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NRA list, #5: Allow your children the opportunity to kill someone with a gun! An experience they'll never forget, and you will always treasure. Just put an extremely powerful gun in their tiny hands (the younger, the better!) and have them pull that trigger. Don't forget to go fully automatic for even more fun! Oh, the memories you'll make together!!
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Joan Rivers is in critical condition after ... oh wait, this is The Stranger, nobody gives a shit about celebrities over the age of 65
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4000 Russians taking over a whole province means there's probably not that much resistance to the idea.

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@3 At least not from Putin loving Republicans. They love appeasement, as long as the tyrant takes his shirt off and shows them his nipples.
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Technically the Russian soldiers are on "leave"

Just like when East Germany was a Fascist state
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I don't understand the backlashagainst the anti-rape nail polish. I mean, I get that we really should be focusing more towards keeping men from committing rape; But even then, there will always be men who try to drug women's drinks, and this is just one more weapon in the effort to thwart those attempts.

(And no, you do not have to dunk your finger in your drink to test it, because gross. Use your straw to place a small drop on your fingernail. It's really not that difficult.)
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@2: OMG! We're pulling for you Joan!

(Trigger Warning: Fox News Link)
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/201…
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Thanks, Dan, for putting the autoplaying Daily Show video below the jump today. I complain about autoplaying videos on the main Slog page from time to time, so I also want to recognize when you do it right. Much obliged.
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how about women don't have to wear a special nail polish and dunk their fingers in every cocktail to not get raped
--Lindy West

How about instead of being a petulant pismire, we deal with the world as it is, and try to be part of the solution.

Bad people will always be here to do bad things. That sucks, but it is an incontrovertible fact. Educating men and dismantling rape-culture--as West advocates--is part of the solution, but arming and empowering women to protect themselves does not contradict the first part. At all.

Or does west have a problem with mace and rape-whistle manufacturers too?
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@6 I think that the disconnect is that for "anti-rape advocates" this is part of an ongoing discussion and just another round of fighting the idea that rape victims should have done something more to stop the rapes inflicted on them by literal rapists.

I think that it may be a misstep for "anti-rape advocates" to not make the transitions of topics more clear, but I can see how and why it happened.
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I can't believe you didn't surface this:

Man in tux shoots at couple who see him having sex in Seattle alley

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2014…
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This is the article the NRA tweet linked to:
http://www.womensoutdoornews.com/2014/08…
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I can understand it seems like poo-pooing a potentially helpful idea. But on the other hand, it seems inevitable at some point assholes will be commenting that some college girl wouldn't have gotten raped if she'd been wearing the right nail polish.

At least the date rape-detecting coaster idea put the expense and responsibility on bars, not requiring every woman in America to buy nail polish, use it, and keep it nice or be considered complicit if she gets drugged. (Anyway, isn't the #1 used date rape drug...more alcohol?)
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Cat @13, you are exactly right in your last statement, and clearly coasters and nail polish won't address that. And victim blaming assholes are just that. That is why education and social pressure are important.

But it's no good to poo-poo an effective self-defense course just because one shouldn't be assaulted in the first place, for example. To do so is just snarkiness that works against the education effort. It is worse than useless.

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Arg, Lindy West again. Just so damn negative all the damn time.

I'm gonna go back and read her protest pieces against pepper spray, whistles, and self-defense classes since wishing that the bad things would go away is a way better course of action than preparing for the worst.
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@11: Probably one of the overpaid Seattle Port commissioners, out on the town on the taxpayer's dime at a morale event and got a little carried away.
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@ 16, you are requsted to respond over in the Chris Christie thread.
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Sure looks like the Ring of Fire is heading to this corner of the world:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/m…
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@17

Shorter matt in denver: please pay attention to me ! Please please please pay attention to me and my posts!

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Dan: (under polygamy) the singular for an adult female is woman, not women.
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@17: Please don't cross post like that. No one else is remotely interested, or if they are they are already following it.
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@9: Lock manufacturers are just theft-apologists.
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@6 and 14: I'll tell you why I find it eye-roll inducing. As 14 acknowledges and 13 notes, alcohol is overwhelmingly more popular as a date-rape drug than GHB or roofies. I just see the nail polish as yet another way to provide freshmen girls at frat parties with a false sense of security about their own safety. "Oh, this drink doesn't have roofies in it, it's safe to drink!" Nevermind that it's full of Everclear and vodka.

I guess my problem with it is that in terms of self-protection, I think it's an idea that is far more likely to result in girls drinking more alcohol than is safe than in preventing girls from getting roofied. While I'm not against educating women on how to protect themselves, I think this is more likely to reinforce young women's misconceptions about how to avoid rape than protect them from rape.

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