Comments on: Throbbing Gristle

By: wimminz

wimminz — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:52:25 +0000

oh I didn’t say it was easy, just what should be.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:49:09 +0000

>> It should have been *brutally* punished.

easier said than done, particularly as a kid whose parent is violent. And if its a father who is violent, good luck with that.

By: Random

Random — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 20:52:43 +0000

Thank you. That all makes sense.

By: wimminz

wimminz — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 18:07:36 +0000

I personally don’t give a fuck if it is your hormones or booze or a brain injury or a handicap from birth or anything else, so a hysterectomy improved your mums behaviour, so might a lobotomy or daily electrotherapy, her behaviour was unacceptable.

It should have been *brutally* punished.

She would then, of her own free will, have sought help to avert future punishments, or lacking the intellectual ability to make such a choice, could have been sectioned.

To be clear, what I am saying here is that all that counts is the crime in question, I do not, in the least, buy into the notion that a persons “state of mind” at that time, whether through drugs or alcohol or hormone imbalance of anything else, makes the slightest difference.

To be clear, there are such things as “extenuating circumstances” and the clue there is in the phrase itself, circumstances, so someone who breaks a widow to grab a fire extinguisher to put out a fire is still guilty of criminal damage and theft, but the likelihood of recidivism is minute, and he did not personally profit from it… you’re a good man to have done that, now pay the reasonable costs of the window and the fire extinguisher refill, and feel free to submit a bill to the company who insured the car.

By: random redneck

random redneck — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:48:59 +0000

This is only somewhat related, but I had a friend since childhood(not a good friend, I wouldn’t go to him with a body to bury, but I would have planned out an alibi with him). He excused his dad’s shitty behavior, and now has language and a lack of logic for him to be a niggerz himself. Anything that would hold him accountable is now a choice, since the behavior itself couldn’t be helped. ‘The addiction did x’ because that way he can pretend his dad isn’t a cunt, but now his mind always has a go-to excuse that can’t be disproven without destroying the pretend-world he lives in. It got to the where I could point out reality holding an anvil over his head, and he’s Wile E Coyote, and he would ‘rather not look at things that way.’

“..used to excuse a course of action that is frankly, abhorrent, crass, self-indulgent and thoroughly bad karma.” When shit finally got bad, that karma hit *fast.* The only part I care about now is that he is fucking up his kid. He tried to use his kid to manipulate me when that was his only leverage left = dead to me.

Less related. My mom used to be violent. It didn’t end like most, where the kid gets bigger and stronger, so the wimminz stop because they’re cowards. I got bigger and stronger, and she still was a psycho. She stayed violent right up till she had a hysterectomy (which, according to wikipedia leads to “significant improvement in their overall physical and mental health one year out from their surgery”. LOL). So while I don’t hide it, or say she was doing the best she could, or that she had a rough childhood, or any of that bullshit, I have a hard time holding her as fully responsible as I would a man. I don’t think the hormones *made* her do it, but she did seem to have diminished capacity. Would the hormonal shit apply to all women, and this is just the out I’ve given her? I think I’m pretty good at seeing the world as it is, but I’m not sure here.

Is AWALT/scorpion just another type of pussy-pass?

I have never and will never treat children the way she treated me, so I don’t have that problem, but I don’t want sloppy thinking to lead me to other fuckups.

PS http://i.imgur.com/JqHoBon.jpg reminded me of an old post about single moms