Interesting Links for 11-03-2012

[andrewducker]

• Women who have just finished ovulating are the best at spotting snakes
  (tags: snakes menstruation hormones women brains )
• Toshiba has a glasses-free 3D TV on sale. I wonder how well it works with multiple viewers.
  (tags: 3D tv technology )
• Scots offer to send water to aid drought-hit England - in exchange for train tracks
  (tags: scotland england water transport trains hs2 )
• A breakthrough in understanding how the brain stores memories
  (tags: memory brain psychology )
• Dozens of Iraqi teenagers stoned to death for ‘emo’ haircuts
  (tags: iraq fashion violence religion )
• Street Harassment #101 - a long page of reasons I'm glad I'm not a woman.
  (tags: harrassment women society )
• When a cat realises that who is controlling the toy it's playing with.
  (tags: cat cute )
• Don't Make Me Steal: The Digital Media Consumption Manifesto
  (tags: copyright piracy media video )
• The NHS Bill does not allow for patients to be charged
  (tags: uk politics nhs )
• Private Practice is the first show on television to have a male military survivor of rape.
  (tags: tv men rape )

Comments

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

Street harrassment: bloody hell, no-one shd have to live like that. I feel so, so lucky, never really had any hassle (touch wood). How can people(men) be *like* that??? I mean in themselves - just how? I know all the stock answers but it's still near-impossible to imagine either such a total lack of empathy or, if it's not immunity to women's/other people's feelings, such a desire to explicitly cause pain/fear/humiliation.

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately many, many men are exactly like that. Without wanting to in any way compare what I go through to what those women go through, I know just from looking unusual (long beard and overweight) that a large percentage of young men, especially in groups (and especially those wearing football clothing) want nothing more than to cause others pain and distress.
A LOT of people enjoy causing pain to others, and it's just a matter of finding a social situation where they're allowed to. And sadly that kind of behaviour is more or less accepted, or people just don't believe it happens.

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

my ex-wife comments near every time I go anywhere with her that people act *completely differently* when I'm there. It's like the arsehole switch is magically flipped.

Now, I'm aware that I can be very intimidating [it's not in any way deliberate, just buckets of experience], but I cannot help but wonder if people just behave better when there's a non-idiotic man around. It's a sobering thought.