Prince Myshkin

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jun/20/one-in-three-women-suffers-violence

Religion.

I'm sure she'll be left with enough.

Yeah, I thought that about the inheritance. I may be completely wrong but I imagine a huge lump sum would get taxed more to pass on too.

I'm joking, of course.

I wonder who needs the money all up front?

Anybody who cares about international football is a racist.

If this was Ronaldo I would care and hate him for it and presume his guilt. As it is Messi I await for him to be cleared and have no ill feeling towards him. If Ronaldo didn't exist then I don't think I'd like Messi as much as a person. It's all in the contrast of character. Basically I blame Ronaldo for highlighting my own hypocrisy. A terrible person he is.

Sweeeeeeeeeet.

Believing all women are good for feminism isn't a great theory to have. As, of course, is believing all men are bad for it. As I've said elsewhere in this thread, it can be complex in the sense that the freedom for an individual girl/woman to perform an action is a result of feminism, though the action that they undertaken is not necessarily positive to the cause of feminism. In this sense, not all powerful women are good for feminism.

Find God's match for you.

Most definitely.

More on this (wiki again, don't have time to properly research I'm afraid): South Carolina represents the most extreme situation. Not only is marital rape punished less severely and the victims have only 30 days to report, but the law requires a higher level of violence to be used. The law, titled "Spousal sexual battery" reads as follows:[14] (A) Sexual battery, as defined in Section 16-3-651(h), when accomplished through use of aggravated force, defined as the use or the threat of use of a weapon or the use or threat of use of physical force or physical violence of a high and aggravated nature, by one spouse against the other spouse if they are living together, constitutes the felony of spousal sexual battery and, upon conviction, a person must be imprisoned not more than ten years.

According to Wiki the USA was way ahead of England on that front, across almost all the country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marital_rape_(United_States_law) North Carolina being the last. I always worry about the last, especially when there is a large time difference between that one and the first. I wonder what the hold up was.

For England, rape within marriage was only criminalised in 1991. I was alive when you were allowed to rape your wife. What the fuck is that?

Awesome!

She should but she doesn't have to. It's a disgusting amount for anybody to win. I'd love to win it. If I was the one who hadn't won I'd probably not be able to sleep for quite a long time.

As Voltaire said, it's dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

It's information warfare. The government are allowed to know everything and the people are allowed to know what the government want them to know, and have to work extremely hard to discover anything else. Just look at the war on whistleblowers. People releasing information about war crimes are under threat of potential death yet the government can tap your calls. This information is important, regardless of how trivial it seems. Governments change, society changes. What is acceptable and trivial now may not be acceptable and trivial in the future. Something that takes place in your youth could harm you for the rest of your life. It doesn't add up that there is such a contrast. Surely people would be more suspicious of those with power, given the effect that it has on people.

Like Irish Emma but not a leprechaun.

My sister made me learn the dance routine. It's all I remember about have sky. That, Spanish football and Princess Diana dying.

I used to genuinely like that song. In fact, I've still nothing against it now. Liked the video too.

You often get a situation where women comply to the norm as they expect that to be the case. They believe that this is all they can amount to and they also see an opportunity to make something of themselves by playing the game. Like this girl (can't remember if I've linked this before): [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZs_rE9vqcc]A young American girl talks about stupid women - YouTube[/ame]

I'm on this messageboard completely to hear other people's opinions in order to sharpen my own views. If I go on a huge rant I tend turn people off discussing it as there's too much there, plus it's usually the case that I haven't a fully formed opinion yet. This is why I tend to question others. It is a little scary the amount of protection domestic abuse gets. I understand why, I just don't know whether it's the best way to deal with it in terms of harm reduction.

Duck Greco-Roman