Posted on 04/21/2009 9:49:28 AM PDT by Chet 99
The poor woman is killing herself. They’ll need two gurneys to push her into the morgue.
She is choosing to be fat.
Since now, two of your responses have been read in a way that you did not intend, perhaps rethinking or maybe rereading your posts would help with the clarity of your statements.
I know you know what you are saying, but it seems that others do not.
Here is Pinker’s main references:
Thornhill, R. and Palmer, C.T. 2000. A Natural History of Rape: Bilogical bases of sexual coercion. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Jones, O.D. 1999. Sex, culture, and the biology of rape: Toward explanation and prevention. California Law Review, 87, 827-942.
Here is a summary of the main points:
Rape is more common when the attacker is alienated from society, and therefore less pervious to ostracism.
Rape is more common when the attacker is unable to win women’s consent. Not all men participate in ongoing consensual sexual relationships. Certainly less than women. Women are freer to pick since one man can do the work of several, if the opportunity arises.
Rape is more common when reprisal is unlikely, as in war.
Rapists usually inflict just enough coercion to force copulation. They rarely go beyond, since that could affect conception and birth.
Only 4 percent of rape victims are seriously injured. Fewer than one in five hundred are killed.
Rape victims are most commonly women in peak reproductive years. The age range is different than other categories of violent crime.
Rapists are overwhelmingly composed of young men, of verile age.
About 5 percent of rapes end in conception, and it would have been much higher in olden times.
“Since now, two of your responses have been read in a way that you did not intend”
You mean the rape thing? I find it hard to believe you seriously thought I was comparing overeating to rape. Plus, reductio ad absurdum is a time-honored argumentative tactic.
Understanding that your posts have been read in the light that the person reading it found you cruel, I had no problem seeing that you would compare gluttony to rape. I find the statement saying that this woman should not exist to be extreme.
Maybe it’s an elitist thing.
That you feel my opinion was poorly expressed I might suggest is more your shortcoming than mine.
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If I was the only to ‘misunderstand’ your comments on this thread, I would be the first to agree.
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