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The cause is questionable. I've two boys and my wife and I are teaching them (outside Karate classes), violence against anyone is not on, male or female. If they get in a relationship or at work later and they are abused, verbally or physically by a female I don't want that treated as a laugh or lesser issue. I think every workplace should have policies in place about violence, that puts all these as unacceptable, not implicitly or explicitly making some cases less worthy of attention.
But that's like saying reducing violence against men is a questionable cause because there is violence against women.

It's all the right cause.
 

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But that's like saying reducing violence against men is a questionable cause because there is violence against women.

It's all the right cause.
Reducing violence is the right cause. Though I'd hazard although there are arseholes across all demographics, shitheads who get pissed as twenty something's and start fights drunk against blokes, I bet are over represented down the track as hitting women. Across all types of violence the 'get off your face' drinking culture in Australia still gets off too lightly IMO.
 
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I hate scary movies and all (ok with some horror novels as in Stephen King) but the new IT clown is no way near as creepy looking as the original one.

The idea of clowns as creepy is because they are meant to look like normal innocent clowns?

anyway my son went and saw IT and said it was good. Meanwhile when I at his age couldn't even look at the original VHS cover in VideoEZY without having nightmares.
 

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I hate scary movies and all (ok with some horror novels as in Stephen King) but the new IT clown is no way near as creepy looking as the original one.

The idea of clowns as creepy is because they are meant to look like normal innocent clowns?

anyway my son went and saw IT and said it was good. Meanwhile when I at his age couldn't even look at the original VHS cover in VideoEZY without having nightmares.
The book clown is scary, but I think the original TV version works better for the reason above, 'he' looks normal until the last moment. That makes it more interesting than an in your face, obviously scary from the start one.
 

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So, doing a mandatory white ribbon violence against women module. Serious cause, but the delivery is just atrocious. It's designed to make men feel guilty even if they aren't perpetrators of violence. Anyway, this question appeared:

"Do you watch pornography that depicts violence against, or degrades women?"

Mfw picture Sasha Gray licking a toilet bowl...pause...

"No."
I recently applied for a relatively senior IT role in a state government department and one of the requirements was that I had current "Training in Child Safe Environments – Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect". I was a bit concerned that they were employing child labour as software developers.
 

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Though with IT, will be doing a King double Friday with Dark Tower and IT. Have put aside everything that's wrong with the movie and casting know so far for the Dark Tower, to just enjoy getting something on screen. Though of all Kings works that's the one that most should have been a series. Books 1 - 4 largely as is, then the rest edit out all his references to himself that stuffed the later books, is how I'd have like to see done one day.
 
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i read the first two Dark Tower novels, gave up at the start of the third. Would have thought by then that i'd care for at least one of the characters but just couldn't

Make an Infinite Jest movie / Miniseries fraken
 

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I find it amusing that for a writer predominantly known for his horror writing, his most critically acclaimed movie adaptations have been other stuff (Shawshank Redemption, Stand by Me, The Green Mile).
IMO, 'It' is a great book because of its bang-on portrayal of childhood as well as the loss of childhood, the horror elements are really just a clothesline.
 

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FMD. Here's a glimpse into my dumb ass family. I cop this shit every day.

Every. Single. Day. Farken.

From my dopey cousin who did twenty years for murdering his stepfather, stabbing him 20+ times and throwing him off a balcony in a drug-induced psychosis, then upon release, stepped in front of train but miraculously survived and now gets a 750 quid a week pension to Facebook all day, every day...

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*I'm worried coz this campaigner is serious.
 

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FMD. Here's a glimpse into my dumb ass family. I cop this shit every day.

Every. Single. Day. Farken.

From my dopey cousin who did twenty years for murdering his stepfather, stabbing him 20+ times and throwing him off a balcony in a drug-induced psychosis, then upon release, stepped in front of train but miraculously survived and now gets a 750 quid a week pension to Facebook all day, every day...

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*I'm worried coz this campaigner is serious.
Would you just pitch your reality show to a network already.
 
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