****TRIGGER WARNING**** Last fall, Doug Wilson, a prominent member of the homeschooling and quiver full movement, caused a firestorm in the blogging community by making this statement: When we quarrel with the way the world is, we find that the world has ways of getting back at us. In other words, however we try, the sexual… Continue reading The Similarity Between Doug Wilson’s Words and Rape in Pornography
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Spot the Abuserese
I noticed this news story the other day: Man Banned From All Walmarts for Life [Internet Archive link]. This video and much of the news coverage portrays this guy as a disabled penny-pincher who loves taking his grandma to Walmart. I viewed the video and I heard something entirely different. I heard abuserese. He blames price-matching… Continue reading Spot the Abuserese