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How many posts before someone criticizes Andres Serrano for being irresponsible with his freedom of speech though?
Sad to say, it pays to be a man in many parts of the world. In fact, in India, some parents are paying doctors to turn their young daughters into sons in hopes of improving the family’s prospects.
The state government in Madhya Pradesh is currently investigating claims that as many as 300 girls were surgically turned into boys in the city of Indore -- with the parents paying as much $3,190 for the privilege of being able to say: “She’s a boy!”
During the surgery, known as genitoplasty, doctors fashion a male penis from the female sex organs, according to the Telegraph. To finish the change, girls are also injected with male hormones.
Although advocates for women’s and children’s rights are denouncing the sex change operations as “social madness,” according to Telegraph, but it is not as though gender discrimination is new. In India, gender bias has existed for centuries, thanks to cultural traditions, including that the daughter’s family is responsible for paying for an elaborate wedding and an expensive dowry.
The parents of a central Indiana boy are suing Ball State University, alleging their son was subjected to "horrific sexual abuse" by fellow second-graders at a university-run school who they say acted out scenes from pornographic videos they downloaded on school computers.
The lawsuit says the boy was 8 years old when he was forced to engage numerous times in sex acts with other children at Burris Laboratory School in Muncie in late 2011. Four second-grade boys, including the alleged victim and another student described as the "ringleader," are believed to have been involved in the sex abuse, the complaint alleges.
Ball State spokesman Tony Proudfoot said in a written statement that the university learned in December 2011 of allegations of inappropriate behavior among four second-graders at the school. He said the matter was "reported promptly" to local law enforcement and the Indiana Department of Child Services.
I just to don't want to be part of the human race when I read stories like that.
MrsSpringsteen said:Not Linsanity
Basketball was invented in Springfield, I've been to the Basketball Hall Of Fame there and it's awesome. Good to know that bat shit crazy is alive and well there too.
A 14-year-old Pakistani student who won international acclaim for speaking out for girls barred from school by the Taliban was critically wounded Tuesday by a gunman who boarded her school bus, asked for her by name, aimed his pistol at her head and fired, officials said.
According to its web site, the Wesleyan branch of Beta Theta Pi fraternity has five "core principles": "mutual assistance," "intellectual growth," "trust," "responsible conduct" and "integrity." According to a new lawsuit, it also has a cool nickname: "Rape Factory."
Nothing like the deadpan post-ironic humor of college students. "Rape Factory"! A horrible mechanized assembly line, designed and structured for a single objective: rape. An unnamed former Wesleyan student is suing the university for failing to "to supervise, discipline, warn or take other corrective action" against the fraternity, which she says had a "reputation in the Wesleyan community as the 'Rape Factory'"
Pearl said:Seriously, what is with men, or guys in this matter?
If I were the kind to take offense, I might be extremely put off by this blanket statement. Why ask 'what is with men?' when a handful of doorknobs commit acts like this? Do you really think it's a problem with the entire gender or would it be more responsible to ask what is with these people in particular? It's stuff like this that makes me occasionally comment on the anti-male sentiment that sometimes rears its head around here
I am the only woman on my team in a profession that is generally assumed to me a male gig, but Pearl if it makes you feel any better my male colleagues have reacted more strongly against sexist comments towards me than I have.
BoMac said:Using my Facebook feed as anecdotal evidence, I am noticing more and more misandrist comments lately, and it's starting to annoy me.
I detest when an entire group of people are painted with the same brush because of the misdeeds of a few.
I don't agree with painting any group with a broad brush. That would include Christians, and that's done here all the time. Just a thought.
I'm assuming this is somewhat pointed in my direction, but I've never in my life painted Christians with any brush. There's a difference between thinking an antiquated ideology is way past its best before date and hating those who practice. My Nana is Christian. Some of the coolest fucking people on this site are religious. Some of the lamest are too
Well you assume wrong. It was a general comment about the stereotyping and generalizing that goes on here and has in the past. Most people here (probably more like all) are guilty of it at one time for another. Semantics really don't matter, generalizing is generalizing.
Some of the lamest? Really? Lame (and cool) is in the eye of the beholder. I save my judgments about that for private conversations.
you reap what you sow
we, as men, shouldn't complain about generalising statements in our direction
news items, like that 'rape factory' one, are too abundant to deny we still have a lot of growing to do
of course, the majority of us are not guilty of those actions
but instead of focussing on this, we should use that energy to try and rectify the issue
the issue being that still too many men seem to be unable to treat women as total equals
and what our part, however small, is in that mindset still existing
I know the entire "if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem" line smells kinda bad by now
but there is a lot of truth in it too