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You have too many rights, so it's time for a little rebalancing:
Internet anonymity should be banned and everyone required to carry the equivalent of a license plate when driving around online. That's according to Erik Barnett, the US Department of Homeland Security's attaché to the European Union.
Writing in French policy magazine FIC Observatoire, Barnett somewhat predictably relies on the existence of child abuse images to explain why everyone in the world should be easily monitored. He tells a story about how a Romanian man offered to share sexually explicit images of his daughter with an American man over email. The unnamed email provider uncovered this exchange and forwarded the IP address of the Romanian to the European authorities and a few days later the man was arrested. Job well done.
Before we have an opportunity to celebrate, however, Barnett jumps straight to terrorism. "How much of the potential jihadists' data should intelligence agencies or law enforcement be able to examine to protect citizenry from terrorist attack?", he poses. The answer, of course, is everything. Then the pitch: "As the use of technology by human beings grows and we look at ethical and philosophical questions surrounding ownership of data and privacy interests, we must start to ask how much of the user's data is fair game for law enforcement to protect children from sexual abuse?"
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @07:25AM
>In the United States, as late as the 1880s most States set the minimum age at 10-12, (in Delaware it was 7 in 1895).[8] Inspired by the "Maiden Tribute" female reformers in the US initiated their own campaign[9] which petitioned legislators to raise the legal minimum age to at least 16, with the ultimate goal to raise the age to 18. The campaign was successful, with almost all states raising the minimum age to 16-18 years by 1920.
>Also: see: Deuteronomy chapter 22 verses 28-29, hebrew allows men to rape girl children and keep them: thus man + girl is obviously fine. Feminists are commanded to be killed as anyone enticing others to follow another ruler/judge/god is to be killed as-per Deuteronomy. It is wonderful when this happens from time to time: celebrate)
Man traded a picture that upset adult women.
Men must not have freedom or anonymity.
Cunt women logic.
Previously men traded the girls themselves (child marraige),
that was the first thing the cunts banned,
We live in cunt states (cuntries).
Men have ZERO power: always outvoted by cunts (by design)
(Score: 4, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday February 01 2016, @07:41AM
Men who use "cunt" as an insult, I find, very often do not like vaginas, Mr. Kvaratskhelia. Maybe that's your problem: maybe you actually want a big dominant man to put you in your place. It would explain so much of your internet presence.
I'm not saying this to counter-troll or to be insulting; I am seriously suggesting that you date another man and see if that works for you.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @08:03AM
This is bullshit. Cunt is a lovely word. Only assholes use the term "vagina" which has all the linguistic appeal of "gangrene".
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 01 2016, @08:40AM
If you hadn't already proved yourself an idiot, "vagina" is a pretty cool word. I wonder - can you name the rest of the female genitalia? Or, is "cunt" and "pussy" the only words you know? Are you at all familiar with female anatomy, or is it all just some deep, dark, forbidden sphere of knowledge? You're really not much of a geek, or nerd, if "cunt" is the best word you can think of to describe women. FFS, you're an embarrasment.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday February 01 2016, @09:55AM
Please note that I'm not trying to validate MikeeUSA or whatever name that moron is using these days. For the record, you're a jerk.
That said, some folks don't feel that "vagina" is inclusive enough [huffingtonpost.com].
I find it interesting (and rather disturbing) that a vocal few seem to want to control what words we use and in what context. I disagree with that idea. At the same time, I also believe that if one finds speech offensive, one should respond with appropriate vitriol. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences.
I'm going to go off on a bit of a tangent here, but it's something I've been thinking about.
In keeping with my above comments, feel free to tell me I'm wrong, but, please, pretty please with sugar on top, for the love of all that's good in this world, tell me why you think so.
There are some people who, upon meeting and getting to know me, would identify me as a "cis-gendered MAAB" or something similar.
I am *not* a cis-gendered MAAB. I am a human with a Y chromosome. That is how I define myself.
I don't wish to restrict anyone from identifying as anything they feel is correct. However, I do not identify as a cis-male or a cis-gendered MAAB. I don't attempt to identify others in ways they don't wish to be identified. As such, I would prefer that others don't try to identify me in a way other than I wish.
I realize that it may seem as if I'm aligning for or against one or more groups to which some or all of you feel aligned. That's not my intention. Rather, it's to define *my identity* for myself.
Moreover, I strongly believe that each individual should be judged on their actions and quality of their character, not based upon how they define themselves or, more importantly, now others define them.
You might ask, "if someone takes issue with how I define myself, why shouldn't I do the same?" In my view, that's because I prefer that each of us be given the freedom to define ourselves.
As such, even if you dislike how I define myself, I don't mind how you choose to define yourself. Ever. Please give me the same respect.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by kurenai.tsubasa on Monday February 01 2016, @04:27PM
Re: link. Hoo boy. Going way off topic here. As usual, I never really cared about what people whose identities are defined by which body parts they were born with are up to. They're pretty much talking apes in my mind if they cannot imagine any kind of separation between biology and identity.
Let me clarify. You've made an observation about your biology. I don't think you're the type to go around claiming that your Y chromosome is responsible for everything bad that's ever happened to you and that anybody who does not have a Y chromosome is an inferior, inauthentic being. People who do that are the reason that I have always been uncomfortable with The Vagina Monologues. It just strikes me that somebody who finds any truth there is just doing something horribly wrong.
I'm surprised to now learn that even The Vagina Monologues is under attack. As I understand it, there are trans productions of the work, even though that strikes me as being akin to a Jewish or homosexual person putting on a production glorifying Mein Kampf. (Godwined! boo ya!) Note: Mount Holyoke College is a women's college in Massachusetts. I can see how women who were assigned the male gender at birth would be problematic for them. According to the article, they began admitting women who had been assigned the male gender at birth in 2014.
In general, everything that's “women only” will suffer these problems. It's no different from things that used to be “men's only” with the exception that we laugh at MRAs while many people are afraid to question TERF/Michigan feminism for fear of being seen as a misogynist.
However, I would like to make the observation that things like The Vagina Monologues and the defunct Michigan Womyn's Music Festival are frankly downright toxic in effect (think macroaggressions), at least the way that Michigan feminists brandish them like weapons. People I should be allies with, namely “lesbians”—I count this as a different category from women who happen to be homosexual or bisexual due to recent events (“lesbians” would include women who are ashamed of and in the closet about being heterosexual [lol, yeah, I know, Bizarro world and all that])—, have decided that people like me are a valid target for retaliation thus creating needless conflict.
I mean, hey, they view me as a rapist and an invader. For some reason, the fact that I have the hormones I do in my body, have the body parts I do, and am even lucky enough to get gendered as female by strangers, combined with the fact that I have excellent computer skills and can fix my own appliances unless something goes catastrophically wrong, utterly infuriates them. That's fine with me, even though I truly don't get it since I have no interest in attempting to date any of them, and I really don't care what festivals or plays they want to exclude me from (nothing of value was lost). If they want to continue publicly celebrating their bigotry, that makes it all the easier for me to make my case.
Instead the hatred goes underground.
As for MikeeUSA, let's just ignore her outside of making sure she's at -1. (I also deeply suspect for about the past year that MikeeUSA is a “lesbian” who for whatever reason thinks that posting that crap will be as effective towards her goals here as it was with Debian Women. I haven't checked Geek Feminism Wiki [again the I don't give a shit thing], but I'm betting this site is even more maligned than the green one is. It's probably just a bunch of /b tards though. I seriously doubt there is an actual MikeeUSA who honestly believes the things that persona posts. If there is… that person is a truly sad individual.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @04:07PM
You forgot the "twat" and the "hoo-hah". I think those are located somewhere around the labia.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @08:33AM
"Vagina"
Get the fuck out of here USA faggot.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @08:38AM
Men who complain about cunt as an insult, I find, do not like young girls.
They like old busted whores.
Go fuck yourself.
Pro-feminists should be slaughtered.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday February 01 2016, @05:47PM
I am (almost) everything you hate, sweetie. I am a feminist (though not a TERF; think "moderate second-waver" here), a lesbian, and also certainly having more sex than you are :) Not to mention laughing at you, rather than scared or intimidated. You made a death threat against me a few months ago; how about you follow up, if you have the guts? ...yeah, didn't think so.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @06:17PM
not a TERF… a lesbian
Whoops! I'll adjust my rhetoric. Apologies.
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Monday February 01 2016, @06:17PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @10:46AM
> Men who use "cunt" as an insult, I find, very often do not like vaginas
Does that mean men who "dick" as an insult are self haters?
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Monday February 01 2016, @11:26AM
Probably. I never grasped the concept of using a genital-name to insult someone. But generally/conceptually, if I relate someone to a substantive in order to express my contempt, it is a strong indication that I don't like the item linked usually referred to by the same substantive.
(Ok, "dick" might try to mock someone with no hair left, who either got bad sunburn on his had (circumcised dick) or someone who always wears turtle-necks with turtle rolled up covering half the head most of the time. But it's also quite shallow to mock people because of their outlook.)
Registered IRC nick on chat.soylentnews.org: qkontinuum
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @01:54PM
> Probably. I never grasped the concept of using a genital-name to insult someone.
Which you've just gone on to demonstrate.
Here's the thing about people - we love having multiple meanings that are context dependent. You can call someone a dick for the same reason men keep their dicks hidden from public view - because no one wants to see that.
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Monday February 01 2016, @02:09PM
What do you base this assumption on? I expect there are enough woman who would like to see a dick once in a while. Maybe not yours, but generally...
BTW: Limited to your little personal universe you do prove my point. You do apparently have a quite difficult relation to sexuality, and if you call women "cunts" because you don't like to see vaginas, it imo kinda proves Azumas point. Do you prefer to see dicks? Or is it sexuality altogether which makes you uneasy?
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(Score: 3, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday February 01 2016, @08:35PM
See this is why I just use "asshole:" it's unisex, and actually rather vile, plus it lends itself to an intensifier ("full of shit"). Gendered insults are dumb. I have problems with people because of what's between their ears, not their thighs.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Monday February 01 2016, @09:40PM
I'm not sure I agree that an asshole (in the sense of the body-part) deserves to be used as swear-word/insult as well, a butt can be quite sensitive as well, I've been told. (I'm straight, so I never got mine penetrated nor do I intend to. I'm just trying to apply my previous logic here as well. I'd concede that "dirty asshole" would be a swear-word, or the "full of shit"-part.
I try not to have problems with people at all. I'd rather them having problems with me :-) But I think I do see your point.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @10:09AM
Sigh.
Why don't you go over to this lovely site [wordpress.com] and let those folks know what's up.
I imagine you'd be welcomed at least as warmly there. They seem very much like you. Perhaps you'll fall in love.