Passing along more links

[stakebait]

Man from Washington State lynched in Mississippi over oil on the land. My god.

Quebec study urges decriminalization of prostitution

New report shows Bush administration removed 25 reports from its Women's Bureau web site, deleting or distorting crucial information (Salon.com, you'll have to view an ACLU ad to get the full story.)

Why fat is not a health risk, and why America is so invested in believing it is.

Clearing out the bookshelves? Books for Soldiers has requests from soldiers serving overseas.

For Angel fans, An interesting analysis of ATS up through Origins by ascian3.

Comments

[witling.livejournal.com]

I'm going to subside here, because I need to be quiet with my smooth, smooth brain, but just to clarify--I wasn't saying you were positing a single, monolithic need. That was me, talking to myself. Which I do fairly often, in fact.

The bleed-off theory...maybe. I don't know. I'm a fence-sitter, somewhere between Dworkin and you. There are so many studies showing a correlation between viewing violent acts and increased tendencies to violence. It makes intuitive sense, which doesn't necessarily mean it's correct--intuitively, the planet's flat. But there are people out there studying violence in the media, and they seem to keep finding the same things, more or less. Feed your brain a diet of first-person shooter games and Schwarzenegger flicks, and you have a higher chance of being predisposed to violent or otherwise antisocial behavior.

What that says about porn, I don't know. I like porn. Porn is good.

::pets porn::

Thank you for such good points about all of this--it's been very good sharing thoughts with you.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Have a nice quiet time with your smooth brain. Lemme know if you ever are bored and want to talk about those studies.

Mer

[nightstalker.livejournal.com]

Feed your brain a diet of first-person shooter games and Schwarzenegger flicks, and you have a higher chance of being predisposed to violent or otherwise antisocial behavior.

Wouldn't a more reasonable conclusion be that people who are predisposed to violent or anti-social behavior are are more likely to watch action movies and play violent video games?

[witling.livejournal.com]

I'll have to find the studies, I guess. I don't know whether your suggestion is more reasonable or not, offhand.

Sorry it took so long for me to dig it up.

[nightstalker.livejournal.com]

Usually it's the newspapers who distort causation and correlation, but in this case, it seems the researchers did it too.

http://www.rielley.com/sandy/rants/vidgames.html