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Grandstanding?  They had some committee hearings and they wrote a paper.   It has had plenty of committee hearings and written many papers about despots filling mass graves. Having meetings and writing paper is what the UN does.  It is basically all that the nations of the world have given them the power and mandate to do.  So given that they don't have power or the mandate to stop the despots of the world from filling mass graves, it seems unfair to blame them for failing to do so.
 
Internet harassment is not just a problem in the US, but is international like the internet itself.  Since the biggest function of the UN, IMHO, is to give people space to talk on the record about problems that cross international boundaries, it would seem to be exactly the place to talk about internet harassment.  YMMV.

I apologize if I am misinterpreting you comment, but if you were receiving hundreds or thousand of death threats and people were doxing your address and other personal information, I suspect you would not consider the potential danger to yourself hyperbole or the internet trolls harmless.

Hope this satisfies your inquiring mind.
 
Cyber Harassment: Yes, It's A Woman Thing

I apologize if I am misinterpreting you comment, but if you were receiving hundreds or thousand of death threats and people were doxing your address and other personal information, I suspect you would not consider the potential danger to yourself hyperbole or the internet trolls harmless.

I apologize if I am misinterpreting you comment, but if you were receiving hundreds or thousand of death threats and people were doxing your address and other personal information, I suspect you would not consider the potential danger to yourself hyperbole or the internet trolls harmless.

Cut the guy some slack.  He was drunk.  I'm sure that if he sober he would have hit what or whoever it was that he was actually aiming at.

The rise of the comic book in the Middle East
 

It's cool that she would make that mistake, since it means her association with Carol Danvers goes deeper than her agent reading Marvel Studios press releases.

A quick look at Inkster Michigan on Wikipedia reveals is a poor, majority African-American community.  They are already required to pay the salaries of their occupying force, and this is not the first time they have been levied additional taxes to pay the settlement cost (plus unexplained inflation of the bill) when one of their occupiers got in trouble with the law.  So while I don't know how police appointments are handled in the great state of Michigan, I don't think the local taxpayers and voters have too much influence in the process. 

New pentagon rules permit Turbans and other religious-mandated clothing while in uniform.
Article notes that the religious items can't interfere with job specific items. If you'd ever be expected to wear a gas mask, you can't have a beard that would interfere with one. I look forward to the first case involving a religious nudist.
but the turban fits in nicely.

Bear with me, I'm going somewhere with this.  I work in a hospital lab for a living and one of the things that I do is I crossmatch blood.  Now like most people in my profession, I started out working the night shift, and I was quickly amazed by how many people came in needing blood because they had been stabbed or shot.  I just didn't think that stabbing and shooting were as common as they actually are, but there was a reason for my ignorance.  The vast majority of the these stabbing and shootings never made it into the newspaper.  I would look for them because I was curious about who I had just spent half the night crossmatching blood for, but nothing would ever be printed or mentioned in the evening news.  So big conspiracy to hide how violent our city is by not reporting the shootings and the stabbings, right?  Except every now in then one of the shootings would be reported and not just reported but given a huge front page story.  
 
The front page story victims could be rich or poor, male or female, young or old, but clearly something marked them as different from all the victims of violent crime that came in through out ER but were never mentioned by the media.  In time I came to realize that difference was innocence. It took me a while to figure that out since I am inclined to give people the benefit of the doubt and then some, but whispers sometimes come back for the ER along with specimens.   In time i put these whispers together and came to realize that most of these victims of violent crime, the ones that the paper never mention, were themselves criminals.  In town like Stockton California, criminal upon criminal violence is just too common to be newsworthy,  and you (collective you) may live in a place without the crime problems that Stockton has, but still I would bet the same applies.  When Jack stabs Bill during a drug deal gone wrong nobody much cares.
 
So as a man are you more likely than a women to be woman to be the victim of violent crime?  I'm inclined to think that if you are a good law abiding citizen and so is the woman, then the answer is no. Here in the US men commit 90 percent of violent crimes and most victims of violent crimes are themselves criminals.  Therefore more male perpetrators equals more male victims.  So don't be out there living the gangster life and you are probably no more likely than Susie to be assaulted and a lot less likely to be raped.  
 
Good news, right?  Things are looking up for you,  Not so much for Susie..

More info regarding Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
 
Main points:
Captain Marvel will first appear in her own film and was taken out of Avengers Age of Ultron. Nicole Pearlman and Meg LeFauve  are the screenwriters of Captain Marvel. Nicole Pearlman pitched and co-wrote Guardians of the Galaxy. Meg LeFauve is co-writer of the screenplay of Pixar's upcoming film Inside Out. Spider-Man will first be Peter Parker, and Miles Morales may appear later. Also Peter may not be white. Doctor Strange could be British not American which matches Benedict Cumberbatch's native accent. This would give the MCU a more international appeal. Loki will definitely star in Thor Ragnorok.   Captain America: Civil War is a Cap film, not an Avengers sequel. Casting for Black Panther will commence soon.  
Details and quotes from Feige can be found in the following link
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/marvels-phase-3-as-explained-by-kevin-feige/

To point out the obvious: this is a rebirth of the Civil Rights movement. (Because most of the victims aren't "white").
 
And while I don't know the backgrounds of all of the people posting here, it's a pretty good indication that lots of "white" people are supportive of it.
 
Well freakin' done. Change the world. You've already started.

Arabic Pledge of Allegiance brings protests
 

The TV show Trolljägarna (Troll Hunter) looks interesting.  Tracks down and exposes online trolls, including those who harass women.

Perhaps, but then again,
 

and it's the young who can profit most from the lesson.
 
Lucius Alexander
 
The palindromedary notes that you have the power to escape the bonds that other people would put on you, because some things bear repeating

I'm not sure that you are wrong.  If Marston had gotten the audience that he was aiming for, I don't think that it would be an issue.  Subtlety tends to be wasted on the young, and prepubescent girls would not (in most cases) pick up on the admittedly pretty obvious sexual subtext.  They would just see that Wonder Woman obeys the commands of certain authority, and that bad men are always trying to bind her but she always escaped.
 
However, Wonder Woman doesn't have the audience that Marston was going for, and as result there is a vast amount porn out there of Wonder Woman bound up and then sexually abused.  Still, Wonder Woman being bound and then escaping remains a staple of the comic book regardless of who its current writer is.  I'm not sure if this is the result of some DC policy on the subject of how Wonder Woman must be written, or if just different writers each in turn trying to pay respect to the character's history (or herstory if you prefer).
 
The lesson that you have the power to escape the bounds that other people would put on you to control you and take away your strength, is a good one and one that IMHO Wonder Woman should keep teaching.  That being said, perhaps it is time and past time that it stopped being so literal about the whole thing.   

I'm not making any assumption about you.  Your argument took the form of an argument that I have seen a number of times before, and I gave you what has become my stock reply.  Now that it has become fairly well known that that Marston had a wife and a mistress (or maybe the wife had a mistress, it's kind of confusing) and that they all lived together and played bondage games, few conversations about Wonder Woman don't at some point have it brought up.  Usually, it comes up in the form of X depiction of Wonder Woman is okay because she is just a bondage doll anyway.  Now I don't know if that was your intent, but that is how you post came across.
 
I glad to find out that you consider Marston a feminist, because by the standards of his day he definitely was.  Marston believed that women were the more loving and caring sex.  Modern feminist, rightly, see this view as trap to force them into certain roles and at the same time exclude men from those roles.  However, back in Marston day, that women had a greater capacity than men to love and nurture was standard feminist orthodoxy embraced by virtually all the leading voices of feminism of the time.  
 
This belief about the importance of love has become part of the DNA of the character and can still easily be seen today in depictions of her the likes of Greg Rucka, Gail Simone and Brian Azzarello.  If the upcoming movie gets this part of her character right, I will be willing to forgive quite a bit else.

What can I say? I don't like Jim Lee's art or that of his clones much.  What is acceptable is a moving target, and IMO that is a good thing if it means less silliness in drawing the female form.  Posing women so as too have both their butts and breast sticking out has gotten a lot of criticism lately and that has made it less easy to not notice (and be bothered by) such absurd composition.
 
However, for me the big thing is that this Wonder Woman.  She shouldn't be drawn like she is teenage girl.  Yes, she has long been drawn with good size breast, but she has also long since drawn as being old enough to have those breast.  Also, not surprisingly since I'm a guy, I'm perfectly fine with male power fantasies comic books with hypersexualized depictions of women.  I'm not fine with Wonder Woman being such a book.  Wonder Woman is suppose to be about female empowerment.  That is what William Marston intended it to be, and what has made the book unique and enduring.  Good Wonder Woman writers get that, and the way to get bad Wonder Woman is not to buy their work so that they get sacked from the title due to poor sales.

What can I say? I don't like Jim Lee's art or that of his clones much.  What is acceptable is a moving target, and IMO that is a good thing if it means less silliness in drawing the female form.  Posing women so as too have both their butts and breast sticking out has gotten a lot of criticism lately and that has made it less easy to not notice (and be bothered by) such absurd composition.
 
However, for me the big thing is that this Wonder Woman.  She shouldn't be drawn like she is teenage girl.  Yes, she has long been drawn with good size breast, but she has also long since drawn as being old enough to have those breast.  Also, not surprisingly since I'm a guy, I'm perfectly fine with male power fantasies comic books with hypersexualized depictions of women.  I'm not fine with Wonder Woman being such a book.  Wonder Woman is suppose to be about female empowerment.  That is what William Marston intended it to be, and what has made the book unique and enduring.  Good Wonder Woman writers get that, and the way to get bad Wonder Woman is not to buy their work so that they get sacked from the title due to poor sales.

What can I say? I don't like Jim Lee's art or that of his clones much.  What is acceptable is a moving target, and IMO that is a good thing if it means less silliness in drawing the female form.  Posing women so as too have both their butts and breast sticking out has gotten a lot of criticism lately and that has made it less easy to not notice (and be bothered by) such absurd composition.
 
However, for me the big thing is that this Wonder Woman.  She shouldn't be drawn like she is teenage girl.  Yes, she has long been drawn with good size breast, but she has also long since drawn as being old enough to have those breast.  Also, not surprisingly since I'm a guy, I'm perfectly fine with male power fantasies comic books with hypersexualized depictions of women.  I'm not fine with Wonder Woman being such a book.  Wonder Woman is suppose to be about female empowerment.  That is what William Marston intended it to be, and what has made the book unique and enduring.  Good Wonder Woman writers get that, and the way to get bad Wonder Woman is not to buy their work so that they get sacked from the title due to poor sales.

Wow! Way to take an opportunity to recapture public good will and beat it to death with a nightstick.  Impressive really.

Wow! Way to take an opportunity to recapture public good will and beat it to death with a nightstick.  Impressive really.