Is It Something in the Air?

[queerbychoice]

Does your aging husband sometimes refuse to have sex with you? If so, have you ever considered biting him to death?

Also, beware of 70-year-old women wielding garden hatchets.

Comments

[kuangning]

Actually, that's something I wondered myself. Why is everyone assuming the sniper's male? Women can be crack shots, and women are just as likely to plan and carry out something this carefully. More likely, even, and it explains the still-apparent aversion to shooting children. Only the one was shot, to foil the police's speculations. We're even more likely to use tarot cards. So why are they excluding the possibility of a female suspect?

[jkatj.livejournal.com]

They're just going by statistics. I don't know the exact numbers, but something like 95 times out of 100 this sort of crime is going to be committed by men, so it's much more likely that the shooter is a man. It could be a woman, but it's far more likely to be a man.

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[kuangning]

*nods.* I dunno. Statistics are all well and good, but something tells me that if they ever find this person, they're going to find it's a female, possibly even a mother, with a lot of male relatives. Possibly she'll have served in the military, but more likely one of those relatives has, or several of them, and she'll have turned out to be a better shot than any of them. This reeks of "I'm going to show you just what I'm capable of, I'm better than any of you and there's nothing you can do", to me.

[subtlyironic.livejournal.com]

it's not hard to hit somebody with a sniper bullet from a 100 feet, the distance that most of these shots have come from.

i heard a former sniper talking about it on cnn, and he said that with three hours of training pretty much anyone could do it. it's not a matter of being "a good shot". it's just a matter of being a competent person.

i think that your argument is completely ludicrous. it's impossible to know whether or not the person is male or female. assigning gender isn't helpful at all.

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[kuangning]

*shrug.* Just a feeling. My point was simply that, though -- assigning gender isn't helpful at all, and yet they're doing it. I just assigned the other gender, is all.

[honeyspy.livejournal.com]

Note to self: Stay out of Melbourne and don't piss off old ladies.

Goodness.

[inkstained.livejournal.com]

"This is a different type of case, it is certainly very sad, someone is dead," Shipley said.

That has to be quote of the day, it's one of those really great meaningless soundbites.

I am currently attempting to use an iMac for the first time in my life, having been a devoted PC user for many years, and I'm extremely confused.

Personally though i think I'm doing not too badly.

I just thought i'd share that.

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[cinderellaman.livejournal.com]

Congratulations for making the switch!!!!!!!!!!!
You will eventually wonder why you hadn't done it sooner.
Cinder

[cinderellaman.livejournal.com]

I know it was tragic, but I couldn't help laughing my ass off when I heard aboot this

On the issue of the sniper, come on, You really think anyone other than a male can do any thing like being a sniper!?! I really can't picture a womyn as a sniper, they are more in control of their psyche.
Cinder