Letters to the Editor
healthyskeptic
Published Letters: 671 Editor's Choice: 14
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I'm just normal
[Read the article: Boys just being ... sex offenders?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm just a person who exercises, tries to eat right and educate myself about nutrition, and doesn't have some crazy Angela Dworkin scale sexual baggage and trauma. If you think that's snobbish, you must have some pretty bad issues.
Other kids though, some could have been traumatized. I mean some kids might think having their breasts groped was a bad thing.
Sure, it's a "bad thing" and could be embarrassing. The type of thing that might make a person wince a bit later when they remember it. Like the time a person drank too much, or got rejected, or any of the typical things normal people experience and deal with.
But "traumatized" because some boorish 13yo grabs a boob? No. I Not unless the person already has problems and is on their way to Angela Dworkin levels of mental illness.
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btw
[Read the article: Boys just being ... sex offenders?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are aware Lord of the Flies is a fictional novel, right? I mean, your world view could be based on something a bit more credible.
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Answer
[Read the article: Boys just being ... sex offenders?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Any idea how they get so unbalanced?
Bad luck. Bad parents. Congenital conditions. Natural variation. Etc. You seem to be assuming everyone with mental problems should be blamed on "The Lord of the Flies" which is hilarious.
Some people are just insecure, or prone to emotionalism, or easily upset, and so on. They need help to overcome that, and they need to learn to cope with normal experiences.
But we can't pad every hard edge in the world because they're so frail they'll go to pieces.
Certainly there is a genetic component to behavior. Various neural chemicals effecting things like agression, nervousness, happiness, are produced in varying amounts by individual. Also, many behavioral patterns are established at an early age caused by everything from nutrition to nurturing. That then predisposes children towards different experiences. Many studies have shown this.
For example, the Virginia Tech kid wasn't particularly "traumatized" by his peers. He was mentally unbalanced, and ordinary experiences were too much for him.
People like Angela Dworkin would have had mental problems even in an otherwise perfect world. From an early age she showed a tendency towards mental illness and affiliation with extremely emotional and irrational movements. She was allegedly beaten by a lover, an anarchist participating in a really crazy movement she found attractive. She made irrational decisions throughout her life and repeatedly chose bad paths for emotionally unbalanced reasons.
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lol
[Read the article: Boys just being ... sex offenders?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I find deep truths in fiction. Do you never find deep truths in fiction? I would love to know what your favorite novel is?
My favorite novel? Presumably with a "deep truth in fiction."
oi vey.
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Andrea Dworkin
[Read the article: Boys just being ... sex offenders?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is interesting because she's the poster girl for the mentally ill organizing into militant groups; to promote an agenda of a victim mindset in response to their perceived injustice of the world towards them.
Andrea Dworkin, and many of the 3rd wave feminists in her mold, are kind of a militant Humpty Dumpties. Nobody can make them whole or fix their problems, but they're determined to punish the world for it.
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cause of Andrea Dworkin's mental illness and death
[Read the article: Boys just being ... sex offenders?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, I didn't say it was necessarily genetic. You're making childish straw man arguments.
It could have been genetic, it could have been upbringing, or a combination. But regardless, she was attracted to other disturbed people, in fact whole movements of disturbed people, at an early age.
She rapidly married a radical anarchist after meeting him, who was also (alledgedly) an extremely violent abuser. In the Netherlands of all places, a country known for excelelnt health services and liberal social policy, where she would absolutely have qualified for help, healthcare, and even an almost refugee status as the victim of a crime.
Had she been sane, her whole life could have been different at that juncture, and many others. Rather than getting help, she made one bad decision after another, becoming a prostitute, and repeatedly demonstrated mentally unbalanced behaviors and bad choices.
Which is tragic. And it's tragic she didn't seek out the help that was available. Tragic she surrounded herself with similarly screwed up people incapable of helping her.
But it's not society's fault or the "mysoginist conspiracy" that destroyed her life. Dworkin destroyed her own life.
Right until her death she was mentally ill and prone to blaming humanity for her own bad decisions and being too militant and stubborn to do otherwise. For example, she died of severe health problems stemming from her morbid obesity and osteoarthritis, requiring major surgeries and causing blod clotting in her legs. She died at a relatively young age. To her death she blamed misogyny rather than her morbid obesity, completely unable to take responsibility or help herself. And those around her enabled her, because they supported her ideology of blame.
Dworkin is like a mirror image of Ayn Rand. Another person who was mentally ill, blamed society and formed a radical ideology to "correct" the world around her mental illness. And like Dworkin, killed herself by her own hypocrisy.
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the problem with anonymous nuts
[Read the article: Boys just being ... sex offenders?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So she married a man who hit her. Goody. She looked like she needed to be hit.
Well, that's just sick. Sorry to have wasted the time.
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???
[Read the article: "40 Reasons Not to Have Children"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It wouldn't be legal now. If a country were to get to the point where it might "become extinct"
Globally we're overpopulated, and some countries are correcting downwards ever so slightly. "Extinction" isn't even a remote possibility or worth considering.