To Be Made A Fool Of by Scammers

 

It looked so nice, but I took my time before ordering it at the prize of $48.99 from a company calling itself "Global Online Discount", and when I decided to risk such a buying I soon found out that that was a very, very bad idea. This company doesn't work with praise and hallelujahs on the internet, on the contrary, and had I looked it up I wouldn't have ventured into this purchase. Well, in my book that means that I got my deserts as neither the merchandise nor the money materialized. Emails to this more than shady company were not answered which figures: Legitimate stores will have a visible phone number and a working email address which is something one should check before ordering - and I didn't. Blinded by lust - desire!!! - for this handy gadget I forgot all safety rules and got punished by the online demons that see to it that stupid buyers learn their lesson, so to speak: I never received what I had paid for, nor had my money back. Well, I can't say that that wasn't a possible outcome of my transactions, only I took my chance, which proved very foolish indeed .... 

I should have known that the internet is swarming with criminal online stores like Global Online Discount and that one should stay away from them, but I can't say this was the first - nor last - time I had such an experience. Actually I've became the naive as well as audacious victim of two other online stores that scam people, seemingly whenever they get the opportunity: "Yeejewel" and "ramnray".

Oy, put up for sale at a very low prize by one of the worst of the worst scammers: ramnray .... The prize ought to have warned me, and yes, I had some suspicions, but they were not strong enough: I fell for the ruse which was very, very stupid, especially as the acts of these criminals made it necessary for me to delete my banking account for protection. Before that they had stolen money from me four times in all. Luckily enough I found out before they could bleed me altogether, but I've heard of others who didn't see what was coming and who lost much more than I did from this and other scam companies ....

Well, lust have always been a factor in the stupid acts of people and I'm obviously no exception to that rule. I may laugh at myself for having been duped, but how would I've felt had this been a matter of life and death sales object? Or if I had been down to my very last money??? Luckily enough I'm not obsessed with money, but I may easily imagine a situation where that would be the case, e.g. if it was a question of being able to pay my rent or buy food which, sadly enough is the reality for many people in all lines of business.

My third adventure into the world of the more shady firms of the internet was with "Yeejewel": The order was confirmed at once and when I sent them an email when the date of delivery didn't bring the goods they replied very soon, promising to speed it up. The word they used was "asap", but it soon got more and more clear to me that their kind of "asap" was "scam" as nothing happened no matter what I did or they promised to do. So once more I was scammed by scammers, but at least I didn't lose very much this time. With "Global Online Discount" and "ramnray" the deal was about something I would like to have, but which I didn't really need. It was luxury, but with "Yeejewel" it is something else: I shall have to buy what I paid them for, but didn't receive, as I'm fully aware that Autumn and Winter isn't that far away ....

Well, this is some kind of joke, but I'm afraid that the day that something like that may become the truth isn't all that far. At least that's how I felt when the above mentioned scammers played havoc with my sense of safety on the internet. At least, I couldn't find any kind of protection except by buying it from companies which had many of the same bearings as the scammers, "ramnray", "Global Online Discount" and "Yeejewel" ....

 

Jezebel - The Classic Stereotype of The "Bad Woman"

 

So this is the Jezabel of modern times? Well, excuse me, but I thought this was the very competent Vice President of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris. At least so she is to me as well to most of the world, but it seems that to some men of the church she is first and foremost JEZEBEL: "According to reports by Raw Story and Baptist News, at least two white pastors in Texas have referred to Vice President Kamala Harris as a “Jezebel” because, apparently, whichever Jesus they praise is all about that holy misogynoir.
“What if something happens to [President Biden] and Jezebel has to take over?” Swofford asked. “Jezebel Harris, isn’t that her name?”"

To me she looks like a nice, free and bright woman who neither needs nor uses a lot of make-up to make an impact. However, I'm not blind to the fact that Church people may react to those very qualities as they believe a woman's place is in the kitchen or somewhere else (the church???) where she doesn't have to use the brain that was her birth gift. Also: In modern usage, the name of Jezebel is sometimes used as a synonym for sexually promiscuous or controlling women which I think is what earned Kamala Harris the Jezebel-name ....
 

As to the Biblical Jezebel then she was a born princess who married Ahab, King of Israel (1 Kings 16-31). As daughter of Ithobaal I, king of Tyre, she was a born Phoenician and she was used to worship the gods of her home country, Baal and Asherah, and not the Hebrew god Yaweh. In Biblical contexts she is described as a form of priestess or even prophet, but that wasn't unusual for the Phoenicians: High ranking female clerics were customary in the Asherah and Baal religion. Besides, being more than just a subordinate worshipper of her gods was against the subdued roles of Israeli women and something which also made her hated in her new country. As the queen of Ahab she naturally became a power factor in Israel, but people didn't accept her in her new country. When she - and her husband - turned away from Yahweh to worship the gods of her Phoenician home country as the institutionalized deities of her new country it was seen as a grave sin which gained her many enemies. One of these was the prophet Elijah whom she fought for years. However, in a godly duel, so to speak, Baal and Asherab didn't succeed in burning an ox, but Yahew did and that turned the fightings worse and worse. Elijah had to flee, but ended up as the ultimate victor of the ongoing religious wars in Israel.

As to Jezebel she came to a sad ending as her death by being thrown from a window fulfilled a presumably godly prophecy that her corpse was to be devoured by dogs. Those days that was the ultimate in degradation, but then wasn't she a baaad woman who deserved everything that came to her? I don't think so, in my opinion she was a brave and committed person who fought for her believes and her religion, but also for the role of women. One can't call her a feminist, but still what she did was kind of feministic. However, her stereotype signals a demeaning sexualization that turns her from a spiritual and intelligent being into something quite different ....

https://www.theroot.com/we-need-to-talk-about-these-white-texas-pastors-who-ref-1846217141 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jezebel-queen-of-Israel

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/how-bad-was-jezebel/

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Words, Dominance And Lewdness

Oh, that's baaaad - I bet .... However, some words are only bad or naughty in certain contexts. "Pussy" isn't in itself a swear or derogatory word, but when it's used the way X-president Trump does then it's both. 

Yes, we really should beware of WHOM we chose for stardom, or else we might get "fucked" which is something that, these days, doesn't always mean what it used to mean: Having sex, but seen from a male perspective as women were not supposed to "fuck" men. However, this word for something sexual turned into a swear word which is quite alarming now I come to think about it = Sex = Violence = Attack. "The fucking (: damn) woman might be "fucked" by the conquering male, but somehow a "fucker" means "dumb" which turns the image of "fucking" upside down. 

Yeah, The Fucker fucked America and the rest of the world, but no one declared him a lover, worthy of true love. That might be because everybody knows that he is what is called a "Prick", and no, in this context it doesn't mean a "penis", but a "terrible/rude person". A "Cunt" may both be a descriptive word for a woman's vagina, but also signal a person's total idiocy which REALLY is idiotic ....
 

Words are powerful, no doubt about it, and we ought to keep an eye on their development in a modern society. They change over time, and some of these changes turn them into something derogatory that should not go unnoticed as it signals an unacceptable attempt at dominance.

 

https://blog.lingoda.com/en/how-to-swear-in-english/ 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sex-_and_gender-related_slurs 

 

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a28915884/sex-slang-glossary-list/ 

 

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_sexual_slurs 

 

https://www.jstor.org/stable/455584 

 

https://www.fluentin3months.com/dirty-words/ 

 

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"Emasculation" of A Serial Killer

Even to talk of something like "emasculation" one must believe in a natural, "God-given" masculinity that somehow is quite different from the likewise natural and "God-given" femininity. In the 1600s when the word "emasculate" was coined it literally meant "castrate", i.e. not the soft medical castration of our times, but something much more extensive. Now we first and foremost use the word "emasculate" as a description of something psychological: According to psychologists - at least of former times - some/many women tend to "emasculate" the men in their lives, e.g. husbands, sons, etc. by not accepting their so-called femininity in a patriarchal society. For decades this female habit was seen as one of the many special, so-called crimes that mothers were accused of committing, maybe under the influence of what Freud called "penis-envy". Actually this is/was a weird and extremely self-revealing notion that tells a lot of those who coined it, but not much of the women who became the victims of it. 

This guy, the infamous Ted Bundy, may be the very incarnation of a serial killer. It is assumed that he at least killed 35 women who were strangers to him. Still he held a grudge against these female strangers and felt free to follow his instincts that were based upon weird sexual drives as well as a load of social frustration: All of the victims - except the last one, 12 year old Kimberly Leach - were free, pretty, young girls from a good social background, something which he resented as an affront to him, the illegitimate, maybe even incest-born child of an unmarried mother. The social standing of these women as well as their ability to move freely in society, i.e. living as they themselves wanted to, studying, driving cars, having lovers, etc., etc. felt like an "emasculation" and that was an important part of his reason for killing them. However, there is several other serial killers who operate from the same kind of "emasculation-insanity": One of the most notably ones is the Co-Ed Killer, Ed(-mund) Kemper (born 1948) who targeted the young, female students who exhibited their freedom not only by studying, but also by hitchhiking as they chose. As it is the term "Co-Ed" stands for a life style that makes it possible for young women to study at well-known universities, but primarily to "catch an appropriate husband who might give them a "career" as spoilt housewives". (However, I'm sure many of these women studied in earnest to make a career on their own, but many of Ed Kemper's contemporaries didn't believe that ....) 

Presumably Bundy had an IQ of 136 whereas Kemper scored 145 which means that although they committed stupid crimes from stupid sexist motives they weren't dumb in the ordinary meaning of that word. Both of them should have been able to understand that what they did to all those young women who actually were strangers to them, thus not having committed any crimes against these murderous men, was wrong on so many levels. Also they should have been able to question the concept of "masculinity" and "femininity", but they didn't even try which means that killing them was so natural to them that they most likely felt they acted from some inborn "right" as men.
 

At a height of 6 feet 9 inches (2.06 m) Kemper was a giant. Everybody who met him commented on this fact and it may even have had an impact on his mother, Clarnell Elizabeth “Clara” Stage Strandberg, who was afraid that he, being a boy, might molest his sisters, i.e. rape them, when he was a teenager. That's the reason why she forced him, at the tender age of 8, to live in a room in the cellar behind locked doors. He hated her for it and at some point it was considered best for him to live with his paternal grandparents. At that time he had been been living with his father and his new wife for some time, but he made his stepmother feel uncomfortable by always staring at her so his grandparents were his only choice. It seems that he loved his grandfather, but not his grandmother whom he felt was "emasculating" him the same way his mother had done.

His grandmother, Maude Hughey Kemper, was a talented lady who wrote children's books and painted. On August 27, 1964, she was working on a short story for "Boy's Life Magazine" when her grandson shot her dead. Then he also shot his grandfather, presumably to prevent him from getting a shock at seeing his dead wife and getting to know that it was his grandson who had killed her. Ed's description of his "deed" was: "“ .... my senile grandfather” and “my grandmother who thought she had more balls than any man and was constantly emasculating me and my grandfather to prove it. I couldn’t please her .… It was like being in jail .… I became a walking time bomb and I finally blew .…”

To him this artistic grandmother just was another version of his mother, and it's as deep irony that he came to kill both because they in his opinion "emasculated" him. After serving part of his sentence for killing his grandparents his mother accepted him back in her house, maybe because she at that time felt lonely. She may have felt unsafe, but that didn't stop her from giving her opinion on some of what he did or was as a human being and at some point in 1973 he not only killed her, but did obscene things to her corpse, e.g. raping her severed head. All of which he seemed to think that she deserved for her obsession with the idea that he was a threat to his sisters, as he never seemed to have made any inappropriate advances towards them. Still, nobody deserved what happened to her, her parents-in-law, the 6 Co-Eds or her best friends whom he also killed.

https://www.sinisterisles.com/post/who-was-ed-kemper-mother-clarnell-stage    http://edmundkemperstories.com/blog/author/edmund-kemper-stories/page/5/    https://medium.com/divine-magazine-detroit/emasculation-is-a-myth-e9f5661a627d    https://www.frieze.com/article/return-serial-killer-how-psychosexual-male-panic-infecting-pop-culture    Wikipedia

Confusing Women With Pigs????

 

I shall never be able to understand HOW these serial killers who murder women like they were flies justify something like that TO THEMSELVES. For instance what about the Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton who, according to his own admission, killed 49 prostitutes and fed some of them to his pigs? Were these women so low in his estimate that he didn't feel they were human beings or was it his pride in his maleness that made him feel so superior to them that that in itself gave him the right to go where his urges told him to go? 

As Pickton himself confessed to murdering 49 women I find it very hard to understand that the verdict by the jury wasn't for first-degree murders, but only for second-degree murders. Why???? That means that he may be released from prison on parole after 25 years. To me that's grotesque!!! I fully agree with the judge who passed this sentence: "What happened to these victims was senseless and despicable." I take it that he would have sentenced Robert Pickton to prison for life if the jury had been up to their obligations to bring justice. Maybe they were confused with the social status of these women as prostitutes are not in high standard with many people. Something which is sad and unfair: The women are not the culprits, as that role is taken by the men who kill them ....

So there he sit, being housed and fed by the Canadian taxpayers. As some have suggested that one of the reasons why he did what he did was that his mother had forced him and his brother to work hard on the pig farm and even go to school without showering it's quite weird to see him sitting there, obviously not paying much attention to his hygiene ....

 

Some Thoughts On Men And their Penis

 

This ancient corpse was found near The Black Sea where it had been buried in state. Not only was it furnished with what is considered the The World's Oldest gold, but this valuable material was used to adorn his manhood. One wonders whom it was who saw to it that this was done, was it him himself, a loving relative or some besotted lover? Well, no matter whom it was it's a proof of some special kind of manly status and respect that even followed the dead man into his grave. As it seems to take a man really to appreciate the male organ I feel that the one who saw to it that he was adorned this way was another man, most likely a lover.

In my opinion the most likely is that the gold adornment was chosen by a male lover, appreciating the penis of the dead man, but I, thinking from a Modern standpoint as I am, admit that I'm prejudiced. To me it would be more likely that a woman served the penis as a dish ....

or controlled it with an anti-rape device of some kind .... 

Many women are being swarmed with "Dick pics", but I doubt many swoon over them.

I wouldn't say that women NEVER appreciates "dickpics" or the "dick" itself, but most often I've had the impression that they see this male organ that is so beloved by men as a bit ridiculous. After all, it often is a sort of rival to the affections of the man: "Do you love me or your penis the most????" they may ask, probably without ever getting an honest answer.

It's my impression that most women see the penis as something more or less comical, the Joker of all the male body parts. The phallus cult always appealed more to men than to women, and why not? After all is the penis in a patriarchal society the main symbol of the male power, both in society as such or in their private lives. They may not be able to demasculise other men, but they may do a lot to have track of whom pees in the most impressive manner according to their own ideas of male grandeur.

In their need for affirmations some/many (?) have resorted to surgery: They want penis enlargements even though there are many sad stories about men who lose the ability to feel this quite vulnerable organ. Do they do it for women? That I doubt as a longer penis isn't what makes them tick. No, it's the mere or less public toilet and the eyes of their male counterparts that make them hazard their health with not all that safe surgery. After all, a penis is not only for adornments, but also for functionality. That may turn into a grave problem for some of those men who have resorted to surgical enlargements: A limp dick is not what they were after, but that was what they got. Not that they didn't know beforehand what might happen, but the dream of being one of the "big guys" enticed them into having surgery ....

https://theconversation.com/how-to-overcome-phallus-obsessed-toxic-masculinity-84388

 

https://metro.co.uk/2015/02/20/woman-tried-to-bite-boyfriends-penis-off-because-he-complained-she-was-too-needy-5072540/

 

https://www.politico.eu/article/viagra-viatris-us-vladimir-putin-hard-times-russia-steps-to-make-up-for-supplies/ 

 

https://www.psypost.org/2023/02/study-uncovers-a-particularly-alarming-link-between-mens-feelings-of-personal-deprivation-and-hostile-sexism-67296 

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2023/02/14/is-an-increase-in-penile-length-cause-for-concern/

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21707-penile-fracture

 

https://jimhopper.com/topics/sexual-assault-and-the-brain/repeat-rape-by-college-men/

https://theconversation.com/how-prosthetic-penises-in-shows-like-hbos-minx-reinforce-existing-stereotypes-and-taboos-179084

Shawn Grate - The Typical Rape-Murder Criminal

I shall never be able to fully understand the male fascination with killing women they are sexually attracted to. In many murder cases it looks like revenge because of this unsettling fascination, but the logic of it escapes me. One of these murderers of women is Shawn Michael Grate who proved to be a serial killer. He raped and killed five young women, but was later found out to have killed at least five more. Two of these murders were classified as "aggravated" which makes it even more appropriate that he was sentenced to death, and the execution is scheduled to 2025. Sadly enough that will not bring the women back to life, but it will save others which in itself is a consolation.

Like in many other murder cases of men who also rape their victims one wonders at their main motive: Was it the forced sex or the killing that drove them the most? Both these crimes is based on POWER: The man see them as an opportunity to show off their physical strength and what they see as the their main sexual ability, namely bringing about a female submission that, to them, proves their own superciliousness. I don't think I've read about any rape-murder cases in which this combination wasn't the incentive. To me that's a very potent indication that men in a patriarchy are brought up with rather sick notions about themselves and what constitutes the build up of maleness. Actually, I'm more or less convinced that all these rape-murder cases - and there are MANY!!! - may be an important key to what's going on in the world of men as such. However, not many non-feminists want to see them as such which in itself is quite interesting .... 

As to Shawn Grate he grew up to become a charming an quite good-looking man whom the girls liked. That he in reality was a monster didn't they know. The only one who might have suspected it at an early age was his sister as the two of them often would fight. At that time he was consumed with rage at their Mom for leaving their father and her kids to live with another man. This childhood experience may have brought about mental traumas, but it can never be an excuse for what he did to other women. However, it's often brought up in discussions of rape-murder criminals which is quite unacceptable. I see the fact of something like that being used as an "excuse" or "explanation" as part of the general leniency toward this kind of criminals. Actually, that brings about the main problem in understanding what's going on as it sort of blind us to it. Instead of investigating the problem of all of these almost identical rapist-murderers from new angels it leads us to turning the other cheek, so to speak, and not dig as deep as we should.

According to his ex-wife he, typically enough, expected to be obeyed: A "no" was not acceptable to him, the male. In my opinion wanting proofs of female submission can never become a proof - or even indication - of a genuine male supremacy. To me the very need of something like that looks like a genuine proof of the opposite ....

Grate was caught when woman (called "Jane Doe") whom he had kidnapped and raped several times succeeded in escaping and calling the cops. That must have been like a blow to the center of his male pride, but more important than that: It put a stop to his terror ....

 

https://allthatsinteresting.com/shawn-grate 

 

https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/living-with-a-serial-killer-where-serial-killer-shawn-grate-now 

 

https://www.the-sun.com/news/6643976/shawn-grate/ 

 

https://heavy.com/entertainment/2020/08/shawn-grate-survivor-escape/ 

 

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