Chumming for Sharks - Part II

In reply to that Chumming for Sharks nonsense, thankfully someone has posted a sensible post at blog6thdensity.

For those who are not aware of what nonsense, Lady Lydia's son-in-law is capable of, please read the LAF site and check out:

"Chumming" for Sharks

By Aiden Humphrey

Aug 2, 2004 - 12:00:00 PM

The blog6thdensity post is titled Women's Job: Not Making Men do bad things.

It reads:

I read stuff like this and I despair

Women who dress like harlots chum for sharks - with their own bodies. Women who dress like harlots make the waters unsafe for everyone. Women who dress like harlots are not the only ones who get attacked - they draw out predators who prey on innocent girls, who just happened to be in nearby waters. “What did I do wrong?” asks the innocent. Nothing - it’s just that the waters are chummed by your friends. We should execute all rapists. But the waters won’t be safer until we pull the chum out of the water.

Sin makes the waters unsafe for everyone.

I just don’t have the words for that kind of fanaticism. It’s bad enough to blame some women for getting other women raped. However, there’s an implication that if you’re raped (and you, ahem, happen to be “innocent” - ugh, isn’t any woman who’s raped by definition “innocent”?) it’s because you’re friends with “harlots”.

Can we not practice our faith in a quiet and sincere way that eschews political grandstanding and the absolute worst equivocations, such as this dude’s appeal:

One primary purpose of modesty is to prevent men from “falling” on account of a woman’s unguarded body.

I’m all for whatever faith or belief one needs to inspire oneself to live life to the fullest. But when that faith turns into making other human beings serve your purposes, one has turned one’s religion into a cult of human sacrifice and slavery to absolve oneself of the nuanced responsibility of living a decent life.

Christianity doesn’t have to be this way. If you want to make political or social commentary, do it without dragging Jesus into it. Last I heard, he was hanging out with the harlots, murderers, and other sinners, anyway.

There were some sensible comments posted on this article:

Alli

I really wish this were the first time I’ve seen something like this… 

One idiot believing something like this is understandable… several is disgusting. And sad.

Jeremy

Well, check out the first link. A *lot* of people still engage in this kind of thinking. I can’t say I haven’t found myself thinking along similar lines before. We all have a dark side.

The problem isn’t faith, of course; it’s using faith as an excuse for sloppy thinking.

Alli

Sloppy thinking should have no excuse. Especially thinking like that…. and the Ladies Against Feminism are amusing. They are…. odd.

I don’t think saying to women to beware of the situations they put themselves in is “blaming the victim”. Saying that because beautiful women tempt men into bad things and are therefore to blame for the actions of bad men…. THAT is ridiculous. (And interestingly enough is the exact justification I got from a Muslim friend of mine for the hijab (face covering).) Being religious is no excuse for that… faulty logic, and irresponsible blame placing…. wrong.

Chumming For Sharks - Part I

Lady Lydia's son-in-law strongly believes the way women dress is a kind of a radar-signal for lurking sharks (men) around. If you feel Lady Lydia can't be blamed for what her son-in-law writes, please remember that the Ladies Against Feminism site is being run by Lady Lydia and Jennie Chancey. Also please read "Does LAF blame women for rape or abduction?' " By Mrs. Chancey and Mrs. Sherman on the LAF site, dated Jul 31, 2004, for further proof that this was written with the specific approval of our dead Lady Lydia. 

In this article at the LAF site, Mr son-in-law tells why women are inviting trouble by the way they dress. Not only do they invite trouble for themselves, but also for their more-demurely clad girlfriends within shark-attack distance.

"Chumming" for Sharks

By Aiden Humphrey

Aug 2, 2004 - 12:00:00 PM

He says:

Yesterday I spoke with a man who spends a lot of time surfing in the ocean in waters frequented by great white sharks. He said that he did not worry very much about the sharks - except on one occasion.

One day his friend sustained a heavy cut which began to bleed into the ocean waters around them. At that point, they decided to get out of the waters quickly - because sharks can smell blood a long way away.

"We didn't want to chum for sharks," he said.

Women who dress like harlots chum for sharks - with their own bodies.

Women who dress like harlots make the waters unsafe for everyone.

Women who dress like harlots are not the only ones who get attacked - they draw out predators who prey on innocent girls, who just happened to be in nearby waters.

"What did I do wrong?" asks the innocent.

Nothing - it's just that the waters are chummed by your friends. 

We should execute all rapists. But the waters won't be safer until we pull the chum out of the water.

Sin makes the waters unsafe for everyone.

This article makes me want to puke! Ugh! How horrid can LAF-brainwashed people get? His article also shows men in such a predatory light - sharks. Phew!

Women who dress like harlots chum for sharks - with their own bodies.

So if a women wearing mini-skirts gets raped, she deserves it? Then Mr Know-it-all please tell me why fully-clad women in Saudi or Oman are getting raped? And besides what a legalistic, uncharitable and misogynist view to take!

Women who dress like harlots make the waters unsafe for everyone.

Can anyone tell me how I can pelt Mr Dumbo with rotten tomatoes and eggs for such unadulterated nonsense? And what about men - he makes them out as predatory sharks?