Rolling Stone Fucks Up Big Time on Massive Rape Article

[Martinus]

Is there a German word for having a face that just seems to invite a fist?

Faggot?

[derspiess]

This thread also depresses me, because Legbiter, despite being morally incorrect, is happier. Probably thanks to a solid math education. Or maybe that's Viking. Whatever.

I don't get this.  Even though most of you are heathens and/or on the wrong political side, I wish you all happiness.

[CountDeMoney]

This thread also depresses me, because Legbiter, despite being morally incorrect, is happier. Probably thanks to a solid math education. Or maybe that's Viking. Whatever.

I don't get this.  Even though most of you are heathens and/or on the wrong political side, I wish you all happiness.

No you don't.

[derspiess]

No you don't.

What makes you say that?  If I thought that little of most of you, I wouldn't be here.

[Ideologue]

It's not political.

[MadImmortalMan]

What a bizarre thing. You know who should be the most angry at this girl? Real rape victims.

[Admiral Yi]

   WTF are they protesting?  Rolling Stone's retraction?

[Valmy]

This thread also depresses me, because Legbiter, despite being morally incorrect, is happier. Probably thanks to a solid math education. Or maybe that's Viking. Whatever.

I don't get this.  Even though most of you are heathens and/or on the wrong political side, I wish you all happiness.

That's one of the things I like about you.  It is never personal.

[Ed Anger]

Tim can eat a shit pie topped with more shit and Ide's whipped cream.

[Ideologue]

He can have it.  I don't like whipped--

Ohhh.

[garbon]

He can have it.  I don't like whipped--

Ohhh.

Wait, so you aren't going to let him have it?

[Ideologue]

Has a better texture than whipped cream, anyway.

[CountDeMoney]

Meanwhile...

The heartbreaking moment a Kenyan girl is sold into marriage
Washington Post

In a village about 50 miles from Marigat in Baringo County, Kenya, among a tribe that practices genital mutilation as a rite of womanhood, a teenage girl is sold into an arranged marriage. Her price is 20 goats, 10 cows and a few camels, paid to her family over several weeks. And her reaction is heartbreaking.

Dressed in bright-colored clothes and ceremonial beads, she tries to escape, balling up a fist and kicking her bare feet from the ground when a man picks her up from behind and pulls her away from her home. The scene, which unfolded over the weekend in the Pokot tribe, was captured and described by Reuters photographer Siegfried Modola. His photos document a Pokot tradition in which parents give away their daughters, usually at the start of adolescence. The girls are sold for a dowry and married to men in the tribe.

The girl's family claimed she didn't know about the arrangement her father made with her future husband, Reuters reported. If they told her, they feared, she would run away. A group of men from the tribe came to collect her and led her to a two-day ceremony in the village.

Within the Pokot tribe, female circumcision is seen as a girl's transition to womanhood. Although it's now illegal in Kenya, the tribe still allows it and, in fact, forces all girls to do it before marriage. The practice is also known as female genital mutilation (FGM) and, in many countries, is considered a human rights violation. It can lead to severe bleeding, infections, infertility and death. Some 125 million girls and women in 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East have experienced it, according to the United Nations.

Earlier this year, Kenya created a prosecution unit and a hotline for girls and women to report such abuse.

"If we get this information beforehand, it will actually assist in prevention of the practice because we can organize our officers on the ground to raid the place and rescue the girls," Christine Nanjala, head of the anti-FGM prosecution unit, told Thomson Reuters Foundation.

In October, Modola shot a series of photos in rural Kenya documenting Pokot's circumcision ritual.

"They believe when a girl is circumcised, she is an adult and she is ready to get married," anti-FGM advocate Rebecca Chebet told WXYZ-TV. "Now girls as young as nine are getting circumcised because their father wants a dowry."

Photos here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/12/11/heartbreaking-photos-capture-moment-kenyan-girl-is-sold-into-arranged-marriage/?tid=pm_national_pop

[derspiess]

Damn, Seedy.  You're awfully insensitive to other equally valid cultures.

Anyway, I made it as far as the pic showing the razor blade and stopped.

[CountDeMoney]

So, how are you fixed for blades?