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Nobody on this thread maybe... but the RCC's lamentable lack of ability to apologize and reform is the issue here. Not the words of the people on the thread. And no one needs to tell me that school teacher's abuse kids, too, I was tortured by one myself, and lived to see them teach for another...

Also, I'd guess that a statistic that claims 50% of Swedish children are abused in day car or school covers all abuse, not just sexual abuse. I can't find that anywhere, not a single reputable site made by a government or independent agency. "All abuse" encompasses verbal and psychological...

Those figures are not correct. Philip Jenkins? What is he world's resident statistician now? Nope, he's, what else, a Religious Studies professor! And a long-time contributor to Christianity Today. No formal training in mathematics whatsoever. Yeah, what a reliable source of statistical...

First of all, where did you get your statistics? Because those aren't the ones I've seen. I've seen lots of conflicting data on this from different sources. But let's pretend you're right-- Does any of this excuse the past several hundred years of cover up? Or the fact that after priests got...

They never really stopped that one... But yeah I'm afraid for humanity. Humans are dumb.

Dave Wozniak...

Yeah, but Section, there are few denominations that allow priests/leaders such an inordinate amount of unsupervised access to children as Catholicism does... I think that with paired with the fact that the RCC's strategy for dealing with problems is to "keep it in the family" and avoid allowing...

I think they're abandoning the progesterone therapy, more or less, because the guys themselves say it's also a psychological issue not entirely a baseline drive issue. Yeah, with the high testosterone, it could be a cart/hourse question... certain high risk behaviors can elevate testosterone...

Not dumb at all... a lot of sex offenders have abnormally high levels of free floating testosterone. That's why, in the U.S., a lot of them submit to hormonal castration as part of a prison program. Basically, they pump them full of progesterone to counteract the effects of the testosterone...

I would think of minimal techno as Buddhism. Something bright and psychedelic for Hinduism...

When I lived on St. Nicholas in Bushwick there was this bodega run by Muslim dudes, right down the street from one owned by Mexicans. The Muslim guys would chant prayers really loudly all the time but they still had a whole wall of Mexican candles with Mary and the saints on them. (A buck's a...

That's what power and authority do... call out to be abused by sociopathic assholes.

Spass machen...probably the best idiom in German that relies on "make"...

Ah yes...the inclusion of those pesky "small" groups, that are actually millions large, in discourse. What a draag, man.

I like how in German, they say "Haare" which is hair, plural. So they say, "I like your hairs"...Ich mag deine Haare...

Sure, a lot of people would've thought of that. I didn't, although my personal experiences with disability have all been neurological. Watching my grandmother slowly die in a hospital bed for more than half of her life with MS, etc. Cousins with autism. So straight up classic "disability"...

Vision Machine is a really good choice, especially if your friend is a visual artist... Foucault's History of Sex would probably be good...not that I agree 10% with that either, but still, 'important' and interesting.

On the "cismale" point... it's only really used in discussion when you're trying to convey the privilege that is being cis rather than trans... basically, in most normal/informal conversations, even academic ones, it's not used. It's mostly used in specific cases when privilege is the topic of...

The same people who question whether an American sex worker can "consent" to sex work have no problem with the idea that muslim women all autonomously "consent" in their purest subjective selfhood to wearing a veil and getting stoned for the crime of being raped? Give me a break. At least be...

"Faith" for these people is self-help... and they have the fucking nerve to accuse other people of putting aside important "political" concerns in favor of self-help. And of course, the people they're saying this kind of thing to are the types who've been repeatedly raped, abused, assaulted...