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jefequeso: If you're going to say that, could you explain to me why not having sex at all is any worse than having unreprodictive sex (i.e homosexual relations, bestial relations, or use of birth control or an abortion)? The result is the same, so if you're going to label celibacy as being "the worst of sexual deviations," wouldn't you have to label those others as being just as bad?
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keeveek: It's worse because when you have sex (or masturbate), you keep the hormonal and psychic balance. As I understand it, masturbation is also a sin, so this is why child molestation gets common in church.
The reason why the Catholic church has had so much trouble with molestation is because they would rather move around known or suspected child molesters than actually report it. If they investigated and reported suspected child abuse they wouldn't have a problem. Ultimately, anybody that's contributed to their coffers is in part responsible for the child molestation problem.

What gets really bad is when the individual members take on the view that it shouldn't be reported and shun the people that had the misfortune to be molested by church figures.

EDIT: The Boy Scouts of America had a similar problem, but opted to mandate education and prevention strategies that seems to have largely ended that problem.
Post edited January 03, 2012 by hedwards
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keeveek: It's a natural mechanism in species who live in herds.

Being surprised that you attract people attention when you dress/act/look differently than other is just being stupid. Sorry. And of course it isn't limited to women's clothing.
But see, that's my point. What classifies as "different"? Different to me isn't necessarily different to someone else. That's another conversation entirely, though.
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HoneyBakedHam: ....
While I completely agree with you about the proposed scenario being vague as all hell, in general people do not have a right to "privacy" in a public setting (i.e. a place intended to be open to the public). If I snap a picture of you I'm completely within my rights and you'd have no way to force me to delete it (if I tried to make money off your likeness you may or may not have some recourse to acquire some portion of that income).

I assume someone "getting mad", with no other context provided, is somehow physically or verbally displaying their anger. Anyone can do this (within reason) though in many scenarios it lacks taste and decorum. Likewise anyone can look at you, take a picture, etc. and at times it lacks decorum and taste but there's nothing inherently wrong with it.

As a side note, you may not have the right to privacy in a public setting but your 4th Amendment rights still apply as does your right to your personal space (i.e. no one can pull open your shirt and peer down it).

I'm not defending the bad shit that society foists on men or women, when it's wrong it is wrong. But I see no reason to assume, given the OP's vague story, that one party acted particularly badly or well. That some people give the benefit of the doubt to the man and not the woman, and in your case, vice versa, seems very odd to me.