Getting a bit of a beard war here so might as well join in the fray with my pathetic attempt at growing a beard. Mind you, I'm not really attempting to grow a beard, it's more a case of not liking shaving much. Oh and the photo quality is terrible because I've got a mobile phone with a rubbish camera. I could do with getting myself a proper digital camera some day. And I need a haircut!
I can't grow a beard. Sure, the hair will grow, but my face gets itchy as hell. I couldn't pull one off anyway.
Same here. I hate beards. Not in general, but on myself. But sometimes I get lazy and don't want to shave, then the weed comes out and in a few days' time I look all vagranty. Actually, I hate body hair in general.
I can't grow a beard. Sure, the hair will grow, but my face gets itchy as hell. I couldn't pull one off anyway.
I can't talk about beards, but as far I'm am concerned shaving is itchier than not shaving. Of course, beards keep growing longer, like hair, while body hair doesn't, so I can see there are differences. It's possible the itch is one of said differences, considering my husband has the same problem.
I shaved my face, like, two days ago. So even if I wasn't horribly paranoid, and even if I didn't have the most horrible neckbeard-goatees the world has ever seen, I would be walking into a Beard War battle without a sword.
Actually, I think that it's not a bad way to add humor, if a bit overused. Asking yourself questions, in an internal way, is also a really good logical thinking mechanism. This isn't that. But I just wanted to say that anyway.
I think that it can be. After all, just "not saying no" does not mean complicity. However, it's still not rape, because the inanimate cannot be opposed to anything.
I think that it can be. After all, just "not saying no" does not mean complicity. However, it's still not rape, because the inanimate cannot be opposed to anything.
Ah, but then is it rape because consent can't be given? Or is it not, because consent can't be denied?
This actually raises a pretty interesting point, actually. It's almost universally considered rape when a minor a person in a compromised mental state is slept with, because these people are not capable of providing consent or capable of entering into contracts. This makes the question of closet rape a bit trickier!
Rape is about lack of consent, and someone who can't speak (because paralysed, nonverbal or whatever) can definitely get raped. However rape is about violence, both sexual and mental (it's an act of control most of all) so something that doesn't have any feelings, be them emotional or physical, can't be raped.
So I'm afraid closets aren't considered rapable by law. If your closets are offended by that I suggest they start fighting for this right.
*cough* actually, getting a negative score is kind of the whole point.
<-- just spent a week on a golf course
Did you miss the time where he said looking goofy improved his score?
Although to be fair I didn't mean negative as compared to the par, but negative period. Because he's so goofy that his score is not even 18 (which, honestly, good luck to get a hole in one on each hole lol) but even LESS than that.
Did you miss the time where he said looking goofy improved his score?
Although to be fair I didn't mean negative as compared to the par, but negative period. Because he's so goofy that his score is not even 18 (which, honestly, good luck to get a hole in one on each hole lol) but even LESS than that.
Rape is about lack of consent, and someone who can't speak (because paralysed, nonverbal or whatever) can definitely get raped. However rape is about violence, both sexual and mental (it's an act of control most of all) so something that doesn't have any feelings, be them emotional or physical, can't be raped.
So I'm afraid closets aren't considered rapable by law. If your closets are offended by that I suggest they start fighting for this right.
Well, most definitions do not consider violence an integral part of rape, although one or two do suggest that rape is "usually" accomplished through violence.
Here are some definitions from Wiktionary:
Verb
To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon another person, without their consent.
To abuse an object in an extreme manner. The loggers raped the virgin forest
(slang) To dominate in a contest. My experienced opponent will rape me at chess.
As you can see, the closets are inrapable according to the first definition because they are not human. The third definition may apply in some abstract cases, but it is not likely. The second definition, however, is more interesting.
In order to first operationalize "abuse," we must find the purpose of a closet. It is generally accepted that closets are intended for storing items, so to do anything other than that would be abuse. However, abuse of the object on its own does not qualify as rape just yet.
The object in question must be abused in an "extreme" manner if it is to claim that it has been raped. First, let us define "extreme". Wiktionary gives us: "The greatest or utmost point, degree or condition; Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale." From this, we can assume that in order to abuse a closet in an "extreme manner," one must render the closet entirely incapable of ever storing items again.
If my client were to break the closet in the course of his sexual liaison, therefore, (which he did) then he would have raped the closet. Or would he? Let's back up a little bit here. I have an audio-tape of my client recorded before the supposed rape stating that he wished to, and I quote, "temporarily store my penis in that closet." In light of this, it can be plainly seen that my client was not, in fact, "abusing" the closet. He was fulfilling the closets purpose. This means that although the end outcome (i.e., the closet being incapable to be used properly ever again) is the same as it would have been were the closet to be raped, the act which produced this outcome was not, in fact, rape.
Well, most definitions do not consider violence an integral part of rape, although one or two do suggest that rape is "usually" accomplished through violence.
It would really depend on your definition of violence. But I'll give you I'm definitely influenced by the French word for rape being "viol", and rape being considered legally part of "violent crimes" along with murder and torture.
The word used in your first definition, "force", probably expresses it better than "violence", though.
Comments
BEARD WAR!!
Same here. I hate beards. Not in general, but on myself. But sometimes I get lazy and don't want to shave, then the weed comes out and in a few days' time I look all vagranty. Actually, I hate body hair in general.
I can't talk about beards, but as far I'm am concerned shaving is itchier than not shaving. Of course, beards keep growing longer, like hair, while body hair doesn't, so I can see there are differences. It's possible the itch is one of said differences, considering my husband has the same problem.
The imagery.
I thought of this.
Yep
I've only gone golfing once but I heard the key to a good game was looking goofy.
Don't only weridos and closet rapists do that?
You rape closets? weird.
Its a question of consent really.
...however, yes it does.
The secret is in the frosting.
But I'll never tell.
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/6532/23405064.png
Is this like those walls in Silent Hill or something?
So I'm afraid closets aren't considered rapable by law. If your closets are offended by that I suggest they start fighting for this right.
So tell us, what is it like, getting a negative score in golf?
*cough* actually, getting a negative score is kind of the whole point.
<-- just spent a week on a golf course
Did you miss the time where he said looking goofy improved his score?
Although to be fair I didn't mean negative as compared to the par, but negative period. Because he's so goofy that his score is not even 18 (which, honestly, good luck to get a hole in one on each hole lol) but even LESS than that.
...
Huh.
...
OH!
I get it.
Well, most definitions do not consider violence an integral part of rape, although one or two do suggest that rape is "usually" accomplished through violence.
Here are some definitions from Wiktionary:
Verb
To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon another person, without their consent.
To abuse an object in an extreme manner.
The loggers raped the virgin forest
(slang) To dominate in a contest.
My experienced opponent will rape me at chess.
As you can see, the closets are inrapable according to the first definition because they are not human. The third definition may apply in some abstract cases, but it is not likely. The second definition, however, is more interesting.
In order to first operationalize "abuse," we must find the purpose of a closet. It is generally accepted that closets are intended for storing items, so to do anything other than that would be abuse. However, abuse of the object on its own does not qualify as rape just yet.
The object in question must be abused in an "extreme" manner if it is to claim that it has been raped. First, let us define "extreme". Wiktionary gives us: "The greatest or utmost point, degree or condition; Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale." From this, we can assume that in order to abuse a closet in an "extreme manner," one must render the closet entirely incapable of ever storing items again.
If my client were to break the closet in the course of his sexual liaison, therefore, (which he did) then he would have raped the closet. Or would he? Let's back up a little bit here. I have an audio-tape of my client recorded before the supposed rape stating that he wished to, and I quote, "temporarily store my penis in that closet." In light of this, it can be plainly seen that my client was not, in fact, "abusing" the closet. He was fulfilling the closets purpose. This means that although the end outcome (i.e., the closet being incapable to be used properly ever again) is the same as it would have been were the closet to be raped, the act which produced this outcome was not, in fact, rape.
The defence rests.
...what?
I guess this is one of the other cool pics of me.
It would really depend on your definition of violence. But I'll give you I'm definitely influenced by the French word for rape being "viol", and rape being considered legally part of "violent crimes" along with murder and torture.
The word used in your first definition, "force", probably expresses it better than "violence", though.