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[phaedrusxy]

No wonder this poor bastard was wanking it on the beach: he's afraid to touch a woman, because he might be put in prison for 6 years.

[Kajhera]

"ill, injured or mentally disturbed" ... "even if they have given consent"
... wait, what? Are you not supposed to have sex if you have a broken leg or something? 

[altpersona]

 

hope a broken thyroid doesn't count

[bhu]

"ill, injured or mentally disturbed" ... "even if they have given consent"
... wait, what? Are you not supposed to have sex if you have a broken leg or something? 

The idea is that if you have been sufficiently injured you are likely to be on medication that would impair judgement.  Same with severe illness.

[awaken_D_M_golem]

Any here in Sweden?

Give them a minute to clean up ...

dude 1:  "What were you just doing?" 
dude 2:  "Uhh  I was talking to the Judge."

[Kajhera]

"ill, injured or mentally disturbed" ... "even if they have given consent"
... wait, what? Are you not supposed to have sex if you have a broken leg or something? 

The idea is that if you have been sufficiently injured you are likely to be on medication that would impair judgement.  Same with severe illness.

And mental disturbance? At what point in that do you lose the agency to give consent?

[dman11235]

Theoretically, the idea is that you cannot give consent if mentally you are, well, not able to give consent.  I'm pretty much in agreement on that aspect of their law, as long as it's not worded poorly so that the innocent regularly get convicted.  There should be a psychiatric expert on hand to give consultation in laws like this, and I know Finland has that for its entertainment rating committee (a group made up of child psychology experts).

Anyways, it seems like they are trying to legislate on the topic of "uniformed consent" and...uh...what's the phrase?  Like, being too drunk to consent or mentally unstable or socially unstable or whatnot.

[Amechra]

“‘Pete & Pete’ Was All White People!”: ‘SLIMED!’ Author Mathew Klickstein on Why ‘Ren and Stimpy’ Was Better Than ‘Clarissa’ and Nickelodeon’s Diversity Problem

It's a new outlet, I think an interview counts.

I'm posting this more because of the "oh, this guy is a monster" response for daring to give his opinion that you shouldn't throw minorities into a show just to have minorities. I'll admit, he did come off poorly saying so (he... did not pick the best phraseology), but he had something of a valid point.

(Quick, tl;Dr note (the first half of the interview is pretty inoffensive): he argues that it doesn't matter if some show was made by all guys, or all white people, or features a cast without minorities - it just matters if the show is good. Kids don't watch Dora the Explorer because she's Hispanic, they watch the show because she has adventures.)

[dman11235]

http://fox4kc.com/2014/10/07/police-say-child-thought-heroin-was-candy-shared-at-a-day-care/

[phaedrusxy]

Do you think he'd grant me a wish if I called him (on the phone, in jail) 3 times?

[Raineh Daze]

“‘Pete & Pete’ Was All White People!”: ‘SLIMED!’ Author Mathew Klickstein on Why ‘Ren and Stimpy’ Was Better Than ‘Clarissa’ and Nickelodeon’s Diversity Problem

It's a new outlet, I think an interview counts.

I'm posting this more because of the "oh, this guy is a monster" response for daring to give his opinion that you shouldn't throw minorities into a show just to have minorities. I'll admit, he did come off poorly saying so (he... did not pick the best phraseology), but he had something of a valid point.

(Quick, tl;Dr note (the first half of the interview is pretty inoffensive): he argues that it doesn't matter if some show was made by all guys, or all white people, or features a cast without minorities - it just matters if the show is good. Kids don't watch Dora the Explorer because she's Hispanic, they watch the show because she has adventures.)

Yeah, but later on he segues into 'if there's no reason to have non-white-males, why are you putting non-white-males in', which is problematic because it makes an assumption that this is the default, and anything else has to have a narrative reason for it. That you can't make characters female just because you feel like making them female, or that they can't be anything other than white because this requires a whole cultural exploration thing, thus stating that race = culture. It gets incredibly bad in that way.

[bhu]

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/11/brazil-police-brutality-kill-6-people-a-day  I have to ask our Brazilian members (assuming they live near the affected areas), is it really this bad?

[dman11235]

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/11/15/us-usa-muslim-prayer-idINKCN0IY2JJ20141115

[Raineh Daze]

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/11/15/us-usa-muslim-prayer-idINKCN0IY2JJ20141115

Interfaith co-operation or not, that's an odd venue.

[dman11235]

I really hate headline sensationalism.

File this headline under "no duh".  And it waits until the end to mention how this is a good thing.

[ketaro]

http://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-slams-us-racist-human-rights-tundra-073846263.html

 

[awaken_D_M_golem]

NKorea is probably behind the major hacking (!!) of the Sony movie studio that produced the James Franco film The Interview.

Now if they (either of them) could just finish the job     

[bhu]

A years end sampling:

http://www.hngn.com/articles/53938/20141223/florida-woman-tried-hiring-hit-man-kill-husband-offered-pizza.htm

http://www.bradenton.com/2014/12/09/5521727_bradenton-woman-arrested-after.html?rh=1

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/crime-law/unhappy-lovemaking-allegedly-leads-to-arrest-of-de/nhSqL/

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/local/man-arrested-after-fire-in-hospital-icu-1.417608?tc=cr

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/deadline-miami/article4381762.html

[bhu]

moot stepped down from 4chan 

[dman11235]

Wait, there's people with /positions/ there?