WTF?
Some cultures/subcultures punish a woman for being raped. A woman who has been raped may be viewed as permanently damaged, sullied, diminished in value, perhaps even worthy of ostracism. Not all, but many or even most rape victims eventually heal from the physical and psychological injury of rape. j666 is saying that we should respect rape victims and encourage their recovery, not treat them like stained linen. Treating a rape as a sort of irremediable disfigurement often drives women to hide the violation from others, for fear of being seen as a lesser person. Which is convenient for the rest of us, because then there is not as much raping going on. That we know about.
I think the WTF was less with what you said and more with the fact that it really has very little to do with the thread topic
Any day you make someone laugh is not wasted.
Every day has bad moments. Do not let bad moments become bad days.
Two women working together can do anything. Three women working together will do the impossible. (I’ve yet to meet a woman who disagrees with that one).
“A smart person isn’t someone who doesn’t make mistakes - smart people just learn from them.”
Proper education teaches you how much there is that you have yet to learn, and how to go about it. Smart people realize how ignorant they are in the face of everything that is known and to be discovered. If someone claims to be smart, you can guess that they are probably overestimating themself.
Knowing how to pump gas doesn’t quality you to run the oil company.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing; know enough to cover your ass.
Make each day the best day of your life.
Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied many.
Knowledge = who, what, when, where Wisdom = why
Knowledge is strength, Wisdom is power
Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will watch over you.
Rules are to guide the wise and command the foolish; Wisdom is knowing when to beak the rules.
Things I tell myself:
*The correct question is not: “Why would you?”; it is “Why would you not?”
Work is not meant to be enjoyable. If it was, they wouldn’t pay you, they’d charge you.
Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it first seems.*
Something I was once told:
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, then you don’t fully understand the situation.
Something to mutter to yourself (with a shrug) at an appropriate time:
Other people’s lives…
j
This is very wise.
j
Conventional advice has always been “Do what you love and the money will follow.”
I prefer to go by “Do what you’re good at to make money. Use the money to do what you love.”
Time you enjoy wasting isn’t wasted time. (Bertrand Russell)
It’s a straight road that has no turning.
I once heard a carpenter talk about giving things “your best 80 percent.” The idea was that no one has 110 percent. Giving 100 percent all the time would leave you without a reserve, and you might well get injured when you really need that 100 percent.
In an engineering job where were always fighting the latest fire, one guy coined his famous “Law of Neglect”: If someone gives you an assignment, then the first thing that you should do is nothing. If no one asks about it in three days, then it is safe to forget about it. If they ask, then get busy on it.
Now you have. It’s just silly to believe that because a group of people working towards a common goal are of a specific gender that they can defy the laws of what is or is not possible. Much less whether it’s a good goal. I refer you back to the women in the eighties who worked to censor certain music.
I do something similar at work. I’ve found that it’s very common for someone to ask me to place an order, then come back later and ask me to change it or add to it. If I did what I was asked to do right away, I’d double my workload.
I dunno, the Eumenides had their moments.
Hold your drink in your left hand so your right hand is always free and dry for accepting an offered handshake. (I accidentally gave someone in a bar a soaking wet handshake when I was 19, cringe)
If it ain’t broke, fix it until it is.
The classic XKCD tech support flowchart: xkcd: Tech Support Cheat Sheet
Seriously, this is literally how your tech-savvy miracle worker computer dude does things. Literally literally.