Well, this is the worst thing I’ve read all week

is… is this man asking if the second graders that got shot got sexual aroused before it happened?

@Elaine

Yes. That’s exactly what he’s asking.

There have been studies on what effects people in traumatic events like mass shootings experience. Note that sexual arousal, directed at anyone, is not reported.

There is however often a spike in pregnancies after mass shootings. The advice to schools is that they should ensure that students are directed to appropriate services like access to contraception. But you can imagine the political push-back against that in certain circles.

Well, I’ve never been in a school shooting, but I’m going to have to speak for all feeeemales here and say nope

Unfortunately, the OP isn’t the first to come up with the idea of mass shootings as aphrodisiac to female victims—as documented previously right here, with a generous saucing of racism:

https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2016/06/22/davis-aurini-teen-girls-get-tingles-from-the-bloody-blades-of-third-world-savages/#comments

This also appeared on FSTDT recently and a fellow commenter found out that it’s copied and pasted every time there is a mass shooting. So while it’s still horrible and misogynist, it’s definitely the work of a troll.

@ full metal ox

Among whom? 

Students at the school affected. The research just identifies the trend rather than the reasons. Although it’s generally put down to the reasons you identify.

Incels: somehow always the very worst the rightwingosphere has to offer, though in fairness to the others they are always racing just behind them but just can never seem to quite catch up.

@Citizen Justin:

This also appeared on FSTDT

What?

OT, but I’ve got ten burning questions I could use the answers to, and I thought maybe some of you might know some of them.

1. When will it be possible to, say, go to the movies or a concert or similarly without a realistic risk that two weeks later you’ll be gasping your last into a ventilator in an ICU somewhere?
2. What the hell is going on with Ontario’s election? Normally election polls in Canada have assorted ups and downs and back-and-forth swings of support during the campaigning period, but this one is seemingly frozen in time … with a large Tory lead, because of course if it was going to do that it would be with a Tory lead. Why isn’t anything moving more than a percentage point or two?
3. What the hell is going on with all this inflation? Everyone is jacking up prices on everything. Don’t they understand they can’t squeeze blood from a stone? The bulk of the populace of the developed world already pays virtually every cent they receive for various products and utilities provided by various giant megacorps, so all that money is already pouring into the coffers of the billionaires. They can’t collectively get any more of it because they already get all of it. So all this latest nonsense might do is let one of the billionaires claw a bit of it away from another of the billionaires. And the other one can then just claw it right back. Nobody gets ahead, so what’s the point? Of course, some people will get behind, and end up down and out. The roof likely goes first, and with it access to clean running water, so hygiene goes with it and any job (and thus any income) shortly thereafter, unless that job was in construction or something like that where you can maybe get away with being in rags and smelling like an outhouse. If that happens to enough people, the workforce will shrink enough to drive wages up for the lucky ones who stayed in the game that long, and then all of the billionaires will have a sad. That’s probably why there’s been a gentleman’s agreement among them all to keep inflation low all this time … so why’d they break it, and why now?
4. Where are the right wing parties finding so many voters, now that everyone is flat broke? Surely there aren’t vast throngs of lower-middle-class people who genuinely think that low taxes and trickle-down will elevate them anymore? OK, there’s always been a part of their constituency consisting of bigots who will vote themselves into destitution, as long as the people they hate end up even worse off, but the solid backbone of tory parties has always been middle-class homeowners who want to protect their property values against anything (windmills, solar farms, good public transit in the downtown cores, a decent stock of public housing, black people being able to get home loans) that might drive those down. That would be the middle class that is fast disappearing due to supply-side idiocy and that probably won’t survive this bout of inflation. Without them, shouldn’t conservative parties not only shift to focus more on overt bigotry, to match the changing composition of their base, but also see their poll numbers drop from the forties down to the twenties or less? Similarly, is antibigotry such a deal-breaker for so many lower-income people that compelling pocketbook-issue platforms from center-left and left-wing parties don’t get them even a few percent more of the vote than before the great middle-class collapse? (OK, in the US it can be explained by gerrymandering and voter suppression worsening to compensate for the shifting priorities of the electorate, but that won’t fly to explain the stagnant polling numbers in Canada and elsewhere.)
5. Exactly how bad must the fires, the hurricanes, &c. get before people sit up and take notice of climate change?
6. Every year, the other TV networks butcher their lineups while the CW renews almost everything they have … except this one, where precisely the reverse has happened (plus the accelerating unwelcome trend of moving shows behind a paywall after airing the first season or two OTA; thus making the rest inaccessible to anyone who can’t afford $2000 a month or more in rent, if not a mortgage). What is going on? I usually attempt to explain bizarre and consumer-hostile behavior by megacorps with greed, but in this case neither the usual pattern nor this sudden reversal seems like it would make anyone richer than otherwise. (The paywall thing fits though: classic greed, combined with shortsightedness since the audience will implode. Everyone not living in urban cores will just treat it as cancelled and move on, and that means they’re actually leaving money on the table in the form of lost advertising revenue. All for what, some tiny sliver of $7.99 a month that Netflix will give them for each viewer? There will also be an explosion of piracy by people who can’t afford to live anywhere where they can get internet speeds good enough for streaming high def.)
7. Why the hell does Laureline put up with that immature twit Valerian?
8. What happened to all the fancy pulse cannons and Delta-9 accelerator suits between Rise of Cobra and Retaliation?
9. Where the devil is Avatar 2??? It’s gotta be years past due now.
10. Where in the name of ZEUS’S BUTTHOLE is Half-Life 2: Episode 3?! It’s gotta be a decade past due now!

google jonty campbell

@Surplus

8. The pulse weaponry was all MARS designs. Having kicked Destro “out of the band,” Cobra Commander no longer had access to MARS. Which also meant no more nanomites, forcing CC to find another doomsday weapon.

The accelerator suits may have been phased out after their poorly-received performance in Paris. Even if not, they were clearly not standard kit for G.I. Joe and the surprise attack and subsequent manhunt would have left the surviving Joes unable to access them.

9. Where the devil is Avatar 2??? It’s gotta be years past due now.

December 16, 2022