by Carl Howard | Jul 14, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, Sex
[CN: Sexual assault etc.] Last week I posted about what a paradigm of affirmative consent would look like. A lot of the post was general, not talking about specific legislation. And yet, the whole media frenzy was around some of the new affirmative consent laws in...
by Carl Howard | Jul 7, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, Sex
[CN: Sexual assault etc.] Last year, the idea of affirmative consent was first put into place by some US college campuses. This sparked a lot of discussion, some good and some, ahem, “sub-optimal”. Maybe we’ll remember 2014 as the year of the rape singularity that...
by Carl Howard | Jun 16, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Race, Sex
[CN: Racist imagery below] … … … … … … … … … … … … What does the image above make you think? While there’s a wide range of possible reactions, I predict the vast majority of people would be simultaneously repulsed by the racist imagery while possibly agreeing...
by Carl Howard | Jun 2, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Charity and Philanthropy, Ethics, Resources, Food and Environment
[CN: Dehumanisation, crimes against humanity] In addition to the problems intrinsic to homelessness, homeless people often suffer from deliberate harm by others. For example, Social cleansing is the act of targeting people you deem “undesirable” for the...
by Carl Howard | May 19, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Ethics, Race
In the last few days, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (the living Boston marathon bomber) has been in the news again. Having been convicted on all counts in April, he has just now been sentenced to death by lethal injection. Coming off the recent executions of Andrew Chan and...
by Carl Howard | Mar 19, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, Language, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Race, Sex
Because the internet NEEDS another opinion on trigger warnings/content notes! Act 1 A long time ago in a parallel universe, writing was AuthenticTM. A host of manly men created great literature and disseminated them to the public. Everything was great and everyone got...
