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In The Mailbox: 02.13.18

Posted on | February 13, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.13.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras Carnival
Twitchy: Chris Cillizza Busted For Yet Another Embarrassing Mistake
Louder With Crowder: Painter Of Obama Portrait Likes To Paint Black Women Decapitating White Women
Wired: Inside The Two Years That Shook Facebook – And The World (h/t NeoWayland)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: I’d Rather Be Lifting, also, The Bell Curve Of Life
American Power: Leftist Obsession With Russia Is The New McCarthyism, also, Howard Kurtz, Media Madness
American Thinker: The Great Flynn Case Mystery
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Blue Flight News
Baldilocks: Great Black Patriots In The House Of Representatives
BattleSwarm: Israel Hits Multiple Targets In Syria
BLACKFIVE: Charles Todd, The Gate Keeper
CDR Salamander: A Long, Irregular And Forever War – On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: Report From Louisiana  – Are Indie Bookstores Coming Back? also, Fake News & Vietnam
Don Surber: Vanessa Trump Hospitalized – Enough. End The Resistance.
Dustbury: They Do Not Choose To Run
Fausta: In Mexico, CJNG Kidnaps Two Special Agents
The Geller Report: Welfare For Foreign “Refugees” Costs US Over $870 Million Annually, also, Qaisar Mahmood, New Head of The Swedish Heritage Board
Hogewash: Yours Truly Johnny Atsign, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Joe For America: Snowflake Soldiers – Army Going Back To Basics To Instill Discipline On “Entitled” Enlisted
JustOneMinute: Winning The Gold Medal For Stupid
Legal Insurrection: Obama’s Presidential Center Facing Environmental Impact Lawsuit, also,  Senate Judiciary Committee Has Questions About Bizarre E-Mail Susan Rice Sent To Herself
Power Line: The Weak In Portraits, Obama Edition, also,  Did Michael Flynn Actually Do Anything Wrong?
Shark Tank: Democratic Lawmaker Is No “Drug Czar”
Shot In The Dark: They Just Keep On Ticking
STUMP: Memory Monday – Current Flu Hospitalizations & Second Week Of February 1918
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler Intermission
This Ain’t Hell: Remington To File For Bankruptcy, also, Ranger Dies During Training
Victory Girls: Pleasant Surprise? Buried Within The Trump Budget Is An Obamacare Repeal
Weasel Zippers: Pelosi Tells Democrats Fight Anything Trump & GOP Bring Forward, also, More Proof Liberal Media Bias Is Just A Myth – Oh, Wait.
Mark Steyn: Judging Us

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In The Mailbox: 02.12.18

Posted on | February 12, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.12.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: The Grassley Memo Shows How Bad Things Really Are
Twitchy: Thread Featuring Brutal Illustrations by Former Nork Prisoners Kicks Fawning Media Right In The Teeth
Louder With Crowder: Bill Murray Masterfully Picks Apart Liberal Identity Politics
The Week: Is America Having Second Thoughts About Free Speech? (h/t NeoWayland)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Parents Want Their Kids Labeled Autistic To Excuse Their Own Failings
American Power: Worst Flu Season In Almost A Decade? also, We All Live On Campus Now
American Thinker: Our Radicalized Media – A Clear And Present Danger
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Baldilocks: I Don’t Miss George W. Bush Any More
BattleSwarm: Russian Collusion CONFIRMED – With Democrats And The CIA
BLACKFIVE: Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone
CDR Salamander: Those Are Not Simple Sand Bars China Is Building
Da Tech Guy: Let’s Try That German Leftist Who “Evolved” On Refugees Again
Don Surber: Illegal Calls 911, ICE Provides It
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, You Call This Conservative?
Fausta: Brazil – Carnival Week
The Geller Report: In Libya, Black Africans Are Being Sold By Arabs In The Slave Market
Hogewash: 18 USC 1001, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Joe For America: Conservative DREAMer Slams Democrats – “They Use Us As Pawns”
JustOneMinute: All He Was Saying Was “Give Peace A Chance”
Legal Insurrection: Iran Uses Stealth Drone Against Israel #ThanksObama, also, CNN Fawns Over Nork Dictator’s Sister At Olympics
Power Line: Is California Starting To Circle The Drain? also, “I Was Wrong”
Shark Tank: Obama & Holder Target Key States In 2018 – Including Florida
Shot In The Dark: The Higher Education Butane Balloon
STUMP: Illinois Idiocy – Projecting Potential Cash Flows For Proposed Pension Obligation Bonds
The Jawa Report: ISIS Sh*tbags Alexanda Kotey & El Shafee El-Shaikh Captured
The Political Hat: To Be Or Not To Be – Contrasting Euthanasia Laws In Two States
This Ain’t Hell: Failing The Combat Endurance Tests No Longer Disqualifies Infantry Officers, also, Cayleigh And The First Sergeant
Victory Girls: Movie Review – The 15:17 To Paris
Weasel Zippers: Senator Gillibrand (D-NY) Says Her Constituents Outside NYC Are “Wrong” And “Racist” About Guns & Immigration, also, America Still Has No Ambassador To Germany, Thanks To Senate Democrats
Mark Steyn: Motherlode Of Moxie, also, Green-Eyed About Brown Eyes


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The Kinky Queer Intersectional Feminist: Empowerment by Sado-Masochism?

Posted on | February 12, 2018 | 2 Comments

 

Suz Ellis (@redhotsuz on Twitter) is a Canadian sex blogger who is “currently pursuing a double major in Communications and Multimedia, and hope to one day work within the sexuality industry.” What? You had not previously realized that “sexuality” is now an “industry” in Canada? Welcome to the 21st-century, where every Canadian college girl can aspire to a career in the “sexuality industry” thanks to the empowering influence of feminism. It’s right there in Ms. Ellis’s bio:

I started this blog in January 2016 as an outlet to practice my writing and to create a space to talk about sex openly. I lacked a sense of a sex-positive community in my life, so I created Red Hot Suz as a way to connect to the existing one online, and to help spread the word about sex-positivity and safe sex toys. . . .
I’m a curvy, ­­kinky, cis-female . . . I’m queer, specifically bisexual and heteromantic. . . . I am sex-positive, body-positive & an intersectional feminist.

If you have difficulty processing that information, don’t worry. Feminism in the 21st century is beyond logical analysis or moral judgment. Any woman can do whatever she wants to do and, by calling herself a “feminist,” she thereby silences all criticism or disagreement, because anyone who disagrees with a feminist is anti-woman, a misogynist.

Suz Ellis at a “Take Back the Night” rally.

The label “feminist” is like a magic talisman, which can negate any common-sense objection to whatever it is that a woman wishes to do. This magical power is particularly helpful to the emotionally unstable woman, who can make excuses and offer self-justifying rationalizations for her toxic behavior by employing feminist jargon like a ritual incantation, casting a protective spell to ward off patriarchal spirits. Anyone with common sense sees her as a deeply troubled person in need of psychiatric care, but should you voice concern about her problems, she just says the magic words (e.g., “sex positivity”) and your criticism of her harmful behavior is nullified. You’re “slut-shaming” her or stigmatizing her gender identity or whatever, and therefore your common-sense advice is an ignorant expression of woman-hating bigotry.

Consider, for example, Ms. Ellis’s decision to publicly identify herself as “queer,” despite the fact that she is mainly interested in men. Perhaps I’m not qualified to speak for the tastes of young Canadian men, but how many guys are interested in dating a “queer . . . intersectional feminist” who has made a career of blogging about dildos and lube? Even if we acknowledge that many guys like women who are, shall we say, adventurous in the bedroom, do they want a partner who is so public about her adventures? The “sex-positive” feminist would, no doubt, justify this as “de-stigmatizing” bisexuality, but is it wise to sacrifice one’s privacy for the sake of a political agenda? Insofar as bisexuality is stigmatized, do you suppose your personal life will be improved by publicizing your bisexuality? Or is it more likely (as I suspect) that you will find yourself ostracized by decent people, and thus forced to choose your partners from among the outcasts, freaks and weirdos?

Such common-sense objections to the “intersectional feminist” agenda are seldom heard nowadays because no one wants to be accused of sexism, homophobia or some other Thoughtcrime, which might be considered a human rights violation under Canadian law, for all I know. Ms. Ellis is a student at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, where certainly none of her professors would dare criticize her aspirations to “work within the sexuality industry.”

 

Did I mention Ms. Ellis is fat? It’s kind of an issue for her:

Conventionally attractive and popular girls in my classes wouldn’t want to make a connection with me even in terms of casual friendships. Guys in my classes would treat me differently too, either seeing me as the “funny, fat, undateable friend” or asking me out as a joke. Everywhere I looked, I felt excluded from what was supposed to be considered the mainstream high school experience. . . .
I stayed single, waiting and yearning for love and kisses.
I lost weight in between my first year of college, had sex for the first time, and moved to Ontario to start university, giving me a new found confidence in my body and myself. I was still an XL, but I was much more ready to take on the dating game and . . . dive into the sex world. But even with the newly gained boost of appreciation for my body, I still had some hangups about how other people, specifically men, would view my plus sized self.

Question: Are there any fat male “sex-positive” bloggers? No, because women don’t like fat guys. Nobody wants to hear fat guys talk about sex. As a matter of fact, I’d be willing to wager money that Ms. Ellis herself avoids dating fat guys. But the feminist victimhood complex justifies such double standards. Women are oppressed by patriarchy and therefore, the particular disadvantages experienced by fat women are a feminist issue, whereas the problems of fat men don’t matter. Identity politics becomes a rationalization of total selfishness and your membership in a collective class of victims exempts you from criticism. Consistency? Anyone who expects consistency of a feminist is sure to be disappointed.

Let us ask, for example, how does Ms. Ellis rationalize as “feminist” her desire to be sexually dominated by a male partner?

I don’t particularly remember the first time someone choked me in bed. Looking back with my bad memory, I could honestly just assume everyone I slept with had choked me at some point. It started with a [penis] in my throat, and that lead to hands squeezing my neck. I liked the sensation that someone was controlling my breath, choosing when I got to breath and when I had to shut the f–k up. If I was making out with someone and their hand started to lead from my [breasts] to my throat, my moans would get louder, muffled only by the other person’s mouth as they tested my boundaries of how far they could go. . . .

(Permit me to interrupt here and say I assume that anyone who enjoys this kind of behavior has got a serious porn problem. The connection between the BDSM “kink” scene and hard-core pornography is so obvious I wouldn’t even mention it, but pornography use among young people has become so common that many of them would freak out if they ever met anyone who’s normal. But continue, Ms. Ellis . . .)

My first serious friends with benefits was a dominant guy . . . We had rough sex; sex that made me feel good, submissive and pleasured to my soul. He coaxed me into trying [anal sex], and did so in a way that made me feel seductively coerced (now a big kink of mine) and like such a good girl for trying progressively bigger things in my butt. . . .

(Again, the influence of porn is apparent in the way anal sex, a degrading and unsanitary practice, has now evidently become routine for many heterosexuals. Continue, Ms. Ellis . . .)

Within the past year . . . my urges to be more submissive were starting to ramp up. With spankings, deepthroating, any and all aggressive sex acts, I would be waiting for partners to push me over the edge, to make me really feel it. . . .
Luckily I met a wonderful daddy dom at Woodhull [a “sexual freedom” conference] during a chance elevator ride that has been slowly bringing back my submissive confidence. We didn’t get to connect that weekend, but have been having phone sex a lot since then and have developed a lovely daddy dom/baby girl relationship.

Far be it from me to say that people shouldn’t be free to do whatever it takes to achieve mutual satisfaction in such matters, but excuse me if I fail to see how this qualifies as “intersectional feminism.” What sort of feminist “empowerment” does Ms. Ellis achieve by getting spanked, choked, deep-throated and sodomized by a dominant “daddy”?

Sado-masochism has never appealed to me, and I have a difficult time imagining how or why anyone could enjoy such behavior. It’s like people with foot fetishes — what kind of freak gets off on that stuff?

How these deviant urges develop is something that students of abnormal psychology might explain, but why would someone advertise their perversion the way Ms. Ellis does? She justifies this by calling herself a “sex-positive . . . intersectional feminist,” but how is she advancing the cause of “gender equality” by publicly humiliating herself?

As I said, feminism is like a magic talisman by which a woman can justify whatever she wants to do, while silencing all criticism.

 

Yes, of course! Ms. Ellis only wants to be spanked, choked, deep-throated and sodomized by a dominant progressive “daddy”:

My politics are the reason I haven’t been hooking up with as many people lately. Up until now, I had blamed it on not wanting to risk bad sex (which still is true), but because of my recent push to become more political, the men I’m choosing to casually f–k must meet intersectional feminist criteria. . . .
One could argue that I could put effort into separating sex and politics, which I’ve done in the past, but can’t and won’t do anymore. See sex-positivity, my lifestyle, my queerness, aren’t allowed in Trump’s America or in a conservative world. . . .
The slut in me is becoming ever more frustrated at the lack of current Left-wing [males] in my area.

Ms. Ellis’s intersectional feminist boycott of right-wing males in Ontario is, perhaps, the best thing that ever happened to Canada.

You can thank President Trump for that.



 

Category: Sex Trouble

Rule 5 Sunday: Hot Women In Snow

Posted on | February 11, 2018 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Personally, I’m not following the Winter Olympics, mainly because I don’t have time between work and school and futile attempts at getting caught up on sleep, but if I was I’d probably be paying a lot of attention to the womens’ skating events, because that’s where the hit women in scanty costumes are. Though it does seem that other sports are catching up, as we see from this pic of Russian curling cutie Anna Sidorova from the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Almost certainly not her competition threads.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off as usual with Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #160, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism favors us this week with Rule Five Rockin’ Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL has Westworld Rule 5, Viviana Volpicelli and Olivia Culpo, Vintage Fishing, Olga Buzova, Bear In The Faire Market, Winter Olympics Rule 5, the Nork Minister of Agitprop, Cheese Addiction, and Kristen Hyman.

A View From The Beach brings us Piranha from 30 Rock – Katrina Bowden,  FLOTUS!,  Tax for the Goose is Tax for the Gander,  The Rise of the Robo-Sexuals,  Transactivist Attacks Weinstein Heroine,  Dogs Have No Shame,  Gisele Bündchen’s Husband…, and  Uma Has Regrets.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Katie Aselton, his Vintage Babe is Virginia O’Brien, Sex in Advertising has Ali Larter for Doritos,  and there’s the annual SI Swimsuit Issue tackling the #MeToo movement. At Dustbury, it’s Tinashe and Carol Alt.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

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FMJRA 2.0: For The Turnstiles

Posted on | February 11, 2018 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Eagles With Elbows
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
Proof Positive
EBL
A View From The Beach

#TheMemo: Worse Than Watergate?
Nebraska Energy Observer
A View From The Beach

FMJRA 2.0: Day Late & A Dollar Short
EBL
A View From The Beach

In The Mailbox: 02.05.18
Proof Positive

You’re Wrong, @RKyleSmith: Why #MeToo Will Continue Destroying Men
EBL
Pushing Rubber Downhill

In The Mailbox: 02.06.18
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.07.18
Proof Positive
EBL

A Cheaper Date Than Peterson: 12 Rules
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.08.18
Proof Positive
EBL
A View From The Beach

How About $3 for a Rant?
EBL
Pushing Rubber Downhill

Teenager Uses Gay Dating App to Meet Cute Strangers, and Bad Things Happen
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.09.18
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers this week:

  1. EBL (10)
  2. Proof Positive (6)
  3. A View From The Beach (4)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!


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JP Isn’t JC & The Critics Aren’t Pharisees

Posted on | February 10, 2018 | Comments Off on JP Isn’t JC & The Critics Aren’t Pharisees

by Smitty

As was the case a couple thousand years back, the Establishment isn’t keen on being disrupted.

Many of Peterson’s haters on the right have been toiling in the fields these long years, equally worried about, writing about, the treatment of men, especially young men; about the erosion of freedoms, etc.
Where, they are wondering, are their rewards? So they are bitter. It’s a feeling I’m familiar with.
But if they can’t be happy for Peterson, they also don’t seem capable of summoning up any happiness for the others they claimed to care about all this time — our young men and women being brainwashed, who have finally found someone to deprogram them.
So we see that these critics on the right were never really concerned with real change all along, since their attitude towards its advent is so negative.

If we’re going to be humble and serve the Truth, we have to relax and support other people doing the same. We can offer constructive criticism on matters of substance, and quietly endure matters of style that differ from our own approach.
I, for one, think Peterson needs a voice coach in a bad way. But I’m too busy cheering his courage to crucify him on the point.

via Ed Driscoll at Instapundit

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In The Mailbox: 02.09.18

Posted on | February 10, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.09.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: There’s A Bear In The Market
Twitchy: “Mad Dog” Mattis Blisters Media For Asking If He Has “Misgivings” About Trump’s Parade Proposal
Louder With Crowder: Meghan McCain Shuts Down Joy Behar Being “Offended By Republicans”
Intellectual Takeout: Let Us Eradicate Poverty, Not Demolish Wealth (h/t NeoWayland)
According To Hoyt: Sex, Gender, And Marx, Oh My
Monster Hunter Nation: February Update Post
Vox Popoli: GDC Rescinds Award To Nolan Bushnell

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Killing Women, also, Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Rocketman Edition
American Power: Emotional Support Hamster Flushed Down The Toilet
American Thinker: Hillary’s Uranium One Reaching Critical Mass
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Rockin’ Friday
Baldilocks: Fear Will Cause You To Screw Up
BattleSwarm: Twitter Suspends PolitiBunny, also, LinkSwarm For February 9
CDR Salamander: Bad Liberty, But Good Location, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Nancy {Hearts} Antonio
Don Surber: “Donald Trump Saved The Parade”
Dustbury: No More Need Be Said
Fred On Everything: God’s Knights Of The Pen & The Bottle – The Noble Reporter In His Splendor
The Geller Report: Muslim Rapes 13-Year-Old German Schoolgirl After Being Released From Prison For Attempted Rape, also, Bataclan Mass Murder Refuses To Attend Trial, Seeks Dismissal
Hogewash: Blogsmoke, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Joe For America: Tony Dungy Catches Flak For Mentioning Nick Foles’ Christian Beliefs
JustOneMinute: Resistance Economics
Legal Insurrection: Confirmed – Hillary Op Sid Blumenthal Helped Spread Russia Collusion Fever Before Election, also, Leading #MeToo California Assemblywoman Accused Of Sexual Misconduct
Power Line: When Schumer & DiBlasio Wanted A Military Parade, also, An Ellison/Farrakhan Reunion
Shark Tank: Pelosi Puts Colleagues & The Nation To Sleep With DACA Speech
Shot In The Dark: Words Will Never Harm Me
STUMP: Friday Foolery – Stockton Tries Universal Basic Income…Maybe
The Jawa Report: Banned From Twitter – The Foo, Allowed On Twitter – The Taliban
The Political Hat: Challenging Men To Create Fembots
This Ain’t Hell: Shannon Watts Compares Troops To White Supremacists, also, Mattis Moves To Protect Military Dreamers
Victory Girls: ISIS “Beatles” Terrorists Who Beheaded James Foley Captured In Syria By Kurds
Weasel Zippers: Guess Where That $1.7 Billion Obama Gave Iran Went? also, McCarthy – Trump Can’t Be Found To Have Obstructed Russia Investigation
Megan McArdle: We Need Everyone At The Immigration Table
Mark Steyn: Among The Empathizers, also, Romancing The Stone

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Teenager Uses Gay Dating App to Meet Cute Strangers, and Bad Things Happen

Posted on | February 9, 2018 | 1 Comment

As I’ve often explained, online dating is for losers. The very fact that somebody is trying to hook up via an Internet site or smartphone app tells you that nobody they actually know in real life is willing to date them. Guys who engage in online dating are a bunch of desperate creeps, sorting through a discount bargain-basement selection of lonely women with personality flaws and psychiatric issues. If you ever see a good-looking person on a dating site, ask yourself: Why has this person been unable to find a stable, healthy and enduring relationship? There must be something wrong with these people, you see, and if this is true of heterosexuals in the online dating world, does anyone imagine that things are better when the LGBT community does online dating?

Left to right: Lorenco Gjegji, Joshua Blanchard, Cade Ford.

HAVERHILL, Mass. — Five teenagers are being held without bail in the case of a vicious beating in a remote area of Haverhill.
According to a police report, a teen victim said he was lured into the violent ambush by one of the suspects he had met on the popular dating-app Grindr.
19-year-old Lorenco Gjegji, of Haverhill, reportedly picked up the victim with one of the other suspects, 18-year-old Joshua Blanchard, of Haverhill.
Police say the victim told officers he thought he was being taken to the Millvale Reservoir to smoke marijuana.
It wasn’t long before the encounter took an unexpected turn. Shortly after parking by the woods, two additional cars pulled up behind them.
Several more teens, ages 18 and 19, got out of those vehicles and things escalated quickly.
Court documents describe the victim being dragged out the car and beaten with a baton. He was also repeatedly punched and kicked.
The two teens who had picked him up earlier in the evening are alleged to have been involved in setting up the calculated and vicious attack.
Those suspects reportedly stole the victim’s Air Jordan sneakers, $140 in cash as well as his cell phone. They then allegedly kidnapped the victim, driving him to Lawrence in an effort to score marijuana. . . .
Along with Gjegji and Blanchard, 18-year-old Cade Ford, of Haverhill, 19-year-old Joseph Clohisy, of Haverhill, and 18-year-old Richard Pedro, of Methuen, are also charged in the crime.
All five suspects have been arraigned on charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, kidnapping and armed robbery.

Was this a “hate crime”? Were the guys who beat up, robbed and kidnapped the victim also members of the LGBT community? We don’t know. This looks like a 21st-century versions of what used to be a rather common sort of crime back in the 1970s, when gay guys were known to “cruise” certain parks and other public places, and would occasionally get mugged by young hoodlums looking for an easy mark. Being a juvenile delinquent myself, I used to hear some of my dopehead hoodlum buddies laugh about how they had “rolled a queer” in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park, which was the locally notorious “cruising” area back in the day. Violence was never my thing, personally, but when you’re a teenage dopehead, you get used to the fact that many of your acquaintances are just evil.

Having been around a lot of evil people at such a young age — I was dealing dope before I was old enough to get a driver’s license — tends to make you cynical about human nature. However “civilized” we might imagine ourselves to be, we are never far away from savagery, and if you go trolling around for cheap thrills, you put yourself at risk of encountering evil people. Let’s put it this way: If Jeffrey Dahmer were alive today, he’d definitely be on Grindr, and so would his victims.

The victim of the Haverhill hoodlums is lucky to be alive, and if these thugs hadn’t been caught, how many more people would they have victimized? As it is, I’m guessing the perpetrators will spend quite a while in prison, where they are certain to have their chance to, uh, become members of the LGBT community. Probably not in a fun way, either.

Warn your kids: Don’t date online. Bad things could happen.

UPDATE: While the news item that prompted this post was about a teenager on a gay dating app, I wish to emphasize that all online dating suffers from the same basic dangers. Our tendency toward superficiality, to judge people based on appearances, is a major part of the problem. In December I wrote a lengthy article entitled “Pretty Poison” which dealt with this issue: We tend to believe that people who look good are good, and this puts us at risk in many different ways.

Don’t let your eyes deceive you. Just because someone is good-looking, don’t assume that they can’t also be evil. If you are foolish enough to date online, you might “swipe right” on a murderer.

 

 

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