Delicious LiveJournal Links for 4-22-2009

[andrewducker]

• Study debunks the beer goggles myth
  Drinking alcohol reduces the attractiveness of the opposite sex and makes no difference to a man's ability at guessing a woman's age, according to a study in the British Journal of Psychology.
  (tags: alcohol psychology beauty)
• Russian hairdresser turns stickup merchant into sex slave
  In Soviet Russia Something Something Something!
  (tags: russia funny crime)

Comments

[meihua.livejournal.com]

I find that a good bit of rape is always good for a giggle.

Why the hell is it in fingerquotes in the article?

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

That Russian story really irritates me. If you reversed the genders there'd be an outrage at the imprisonment and rape but because it's male-rape it becomes an amusing joke story.

Olga complained. “Yes, we had sex a couple of times. But I’ve bought him new jeans, gave him food and even gave him 1,000 roubles when he left.”

So that makes it OK? Can you imagine the reaction if a bloke had said that to try to justify his treatment of a woman?!?

It's up there with domestic abuse against men as one of those things that no-one takes seriously.