Cory1848

It’s very unlikely that you’ll be accused of sexual assault unless you actually commit sexual assault. That said, your arrangement with your massage lady sounds like a safe bet all around.

Ha ha. Which is all the Commander wanted to do with the Handmaid, literally play Scrabble, in Margaret Atwood’s novel. As far as I can tell, most people posting here would feel right at home in Atwood’s dystopian world.

I’m not saying whether she was smart or not; I don’t know the woman; but that doesn’t matter in the least. What matters is, you’re putting the blame entirely on her for being attacked by a date who turned on her. I do not live in “cuckooland,” nor am I “naïve,” thank you. But you have a depraved view of humanity. Good luck with that.

I was merely parroting the wording of whatever misogynist it was I was responding to.

This is pure victim blaming. You’re blaming women for not thinking, rather than men who violently assault them. The vast majority of men are not criminals, but maybe you hang out in a different crowd than I do.

More victim blaming! She expected that he would respect her wishes, as almost all men would; that he would not suddenly become an animal and assault her. Posts like yours are not so much misogynistic as man-hating, you seem to have so little regard for the civility of your own gender (assuming that you’re a man).

Sure, if she really liked the guy after their date and wanted to see him again, he should have been happy to get her phone # and go back to his own flat to sleep. So maybe she lacked common sense and took a risk, having known the guy for only one date. But she said “no sex” up-front, and frankly I’ve never known any men personally in 60+ years who would have forced themselves on a woman against her will regardless of whether they were invited to her flat, and many men I’ve known are not “gentlemen.” If a guy has that hard a time controlling his sexual urges, he probably needs therapy.

One does not have to be a “perfect gentleman” to not get off on physically forcing oneself on a woman who is trying to shove you away. In fact, one has to be an animal to want to do that, sort of like the primate pictured as your avatar. Blaming the woman in a case like this, as many posts here seem to be doing, is outrageous and disgusting.

Men often commit too much rape.

Trump is “hated by the Left” (in fact by a substantial majority of the US electorate) because they firmly reject the direction he has promised to take the country. He is being PROsecuted (not “persecuted”) for crimes for which he has been indicted (four times, totaling 91 felony counts), and for which a growing number of former insiders are lining up to testify. If I have any technical questions about banking, I’ll come to you for sure. If I want a clear-eyed evaluation of political candidates, I’ll turn elsewhere.

Couldn't agree with you more. Borders and the states they define are purely political structures, and as such they are temporary.

Couldn't agree with you more. Borders and the states they define are purely political structures, and as such they are temporary.

Depends on how you define virgin!

Hilarious and, weirdly, it might even be the most likely scenario if the House is going to function at all before the end of next year ...

See it all the time! Years ago I rear-ended someone in Bangkok; it was totally my fault, and the rear bumper of the car I hit fell clean off. A farang got out of the driver’s seat and said, “No problem, no problem! Please just drive away, I can just fix this myself”; then a ladyboy got out of the passenger's seat and was (rightfully) angry with me. I took the driver’s advice and left; last I saw in my rear-view mirror, he’d picked up the rear bumper and was trying to pop it back into place, while his friend was yelling at him. I was lucky that I didn’t have to pay to fix their car, but really, people should just be chill! If someone wants to be critical, that’s their problem ...

I’m sorry, you may have read too much into my post -- I was merely saying that SOME foreigners come to Thailand to experiment with their sexuality, and that’s perfectly fine as long as there’s full consent by all parties. I was not at all saying that it’s “always gotta be about sex”; far from it. Reading your other posts here, I couldn’t agree with you more, and I applaud your openness and your human decency.

How do you know? And what's a "straight guy" anyway? It's not quite so black-and-white.

Exactly. For the "bi-curious," or to check an item off one's bucket list.

What on earth are you going on about? I’m not contesting anything you say, simply pointing out the fallacy of citing circumstances from a hundred years ago and longer and applying them to the present day. Southern white racists were Democrats until the Democrats adopted progressive policies under Franklin Roosevelt and his successors. This did not please white southerners, who switched parties because the race-baiting of the Republicans was more to their liking. Both political parties evolved, in opposite directions. If you like history, I can suggest Heather Cox Richardson’s “How the South Won the Civil War.”

Yeah, and that was like 150 years ago. Various British Tories and radicals alike were also entirely pro-slavery -- note my use of the past tense. Congratulations on knowing your history, but you also should learn to contextualize it.

I would actually prefer the “business as usual” of mainstream Democrats to the dismantling of US democracy that Trump has spelled out in detail, but that’s just me.

Every situation is different, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine has no application here. In the late 1940s, about 800,000 Palestinian Arabs were displaced by the creation of Israel; at the same time, about the same number of Jews evacuated or were forced from majority Arab cities where they’d lived for centuries. The latter were absorbed and assimilated into the new Jewish state; the former, along with their children and grandchildren, mostly remain refugees to this day, to suit the political purposes of the Arab states that host them. Population transfers, or ethnic cleansing, is horrendous and inhumane, but it’s better than people continuing to murder each other from generation to generation over scraps of land whose original “ownership” has long lost all relevance. European Jews were ethnically cleansed from most of Europe in the aftermath of World War II (those who survived), and you can blame the Germans for that. Millions of Germans were themselves ethnically cleansed from parts of present-day Poland and the Sudetenland; today, just a few generations later, the Germans, Poles, and Czechs are all happy allies. It’s still happening today; most people haven’t even noticed, but a week or two ago 150,000 Armenians were driven from their ancestral homeland in Nagorno-Karabakh. It is brutal and condemnable, but they will be able to start new lives in Armenia proper, and their offspring will hardly feel the pain. Until humanity somehow evolves and develops tolerance for each other, this is sometimes the least unpleasant option. Unfortunately, for the Palestinian Arabs and the Israelis, it’s too late for simple solutions ...

And probably more than 90 percent of them are badly photo-shopped fakes !!!

Thanks for digging up that video of the woman who's really busy trying to make a living cooking; this guy is truly a jerk! It's long past time for him to just go back home.

It’s not that straightforward. My wife was a US federal employee during a shutdown in the 1990s; “essential personnel” still have to go to work, and she was deemed essential. And while pay is deferred only (she and everyone else got all their back pay when the shutdown ended), we had money to cover expenses in the meantime; a lot of federal workers don’t, so it can be hard on them, especially if a shutdown drags on through a couple of missed paychecks.