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Friday, August 22, 2003
Yesterday at the trigger point massage session I had a lot more trigger points than last week, but none were as wickedly painful as previously experienced. All the points are along erector muscles on the right side of my back. After 40 minutes of treatment, I came home and hung upside on my inversion table. I had a lot of cracking and popping going on along my spinal column when I first tipped back. Good! Today my back feels a lot looser, but the muscles are sore. I have an appointment to see the chiropractor.
I have also discovered the stupidest post in the world. Stumbled onto it by accident. It was on the Fighting Fundamentalist Forums, but it requires some explanation for readers not acquainted with this particular branch of Fundamentalism. In one strata of this group, women wearing trousers has been forbidden since roughly the 1950's. This branch of the group tends to view gender identity as something tenuous. A person has to keep working to preserve his or her own gender identity. The idea that gender is a natural part of you that is going to stick like glue unless you really work to erase it doesn't occur to them. So they come up with a lot of exaggerated rules for hair and dress codes and even behavior.
Well, back to the stupidest post. In a discussion on women wearing trousers, a poster with the ironic screen name of "brain" wrote the following:
I thought of giving him a tremendous scolding for being so callous towards rape victims and just so all around ignorant about the horrible nature of all sexual assault, but then I did not. In a sense, it's better to preserve material like this. I mean, if this is what these people think, there ought to be a record kept. Sometimes, the best reasons to avoid a system of belief is provided by its own adherents.
I have also discovered the stupidest post in the world. Stumbled onto it by accident. It was on the Fighting Fundamentalist Forums, but it requires some explanation for readers not acquainted with this particular branch of Fundamentalism. In one strata of this group, women wearing trousers has been forbidden since roughly the 1950's. This branch of the group tends to view gender identity as something tenuous. A person has to keep working to preserve his or her own gender identity. The idea that gender is a natural part of you that is going to stick like glue unless you really work to erase it doesn't occur to them. So they come up with a lot of exaggerated rules for hair and dress codes and even behavior.
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It gets so exaggerated, in fact, that there's a startlingly high incidence of perversion that has cropped up in these circles: pedophilia, child molesting, sodomy. It's the same phenomenon you see in Nazi culture or samurai culture. The idea of the perfect woman is so insipid, passive, and helpless that only a little girl can fulfill it, so little girls are picked out for affairs by some of the men who fall into these sins. Or, because women are so devalued, some of the men who fall into perversion go after little boys. Anyway, it's not that the majority fall into these sins, but the occurrence seems to be higher than you get even in mainstream secular society. The most notable culprit is Joe Combs, who adopted a little girl and started raping her when she was around 13. He told her it was God's will for her to be his concubine. You can look up Joe Combs on Google.com. He's in prison right now, as well as his wife, Evangeline, who abetted him and vented her own jealousy on the child. Hyles-Anderson College, of course, sent up a posse of men in suits to Joe's trial to speak on his behalf. They left rather sheepishly. As is typical of HAC/FBCH, they never expressed regret or concern for the young woman who suffered so much. |
Well, back to the stupidest post. In a discussion on women wearing trousers, a poster with the ironic screen name of "brain" wrote the following:
Statistics show that unless a man is real pervert he will not assault a woman in a modest dress.
I thought of giving him a tremendous scolding for being so callous towards rape victims and just so all around ignorant about the horrible nature of all sexual assault, but then I did not. In a sense, it's better to preserve material like this. I mean, if this is what these people think, there ought to be a record kept. Sometimes, the best reasons to avoid a system of belief is provided by its own adherents.
