Saw this tweet chain on Twitter: Whoever it was that thought "Let's take all the stupid people in the world and give them a platform to share their thoughts/feelings as if they were stone cold facts" is a [uck fay]ing moron and deserves to be shot.
The one about being married is probably the funniest. What percentage of long time married men can actually get laid (by their wives) WITHOUT having to pressure them into it?
Depends on what pressure is in this case. If you say I'll bash your skull in, yeah that is sexual assault. "Please please please please." Not sexual assault, just begging like every man in the world does.
I'd ask you to define pressure, but I don't want to talk to you for the next 8 hours. How long have you been married, if you don't mind me asking? Feel free to tell me to "[uck fay] off," if you don't want to put that information out there. It's not really any of my business, I just figured I'd try to get a sense for what you consider "long time married" to be.
Do you think there is a bit of a jump between "he pressured her to have sex with him" and "he threatened to bash her skull in if she didn't have sex with him?"
In that an adjective would go in front of one, and not the other. But your question is like "don't you think there is a bit of a jump between nuking a village and killing the villagers?" Uh, yea, one used a nuke. But the villagers are all dead, still.
I don't understand what you mean by the first line. No, it's not. There are degrees of pressure. Consider: Example 1: Man - Want to have sex? Woman - No, I'm not in the mood. Man - Come on, you know it'll be fun once we get going. Woman - Okay, fine. Example 2: Man - Want to have sex? Woman - No, I'm not in the mood. Man - If you don't have sex with me, I'm going to bash your skull in. Woman - Okay, fine. Would you say that the man pressured the woman to have sex in both examples? Would you say that the man sexually assaulted the woman in both examples?
A "degree of pressure" is the adjective used in front of it. "Violently" pressured. Would be one degree of pressure. And "violently" would be the adjective. Isn't your degree in English? It isn't for me to say, it is for the woman to say. If she said so, then she was.
Yes, it is. "Violently" would actually be an adverb if you're using it to modify the way in which someone pressured (a verb) someone else. But we both know that's not really what an English degree is about. And we also know that the original tweeter didn't apply any modifiers to her use of the verb. She just said if you pressure someone into having sex with you, it's sexual assault. So the woman gets to decide what is sexual assault? You don't see any potential problems with that? And even still, whether you think it's up to you to decide or not, I want to know what you think. Do you think she was pressured in each example? Sexually assaulted?
