My nomination is for the guy(and I’ll omit his name) who decided it was a good idea to change a CD in his truck while driving. He looks up from that, and can’t stop in time to prevent hitting my father on his motorcycle.
First Christmas without the man I loved most in the whole world.
And the unnamed killer is alive. I hope he got a bunch of coal in his stocking.
I do know where he lives though. It’s about three blocks from me.
More likely it would be a house for The Coultergeist. :eek:
I’m very glad I was between coffee sips when I read that… 
No, she pretty well is saying that violence is a sine qua non of rape. People know what rape is, you know.
I don’t know how else to parse that. I agree with both your general points, that the headline is pulling the quote out of context and that one doesn’t need to do that to show Anne as an odious troll, but what she actually says is in context both odious and more or less implies the general sentiment being attributed to her.
Grope = rape?
I agree partially with Bricker here. Why make the stupid mistake of pulling an Ann Coulter on Ann Coulter? You are now using the exact same tactics she does to smear people, but the crazy part is THERE IS NO REASON TO DO THAT.
However, I do think it’s pretty clear that she is equating rape with violence. I’m not 100% sure what her point is, but it looks like she’s ranting against the concept that it’s not consensual sex unless you have an explicit consent. That is, there must be an active effort of refusal by the rape victim to a physical threat by the rapist. A threat beyond the sex act itself.
Kind of a hangover from the dark days of old, when a properly brought up young lady would rather die than surrender her virtue, certainly mere threats of violence are not sufficient. Remember the old phrase “a fate worse than death”?
Fear is violence.
Must be a brick shortage.
It really does seem to me that she’s making the claim that rape is 1) very rare 2) happens mostly in foreign places and 3) is violent, and that she considers claims that don’t involve violence to be suspect at best.
Honestly, implications one and two seems pretty awful in and of themselves.
Made me literally laugh out loud.
Why wouldn’t most rapes happen in foreign places? The US has only 5% of the world population. I’d be surprised if we had more than 5% of the world’s rapes.
She seems to be implying that 2/3 of rapes of people in her social circle-friends of friends- take place in foreign places. Assuming that she doesn’t have a remarkably international social circle, that seems to be suggesting that rape happens a lot more often outside of the US than in it.
While perhaps not as cringe worthy as some of his other acts and deeds, Pastor Steven Anderson is also a big supporter of “Dr. Dino” Kent Hovind. Hovind is a young earth creationist who used to run the Dinosaur Adventure Land theme park in Pensacola Florida until a unfortunate misunderstanding between him and the government led to Kent spending eight years (and counting) in federal prison.
Mr. Hovind insists he is not a tax protestor or a “sovereign citizen” type person but also claims the federal courts in general and the IRS is particular lacked jurisdiction over him and his tax fraud conviction is also flawed because he paid all the taxes he felt he legally owed. It’s just that he didn’t think he owed any. He’s found himself facing fresh charges for illegally (but to his mind, not unlawfully) impeding the sale of some of the property that was seized to pay his tax debt. The irony being that his trial is scheduled for this upcoming February which pretty much otherwise been his release date from his current sentence.
I don’t give a crap about “young earth creationists,” you might as well argue about intelligent falling. And it doesn’t even bug me that Kent Hovind is far too pig headed to ever accept any blame for the crimes he’s doing time for. But because he wraps himself in his own version of the robes of righteousness he tries to paint himself as the victim of some unspeakable anti-Christian conspiracy and like minded nutters like Pastor Steven Anderson are eager to help him.
I’m not sure I agree she’s suggesting that merely because her circle of acquaintances experienced rape most often overseas that the reader should conclude this is true for all people.
I read her suggestion to be: if you were raped, you know it. In other words, she is scorning the “I didn’t realize for days/weeks/years that what happened to me was rape.”
This is not, in my view, a fair statement to make universally. But it’s not at all what the OP (or his link) represented her comments to be.
(((((Baker)))))
To be fair there’s been a lot of consciousness raising about coerced or otherwise less-than-consensual intercourse/molestation. But I’m reminded of a letter someone once sent in to Dan Savage’s advice column:
Emphasis added. Why would you assume that?
Sorry “Dr.” Dino, anyone that even mentions gold fringed flags, Admiralty courts, and “straw man” seriously is a fucking “sovereign citizen” type [DEL][COLOR=“Black”]person[/DEL][/COLOR] nutbag.
Fortunately he’s not a “Freeman on the Land”! ('Cause, ya know, he’s in jail. :happydance: )
CMC fnord!
No genius, grope = sexual assault.
That incident had to be faked, because we know that only left-wing types advocate killing cops.
Because if she had, she would have included that detail to avoid the implication of her statement.
Look, I really don’t give a shit about Anne Coulter and think she’s pretty much out there on the lunatic fringe where she’s only talking to an echo chamber. But I think that there were some pretty ugly dog whistles in her statement. But we can agree to disagree. It’s not like anything she says matters.
Okay, it happened 13 years ago, but it only surfaced a day ago:
Pastor punched kid for not taking church seriously enough…