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posted by LaminatorX on Saturday August 30 2014, @10:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the stranger-than-truth dept.

"An eighth-grade language arts teacher from Maryland has been placed on administrative leave after school officials learned he allegedly authored two books containing questionable content under a pseudonym.

Local network WBOC News reports that the investigation concerns two books published by McLaw under the nom de plume “Dr. K.S. Voltaer,” and one is about a fictional, futuristic school shooting that goes down in history as being the largest ever in the United States.

http://rt.com/usa/182964-teacher-leave-shooting-book/"

This is lunacy. School administrators are terrified there will be another Columbine or Sandy Hook and are overreacting, or are they. What could they do to prevent one. Nothing, nil, zero. No need to ask yourself 'why', say thank you to the traitorous NRA , the propaganda arm of the small arms manufacturing industry, for blocking any form of gun control. They have successfully infected the country with The American Disease™ almost unfettered access to weapons of war that kill with brutal efficiency. Sadly there appears to be no cure.

[EDITOR'S NOTE: The preceding paragraph was not up to our standards. The comments to this story are spot on. You expect better than this and we let you down. There are so many comments referring to this paragraph, we cannot just delete it, hence the strike-through. More to follow.]

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Magic Oddball on Saturday August 30 2014, @11:46PM

    by Magic Oddball (3847) on Saturday August 30 2014, @11:46PM (#87684) Journal

    I only see this problem being resolved when it is eclipsed by more significant events. Specifically, evolutionary pressures, such as war, have ensured that women outnumbered the surviving men. The pressures on women (opportunities, finances, property rights, voting rights) compelled a woman to accept any man or face spinsterhood and childlessness.

    That's not only a creepy fantasy, it's unrealistic. Even if women outnumbered men by a large margin in our society, we *still* wouldn't pick the kind of sociopathically unstable guys that shoot up schools -- we'd opt either to be single (which isn't all that big a deal, trust me), share the good men, or pair up together (platonically or otherwise). Women that had an overwhelming desire to become mothers would use technology or ask a close male friend to get them pregnant, just as they have in the past.

    As for the rest of what you wrote, I can't tell if you were only describing your fantasy, or if it's (as it sounds in parts) describing your perception of real-life people/society. I can say that most XY women don't have a big smorgasbord of men to choose from in real life, any more than most men do, and that the traits in a man that drive women away will also drive men away from a woman.

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  • (Score: 2) by cafebabe on Sunday August 31 2014, @01:33AM

    by cafebabe (894) on Sunday August 31 2014, @01:33AM (#87717) Journal

    What you describe as a "creepy fantasy" is historical fact. Furthermore, while I hope that technology (and easy access to technology) continues to progress, allowing everyone to overcome accident of birth, I cannot guarantee it. We're also in a situation where peace and prosperity in North America and Western Europe plus the interaction between Eastern cultural practices and medical technology has created tens of millions of men for which there are no corresponding women. This is contrary to the historical situation where males would be disproportionately killed by predators or hostile tribes.

    Many of these "surplus" men are working in agricultural jobs while a disproportionate number of women migrate to cities and have a more substantial sex life. In some cases, women have completely deserted villages and, in the case of China's one child families, it is unclear where the next generation of farmers will come from.

    Regarding the rest of my "fantasy", perhaps some figures would help? Take the population of China where selective abortion accurs. According to the CIA World Factbook, China has 704,828,835 males and 654,757,003 females - a surplus of 50,071,832 males. Assume that Female To Male transsexuals will be able to procreate first. Assume that 0.01% of China's females take this option. There are now 65,000 less females. A proportion of these former females may also want a female partner. This creates additional pressure.

    The sex imbalance is eased if there are more Male To Female transsexuals but this advance is not likely to be developed first, may not be equally affordable and may not be equally popular.

    I don't know enough to knowledgeably comment on your experiences as/with XY women but if it involves any intimacy, you have the advantage over many of today's young men.

    Regarding attractive traits, an attractive personality is fairly universal. However, men are attracted to a more diverse range of physical traits. Exceptions are numerous.

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