Last night I sat my teenage sons down and showed them a picture of this:

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149. You make an excellent point. One which applies to a great many of the problems in society today.

Telling a woman to be careful where she places her drink and acting like that is a solution to the problem is unbelievably stupid. Acting like that is just the way the world works and women need to be more careful is just not acceptable.

Of course women have to be careful who they are around and where they place their drink and how much they have to drink - but the reason they have to do that is because society is so screwed up. Whatever happened to trying to get to the root of the problem and fix it at its source.

This thinking goes beyond the issue of violence towards women - it infiltrates many aspects of society today. The other day there was a gun-related discussion and someone posted a picture of an armed school teacher in Israel with her kids. The discussion around it was whether or not the kids in that situation were being harmed. It was kids, living in a situation where their teacher needed a firearm to keep them safe and people actually claimed that there was no harm being done there.

There are those who just keep pushing and pushing the idea that we need to accept the level of violence that exists in society. I understand that for today it is necessary for a woman to be careful of what happens to her drink - but don't tell me that is just the way things are and nothing can be done about it. The ones who propagate that thought are the ones who want society to be that way.