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12/01/09
They use "rape" because they are too unimaginative to describe sensational things otherwise.
"Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity." - Schopenhauer
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I'm trying to imagine, going up to a woman who has just been gang raped in the Sudan. And Rush Limbaugh telling her he understands her plight. It's just like when the Democrats tried to enact an agenda that he didn't like.
Yes, Rush Limbaugh. Legislation that you don't agree with is as horrifying and brutal as rape. Thanks for making that analogy. Should be appearing on the SATs any day now.
12/01/09
1. If you can't avoid sexual assault metaphors, try to tone down the metaphors that you use. For example, instead of insisting that universal health care will be like anally raping the elderly, why not say "Universal health care will be like flashing the elderly on a subway car."? Or, better yet, "Universal health care will be like leering creepily at the elderly."
2. If you must include images of violence in your metaphors, try to veer away from using sexual violence. Rather than comparing a free school lunch program to getting raped in the mouth by a gorilla, compare the free school lunch program to getting pushed down some stairs by an angry gorilla. Perhaps being backhanded across the face by a chimpanzee. Eventually, you'll be at the point where you can compare the free school lunch program to a nose tweak from a cotton top tamarin.
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I'm sick of "the high ground" and "bipartisanship". There is looking at both sides and extending an open hand, and then there is compromising your position until there's nothing left and handing everything over. They're very different things, and if you can't distinguish between them, then yeah, you probably should not hold office.
I still believe that Obama can, and that he's just letting them embarass themselves and use up all their ammo now. But I don't think most Democrats are that confident. They actually see these drooling cacti people as threats... and buy in to the belief that their ramblings deserve equal respect. I hope I'm wrong.
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And by "piece of his mind", I mean "punch with his fist."
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All they know is that rape is something "bad people" do, and if they say someone is raping something, it means they're a "bad person". They have no fucking clue what they're actually saying, because what they are saying is completely absurd and disgusting beyond description.
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It only becomes ineffective, really, if you use the word "rape" so often that it loses all meaning or power to shock. Which should be easy for Limbaugh, Beck, and Savage to avoid, given that they rarely speak with as much fervour about actual rapes that happen every day.
These guys don't CARE about actual victims of rape and sexual assaults. It's like on Xbox Live (that festering pile of muck, which oddly I can imagine a young Glenn Beck might have enjoyed) where you can "rape" a game. It's funny because you're a tool.
12/01/09
That's always bothered me. I have four brothers, and one of them constantly says shit like that, not only when playing videogames but just in normal conversation, as in 'Yeah so I totally raped this guy on Starcraft last night' (said in conversation to me and our GRANDMOTHER a few days ago). I've talked to all of them about it, and the others seem to have gotten my point and have stopped saying it, but the one simply INSISTS on using it.
I've started responding with 'oh, you held him down and anally penetrated him without his consent? I wasn't aware that was a move, what combo do I have to push for that?' It seems to be having an effect, we'll see how it goes.
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"You know, I've never heard a rape victim describe it as losing badly at WoW..."
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07/27/09
Gods, we can only hope.
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Gosh, They is scary. Good thing I'm fully warned about the dangers of They.
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I think Mr. Savage has me turning into one right now
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It's awfully nice of all the misogynists to refrain from having sex with us. OH WAIT.
07/27/09
What about
"A man who hates men so much that he won't have sex with them" ?