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Warren DeMontague

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11. I tend to blame violent acts on the perpetrators of the violent acts, too. Silly me, huh?

Reply to Dash87 (Reply #9)

Mon Oct 28, 2013, 07:04 PM

Oct 2013

However, some folks have developed entire cottage industries around coming up with convoluted sociological narratives to blame violent or criminal acts on nebulous societal forces, ill-defined concepts, or entire groups of people who were not, actually, involved with the actual act.

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What in the holy hell?! Behind the Aegis Oct 2013 #1

What's all this talk about "the gentler sex"? radicalliberal Oct 2013 #2

Wow. I could say an awful lot of shit here. Warren DeMontague Oct 2013 #3

I keep reading regularly..how if we did away with that evil "patriarchy" Upton Oct 2013 #4

You're absolutely right (and I'm not an MRA). radicalliberal Oct 2013 #5

Abu Ghraib should dismiss any notion that women are incapable of barbaric cruelty. nt Bonobo Oct 2013 #6

Oh, wow! How could I have been so dumb . . . radicalliberal Oct 2013 #7

Patriarchy and violence lumberjack_jeff Oct 2013 #8

Violence is usually due to stupidity, imo. Dash87 Oct 2013 #9

I'm not convinced intelligence has anything to do with it Major Nikon Oct 2013 #10

I tend to blame violent acts on the perpetrators of the violent acts, too. Silly me, huh? Warren DeMontague Oct 2013 #11