I'm sorry, I came here against you, and 2 weeks of reading has opened my eyes. A recent conversation with a feminist friend has me livid right now. (BIG fucking wall of text) : MensRights. Science denialism at a skeptic conference. On Mars right now, an earthling-built mechanical spider-scientist is driving around and learning the secrets of our sister world.
It is doing so after a months long journey, remote controlled by people tens of millions of miles away. What an amazing time to be alive, to witness such wonders of science. This makes it all the more jarring to see how science is routinely attacked by subsets of the very same group of earthlings who can harness its power to accomplish such amazing feats. Readers of this space can probably readily summon examples to mind: biology textbooks in Louisiana, denial of climate change, attacks on the usefulness of vaccinations. As scientists and skeptics, many of us have grown to expect this sort of attack on science from conservative and religious corners, and that is undoubtedly true. The denialism brought to Skepticon was to the field of evolutionary psychology, a thriving social science with roots going back to Charles Darwin himself. I. II. 1. . [...] 2. . [...] Richard Mourdock rape scandal: spot the difference between the Christian social conservatives and the Islamic fundamentalists.
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This week, Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock became the latest in a string of Republicans to say really, really stupid things about women while campaigning for office in 2012. In a debate with Democratic opponent Joe Donnelly, Mourdock sought to explain his abortion stance by saying that “even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something that God intended to happen.”
Prior to that, Pennsylvania Senate candidate Tom Smith compared rape to having a baby out of wedlock, saying if you “put yourself in a father’s situation” it’s a similar kind of thing. And we all remember Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin telling an interviewer “if it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” What do all these men have in common aside from the fact that they are GOP standard-bearers for the U.S.
Islamic Fundamentalist Social Conservative – Dr. . – Rev. Portugal Drug Policy: Decriminalization Works. Why Weed Should Be Illegal. Who Perpetrates Teen Dating Violence? The wrong Carlos: how Texas sent an innocent man to his death. A few years ago, Antonin Scalia, one of the nine justices on the US supreme court, made a bold statement.
There has not been, he said, "a single case – not one – in which it is clear that a person was executed for a crime he did not commit. If such an event had occurred … the innocent's name would be shouted from the rooftops. " Scalia may have to eat his words. It is now clear that a person was executed for a crime he did not commit, and his name – Carlos DeLuna – is being shouted from the rooftops of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. The august journal has cleared its entire spring edition, doubling its normal size to 436 pages, to carry an extraordinary investigation by a Columbia law school professor and his students. The book sets out in precise and shocking detail how an innocent man was sent to his death on 8 December 1989, courtesy of the state of Texas. Gay rights in the US, state by state. Is There Anything Good About Men? And Other Tricky Questions. The Futurist: The Misandry Bubble.
- by Imran Khan Why does it seem that American society is in decline, that fairness and decorum are receding, that mediocrity and tyranny are becoming malignant despite the majority of the public being averse to such philosophies, yet the true root cause seems elusive?
What if everything from unsustainable health care and social security costs, to stagnant wages and rising crime, to crumbling infrastructure and metastasizing socialism, to the economic decline of major US cities like Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore, could all be traced to a common origin that is extremely pervasive yet is all but absent from the national dialog, indeed from the dialog of the entire Western world? Today, on the first day of the new decade of '201x' years, I am going to tell you why that is. This is a very long article, the longest ever written on The Futurist. The Cultural Thesis As far as selective anecdotes like voting rights go, in the vast majority of cases, men could not vote either. Mirth in the Mutilation of Men. No one disputes the facts of the case.
After a brief marriage, a 60-year-old California business owner filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. He allowed his wife, Catherine Becker, to remain in his condominium while the divorce was finalized. But Becker apparently became consumed by a jealous rage over the mans new-found romantic interest. So last Monday she drugged the man, lashed him to a bed, severed his penis with a 10-inch knife, and tossed the appendage into a garbage disposal. Most were appalled and outraged.
Ali Ammar, who handles hundreds of divorce and domestic disputes a year with Orange Detective Agency in Irvine, commented, “I’ve seen people with their heads blown off, but this story makes me cringe,” Not surprisingly, Judge Debra Carrillo ordered Becker held without bail. But for some, the incident was cause for merriment and glee.