We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
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The elevation of Pope Leo XIV is a profound and historic occasion. Like so many around the world, I am praying for him and wishing him and the Church well as his papacy begins.
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So let me get this straight, we finally get an American pope, and some of the America first crowd is mad because he cares about the poor and immigrants. Am i missing something here?
> The flaw in this argument is that our legal system goes to much greater lengths to prosecute murders than rapes, let alone other forms of sexual harassment.
It's a lot easier to prosecute murder because there's a dead body. Rape often becomes he-said, she-said in a system that demands guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
> I don’t struggle to answer her questions. We, the composite of humanity, decide which relationships are appropriate and which are not. We intuit this together, and alone; we make…
i dont know how easy it is to be good, but i do think it's pretty easy to like, not assault people. out on a limb here
"it's pretty easy to like, not assault people" is such an annoying bourgeois attitude. There has always been assault, there will always be assault. That's why we have a justice system, to deal with inevitable wrongdoing. But you're not satisfied with managing violence and conflict, you want to eliminate it entirely. You're wasting your time, it never works out.
yes that's what the essay's about. the justice system is wildly ineffectual in dealing with sexual violence, for reasons you've already articulated. that means we can establish extrajudicial protections, or do nothing at all. gaitskill has made clear her preference, and i'd say you have as well
The idea that assault should never happen, and that certain unspecified "extrajudicial protections" can prevent assault, only serves to discourage women from protecting themselves, which makes them more vulnerable to assault.
Your attitude reduces to "bad things should never happen." But bad things have their reasons for happening. I know it's easier to avert your gaze and pretend we live in a perfectible world, because it is terrifying to look at things headlong. But I think there's more dignity in seeing things as they are, not as we'd like them to be.
i don't know how to prevent assault; that's different from condoning it. i'm not concerned with witch hunts or cancel culture. if powerful, malevolent actors are more likely to face repercussions, that's a rough approximation of justice, to me
Just know that when you get tired of being an absolutist bourgeois prude, there are other ways of thinking that don't involve condoning assault.
