like, honestly,... they should have just stuck to the idle animation and the attack animation,... when they move they do unnecessary flips and glitch the heck out XD
Oh dang. Freshman orientation week isn't even over and we already have a groping incident at our hands. And usually our people are so good at respecting the others' boundaries...
It's really frustrating in a way. The CS department is a very male-dominated field, so I've been pushing our student org (I'm in the board myself) to be bold and proactive in protecting safe and friendly atmosphere without gender discrimination or harassment. It has worked fine, because people tend to be cool.
But then there's those rare outliers who can't deal with people sober and can't really stomach alcohol too well either, and bam, damage done.
Yeah and it's really important that those outliers aren't swept under the rug--that's what does the lasting damage to the culture.
There's always gonna be randos who don't think social norms apply to them. It's when that kind of behaviour is considered the norm that things get really bad--when harassment is excused or ignored or treated lightly, that gives the impression harassment is part of the normal mode rather than an outlier.
Our local university recently re-vamped their harassment policies and hopefully it'll get carried through into action, because the old policies were not enforced--so they might as well not have existed, so far as creating culture is concerned.
Doesn't help the individuals involved, but as you say--for the individuals, the damage has been done. It's the opportunity to shape the culture that can reduce the future damage.
That weird balance between justice and mercy which all societies must navigate.
Helping individuals deal with their instance of damage is an equally important but not necessarily confluent process.
This was my sixth freshman sauna and n+1th student sauna in general. Never had a single incident happen before - people are generally raised to understand the sauna culture from such young age usually even drinking doesn't shake it.
But I guess some combination of booze and general boorishness can make people disregard that anyway...
Alcoholism, and related harassment and abuse, is a major problem on Guam, to the extent that it easily overshadows strong cultural values. But blaming alcohol for an individual's choices is making excuses for the individual, and leads to actions to curb alcohol instead of, rather than in addition to, actions to curb the behaviour.
Yarp. I'm very glad my faith bans me from drinking alcohol. That's a whole nest of problems I'm happy to have avoided, and knowing me I probably wouldn't have avoided them on my own.
There's a funny story about 'Abdu'l-Bahá visiting New York (at the time He was the leader of the Faith, and was infallible when speaking on matters of doctrine), and while ordering breakfast at a restaurant the local Bahá'ís asked Him which was the more "spiritual" drink, coffee or tea.
He replied that the Founder of the Bahá'í Faith (and 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Father), Bahá'u'lláh, preferred tea. So everyone nodded understanding and ordered tea.
We were watching this historical drama series set in Finland in the 1830's. It has this rather annoying writing where most characters tend to be either very likeable or extremely nasty. One of the latter characters was Sandberg, a priest who comes to town to replace the previous, well-liked priest - and who's a member of the Awakening Movement.
The Awakening Movement was really strict about many types of earthliness - but booze was a special kind of evil. Sandberg was shown as this sort of rabid precher who incites people to unlawful and violent conduct under spiritual pretenses.
It was curious how villainous he was portrayed, though - given that the series HAD indeed seen booze be the root of many problems...
Basically booze stopped causing problems in the series at the point where the protagonist, a landed peasant, decided to start making glass and booze for money.
Speaking of which, Lackadaisy (lackadaisycats.com) is an amazingly well-drawn comic where funny cats deal booze. And the author's really done her homework on the period, too.
