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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."
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AnOminous said:
Children are scum, just as a matter of nature. And we are now raising them to continue to be scum, rather than forcing them to be members of society.

Society as it currently exists represents the ongoing disaster that this is.

Children should be beaten until they're normal.
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How will beating make them normal? Such behavior might be fueled exactly by beating, ''instructive'' or otherwise. For the record, before anybody jumps on my back, I do not believe that these little sociopaths should be given a ''get out of jail for free'' card, even if the above was the case.
 
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Captain_Asshole said:
But will they learn why some things are not acceptable to do save for the fear of punishment?
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This sounds like some liberal criticism of the Ludovico Technique.

Who cares?

So long as they act decently, who cares what the motivation for it is?

Suppose we can get everyone to act decently, not commit crimes, not murder people, not commit violence, all that stuff. You can go out of your house and expect not to encounter violence.

Wouldn't this be a good thing?

Why would you care what's going on in the heads and souls of everyone else? It doesn't matter!
 
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AnOminous said:
This sounds like some liberal criticism of the Ludovico Technique.

Who cares?

So long as they act decently, who cares what the motivation for it is?

Suppose we can get everyone to act decently, not commit crimes, not murder people, not commit violence, all that stuff. You can go out of your house and expect not to encounter violence.

Wouldn't this be a good thing?

Why would you care what's going on in the heads and souls of everyone else? It doesn't matter!
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I sounded liberal? I shall try not to do that again. I am not too sure that this method can prevent violent behavior given that children tend to replicate the stimuli that they receive, but I am not a specialist in the child mindset so I could be wrong. Now, more importantly, I really do care about the motivation for acting normal. If for some reason the constant threat of physical punishment disappears (not that unlikely really), aside from pain memory akin to a trained animal, what kind of inner motivation exists to stop the individual from committing whatever atrocity the might have pent up? Yes, even with inner understanding of right and wrong there is no guarantee that individuals will not do something violent, but at least in my opinion I believe that this is a bit more dependable.
 
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Captain_Asshole said:
I sounded liberal? I shall try not to do that again. I am not too sure that this method can prevent violent behavior given that children tend to replicate the stimuli that they receive, but I am not a specialist in the child mindset so I could be wrong. Now, more importantly, I really do care about the motivation for acting normal. If for some reason the constant threat of physical punishment disappears (not that unlikely really), aside from pain memory akin to a trained animal, what kind of inner motivation exists to stop the individual from committing whatever atrocity the might have pent up? Yes, even with inner understanding of right and wrong there is no guarantee that individuals will not do something violent, but at least in my opinion I believe that this is a bit more dependable.
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I often say things I don't believe. It's called shitposting.

I sometimes do at least partially believe the insane things I deliberately say without entirely believing in them, though.
 
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TopCat said:
Student got vibrator stuck up her backside during sex with boyfriend

Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2016/10/06/stude...ing-sex-with-boyfriend-6174685/#ixzz4MJrEVUI6
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‘He tried a kitchen fork handle, which we won’t be using again, and said he could feel it at one point but that it was too far up – it was a goner.

‘He tried barbecue prongs too but after a certain point – after an hour of trying – we knew were going to have to go to hospital. We were both a bit shocked.’
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Top kek indeed.
 
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Goofy Logic said:
In Belarus? They might erase him KGB style.
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It's too late for that - it's all over the news. Besides, our KGB doesn't do it.

I hope he'll be declared sane, guilty and then swiftly shot. Good thing we're the only one in Europe who still have death penalty for stuff like that.
 
Special-needs boy set on fire by bullies he thought were friends

A 10-year-old special-needs boy was on life support after bullies allegedly lured him to a field, doused him with gasoline and lit him on fire on Sunday.

Kayden Culp of Kerrville, Texas, has burns over 20 percent of his body from his ears to his belly button, and his organs are failing, according to a YouCaring page set up by the boy’s family to cover his health care expenses.

One unidentified child has been charged with arson following the incident and is “responsible for causing the victim’s severe burns,” according to a statement from the local fire marshal.

He is one of three boys — ages 9, 10 and 11 — who were taken into custody in the grisly attack, reported Fox.

One alleged attacker “had issues being destructive and disruptive,” Kayden’s aunt Tanya Kasper told the station.

“His mom even made the comment that she wasn’t able to handle him,” Kasper added.

The heartbroken family believes the victim — who exhibits autistic tendencies and has trouble speaking and hearing — was intentionally targeted.

“The other kids are saying that he was going to be riding his bike like he always is, my nephew Kayden is going to be riding his bike, and they said we’re going to grab him and take him inside and burn him,” Kayden’s aunt Kelly Mack told News4 San Antonio.

“If it wasn’t premeditated, it still is attempted murder,” Mack added.

The boy’s mother, Tristyn Hatchett, 29, says she thinks her boy’s alleged assailants should be “incarcerated” and charged with murder.

“He considered these guys his friends, but they would make fun of him and pick on him and tease him,” Hatchett told the Houston Chronicle.

“He was usually the brunt of that kind of joke, but he kept playing with them,” she added.
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http://nypost.com/2016/10/06/special-needs-boy-set-on-fire-by-bullies-he-thought-were-friends/
 
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