*Trigger Warning* US judge says lesbians can be ‘cured’ by male soldiers

[Olivia P]

26th November 2010, 1:37 PM
Jessica Geen

An American judge has been accused of advocating corrective rape for lesbians.

Joe Rehyansky, a part-time magistrate and Vietnam veteran, wrote on conservative news site The Daily Caller that lesbians should be allowed to serve in the military because straight male soldiers could "convert" them.

The Daily Caller swiftly removed some of his remarks but not before they were picked up by other websites.

Mr Rehyansky, of Hamilton County, Tennessee, argued that men were naturally more promiscuous than women and "it fell to men to swing through the trees and scour the caves in search of as many women as possible to subdue and impregnate – a tough job but someone had to do it".

More: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/11/26/us-judge-says-lesbians-can-be-cured-by-male-soldiers/

[suzifrommd]

*shudders*

Of course, anyone can get elected to a judgeship.

[Beth Andrea]

The judge is simply showing his age and generation. He'll be dead soon enough, like the rest of those "good men" of that era.

[TheLance]

That's so ridiculous. I laughed pretty hard. I can't even take this dude seriously.

[Blue Senpai]

I'm not surprised at the comment, it was bound to happen and generations tend to clash.

[mrs izzy]

How about cure stupidity with a slap up side the head.

Some real sick people in high places.

Izzy

[dalebert]

This is a perfect example of why I say to let the really stupid people speak openly. Heck, stick a microphone in their face and broadcast it to the world. It helps us.

[Miss_Bungle1991]

Wow. What an idiot.

[Dee Marshall]

Horrid, to be sure, but a little stale. That article is almost 4 years old

[Eris]

This is a perfect example of why I say to let the really stupid people speak openly. Heck, stick a microphone in their face and broadcast it to the world. It helps us.

Yes, absolutely!

[Olivia P]

Horrid, to be sure, but a little stale. That article us almost 4 years old

Hm didnt notice that, i picked it from their hot topic section assuming all hot topics would be current.

oops

[Carrie Liz]

Ahh, nothing like the good old classic "the cure for your lesbianism is my penis" argument.

Good... good... let the ignorance flow through you!

[Dee Marshall]

Ahh, nothing like the good old classic "the cure for your lesbianism is my penis" argument.

Hey, wait... I dated a lesbian for over a year, long before I realized I was trans.... Gasp! IT WORKS THE OTHER WAY!

[Jill F]

Hey, wait... I dated a lesbian for over a year, long before I realized I was trans.... Gasp! IT WORKS THE OTHER WAY!

The cure for my penis is your lesbianism? 

No wonder I fooled around with so many in high school and college.

[dalebert]

Ahh, nothing like the good old classic "the cure for your lesbianism is my penis" argument.

No, no. That's silly. However, if you're a gay man, the cure for your horniness IS my penis.

[Adam (birkin)]

The cure for my penis is your lesbianism? 

lolol. The mystery has been solved, we now know the root cause of male-to-female transsexualism.  Lesbians.

FTM must be the other way around, but I can't recall sleeping with any gay men unless they were cleverly disguised as cis women...

[VeryGnawty]

This is a perfect example of why I say to let the really stupid people speak openly. Heck, stick a microphone in their face and broadcast it to the world. It helps us.

It's called the Dunning-Kruger Effect.  The more ignorant someone is, the less faculties and information they have to identify their own ignorance.  So, they perceive themselves as much more intelligent than the actually are.  Basically, they aren't smart enough to realize that they are as dumb as a stack of bricks.  This is why you see people making blatantly false and offensive statements on topics such as rape.  Basically, they don't know how dumb they are, and they are actually so dumb that they think the rest of the world is as dumb as they are.  They are genuinely surprised at the backlash that they get from making statements such as:  "a woman can't become pregnant if they are legitimately raped because the female body has a way of shutting that whole process down"

I'm not kidding, by the way.  A Republican actually said that.  Look up "legitimate rape" in a search engine to see for yourself.

As far as the article itself, it is PERFECT example of Dunning-Kruger.  Take this gem, for one:

Lesbian military personnel, who Mr Rehyansky praised for their "medical and administrative specialties", should be allowed to serve because they apparently have low sex drives.

Lesbians have low sex drives.  Has this guy ever met a lesbian?  I knew a lesbian, and she talked about sex more than any single person I have ever met.  She talked about sex more than all of my guy friends COMBINED.  In graphic detail.

So, again, it's Dunning-Kruger.  Some dolt who probably doesn't know a single lesbian is pontificating about how all lesbians must have low sex drives because that is how he imagines in his mind they must be like.  But for the rest of us who live in what I like to call "reality" there are real lesbians out there with real sex drives, and if you so choose you can seek them out and actually study them rather than just pretending that you know what lesbians must be like.

If someone is claiming to be an expert on a topic in which they have no personal experience, they might be trying to pull a Dunning-Kruger on you.

[Julie1957]

It's obvious that ignorance and misogyny are not impediments to getting a judgeship position in TN.

[Jill F]

It's obvious that ignorance and misogyny are not impediments to getting a judgeship position in TN.

Impediments?  Probably more like requirements. *le sigh*