Posted on 05/12/2014 9:19:56 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Robert Rogers is a bad guy but a spectacular character and very interesting historical figure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQVLP9Pu9pk
“I’ll make you something even lower than a sodomite or even a snake’s belly.”
Good show
Why do most of the video games involve violence?
That's sick............yes they will, and it will work.
Can't say that I disagree.
On the other hand, the presumption of innocence must be maintained. There have been many falso accusations of rape, and many men rotting in prison because a woman lied.
Therefore, I believe a false accusation should be severely punished, if proven. Not just for rape but for any crime.
100% agreement in that. Knowing that you could send someone to death because of your false words might make a few women realize the severity of a false accusation as well. And if there is a false accusation of rape, it should carry the same penalty as the rape itself.
No doubt true. My comment was meant somewhat in jest, to point out that firearms are indeed the great equalizer, making a 120 woman very nearly, if not exactly, equal to a 250 pound man in a fight.
My personal favorite in the movies is the woman archer specialist who outshoots men. Using a true warbow is one of the specialties of combat where men have the greatest advantage over women. The physical strength required is almost entirely upper body strength.
A medieval male English archer could probably pull a bow at least 3x the draw weight any woman of the time (or today) could pull, meaning he would have something around twice the range, assuming roughly equal levels of skill.
Recent evidence is that some English longbowmen pulled bows up to 180 pounds. Developing the strength and skill to do so took literally decades of training and created significant deformities in the archers’ skeletons. In mass graves of the time, they can pick the archers out by those deformities.
Unfortunately you are right. Rape is far more common than most people believe.
I’ve not watched much of GOT.
But the show has repeated mass slaughter of innocents and children, lots of torture, and nobody gets upset till a single character is raped?
A few months ago Boko Haram murdered 50 boys, many of them burned alive. Hardly made a blip on the news.
The same group kidnaps (and presumably rapes) 250 girls recently, and the world reacts with outrage. Entirely appropriately, to be sure.
Go to wikipedia for any recent conflict, and there will usually be considerably more space dedicated to discussion of the rape of women than to the mass murder of their men.
I’m as opposed to rape as it is possible to be, but when did murder of males become a minor issue relative to rape of women?
I always thought that was hilarious too.
Also Star Wars. People standing 20 feet apart and blazing away with blasters and nobody gets hurt. Always thought a tommy gun would have been considerably more effective.
Saw one of the Harry Potter movies with my daughter. Two groups were blazing away at each other with their wands inside an ice cream parlor or something. I wondered aloud to her about whether it might have been a better idea for somebody to bring along a Garand. She was not amused.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
Because it’s white men.
Yes, I always wondered about the A-team. They were supposed to be the best of the best of the best, but couldn’t hit the broadside of a barn.
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