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Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:00 AM

Porn in a flash

A troubling surge in creepy "upskirt" photography has lawmakers in a twist -- and the body parts of women posted all over the Internet.

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:34 PM

Cave men

And Cave daughters

Strolls 'round the Houston Zoo

Watching the funny frolics

Of happy sea otters

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:35 PM

@ Also, Laura.D -- and this will really irritate Mr. E . . .

strictly unofficially -- I have helped mothers hide their children from fathers who have sexually assaulted those children.

The law doesn't always get these these things right and has occasionally awarded unsupervised visitation rights to father's who fuck their daughters.

Sadly though, there are women who stand by while their children are assaulted by their boyfriend, husbands, and brothers.

Google Baby Brianna if you want to read a really sad story.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:39 PM

@Aka Smith -- Tsk Tsk

You still haven't addressed the issue.

Kudos though for all your marvelous efforts to change the subject.

I suppose by your silence, I must have hit the nail on the head.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:42 PM

@Laura D. -- Another Sad Google...

Andrea Yates

Oh, and Susan Smith

In fact, here's a lot of sad information:

http://www.canadiancrc.com/female_sexual_predators_awareness.aspx

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:45 PM

Wages of Sin

Lust leads to this choice:

bitter gluttony in hell

or fasts in heaven.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:46 PM

@Aka Smith -- BTW

I am very glad if you're telling the truth about hiding abused children. Nobody should be abused, by anybody. Mr. E is not irritated in the slightest.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:50 PM

@Aka Smith -- A Lot to Juggle

So you must have a busy life.

Caped Crusader by day

Rapist by night.

How many people HAVE you RAPED AKA Smith... _IF_ that's even your REAL name.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:50 PM

HURRAH! More phony feminist speculation to back up

the PRIOR phony speculation.

Certain trollish male types at Broadsheet have been trying to educate us for a long time about this. Some of their notions:

1. Men have so much stronger sex drives than women and are really quite incapable of controlling those sex drives.

Not really. Men and women have ultimately similar levels of sex drive. Differences, though, do exist and outweigh many of the similarities.

Men are quite capable of controlling their sex drive, as is evidenced by the low levels of uncontrollable sexual behavior in society. Indeed, a strong argument can be made that if any sex is incapable of controlling their desire, it is women. If you look at how women treat sex workers or male exotic dancers, it is in a much more frenzied, rowdy and less respectful manner, and women will push their way thru others to get an opportunity to manifest their emotions in such places.

In men, as opposed to women, the sex drive is always on as a low level hum, persistent and driving. This is evolution in action. Were men capable of shutting this off at will completely rather than learning to DEAL with it, the spigot of procreation would be shut down and there would largely be no next generation. Women, on the other hand, can treat their sex drive as an option, to be dipped into if women so desire, but which largely sits on a shelf and occasionally pops up as a reminder.

I can speak of this in the first person to some extent. When last year I took female hormones for a month to see what changes, if any, begin to manifest themselves in my being, one of the first and most prominent things I noticed was that for the first time in memory I was able to get beyond the sex urge and just BE. IT WAS AN ALIEN FEELING TO ME. I could summon and access that sex urge at will, but I was no longer chained to it, I was completely free of it IF I CHOSE TO BE.

Any clown in first year of med school will tell you women have about 10% of the testosterone in their bodies as compared to men (the sex drive hormone).

In my opinion, all people, male and female, ought to take the opposite sexes hormones for a safe period of time and contrast what they remember from their original sex in how they feel then and now.

I think much of this gender warfare women freely wage against men unstoppably would pretty much dry up.

2. Women have bodies and therefore those bodies must be subject to the sex drives of men.

There is no evidence to support such a hateful anti male assertion.

Any other solution to these unequal sex drives constitutes female tyranny which must be overcome by a restoration of male power.

Men never had the power. Most men have less power than most women, unchanged for millions of years. The sole exception being a few powerful, wealthy men WITH THE POWER TO GET AWAY WITH MURDERING ANY WOMAN WHO CHALLENGES OR THREATENS THEM. Even then, one can argue this is not equivalent to the true power in the positive sense that women wield over men everyday and have ALWAYS wielded, power that is invisible to them, like the air women breathe.

Female tyranny is quite real. Men are used to it and have many passive aggressive measures they take to deflect it. Measures that have begun to fail with the advent of the recent round of virulently man-hating feminism and its AGGRESSIVE focus on destroying any remaining sense of self worth in men and replacing it with a facsimile carrot/stick maneuver.

I suggest a method to break this damning logjam, straight on challenges against women, backed up with persistent legal, scientific, and other means to ultimately bypass women and/or render them powerless forever. A relatively novel and audacious concept, but I'm a renaissance type of guy.

Now, I want to add a couple of thoughts. The upskirting is not unlike the motivations for rape. Experts on rape will tell you that there is such a thing as a power and control rapist. They rape to restore an imbalance that they feel within themselves.

I think these upskirters and men who enjoy true upskirt photos are like this.

So little boys who peek up skirts are potential rapists? I will leave it at that. You've fucked your argument over quite well without my help.

Another thing worth thinking about: Anti-social Personality Disorder (APD, more commonly known as sociopathy) is much more common in men than in women. In fact, it is about 10 times a more frequent diagnosis in men.

These faux diseases are designed by women and encouraged as a way to control men. I have no need for this garbage.

If you accuse men of being less skilled socially, A GENDER THAT HAD ANY LOVE FOR THE OPPOSITE GENDER would consider this as something that needs to be worked on to help the other gender, rather than as something to mock and belittle men for. I am constantly astounded at the endless depths of how much women really seem to utterly lack any capacity to be sympathetic to men at large.

I would say that your last appeal is entirely ineffective. You ask these men to think of any daughters that they may have. This won't work. First, about one in forty fathers actually molests his daughters. Given the similarity of upskirt motivations to rape motivations and frequency of APD in men, I would say that many upskirters will actually fuck their daughters.

Women molest boys, female teachers take advantage. Quit your gloating based on false premises.

As for daughters, no father would EVER want a daughter to be raped, but rape is apart from this discussion. Besides, I would not have my daughter walking around dressed like a skank, which solves much of this issue.

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