Good morning, and Happy Birthday, Joe Scheidler! Below were my top five favorite political cartoons this week. Be sure to vote for your fav in the poll at the bottom of the post!
by Lisa Benson at Townhall.com…
by Chip Bok at Townhall.com…
by Gary McCoy at Townhall.com…
by Michael Ramirez at Townhall.com…
by Glenn McCoy at GoComics.com…
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#3 was my favourite this week.
I like 3 too.
I don’t know why so many Brits are in ISIS. If you don’t like your country JUST LEAVE. Why try to destroy it?
Five.
I like number 3 but he forgot part. It should be Obama saying
“if you like your head you can keep your head Period.”
The last one is gross. We wear helmets when riding bikes just like we wear underwear when in public. We don’t wear helmets just chilling around our home, or when showering, or whatever, even though head injuries are possible at those times too. If someone runs into your house and hits you over the head, then says you should have been wearing a helmet if you didn’t want to get hurt, we would consider that ludicrous. People should be able to be naked when engaging in sexual behavior in their own homes without needing to worry about the whole world having access.
People should be able to be naked when engaging in sexual behavior in their own homes without needing to worry about the whole world having access.
I agree. It’s kind of like blaming the victim here.
The last one is extremely offensive.
I find it particularly ironic that the same people who will complain (rightfully) about women (or anyone) being blamed for rape or sexual harassment in Islamic dominated countries if they don’t “cover up” or stop being gay or whatever, will turn around and agree with comics like that.
Here’s a crazy, out of the box, idea! Let’s start blaming people for being victimized and begin blaming perpetrators. Not just the perpetrators that have a religion we don’t like.
I hope whoever hacked all those women gets serious charges. It’s like that revenge porn site. That dude was being sent private photos and videos from bitter exes and ruining lives. I suppose it was the victims’ faults for daring to trust someone they loved with private things.
In my first comment I obviously meant stop blaming people for being victimized. Stupid phone.
Stupid phone.
Wait, isn’t that a ‘smart phone’? :P
If we are not being “politically correct,” then my phone is profoundly retarded.
The last one is gross. We wear helmets when riding bikes just like we wear underwear when in public. We don’t wear helmets just chilling around our home, or when showering, or whatever, even though head injuries are possible at those times too.
No, but the point is that if you’re engaging in a potentially risky activity you should take reasonable precautions (ie wearing a seatbelt when you drive, wearing a helmet when you ride a bicycle, locking your home whenever you leave it unoccupied, avoiding water with fast undercurrent when you swim, and keeping your clothes on when you’re being photographed by devices that can easily be compromised). It’s not that you should take every course of action imaginable in order to prevent harm or mischief (living far away from any roads, never riding a bicycle, never leaving your home without a reliable army to protect both you and your property, never even taking a bath to avoid drowning, and never engaging in any sexual behaviour), or that you’re “at fault” if something bad does happen to you.
If someone runs into your house and hits you over the head, then says you should have been wearing a helmet if you didn’t want to get hurt, we would consider that ludicrous.
Besides the obvious difference between stolen photos and physical assault (following break-and-enter), we generally do encourage people to lock their houses and discourage them from leaving a big stack of $100 bills on their living room table.
People should be able to be naked when engaging in sexual behavior in their own homes without needing to worry about the whole world having access.
People should be able to walk down the street without being chased by stalkers with video cameras (who are paid handsomely if they can capture a “wardrobe malfunction” or obtain juicy information about something very personal like an eating disorder, a marriage breakdown, or a pregnancy complication). A man should be able to give his children a normal childhood without forcing them to wear masks in public to protect them from harassment. This type of behaviour is no less of an invasion of privacy, is much harder to avoid, and has caused considerably more harm than a few stolen photos (all of which were voluntarily taken by the respective subjects). Of course, said stalkers are only able to earn a living because the public is willing to consume tabloids and the like. But I’m not sure how the cartoon is related to what people “should be” able to do.
I find it particularly ironic that the same people who will complain (rightfully) about women (or anyone) being blamed for rape or sexual harassment in Islamic dominated countries if they don’t “cover up” or stop being gay or whatever, will turn around and agree with comics like that.
Surely there’s a difference between blaming someone for getting raped (and, in many cases, stoning her to death) and encouraging people to have enough common sense to be careful with what they put on their digital devices and who they share it with in an environment where a guessed password, a nasty grudge, or even an accidental slip of the fingers means it ends up online forever.
I hope whoever hacked all those women gets serious charges. It’s like that revenge porn site. That dude was being sent private photos and videos from bitter exes and ruining lives. I suppose it was the victims’ faults for daring to trust someone they loved with private things.
As repugnant as that is, it’s not really anything new. Bitter exes have used private material to humiliate since the beginning of time. Someone might be devastated if their ex told the world about their suicide attempt, their horse fetish, their sexual orientation, or their virginity status. I don’t think releasing photos is essentially worse. The rise of the Internet is all the more reason to be careful with what you trust someone with.
As an aside, I find it fascinating that the media will scream bloody murder over men releasing revenge porn of their exes and the nude photo leak (even comparing the latter to ISIS beheadings) but didn’t raise a peep about Greg Oden’s ex releasing his naked photos without his permission. The Huffington Post not only linked to the pictures but also invited its readers to answer a poll about whether he could make it as a porn star with his giant penis. Doesn’t necessarily prove anything, but the double standards and selective outrage get old pretty quickly.
“As an aside, I find it fascinating that the media will scream bloody murder over men releasing revenge porn of their exes and the nude photo leak (even comparing the latter to ISIS beheadings) but didn’t raise a peep about Greg Oden’s ex releasing his naked photos without his permission. The Huffington Post not only linked to the pictures but also invited its readers to answer a poll about whether he could make it as a porn star with his giant penis. Doesn’t necessarily prove anything, but the double standards and selective outrage get old pretty quickly.”
The way Greg Oden was treated by media was disgusting. He has just as much right to not being gawked at and sexually harassed as any woman. That double standard is wrong.
“Someone might be devastated if their ex told the world about their suicide attempt, their horse fetish, their sexual orientation, or their virginity status. I don’t think releasing photos is essentially worse.”
I think releasing pictures is a bit worse. Exes say a lot of things. My ex told plenty of lies about me and a few truths I would rather not be plastered everywhere. But if she had posted nude photos of me in a compromising position I would be utterly humiliated. Funny though, I did have nude photos of HER (she wanted them taken, I refused to have them taken of me) but I just deleted them after we got divorced. It IS worse in my opinion to do things like revenge porn because not only if it’s on the Internet, it never goes away, but it’s visual and it’s not something people can just brush off as a bitter ex’s lie.
“Surely there’s a difference between blaming someone for getting raped (and, in many cases, stoning her to death) and encouraging people to have enough common sense to be careful with what they put on their digital devices and who they share it with in an environment where a guessed password, a nasty grudge, or even an accidental slip of the fingers means it ends up online forever.”
Not really. It just sounds like the laundry list of things people like to give rape victims to tell them how they should have prevented their attacks.
I think releasing pictures is a bit worse. Exes say a lot of things. My ex told plenty of lies about me and a few truths I would rather not be plastered everywhere. But if she had posted nude photos of me in a compromising position I would be utterly humiliated. Funny though, I did have nude photos of HER (she wanted them taken, I refused to have them taken of me) but I just deleted them after we got divorced.
Well, it would probably depend on the person. Some people would be less embarrassed by the nude photos (as opposed to other forms of humiliation).
It IS worse in my opinion to do things like revenge porn because not only if it’s on the Internet, it never goes away, but it’s visual and it’s not something people can just brush off as a bitter ex’s lie.
That’s not true. Anyone that knows how to use Photoshop and has enough time on their hands (or is friends with someone that knows how to use Photoshop and has enough time on their hands) can make revenge porn of whoever they want irrespective of whether they truly possess intimate photographs. And the rest of us can then easily brush it off as a bitter ex’s lie.
Not really. It just sounds like the laundry list of things people like to give rape victims to tell them how they should have prevented their attacks.
We might have to disagree on this one – I’ll grant that the line between advising people on how to protect themselves and victim-blaming is a pretty fine one to straddle. But I think the main problem with blaming a rape victim is that it completely disregards the fact that the rapist was perfectly capable of choosing not to attack her. Perhaps the most infamous example came from the notorious Australian anti-Semitist Feiz Mohammad:
So in other words, rape is just something that horny men are programmed to do when women arouse them (much like hungry lions eating tasty antelope). It’s bad when a man rapes a woman, but how was he supposed to know not to have sex with her? Look at all the skin she was showing! He essentially excuses the rapist of any moral culpability whatsoever. One of the most horrible forms of violence a person can inflict is reduced to a mere consequence of human nature rather than a conscious decision. Society then trivializes rape and in some cases further harms the victim. Thus we often hear the pejorative term “rape apologist” used to refer to people like Feiz Mohammad.
(and no, it’s not just Muslims that think this way. Earlier this year, Washington Post columnist George Will seemed to argue that campus rape is much ado about nothing – stuff just happens when you mix hormones, alcohol, promiscuity, and privileged youth together. He also said that rape victims enjoy a “privileged status”, which is not worthy of a response)
But having said all that, I don’t think it is prima facie wrong to advise people to protect themselves from sexual assault. Not because rape is just something that happens (like a lion attack or a blizzard) if you’re not careful enough to prevent it, but because there are people in the world that are unscrupulous, dangerous, and downright rotten. I do think that feminists often overreact when they’re told this, though it’s certainly better than the other extreme (treating the victim as the cause of the rape rather than the person that decided to commit a horrible assault).