Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-10-2010

[andrewducker]

• Headline of the day - Tired Gay succumbs to Dix in 200 meters
  (tags: funny news gay sports)
• Rape crisis money cut as councillors take pay rise
  (tags: government rape uk)

Comments

[andrewducker]

I think it's pretty darn silly, to be honest.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Which part or parts is/are silly?

[andrewducker]

The idea that all men are rapists.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Fair enough.
All men, as possessors of a penis, are potential rapists?

[andrewducker]

True, but not terribly useful. As the possessors of hands, all people (and many mammals) are potential stranglers. This is also true, but not useful. People's potential actions aren't grounds for action against them, IMHO.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Well, this was the radical feminist position as I understood it, one which necessitated seeing Irma Grese or Rose West as a victim of patriarchy...

If someone was 99% likely to kill or rape how would you respond?

On the general point, does this make it okay to commit all kinds of atrocity in the head / as thought crime, so long as this is not actualised? [It is okay to have paeophile necrophile fantasies, say, so long as these are not actualised? I can live with that.]

[andrewducker]

Someone who is 99% likely to kill/rape should be carefully watched - but this is an unlikely situation, and usually leads stems from psychiatric problems - at which point you can section them.

And I'm fine with fantasies. Many, many people have unpleasant fantasies (including me) who would never hurt a person in real life.