Not just a Muslim thing, although this is bizarre on a higher level than typical religionism among the Christianists here. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Here you have a group of "youth" setting up checkpoints at which they make women jump so they can watch their breasts bounce. Then they spank them.
Sounds like what your average college fraternity might want to do but wouldn't dare to. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
It goes back to the Women Are Icky And Liars mentality that the ultra-religious all have. Hence sex-hating. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
It's a way of asserting control over strong emotions that might otherwise become overwhelming.
It's not a coincidence that if you lift up the rock the fundie types live under, all kinds of sexual weirdness comes wriggling out. I'd guess they experience desire as an overpowering threat to their fragile sense of personal dominion and sovereignty.
It's also not a coincidence that the wackier fundies get, the more this kind of thing happens, until everyone is living in Gilead - which isn't just a repressed place, it's also a very kinky one.
I feel X when I look at you. Therefore, you are the cause of X. Since X is bad I must change you so I don't feel X when I look at you.
The thought they are responsible for X never crosses their mind.
you are the media you consume.
What, you have gun control now? En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
