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If you want to read some of the most disgusting takes in far-right Trumplandia today, a good source would be barbwire.com, owned by Matt Barber, who RationalWiki describes as a right-wing hack who spends an enormous amount of time spreading hatred towards gay people.
Op-eds published on Barbers site almost read like satire, but theyre very real. Earlier this month, right-wing Christian activist Linda Harvey published a piece attacking comprehensive sex education for kids, saying that the curriculums are responsible for the spread the sexually transmitted diseases. Attacking sex ed is nothing new for the religious right, but it was Harveys characterization of sex that made the piece so worthy of mockery.
And lets not forget the deadly contribution of LGBTQ advocates who demand inclusive sex ed i.e., lessons that outline in detail how kids can engage in anal and oral sex, the sex practices of homosexuals, Harvey wrote. These lessons often encourage masturbation and pornography use.
Oral sex was invented by the gays? Okay.
Which brings us to another regular columnist on barbwire.com, Dr. Don Boys.
In an op-ed published this Tuesday, Boys tackled the sad, sickening saga surrounding the sexual assault allegations against SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Needless to say, Boys is *skeptical* about Christine Blasey Fords allegation that Kavanaugh held her down on a bed and grinded against while trying to take off her clothes.
Everyone must keep in mind that there is a miniscule (sic) possibility that her accusations are true just as there is small chance that there are little green men on Mars, Boys wrote.
Boys claims that he truly wants justice to prevail and that hes not interested in some leftwing or rightwing agenda.
But later in the piece, he refers to feminists as female fascist progressives who dont care about justice, truth, honesty, and fairness. So much for his alleged impartiality.
Then theres this:
According to Boys, some common sense definitions are necessary when it come to the accusations against Kavanaugh.
Boys interpretation of the bible passage he cited is spurious as best. The passage reads: If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to deaththe young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another mans wife. You must purge the evil from among you.
http://deadstate.org/christian-author-defends-kavanaugh-the-bible-says-its-not-rape-if-the-woman-doesnt-scream/
crazytown
(7,277 posts)There is no such thing as rape in the Old Testament - no rape in marriage or outside of marriage, only adultery, a property offence. The husband owns his wife. A womans consent is irrelevant. A betrothed virgin is regarded as a wife. Screaming is not about consent. Her crime is failing to raise the alarm that her husbands property is in danger of being violated. If a woman is not betrothed, she becomes a mans property (married) if he takes her virginity, with or without consent.
dem in texas
(2,674 posts)What if the man beat the shit out of the woman, she's scared he will kill her? God, hard to believe that these men are so stupid.
Like Rush Limb. thinking women take birth control in order to have more sex, or Kavanaugh saying birth control is a form of abortion. These sorry excuses for the male sex need to have the tables turned on them for a while.
keithbvadu2
(36,860 posts)Do you mean the Rushbo who took someone else's Viagra to a known child prostitution resort area?
thbobby
(1,474 posts)If a woman screams and only her rapists hear her, did she really scream? Kind of existential question, don't you think?
caraher
(6,279 posts)NickB79
(19,257 posts)And marry the rape victim.
caraher
(6,279 posts)The whole passage is about women as property
area51
(11,916 posts)Luz
(772 posts)yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Or SCROTUM for short.
lame54
(35,307 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,950 posts)The boys seem to know how to teach those girls all about sex.
However, most girls wouldn't learn a great deal since they will be rendered unconscious.