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Originally posted by twinkley
Rape isnt about sex - its about violence and power.
Porn doesnt cause men to rape women. Being fucked up in the head does.
twinkley
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I know that, and you know that, but you know as well as I do that there are people out there that would have you think otherwise. Please notice that I did again include the
after my suggestion that you would blame BangBus for rape.
Having had an important relationship, that became a long distance one, end because it is difficult to provide voice inflection over the Internet, I must stress that smilies are there for a reason. At least, that is why I use them.
Anyway, if you think this article about the teens beating up the homeless guy in NJ is going to have any influence on the CA case, I think you are dreaming. I also feel that
the only reason that article even made the press is because of the bumfights arrest, and probably a slow news day.
In fact, while the bumfights arrests were a few days ago, they only mentioned it for the first time in LA local news last night. You will probably see more and more instances reported in the news in the coming weeks, until something more terrible comes to replace it. That is how the news works.
It is not that there are more and instances popping up, but it is topical. An example would be this summers rash of reported child abductions and murders. You would think that the world was going crazy with all the little girls being snatched from their homes, some being killed, and some being recovered. Fact is, child abductions have dropped radically. However, money has been spent on "Amber Alert" systems, so they make the news. As long as it is young white girls.
I believe I read that there are 7,000 child abductions a year. The news reported what, 20 of them? If that. Because no one reported it at all prior to this summer, those 20 made it look like an epidemic had broken out, when in fact they were at an all-time low.
The same thing is true with terrorism. Every time a box is found on the streets it is treated like it has a bomb in it. LAPD has been blowing up briefcases and lunch boxes for years. It used to make the news, then became passe. After 9/11 it became newsworthy again, kind of. LAX has been evacuated over 100 times since 9/11, The first few times it made the news. Now it may or may not, but it is hardly headline stuff anymore. It comes down to what sells newspapers.
Please don't get me wrong. I do not think bumfights is a good thing. In fact, we have been approached by them, and others like them to advertise their affiliate programs on ContentLotto. While it is always difficult to turn down advertising dollars, we did, simply because we did not want to be associated with those types of programs. We do have standards.
However, this does not mean that I personally am prepared to pass judgment, especially since I am quite familiar with the seedy underbelly known as law enforcement.