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DuelLadyS Posts: 1701 Location: WA state |
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I'm more annoyed that the word 'hot' keeps coming up as a condition too- we aren't insane, we like what you like, but you expect us to be supermodels too? Yeesh. I bet you aren't Brad Pitt yourselves, y'know. |
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Ai no Kareshi Posts: 561 Location: South Africa |
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For what it's worth, I don't care if a girl is hot or not, as long as I like her personality. Not that I expect anyone here to care about my dating preferences. I just thought I'd try to balance things out a bit. |
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| errantrogue Posts: 45 |
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Bullshit... you were just a coward who couldn't deal. 19/17 is NOTHING. But, oh well... missed your shot. Too bad. |
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dtm42 Posts: 10301 Location: NZL |
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More like someone who wanted to stay out of prison. Or perhaps they wanted to wait until the girl was old enough to ensure that she would be able to have a mature relationship. Sure doesn't sound like cowardice to me. |
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Tamaria Posts: 1369 Location: De Achterhoek |
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| Dating doesn't equal having sex, atleast not for most people. If you're serious about your relationship, you can wait a few months. And if you can't wait, well, just do it safe and make sure nobody finds out. 17/19 really isn't a big difference. | ||||||
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| mad_yeti Posts: 11 Location: Seattle |
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| I wanna call bull. As a single, female anime fan who cosplays - and is named Maegen - we are not all batsh*t crazy or half mutant. This whole comic cracked me up though. Fushigi Yugi was my first favorite show. | ||||||
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Quark Posts: 611 Location: British Columbia, Canada |
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This...is so true. I mean, go check out 4chan, to see just how extreme these guys are. If a girl has a couple extra lbs, or a oddly shaped nose, or some other minor flaw, they are so quick to call her ugly, and then say that they wouldn't touch her with a ten foot pole. Meanwhile you just know that some of these guys have probably never touched a girl, hot or otherwise. But it's not only them though. I've seen the media use the term 'ugly' to describe perfectly normal looking girls. They're just not super model hot. It's an awesome way to make a perfectly normal looking girl feel absolutely disgusting about herself. Thank God for Gok Wan - if anyone is going to fix women's self esteem issues and stop their self loathing, it'll be that guy. |
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| mlund Posts: 60 |
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Actually, most people who need to be institutionalized aren't institutionalized because of the legal implications. The amount of money tied up in legal fees and potential liabilities for institutionalizing a non-consenting individual who is not found guilty of a violent felony in this modern legal environment is huge. On the flip side, the history of government-run asylums and the like is pretty horrific. The idea that the State has a prohibitively hard time locking non-violent people up for being judged "mentally ill or deficient," doesn't bother me nearly as much as the idea of the State having an overly easy time doing so. That doesn't ever end well. More to the darkly humorous narrative at hand, Meagan is not a harmlessly quirky fan-girl. She stabbed herself in the chest to get attention / feed her delusion. She's got such serious issues she mimicked a potentially suicidal act she saw on a show. This is the kind of person that people use as an excuse as to why everyone suddenly can't have nice things like cable television and video games. - Marty Lund |
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Richard J. Posts: 3367 Location: Sic Semper Tyrannis. |
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To elaborate a bit on mlund's comments: Academics like Laining, Szasz and Scheff attacked the institutions of the day and influenced popular perceptions of the system. State and federal courts responded to public pressures and a host of nasty stories about abuses by ruling that the mentally ill had a legal right to refuse treatment and could be involuntarily committed only if they posed a clear and present danger to themselves and others. Mass discharges resulted and many people who clearly could benefit from care were released. (Lets not forget that state asylums were at one point quite horrible. Abuse and neglect were rampant in some facilities.) There is a lot of legal red tape to go through now even to prove that someone is a "clear and present danger" to themselves and others. If a real girl like Miaka tried to kill herself but if after an observation period she displayed no suicidal tendencies, they'd have to release her unless the courts said otherwise and they rarely do. Even in cases where they should keep the person in they usually don't. The problem isn't privatization of the system, the problem is the government run system back then was A) using horrible medical practices that are now largely considered barbaric, B) using definitions of illness that were not even really illnesses (like women getting shock treatment for being disobedient) and C) an over-enthusiastic embracing of drug therapy as a cure-all combined with deinstitutionalization by the public. The state facilities were needed but people got such a negative idea of them that they forced them to be gutted and ended in favor of magic pills that turned out to lack effectiveness when no one was around to make people to take them.
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| mlund Posts: 60 |
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It is a state-by-state thing when it comes to sex. Age of consent stuff In CA, for example, it is strictly 18/18, no exceptions. Anything else is rape. - Marty Lund |
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Teriyaki Terrier It's Over 9000! Posts: 5516 |
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Agreed. If for whatever reason the girlfriend feels unsatified with the relationship, all she needs to do is tell her parents/police that her boyfriend is abusing her and that he is a adult and she is a minor and the guy will most likely sent to jail. Or like Dtm42 previously stated, he might just wanted to wait until the girl was old enough so that the possibility of having a mature relationship is much better. In cases such as these, its typically best to wait or start out as friends first. |
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| Tamaria Posts: 1369 Location: De Achterhoek |
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| I thought only having sex before both parties are of age of consent was illegal, not having a relationship. I mean, could they arrest him for going to the movies with her or something? Even if she did something as nasty as claim she was abused there would be no evidence to support her claim. | ||||||
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| Caramel Kisses Posts: 1 |
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That sounds vaguely familiar, nyu... Anywho~ My boyfriend tends to gravitate toward mecha-, martial art-, or demon-themed shonen anime and manga, whereas I'm pretty much purely shojo-interested now. On rare occasion I'll terrorize him by placing a few nendoroids or Hello Kitty figures among his many Transformers... |
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| OneHotAlchemist Posts: 85 |
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Well, both genders are quite guilty of this. Many of my friends have asked a female otaku/anime fan out, only to get shot down because, they weren't waife thin pretty boys, or lacked rippling sixpacks and lithe muscular bodies. Heck, I had one 4'11 girl just tell me I was "too short and too muscular" for her, even though her and I got along perfectly. Men want beautiful women. Women want handsome men. Its not a single-sided argument. In many ways, its downplayed for women. Just look at the whole "body image in videogames" hullabaloo thing that's been going on for years. Its not ok for women to be portrayed in videogames with big breasts, little clothing, and impossibly amazing figures, but its perfectly fine for men to have huge rippling chests, be shirtless, on average be 6-foot or taller, tree trunks for arms, and other nigh-impossibly features. What about a boy's self body image? |
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bglassbrook Posts: 978 Location: Gaithersburg, MD |
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Only half, some of us would be pointing out how your team cheated and the ump was clearly on the payroll. Though golly, when did the grand gesture get such a bad rap? Is this really any worse than Ace Pilot X going out and flying against orders & overwhelming odds to protect those s/he cares for? Or back in the context of the story, Nina and Paola dropping what was likely a sizable sum of money on the figurine to rescue Kevin, which may result in weeks of ramen morning/noon/night? I am not saying what she did was necessarily the brightest thing in the world, but lets remember to only call her crazy for being crazy. |
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