but it doesn't take much thought to observe that campuses have high concentrations of 18-25 year old women, which is a fairly vulnerable cohort for rape, including both assault rape and acquaintance rape white men in an environment where they can feel reasonable certainty that their actions will go unpunished, which are all indicators for a high occurrence of sexual assault.
Also having said that iirc the incidence of rape is actually higher among women who don't go to college though, so....
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 21:06 (nine years ago) link
I like to keep my personal career talk to 77, but you are very near the mark xp
― mh, Wednesday, 18 February 2015 21:06 (nine years ago) link
orbit I'm curious if there's some statistical reason you call out white men specifically there
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 18 February 2015 21:15 (nine years ago) link
or is that just a "white = more likely to get away with it" type of thing
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 18 February 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
Specifically because it was the very first point at my source: "Sex offenders are overwhelmingly white males. Nearly 99% of sex offenders in single-victim incidents were male and 6 in 10 were white (Greenfeld, 1997)."
http://sapac.umich.edu/article/196
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 21:18 (nine years ago) link
huh. weird.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 18 February 2015 21:20 (nine years ago) link
"Sex offenders are overwhelmingly white males. Nearly 99% of sex offenders in single-victim incidents were male and 6 in 10 were white (Greenfeld, 1997)."
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 21:18 (10 minutes ago)
this statistic would suggest a large cohort of white american men would contain fewer sex offenders than cohorts american men other races?
― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 21:36 (nine years ago) link
7 in 10 men are white, I believe, so... inconclusive
― mh, Wednesday, 18 February 2015 22:22 (nine years ago) link
also, at least 9 in 10 white men are men.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 22:22 (nine years ago) link
eh shove off, I actually looked that up for north america
― mh, Wednesday, 18 February 2015 22:23 (nine years ago) link
i wasn't making fun of you, just of statistics
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 22:38 (nine years ago) link
:)
― mh, Wednesday, 18 February 2015 22:45 (nine years ago) link
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, February
considering 77% of americans are white, 60% is pretty good. tho as shakey points out part of that could be due to who actually gets charged for sexual assault
― k3vin k., Thursday, 19 February 2015 00:15 (nine years ago) link
actually check that 62.6% of americans are non-hispanic white
― k3vin k., Thursday, 19 February 2015 00:16 (nine years ago) link
"the best rape prevention program is armed women" has been a gun-nut jpg slogan for my whole adult life; i'm surprised it took this long for something quasi-real to come out of it
― goole, Wednesday, February 18, 2015 2:08 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
man the town listserv was all about this a few days ago re: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2015/SB0116.html
― gbx, Thursday, 19 February 2015 00:18 (nine years ago) link
nh loves their guns man
― k3vin k., Thursday, 19 February 2015 00:20 (nine years ago) link
People in the Midwest don't understand the redneckery of rural northeast, generally. My recent coworker acquaintance is from rural Maine and I have a knowing eyebrow-raise in our interactions.
― mh, Thursday, 19 February 2015 03:59 (nine years ago) link
Wow---Currington comes off like a wuss, but he's not nearly as successful as McGraw (who might still get Dixie Chicked, to some extent)(we'll see what the fading Duck Dynasty Daddy has to say; ditto Kid Rock, Hank Jr., Ted Nugent)http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tim-mcgraws-sandy-hook-show-sparks-controversy-billy-currington-bails-20150417
― dow, Friday, 17 April 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
I have to think at some point that shouting about your right to automatic rifles at the expense of a pile of dead children would create an image problem for you.
― DJP, Friday, 17 April 2015 19:51 (nine years ago) link
you would think so, and yet...
― casual male (will), Friday, 17 April 2015 20:42 (nine years ago) link
(we just enjoyed a 78,000+ strong NRA convention here last weekend)
― casual male (will), Friday, 17 April 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link
"enjoyed"
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/charleston-and-the-next-time
― wisdom be leakin out my louche douche truths (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 13:22 (eight years ago) link
A generally forgotten '90s episode recalled at the end of this piece by ILE fave Dennis Perrin:
Nothing proved this awesome power of gun cult batshittery more than the controversy in the mid-90s, when ex-President George H. W. Bush resigned from the NRA and published a letter attacking the NRA. The language in Bush Sr.’s letter may seem mild to us today, but back then, this is about as close to raw outrage as a blue-blooded elder statesman gets:... (text follows)
https://pando.com/2015/06/26/brief-history-american-gun-nuts/5b63d36f4248427552398e4d08fe314a0851f942/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 19:05 (eight years ago) link
http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/S-F-killing-sparks-national-outrage-likely-6366684.php
# of times the word 'immigration' appears: 10# of times the word 'gun' appears: 0
― a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 5 July 2015 03:52 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/19/us/a-culture-clash-over-guns-infiltrates-the-backcountry.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&module=inside-nyt-region®ion=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region
what a dumb fucking hobby
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 22:06 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COpoYwQUkAAW_ZS.png
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 September 2015 20:58 (eight years ago) link
I think this is interesting:
A veteran who says he was carrying a concealed weapon on Oregon’s Umpqua Community College campus Thursday when 26-year-old Christopher Harper Mercer went on a murderous rampage, says he didn’t intervene because he knew police SWAT team members wouldn’t know him from the shooter.
In an interview with MSNBC, veteran John Parker said he knows lots of students who conceal carry at the school because, despite a school policy that discourages weapons on campus, Oregon state law does allow it.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/armed-vet-destroys-gun-nuts-argument-on-mass-shooters-by-explaining-why-he-didnt-attack-oregon-killer/
― sleeve, Saturday, 3 October 2015 01:30 (eight years ago) link
That exact scenario has gone through my head a lot of times when I hear the arguments for concealed carry -- how do the cops know who's the shooter and who's trying to stop him?
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Saturday, 3 October 2015 01:34 (eight years ago) link
this is good too:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-byrd/are-guns-americas-biggest_b_8062870.html
― sleeve, Saturday, 3 October 2015 01:40 (eight years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/14/people-are-getting-shot-by-toddlers-on-a-weekly-basis-this-year/
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 18 October 2015 05:11 (eight years ago) link
people seem to be shooting toddlers on a weekly basis too cf that horrible story in albuquerque.
― nomar, Friday, 23 October 2015 02:09 (eight years ago) link
Despite a spike in sales, Hawaii boasts persistently low rates of violence involving firearms, offering lessons for the rest of the United States.
― new noise, Sunday, 15 November 2015 17:02 (eight years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/janisianpage/photos/a.357587427661315.87486.357191544367570/913842435369142/?type=3
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 December 2015 00:49 (eight years ago) link
https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/12074602_913842435369142_8702280429031007540_n.jpg?oh=88ea513ca6d9d8e0dc6fc0dc58affccc&oe=57178562
these days we just send a few big guns, ozzy.
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 11 December 2015 05:37 (eight years ago) link
which only fortifies ozzy's case, really
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 11 December 2015 05:38 (eight years ago) link
"Why do we send drones to perpetual war? Why not just send that guy from the movie Rocketeer?"
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 11 December 2015 05:40 (eight years ago) link
that photo captures the exact moment when Ozzy said that
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 11 December 2015 05:55 (eight years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/12/11/mich-woman-who-shot-at-shoplifters-gets-18-months-probation-vows-to-never-help-anybody-again/
“I tried to help,” she told WJBK after her sentencing on Wednesday, before wryly adding: “And I learned my lesson that I will never help anybody again.”
She has learned NOTHING.
― how's life, Friday, 11 December 2015 12:14 (eight years ago) link
Gun experts slammed her, saying she was lucky not to have killed an innocent bystander.
blowing away shoplifters evidently the right impulse but it's just not worth the risk
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Friday, 11 December 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
this woman is a will forte character
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 11 December 2015 17:08 (eight years ago) link
“I made a decision in a split second,” she told judge Julie Nicholson on Wednesday, according to WJBK. “Maybe it was not the right one, but I was trying to help.”
jeez, maybe people shouldn't have the opportunity to make potentially deadly split-second decisions
― k3vin k., Friday, 11 December 2015 18:04 (eight years ago) link
ostensibly pro-gun control liberals who are suddenly concerned about banning ppl on no-flight lists from buying guns are insane.
― Mordy, Friday, 11 December 2015 18:11 (eight years ago) link
i really don't think they're *that* concerned about it, i think it's a weak attempt to troll or turn a somewhat right wing idea back against them.
― nomar, Friday, 11 December 2015 18:14 (eight years ago) link
it's total black comedy watching these two sides try to outmaneuver one another sometimes
― nomar, Friday, 11 December 2015 18:15 (eight years ago) link
i agree actually. no one should be able to buy guns. the fact that no-fly lists are probably unconstitutionally vague and broad is a point in its favor here xxp
― k3vin k., Friday, 11 December 2015 18:16 (eight years ago) link
I just had a guy throw a screaming fit when he saw that I was putting up a 30.07 sign (required sign in Texas forbidding people from open carrying) in one of my stores. Kind of hope they stage a protest so I can tow their cars.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 21:27 (eight years ago) link
gotta admit that I first thought "thirty ought....seven?" when I scanned yr post
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 23:56 (eight years ago) link
ditto
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 00:28 (eight years ago) link