# Skald the Rhymer, your fixation with rape is somewhat disturbing. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 14, 2011, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549 "2011-01-14T01:59:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/201 "2011-11-04T21:45:02Z")
- Wiggles an amputated zombie hand \* Heh…zombie _handshake_. It _is_ almost rape month again isn’t it. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/202 "2011-11-05T03:51:25Z")
It’s _always_ rape month around here… ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/203 "2011-11-05T04:07:49Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > Who would want to rape a zombie, fer chrissakes? Necrophiliacs? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/204 "2011-11-05T04:08:46Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > That makes my head hurt. Pancakes ARE breakfast, how can they also be one of the 6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast? Because once you’re eating the pancake, then it _is_ breakfast, and therefore, it can’t be _before_ breakfast any more. Thus, it is impossible to have pancakes before breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/205 "2011-11-06T01:56:12Z")
> [@Steophan](#): > > It’s _always_ rape month around here… Right now it’s beaten children month. Makes feel longingly for rape month. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/206 "2011-11-06T06:31:16Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Because once you’re eating the pancake, then it _is_ breakfast, and therefore, it can’t be _before_ breakfast any more. Thus, it is impossible to have pancakes before breakfast. There is such thing as a pre-meal snack, no? And breakfast _is_ a meal I do believe; the first of the day in fact. So who’s to say that one couldn’t enjoy a pancake as a pre-meal snack _before_ eating a full breakfast _later_? ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/207 "2011-11-06T11:22:22Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > There is such thing as a pre-meal snack, no? And breakfast _is_ a meal I do believe; the first of the day in fact. So who’s to say that one couldn’t enjoy a pancake as a pre-meal snack _before_ eating a full breakfast _later_? Well, it looks like a moderator is saying it 🙂 Although I’m not sure if their power extends to breakfast-related rulings. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/208 "2011-11-06T12:23:37Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Because once you’re eating the pancake, then it _is_ breakfast, and therefore, it can’t be _before_ breakfast any more. Thus, it is impossible to have pancakes before breakfast. Ah, but there is a problem here. We can agree that there a point in time, which we’ll call A, that is clearly before breakfast, and a point in time that is clearly breakfast, which we’ll call B. There is necessarily an interval of time between A and B, and that interval necessarily has a halfway point that must be crossed on the way to B ; which we’ll call Pancake. However, the interval of time between A and Pancake also necessarily has a halfway point (let’s call it Maple Syrup), and so on and so forth _ad infinitum_. Since there is an infinity of halfway points they can never all be crossed, especially if you’re already running late for work. Therefore, it can never be breakfast. And thus, any pancake consumption necessarily happens before breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/209 "2011-11-06T12:25:45Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Ah, but there is a problem here. > We can agree that there a point in time, which we’ll call A, that is clearly before breakfast, and a point in time that is clearly breakfast, which we’ll call B. There is necessarily an interval of time between A and B, and that interval necessarily has a halfway point that must be crossed on the way to B ; which we’ll call Pancake. However, the interval of time between A and Pancake also necessarily has a halfway point (let’s call it Maple Syrup), and so on and so forth _ad infinitum_. Since there is an infinity of halfway points they can never all be crossed, especially if you’re already running late for work. > > Therefore, it can never be breakfast. The limit of x as x approaches pancake is breakfast? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/210 "2011-11-06T14:50:03Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Ah, but there is a problem here. > We can agree that there a point in time, which we’ll call A, that is clearly before breakfast, and a point in time that is clearly breakfast, which we’ll call B. There is necessarily an interval of time between A and B, and that interval necessarily has a halfway point that must be crossed on the way to B ; which we’ll call Pancake. However, the interval of time between A and Pancake also necessarily has a halfway point (let’s call it Maple Syrup), and so on and so forth _ad infinitum_. Since there is an infinity of halfway points they can never all be crossed, especially if you’re already running late for work. > > Therefore, it can never be breakfast. And thus, any pancake consumption necessarily happens before breakfast. Zeno was a hungry, hungry man. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/211 "2011-11-08T11:19:18Z")
You see? This is why ‘pancakes’ is such a trigger. It’s not just the physics: the gravity, suspension, the surface tension, the chemical changes. I want to know - would they be smaller on the moon?!? And how important is the angular velocity of the pancake equaling the square root of Pi times the gravity divided by the distance to the elbow times four? How many can be stacked before a monumental collapse? What _is_ the Pancake Theory? Whipped butter or plain? Salted or unsalted? Melted or room temperature? Maple, molasses, boysenberry, strawberry, cranberry, raspberry, mulberry, blueberry - how can I choose? Could I eat nothing but pancakes? Would I die? And what kind of life am I leading when the answer to this is purely contingent upon the quality of the pancakes? Curse you, **Darth Panda**. You just couldn’t leave it be. Thanks, **Miller** , \>sniff\< for having my back. It will not be forgotten. No matter how much pancakey carbon dioxide I may now try to inhale. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/212 "2011-11-08T12:36:46Z")
> [@Myrnalene](#): > > The OP is right. Skald is obsessed with rape / molestation / sexual humiliation of women. This will probably get this thread locked, since the events described happened offboard. But they lend credence to what Aqualung is saying here, and someone really needs to address the dude on this fixation. > > Skald is famous for coming into a space where members of the Dopeverse are gathered, and asking for help “writing” his “stories”. For some reason (which becomes apparent), he only solicited the opinions of the women there (as in addressing them individually by name and asking if they would “help” him). And the questions were generally about female sexual abuse or humiliation. This occurred many, many times over a span of several months. > > Questions included (and there were more that I don’t remember. Oh, and these might be triggering to some): > > 1. Hey, does this line in one of my stories make it sound like my character is threatening to rape his female prisoner with a dog? LOL I totally didn’t mean it that way! (This one was repeated several times, every time another women entered the conversation, until more than one person screamed at him to shut the fuck up). > 2. Is a teenaged girl that was raped by her father still a virgin for ~magical purposes~? > 3. Asking us to **imagine ourselves as the victims of sexual assault** and wanting to know if, when forced to kneel in a room full of men who want to rape us, we would kneel facing them or away from them. > 4. Wanting to debate whether drugged rape is somehow not as bad as “violent” rape, and responding to comments that both are equally bad by saying he just wanted to be “fair”. To rapists. > > I don’t know if I’m actually conveying the creepiness of what he did. He specifically addressed these question to the woman, (and only the women) without any warning that the questions will be on a topic that is upsetting to many. You’d be having a pleasant conversation and them BOOM this guy comes in and suddenly the topic is your personal feelings on rape. Only if you were a lady, though. He wasn’t interested otherwise. > > He’s fucking gross. > [@Miller](#): > > No, but it will get you a mod note not to drag drama from other boards over here. Don’t do this again. well well, someone provides a little background anecdote,factoid, exposing the rape fantasizer, then gets told to shut up? wtf for, to protect him from what?.. I have to agree with the op! ---
**Author:** ![Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/213 "2011-11-09T05:11:10Z")
Dude, **Skald** starts like, a thread a day - by the law of averages, some of them are bound to be about rape. Scanning all the threads he’s started, you have to go back over 200 threads to find one with the word “rape” in the title. Admittedly, I’m ignorant of any issues at other venues, but based on the information at hand, I’d say there may be some confirmation bias at play here. ---
**Author:** ![AqualungBats5th](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@AqualungBats5th](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AqualungBats5th)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549/214 "2011-11-09T23:25:29Z")
> [@Carmady](#): > > **Skald** may not have said anything offensive in your links, but what you say here is actually offensive. > > Is this rape joke about you accusing him of rape (hilarious!) or joking that he just got raped (also very funny!)? You know, I didn’t address this the first time around, but I should have. That was a completely inappropriate thing for me to say, and I apologize for it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skald-the-rhymer-your-fixation-with-rape-is-somewhat-disturbing/567549.md?page=10)