23
May

This girl got arrested for being in love

drbuttocks:

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tacticalhoneybadger:

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A teen girl was arrested because her girlfriend’s anti-gay parents disapproved of their relationship. Sign now to help free Kate!

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She’s not in jail, because she’s in love.

She’s not in jail, because she’s gay.

She’s in jail because she, as an adult, fucked a minor. She was 18, her girlfriend was 15; that’s statutory rape.

I would argue that is still bullshit. But not of the same caliber, or as scandalous. 

Of course it’s bullshit, but same sex couples get the same static. It’s not a LGBT issue, and that’s what people are making it. Yes, the other girl’s parents were bigoted but the fact remains: she broke the law. She was a legal adult, that fucked a minor.

Oh no I agree with you there. its not the big thing that tumblr is making it out to be.

Tumblr wouldn’t give two squirts of piss if Kaitlyn was a dude, and it was a straight relationship. They’d be holding pitchforks and torches. The fact of the matter is, a lot of good kids get their entire lives ruined becausethey turn eighteen or even seventeen and their boyfriend or girlfriend or nonbinarygenderorwhatthefuckever-friend happens to be 15. It sucks, but that’s the law. Teenagers need to better educated on it.

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The people on this site like to disregard the law and make this into something that fits with their own agenda. 

Reblogging for commentary.

The primary problem arises that the state in which she lives, and some others, have what’s called a Romeo and Juliet law on the books.  These laws are meant to protect against people being labelled sex offenders for wanting to participate and participating in romantic and physical relationships which would not generally offend anyone but where there is no legally recognisable consent - so in Australia an example would be a 20 year old and a 17 year old.  

Problem here is R&J laws in Florida don’t protect gay kids, so she’s a sex offender.

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19
May

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merlinwhosuperpotterlock:

I actually think this was pretty responsible. Rather than banning it outright, which would result in kids wanting to rebel even more, she offers it in her home where she can control the amount people drink. Good on ya, Mrs George. You’re a cool mom.

I think this was more of a shocking line in America.  Within private residences in Australia it’s perfectly legal and acceptable for alcohol to be served to people under the age of 18, so long as they aren’t buying it from you.

This attitude is *SO* much more healthy than the wowser attitude towards alcohol (and some drugs, imo, but ymmv).

Within private residences in Australia it’s perfectly legal and acceptable for alcohol to be served to people under the age of 18, 

Nope.

This is a myth.  Supplying alcohol to a minor is an offence in every state and territory regardless of whether they are your child and in your home.  Not only is it not legal, it’s actively discouraged with health campaigns so it’s not “acceptable” either.  For example, see this web page from the Victorian government http://www.health.vic.gov.au/alcoholunder18/minors.htm

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18
May

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Apr

 

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16
Apr

And so we come to the Boston false-flag theorizing, which is even stupider because all that happened was that an asshole built a bomb and set it off to hurt people, which assholes have done before and will do again. But the falseflaggers are out to explain that, no, this was military-grade ordnance that was used (based on no evidence whatsoever) and that this happened because the Gubmint wants to put more restrictive laws in place to interfere with your civil rights. Of course, the government has been doing that for decades and they haven’t felt the need to bomb anybody because they know perfectly well that they can just restrict civil rights by passing laws and nobody will say boo to a goose, most of the times, because “it’s not my problem” trumps civil rights concerns for ninety percent of the population (just ask any black person about how nobody seems to care when their civil rights are trampled), but whatever, bombs away, am I right?

But falseflaggers don’t care because their theories aren’t about logic or reason or anything at all. Their theories are about making tragedies that happen to other people about them. It’s a fundamentally narcissistic response to tragedy – to not only ask “how does this affect me” but to twist the facts of the event to create a narrative so that you are more likely to be affected. It’s an asshole move, plain and simple, and falseflaggers deserve to be treated like assholes, because they’re assholes.

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3
Apr

How Good Are Online Petitions! (they are awful) 

In light of how completely and hopelessly useless they are, Internet petitions are an extraordinarily popular way of having feelings all over the place.  The list of websites to leave tears and snot on the shoulder of are seemingly endless; OnlinePetition, iPetitions, Change.org, Petition Spot… and these are before we even get to the sites and organisations who aren’t only online outburst aggregators, just primarily online outburst aggregators – organisations like GetUp.

It’s a challenge to do something about issues in public policy.  Action on everything from climate change to gambling advertising requires things a particular well-meaning Australian might not have very much of – things like resources for lobbying, their MPs time and attention, or intelligence.  What an everyday Aussie can do though, is write their name, and while that might not have very much sway on its own, if a lot of people write their names then all that sway will be a force for change.  Right?

You have to admire the optimism of people who think that if you sum enough zeros you can get a positive number, but you have to pity their grip of maths.

If you’ve been playing at home you’ll know that the government comes in two flavours.  There’s the House of Representatives which is your garden-variety government, and then there’s the minty fresh senate.  When people talk about “the government” they’re usually talking about the House of Representatives because they’re the ones that come up with all the ideas and argue about them the most, and it’s where the prime minister comes from too.   The House of Representatives flat out does not care about online petitions at all ever.  They can’t.  The rules, called the Standing and Sessional Orders, set out very specific requirements for what a petition must look like and how it must be presented, and 10,000 or even 100,000 glittering tears from “Anonymous of Reality Land” unfortunately don’t cut it.  Petitions to the House of Reps must have the handwritten signature of each petitioner.  That’s one of about a dozen reasons why online petitions are invalid, but it’s probably the most obvious one.

The rules for the senate are pretty different but they are pretty easy to understand.  In order to put a petition to the senate you must be a senator.  You can determine if you are a senator by examining whether you were elected to the senate at a federal election and have not either been voted out, stood down or excluded under the rules of parliament since.  Petitions to the senate can be signed electronically, but have to be printed out in a certain format on paper, so I guess the rules are meeting us halfway.

Like so many tiny children trying to cry out over the howl of a gale, online petition signatures never reach the ears of anyone who doesn’t care anyway.  They are void and meaningless, rejected by the rules that the government govern by.  “At least we’re raising awareness!” hurt and slightly confused proponents insist, but even that’s lighter than air.  As the awareness is raised, it drives more Facebook likes, more retweets, maybe a Google +1 or two, and it drives more and more signatures.  More valueless morsels of sentiment for the government to not even put in the bin, but take straight out to the skip in the basement car park in case they stink the place up.

So Change.org changes nothing, iPetitions aren’t, OnlinePetition isn’t and Petition Spot doesn’t.  At least people are creating the illusion that they’ve done something by writing their name though.  Thanks GetUp.

 

 

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13
Mar
Urgh. The pope doesn’t set the direction of the church like this.  If you are waiting on a change of pope for a change in the church’s attitudes towards gay people you are doing it wrong. The pope isn’t like the Australian prime minister who sets and leads the policy tone for the country, he’s more like the president of Singapore - articulates the policy decisions of the body underneath him and executes power in fairly limited circumstances.  It’s possible, likely even, that the current pope had problems trying to get the cardinals underneath him to do what he wanted and it in part motivated his quitting. Good news though, nobody cares what the cardinals and pope say about gay marriage and gay people.  The type of bigotry that the pope and the cardinals show is being broken down everywhere it exists (both inside the church and out, amazingly atheists can be homophobic arseholes too) and we will have marriage equality soon.  

Urgh.

The pope doesn’t set the direction of the church like this.  If you are waiting on a change of pope for a change in the church’s attitudes towards gay people you are doing it wrong.

The pope isn’t like the Australian prime minister who sets and leads the policy tone for the country, he’s more like the president of Singapore - articulates the policy decisions of the body underneath him and executes power in fairly limited circumstances.  It’s possible, likely even, that the current pope had problems trying to get the cardinals underneath him to do what he wanted and it in part motivated his quitting.

Good news though, nobody cares what the cardinals and pope say about gay marriage and gay people.  The type of bigotry that the pope and the cardinals show is being broken down everywhere it exists (both inside the church and out, amazingly atheists can be homophobic arseholes too) and we will have marriage equality soon.  

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13
Mar

The difference between Android and iPhone users?  Seems that iPhone users are hiding from someone, illiterate and cheating on their partner.  Android users are trying to steal wifi, use Facetime, also cheating on their partners and insecure about Instagram unfollows.

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