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Mar 21 Jina commented on Savage Love.

Come to think of it, my entire post at #67 could have been summarized by that one song in Pocahontas:
"They're different from us, which means they can't be trusted. WE MUST SOUND THE DRUMS OF WAR!"

Mar 21 Jina commented on Savage Love.

@54 nocutename - stuff like "gay = rodent mutilation and buttsex" is basic propaganda. It gives the believer a reason to hate [insert whatever here]. Don't like someone? Dehumanize them. Turn others against them. Turn the issue into "they're not like us," which then turns into "us versus them" and "they must be stopped."

The same tactics have been used for centuries to justify one's motives. Manifest Destiny means displacing and killing thousands of Native Americans? Well, they're savages anyways. Clearly God doesn't approve of them and they don't deserve the land. Slavery is wrong, you say? Well, black people are practically subhuman anyways, and hardly intelligent. Why shouldn't they be used as beasts of burden? What's that you say? You don't see anything wrong with feminism? Well, everyone knows that feminists are all bra-burning, man-hating uggos who are trying to kill off all men and establish a women-only utopia. Want a reason to hate Asians? Surely you've heard that they eat dogs and will steal your pets if given half the chance? These are all actual historical examples, by the way. I could go on and on, but I'm sure you get the picture.

It's the same thing with "ewww, did you hear that gay people do THAT?" By associating homosexuality with something gross or terrible, be it rodent mutilation, AIDS, rape and pedophilia, or even just common or garden husband seducers, it gives the speaker justification to hate gay people and something to scare the kiddies with ("gay people do THIS; you don't like that, do you? Then don't be gay.").

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Nov 21, 2012 Jina commented on Savage Love.

Part of me wonders if WKBFM's employer read a book called American Shaolin, which was written by an American guy who, in the 1990s, went to Shaolin Temple in China to study kung fu and Buddhism. One of the former monks he met practiced Iron Crotch kung fu, and was the star exhibit for public Shaolin martial arts demonstrations. His bit was to come out on stage, and then audience members were invited to come up and kick him in the crotch as hard as they could. His morning routines consisted of whacking his balls with a stick for 30 minutes and then tying heavy weights to his dick and walking around a courtyard. Apparently this style of kung fu made him very popular with the ladies - when the author met him, he had just spent the night with a groupie, and the man had at least five kids with five different women.

I mention all this because, if WKBFM's employer read about this (and if he's a longtime martial arts enthusiast, he well may have), maybe he thinks he will eventually score with WKBFM this way.

Sep 5, 2012 Jina commented on Savage Love.

I disagree mightily with Dan on HBM. As others have pointed out, there's a difference between sharing every nitty gritty and possibly highly personal detail of every fight, and simply mentioning something like "my boyfriend and I went to this awesome Italian place last night and..." every once in a while. I often do the latter when I want to subtly get guys to understand that I'm taken and back off.

@Crinoline (#17) - an emotional affair is when someone who is married or otherwise in a committed relationship is in love with another person, but doesn't actually physically cheat. In other words, it's an affair without the sex or kissing.

Aug 8, 2012 Jina commented on Savage Love.

@7 Crinoline - depending on where you live, 19 year old moms are not that unusual. When I lived in Colorado, girls being married at the age of 16 was not that odd - I worked with at least two girls who were both married and divorced before they were 20 (one was 21 when I met her, and had a 5 year old girl). Another co-worker's mother was 15 when she married, and had her third child (my co-worker) when she was 19.

May 23, 2012 Jina commented on Savage Love.

@7 - you should visit Korea! They have whole theme parks dedicated to sex and sex education called Love Land: http://curiousphotos.blogspot.com/2007/1…

Sep 7, 2011 Jina commented on Savage Love.

I wrote a long post explaining exactly how DARE/outofwater is proving himself to be a narcissist - and then I deleted it all. Because, like trolls, narcissists thrive on attention and only stop when people stop paying attention to them, and I didn't want to give him something more to latch onto so he can talk more about his favorite subject.

note to #31 - what you defined in your post is an opportunist - quite different from what is being discussed here. A narcissist is someone who is obsessed with him or herself. The word comes from the Greek myth of Narcissus, a beautiful young man who was incapable of love until he saw a reflection of himself.

Aug 12, 2011 Jina commented on Such Nice Dogs.

Interesting how, in the above article about parents who killed their kids, Dan implores people not to jump to conclusions and stereotype based on a few incidents, then does exact the same thing himself here.

And before anyone berates me for being ignorant about pits, I volunteered at two different animal shelters that were filled with pits and pit mixes, walking, playing, feeding, and training them every day, and the only dog I saw that was put down for attacking volunteers was a golden retriever.

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Jun 8, 2011 Jina commented on Every Child Deserves a Mother and a Father.

@SeattleBlues, if you think Matthew Shepherd is the only example of a gay hate crime, try Googling Angie Zapata, the Latin King Goonies, Charles Howard, Ryan Lester, etc etc. Or hell, just Google "gay hate crime" and see what comes up amongst the 5 million+ hits. I dare you.