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[lieutenanth]

Compulsory reading for men, imo. Go on, it'll only take a couple minutes.

edit: just had to share this comment with you:"I’m sick of hearing about self-defense courses for women. How about self-control classes for men instead ?"
Something that had never occurred to me until now, rather foolishly. Thoughts?

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[amiame]

Can you imagine if the self-control classes for men and the self-defense courses for women were in the same building?? CAN NO-ONE ELSE SEE how this would make for some appalling romcom starring Richard Gere and Julie Roberts or something?? Involving some laughable understanding with the sex-mad stud and the 'I'm-a-feminist-because-I-can-hit-punchbags-while wearing-make-up' who hate eachother at first then begin to realise that they are made for each-other and then there's a big wedding with things like runaway priests and dogs who are bridesmaids and their best friends who turn out gay and realise that they are in love too and then they have a double wedding and then everyone laughs and kisses and Busted play 'All You Need is Love' at the end and then the dead walk the earth??? Or is that just me...

Oh yeah - I think that article is pretty good actually. Anything that makes people more aware of how their behaviour can be interpreted/misinterpreted (both women and men) can only help the problem, surely.

[markosh182]

Ok, I havent read everything word-for-word (there's like 60 comments here) but i don't think rapists are born rapists. I did a few modules on philosophy and ethics in school for my R.E. A level and covered the basics for things like Freud's social conditioning.

The point of this is people act according to how they have been taught/ how they have picked up things (ideas or concepts, by which they form their own priciples of morality) through life. A child of racist parents will not definatly grow up to be a racist themselves. If the first things a person geathered early on in their lives is that there is nothing wrong with rape then they are likely to think that.

[lieutenanth]

rofl - brilliant!

[amiame]

You laugh now, Kendrick, but I swear, it's next summer's hideous blockbuster feelgood movie.

[realrealgone]

excellent! :p

it's funny because, because...

:: gasps for breath::

it COULD be true !!!

[amiame]

apart from the dead walking the earth bit maybe. Thinking about it, I only *think* that happens because I am so bloody bored by the middle of Julia roberts films I pretend they are all zombies, and thus I get confused years on, and ask people 'You know that bit with the walking dead in 'Sleeping with the Enemy'? but apart from that, I think it is feasible. Oh apart from the Busted thing too - someone has just informed me Busted are, like, so over, it's McFly now. I'm just not down with the kids :(

[realrealgone]

I always think it's a good thing not being 'down with the kids' - you can so easily get arrested for that sort-of-thing, these days...!

but you're right though; they ARE all zombies! you have seen through the illusion to the terrifying soul-snatching entity that is the Hollywood myth machine. I'm only sort-of joking!

I would friend you (we have mutuals) - but I'm a little embarassed to tell the truth.

[amiame]

'we have mutuals' - that sounds wonderfully conspiracy theory x-files kind of thing! friend away, I like making inane comments on friend's LJs/noseying into new people's lives (:

[realrealgone]

done! :p

[realrealgone]

it'll be, erm, interesting if anyone ever asks us how we 'met'...! :s