will never change, it's fun to watch. Just don't fool yourself that you're doing anything useful. You're just being you. :shrug:

As an aside, curious to know your thoughts on this. Is Hitler more of a problem now that he's dead, or was he a bigger pain in the ass when he was alive?
 
Does anyone recall the historical context in which took place a "Reign of Terror" by Committee of Public Safety?

Well, that is the allusion contained in post #167 and lauded in #175.

In case you were wondering.
 
I get that you're desperate for attention and an over the top contrarian.

Agree to disagree, and all of that... keep banging your head against the wall with people who will never change, it's fun to watch. Just don't fool yourself that you're doing anything useful. You're just being you. :shrug:

As an aside, curious to know your thoughts on this. Is Hitler more of a problem now that he's dead, or was he a bigger pain in the ass when he was alive?

More ad hominem. Why do you make everything personal rather than debate ideas?

As for Hitler, did the world just sit back passively waiting for him to die of natural causes?
 
I'm impressed. We already know metaphor confounds you, now you are brighter than Einstein. Yes, for some all telling must be explicit declarative narrative for meaning to be discerned. Jack and Jill went up the hill, Jack declared "Yo one hot mama!" Jack and Jill went down the hill.

You are not making any coherent point here.
 
This post is uninformed and swaggering. This appears to be all you've got on this topic, David -- uninformed swagger. Look to it.

More ad hominem. Your boat sank under its weight.
 
More ad hominem....
Your understanding of the ad hominem argument is incorrect. I was commenting on a post; moreover, the use of a personal pronoun does not constitute an ad hominem argument. Please look to this if you wish to carry on here.
 
Everyone in public is expected to express absolute outrage at those men.

In private, people are smarter than that. They know that at least some of the ladies were cooperative because they thought that it would advance their careers.

Thanks to the #MeToo movement, a lot of those ladies suddenly became indignant. Ka-ching.


(I have read that Mr. W. has arrived at a financial agreement with the ladies who had accused him.)
 
Your understanding of the ad hominem argument is incorrect. I was commenting on a post; moreover, the use of a personal pronoun does not constitute an ad hominem argument. Please look to this if you wish to carry on here.

Posts can't swagger. You said the post was uninformed. Based on what?
 
Posts can't swagger. You said the post was uninformed. Based on what?
Of course posts can swagger.
I called your post "uninformed" because it made an uninformed assertion about sexual harassment. This is what your post said:
Sexual harassment does not conflate anything. It is a separate, discrete concept for particular behavior. All hands on deck, your ship is sinking.
It is either uninformed as to the umbrella legal term "sexual harassment" or it is uninformed as to the meaning of the word "conflation."
 
Everyone in public is expected to express absolute outrage at those men.

In private, people are smarter than that. They know that at least some of the ladies were cooperative because they thought that it would advance their careers.

Thanks to the #MeToo movement, a lot of those ladies suddenly became indignant. Ka-ching.


(I have read that Mr. W. has arrived at a financial agreement with the ladies who had accused him.)
The "Ka-ching" Factor. Indeed. It's Pop Extortion with the complicity of the Press and the Public.
 
Reprise

The Joke

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"How many Sexual Hypocrites does it take to screw a Sexual Predator?"
written on the walls of Men's Room USA


"And the words of the prophet are written on the subway walls and tenement halls."
Simon and Garfunkel

"Life is Good"
Korean appliance manufacturer
 
More ad hominem. Why do you make everything personal rather than debate ideas?

Because your misrepresentation of my point of view feels like an attack. I'm just playing back at you, bud, don't dish it out if you don't want to get called on it. :shrug:

You're making it seem like my overall approach is to do nothing. You don't build a house with one tool. If someone is determined not to change, you will not change them. Better to put your efforts into minimizing their impact to society, rather than wasting your time on a lost cause that will time will take of eventually anyway. And chances are, your chauvinist pig Uncle Phil doesn't warrant a world wide military response like Hitler did, so you're not left with a lot of options that don't end up with you sounding shrill whilst banging your head against a wall.

If you want to debate ideas, debate my ideas, not the ones you are assigning to me, either through failure to understand, or deliberate trolling. I like ya, bud, but with you I'm pretty sure it could be either...hehe... If you're not sure of what I'm saying, ask.
 
...If you want to debate ideas, debate my ideas, not the ones you are assigning to me, either through failure to understand, or deliberate trolling.... If you're not sure of what I'm saying, ask.
Hear, hear. This admonition should be written above the entrance to every forum at DP and at the head of all social media on the internet.
 
Camille Paglia

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"Rape is an outrage that cannot be tolerated in a civilized society. Yet feminism, which has waged a crusade for rape to be taken more seriously, has put young women in danger by hiding the truth about sex from them.... For a decade, feminists have drilled their disciples to say, 'Rape is a crime of violence but not of sex.' This sugar-coated Shirley Temple nonsense has exposed young women to disaster. Misled by feminism, they do not expect rape from the nice boys from good homes who sit next to them in class."

"I am being vilified by feminists for merely having a common-sense attitude about rape. I loathe this thing about date rape. Have twelve tequilas at a fraternity party and a guy asks you to go up to his room, and then you're surprised when he assaults you? Most women want to be seduced or lured. The more you study literature and art, the more you see it. Listen to Don Giovanni. Read The Faerie Queene. Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It’s part of the sizzle. Girls hurl themselves at guitarists, right down to the lowest bar band here. The guys are strutting. If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them. Women have the right to freely choose and to say yes or no. Everyone should be personally responsible for what happens in life. I see the sexual impulse as egotistical and dominating, and therefore I have no problem understanding rape. Women have to understand this correctly and they'll protect themselves better. If a real rape occurs, it's got to go to the police. The business of having a campus grievance committee decide whether or not a rape is committed is an outrageous infringement of civil liberties. Today, on an Ivy League campus, if a guy tells a girl she's got great tits, she can charge him with sexual harassment. Chicken**** stuff. Is this what strong women do?"


Camille Paglia - Wikiquote
 
Everyone in public is expected to express absolute outrage at those men.

In private, people are smarter than that. They know that at least some of the ladies were cooperative because they thought that it would advance their careers.

Thanks to the #MeToo movement, a lot of those ladies suddenly became indignant. Ka-ching.


(I have read that Mr. W. has arrived at a financial agreement with the ladies who had accused him.)

Mr. W. was a potential and actual employer of those "ladies" and therefore impacted their ability to earn a living. So a financial agreement is not anything out of the norm in such cases.
 
And what price atonement in the Millennial cesspool?
 
Of course posts can swagger.
I called your post "uninformed" because it made an uninformed assertion about sexual harassment. This is what your post said:

It is either uninformed as to the umbrella legal term "sexual harassment" or it is uninformed as to the meaning of the word "conflation."

Sexual harassment is not just an umbrella legal term.
 
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