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Re: Media Reaction Paper – Illegal Immigration

WithinThisMind — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:13:34 -0000

If they wish to use it and cite my blog as a source from which they learned something, that is fine by me.

And if they plagiarize, get caught because this paper is already in the system, get expelled, and end up washing cars for a living, that is also fine by me.

I also write articles sometimes on wikipedia. Should I stop that as well, as I know that's been plagiarized?

No. I like sharing knowledge, which is why my papers sometimes end up here on the blog.

Re: Media Reaction Paper – Illegal Immigration

mrzgoins — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:14:17 -0000

Why are you posting your work on here if you know there's a chance that people will use it.

Re: Media Reaction Paper – Illegal Immigration

WithinThisMind — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:36:59 -0000

Nancy Cupp, a rather incompetent facilitator who had a problem with Mexican, non-hetero-normal, and Atheist students, especially the kind who were willing to speak up.

Re: Media Reaction Paper – Illegal Immigration

Swella carr — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:19:17 -0000

who did you have for cultural diversity

Re: About

WithinThisMind — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:56:55 -0000

Obviously, I got to you enough for you to come to my blog.

Now, my little ignoramus, I suggest that:

A: you read your own bible, in it's entirety, so that in the future you know what it does and does not say so that in the future, you don't look like a complete idiot when trying to defend your pseudo-religious beliefs.

B: You get a basic education in human biology so you know 'how babby is formed' so that you can at least provide some sort of coherent argument when attempting remove rights away from women. I remember you now, you were yet another misogynist who believes women are sluts who should be punished with a child.

C: You get a dictionary and look up the definition of the word 'gender'. For starters, gender is a social construct, sex is the biological construct. Sexual orientation IS gender. You might want to read an introductory sociology textbook.

School is out, you've failed, go be dumb somewhere else now.

Re: About

Robin — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:07:11 -0000

Oh-kay...I'm such a troll that I haven't even looked at your website content other than the "about" info. You didn't school me on anything on the ImNotSorry blog other than the fact that you take scriptures and twist them to mean what you WANT them to mean and use outdated translations.

The "genders" you refer to? Those aren't genders (aside from male and female) they refer to people who either have changed their biological gender or the various sexual orientations.

Re: About

WithinThisMind — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:38:03 -0000

Oh, look, a troll! I'm sorry I had to school you somewhere, but you'd have to be more specific. Whoever you are, you apparently weren't worth remembering.

Genders;

Heterosexual male
Heterosexual female
Bisexual male
Bisexual female
Asexual male
Asexual female
Transexual male
Transexual female
Homosexual male
Homosexual female

And I'm sure I've missed a few. Now you've been schooled again. Hopefully, you'll learn something.

Re: About

Robin — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:06:33 -0000

Play nice or you'll feed me to the dragon? Why don't you try "playing nice" when you are posting on other blogs and replying to people who have a point of view different from your own? It's a concept known as "practicing what you preach."

Btw-"many genders"? Uhm, there's ONLY two....1)male 2)female

Re: Elevator Gate, Again

WithinThisMind — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:02:45 -0000

http://freethoughtblogs.com... - comment 194

I am not denying your numbers, but…

lawl

…I always see such statistics tossed around and often made up on the spot,[o rly.] so I would love to have an authoritative source on the subject that I could refer to. Do you think you could tell me which peer-reviewed source you found those numbers in?

so while you “always” see such statistics, you never bothered UNTIL THIS VERY MOMENT to look for references and sources yourself, did you? “Bring me a sammich source and it better be good.”

But I feel in a mood for stuffing some jackhole’s arrogance back up ‘ir left nostril, so here you go.

http://yesmeansyesblog.word...

Cites and discusses:

I have taken a look at two large-sample surverys of undetected rapists. One is Repeat Rape and Multiple Offending Among Undetected Rapists by David Lesak and Paul M. Miller, published in Violence and Victims, Vol 17, No. 1, 2002 (Lisak & Miller 2002). The other is Reports of Rape Reperpetration by Newly Enlisted Male Navy Personnel by Stephanie K. McWhorter, et al., published in Violence and Victims, Vol, 24, No. 2, 2009 (McWhorter 2009).

6% of men in one study and 17% in the other SELF-REPORT rape attempts.

Quoting myself from Skepchick in July:

According to “Meet the Predators” which references men self-reporting their rape attempts, a sample of about 1900 male college students contained 120 who announced 438 attempted or completed rapes. Let’s say those rapes happened to the comparably sized female student population, and for the sake of argument, that any given woman was ‘only’ assaulted once. What would 438 rapes and sexual assaults among 2000 or so women work out to?

22% of women.

Men. Self-reporting. 22%.

Re: Mortgage Program

Kinda Strange — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:06:48 -0000

Because the fourth time someone copy-pasted this post and turned it in as their homework at UoP, I altered it. Call it schmuck bait.

Re: Mortgage Program

Husinhandzalah — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:40:38 -0000

why this programme can't be run???

Re: On being a Mommy

DonnaD — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:56:28 -0000

I raised six kids. There were many days when it was not fun. But in agreement with your post, I chose to not submit others to the chaos that comes with kids at times. If one of my "angels" showed out in a store, we left. It didn't matter that the buggy was full of groceries or that I'd just found the aisle where the item I had come for was located, we left. And being a proponent of corporal punishment, unless there was a very good reason for the behavior that caused me to have to leave, when we got home I was going to give the kid a reason to scream. The result was that my kids very rarely acted up in public. They knew in advance if they made me mad enough to leave, nobody was going to be happy with the ensuing results.

When the last one was old enough to be left with my husband (weaned from the breast) I started shopping late at night... alone. I still enjoy doing that... being nearly the only one in the store, no lines, no waiting for ninnies to get out of the middle of the aisles so I could pass, parking up close to the store, oh, yeah, and no screaming kids.

Recently, I was in a doctor's office. There was a kid there driving everyone crazy. Jumping, running, screaming, pulling the curtains off the windows, tearing up magazines, throwing magazines, asking for candy or money, you name it... The mom looked at me and said "I don't know what to do with him." So I told her. "Take him outside out of sight and blister his ass. If he starts it again when you bring him back in, take him outside and do it again. After a while he'll get the message." She left dragging the kid behind her when three old men stood up and applauded. (True story)...

Re: Why I am modded on What Privilege or Hathor’s Legacy

sasha — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 10:43:41 -0000

...and UGH. This kind of censorship is so childish.

Re: Why I am modded on What Privilege or Hathor’s Legacy

sasha — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 10:42:39 -0000

That happened to me the first time I commented on her site. Some people can't be disagreed with, I guess.

Re: The Blind Men and the Elephant

sasha — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:16:42 -0000

I love this story. Truly, perception is reality.

Re: It’s polite to blame the victim

Julie — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:06:56 -0000

I used to go to her forum back when it was on DelphiForums. It got progressively worse until at the nadir, she banned commenters for going to another forum in addition to hers (there was some kind of odd feud going on between the forum owners I think). I was banned.

Those who were banned started up a group on Livejournal, and then again on Delphi, but I hate to say THEIR modding was as bad as the original E-Hell's, whoever was modding or not. If you go to my LJ, you can click on the E-Hell tag for some of what was going on then.

Re: It’s polite to blame the victim

attack_laurel — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:34:17 -0000

Years ago, I was a moderator on that benighted forum, but I quit because the owner had a very peculiar idea of moderating, essentially not allowing the moderators to, y'know, moderate.

It doesn't surprise me in the least that she did this, either the initial stupid remarks or the later retraction. She doesn't handle disagreement well.

Re: Being a Stay at Home Mom

Kinda Strange — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 12:09:51 -0000

I like what Jennifer has to say a lot of the time, but I think she has issues with the concept of marriage as a whole. I know, back when marriage was first described to me, it had the whole 'love honor obey', 'woman is the weaker vessel', 'man is head of the household' crap that should rightly be despised by all those who believe in equality.

But that's not what I vowed. It's not the partnership my husband and I made. We wrote our own contract and our own vows. The only reason we legalized it is for the tax breaks and next of kin benefits. We made it our own.

Just because something was built by the patriarchy doesn't mean it can't be adapted.

Re: Being a Stay at Home Mom

Corbyn Hightower — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:55:34 -0000

I love this, very nice work fellow mama. I'm currently staying-at-home, as well. The roles are far-more nuanced than "wife-servant" terminology would lead you to believe. My dominance in the household is unquestioned. My husband is strong, but my will is stronger. We have a loving relationship in which many tasks of child-rearing and housework are nicely divided, and by no means do I do all of it. And you know what? He has to go punch a time clock and work for The Man, while I get to stay at home in my nightgown and make mud pies in the backyard with my children. I ask you, who is servant and who is master?

Re: Being a Stay at Home Mom

sasha — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:17:58 -0000

THANK YOU. I had more to add to the discussion at The Hathor Legacy but it seems I struck a nerve over there and my comments were cut off. It's impossible to use one term to describe all women, all men, or all marriages. To do so is beyond simplistic - but it's also ineffective and childish.

I'm sure that "wife-servant" does describe some women in their marriages. It's insulting when it's used as a blanket statement to describe all married women, whether we agree with that description or not. Further, I found it rude to have my comments brushed off as "wounded indignation at accuracy." Accuracy? Who has the authority to accurately describe all married women with one statement?

I, like you, stay home with the kids but bring in some income on the side. Not only does our choice work for us in terms of "running the numbers" but in terms of the health of our family unit. Thank you for your contribution here!

Re: Respect and Atheism

Anne — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:39:31 -0000

Thank you so much! I am the only atheist in a huge family of Catholics (though my brother, sister, and dad identify as agnostic). When I visit relatives I get pressured into going to church "because it will make them happy" or "they'll be disappointed if you don't," and it makes me want to scream. I also kind of want to start letting them all know I think socialism (at least in part) might do the USA good, am a feminist, and rather anti-military, but at least with those I don't have to participate in an institution...

Re: It’s polite to blame the victim

Kinda Strange — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:56:38 -0000

She left mention of it on her facebook though

Re: It’s polite to blame the victim

Betty Careless — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:37:16 -0000

I just found your website while trying to find a cache of that particular blog entry, as the Admin seems to have deleted it. I was also pretty disgusted at her obvious victim-blaming attitude and I wrote a long comment to let her know, but it was never posted. She moderates every comment before it appears on the website, and one gem in particular said that "sex is sex" so the OP was in the wrong. But she refused to post my comment saying that rape is sex in the sense that being stabbed with a butter knife is the same as buttering toast.

I'm never visiting the website again (because seriously, how can she claim to know anything about etiquette while having displayed a complete lack of empathy and regard for rape victims), but I'm sending her an email asking for a public apology which I think she owes her readers.

I was planning on sharing this link with a few feminist blogs so I'm half disappointed she's deleted it before word got around what a psycho prudish bitch she is, but I'm glad no more sexual abuse victims will stumble across it and find it massively triggering and infuriating like I did.

Re: Respect and Atheism

sasha — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:31:52 -0000

Oh, stop. You're being too rational! :)

Re: Link Exchanges

Daniel Braff — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:27:17 -0000

I would like to inquire about a link exchange.

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A resource for anyone interested in: sustainability, renewable energy, urban planning, resource management, green buildings, developments in mass transit and conservation.

Please let me know if we can exchange links. Thank you.