Notice Wingnuts' Language Manipulation

[DaveJ]

I glanced at certain wingnut's (H*'s) front page and saw this as one of their headlines. How long did they take manipulating the wording? My comments are in parentheses.

"(Republican) House Speaker (remember 'we' are in control) Dennis Hastert is getting backup (team players with no concern about the truth) from President (not ours) Bush and other Republican (a hijacked party) luminaries (we think we're so important), while one (only one?!?!?) of the party's Senate candidates calls (expects) for him to resign over the (not 'the' but Republicans') congressional page cybersex (not molestation!?!) scandal."

You know when I write pretty much all I think about is grammar and spelling, not about how avoid exposing what is true. When I see a party that screwed up America that's all I need to say. The way they spin language only suggests that they care less about moral and integrity than they do about their corporate paychecks. It these hacks had any integrity they would just abandon their right wing affiliation and show some integrity by joining a party that actually cares about the public. Maybe they would even gain some public respect and trust in the process.

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. No

This would be honest language:

Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Haster defended by Mr. Bush, while the Democratic party calls for him to resign over page cybersex charges.

You did an accurate analysis of the first, but let your emotions get the better of you in the revision.

[DaveJ]

2. I did not like the word cybersex

Cybersex implies two willing participants. I do not consider minors to be willing participants but victims of molestation, or at least seduction if there was no sex involved.

I did notice my mistake though confusing Hasert and Foley, so I'd better correct it.

[originalpckelly]

3. Cyber-molestation...

There you go djohnson. I understand what you mean.

[Straight Shooter]

4. This was not cybersex. This was predatory stalking.

Cybersex, computer sex or net sex is a virtual sex encounter in which two or more persons connected remotely via a computer network send one another sexually explicit messages describing a sexual experience. It is a form of role-playing in which the participants pretend they are having actual sexual relations, by describing their actions and responding to their chat partners in a mostly written form designed to stimulate their own sexual feelings and fantasies.

It sometimes includes real life masturbation. The quality of a cybersex encounter typically depends upon the participants' abilities to evoke a vivid, visceral mental picture in the minds of their partners. Imagination and suspension of disbelief are also critically important. Cybersex can occur either within the context of existing or intimate relationships, e.g. among lovers who are geographically separated, or among individuals who have no prior knowledge of one another and meet in virtual spaces or cyberspaces and may even remain anonymous to one another. In some contexts cybersex is enhanced by the use of webcams to transmit real-time video of the partners.

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The relative anonymity of Internet communication may provide encouragement to pedophiles (or, more commonly, ephebophiles) to seek out underage cybersex partners. In the course of such conversations, such individuals sometimes try to send child pornography to others or arrange real-life meetings (see child grooming). Such anonymity allows one to pose as any age or sex.


Note: Ephebophilia is the attraction of older individuals to adolescents, a phenomenon generally not assigned a separate term in most cultures unless it is between adult males and adolescent boys.


More at link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersex