Archives for March 2010

I totally agree with Dan Gardner’s column today about demographics.

And I too am at risk of being slapped with that undesirable fanatic label.  I’m working to take back the term. Enjoy it. Feel it. Live it. Breathe it. Soon I’ll never be invited anywhere.

Anyhoo: You can’t talk about demographics without talking about fertility. And you can’t talk about fertility without talking about abortion. And you can’t talk about any of this without talking about an anti-child culture. And, for good measure, women waiting to have children.

Never miss a chance to be fanatical, I say. Life is short.

Wow. People dream of having spare time to call around like this. And all this to convince people who are decidedly “anti-life.” (Sarah McLachlan who started Lilith Fair is pro-choice.)

When a pro-abortion politician demands “abortion rights” as part of maternal health, it’s predictable like a “please play again” in your Roll Up The Rim to Win Tim Horton’s Coffee Cup.

You always hope for more, like a computer, or perhaps, $10,000 bucks! but what you get is a call for abortion rights. Predictable.

There are days, I swear, when the world looks very bleak. Even when the sun is shining.

Tokyo, Japan (CNN) — The game begins with a teenage girl on a subway platform. She notices you are looking at her and asks, “Can I help you with something?”

That is when you, the player, can choose your method of assault.

With the click of your mouse, you can grope her and lift her skirt. Then you can follow her aboard the train, assaulting her sister and her mother.

As you continue to play, “friends” join in and in a series of graphic, interactive scenes, you can corner the women, rape them again and again.

The game allows you to even impregnate a girl and urge her to have an abortion. The reason behind your assault, explains the game, is that the teenage girl has accused you of molesting her on the train. The motive is revenge.

It is little wonder that the game, titled RapeLay, sparked international outrage from women’s groups. Taina Bien-Aime helped yank the game off store shelves worldwide.

My first reaction was: “I sure hope it’s not just ‘women’s groups’ that are outraged, otherwise we’re doomed.” (Women’s groups being, on the whole, remarkably useless except when they’re worse.) But then I had a sip of coffee and reminded myself that maybe now we’ve reached the point where it can’t get any worse and that things are therefore bound to improve.

Is it possible, you think?

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Andrea adds: Darkness comes before the dawn.

It’s true. Men are wimps.

Heartwrenching. We can read of stories from an unknown Chinese mother, but the children never get to speak.

(I know Brigitte linked to this in a post below. I just thought this news item warrants a post of its own.)