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Five Ways Rape Victims are Hurt when Rape is Politicized
Put aside that the dishonesty of these attitudes is breathtaking. To the extent rape is a problem, in significant ways, anti-rape feminists are the authors of their own discontent.
(1) If rape victims are not "coming forward," it's because of feminist scare tactics
Feminists insist that rape victims are not coming forward because they believe that women do not receive justice, and that they are subjected to a "second rape" when they report their victimization.
Put aside that no one can say if underreporting is a serious problem because the rape milieau is so terribly politicized, it's impossible to trust the "studies" that supposedly support serious underreporting. See, J. Fennel, Punishment by Another Name: The Inherent Overreaching in Sexually Dangerous Person Commitments, 35 N.E.J. on Crim. & Civ. Con. 37, 49-51 (2009). Put aside that the head of RAINN recently explained that women are not principally failing to report rape due to a fear of being disbelieved. Put aside the fact that it's foolish to combat one form of criminality, namely rape, by ignoring another form of serious criminality, namely false rape reporting.
If rape victims are not coming forward because they believe that women do not receive justice, who is spreading this dire warning, and is it accurate?
This dire warning is being spread by politicized purveyors of misandry: anti-rape feminists and the paid sexual grievance industry. No one else is chanting it.
A blatant example, and a microcosm of this dishonesty, is found in the UK. Last year, the Stern Review, decidedly sympathetic to feminst concerns, said that it is a misrepresentation to insist that rape is not taken seriously, and that such insistence might actually put women off from reporting. The Stern Review explained the basis for its assertion: in the UK, for a long time, when discussing the success rate in prosecuting rape, the Home Office and politicians allied with anti-rape activists have cited the attrition rate for alleged rape, which is the number of convictions as a percentage of number of reported crimes. That rate is 6% or slightly less. But, the Home Office, and everyone, uses the conviction rate, the number of convictions secured against the number of persons brought to trial for that given offence, for all other crimes – murder, assault, robbery, and so on. In fact, the conviction rate for rape is 58%. Stern Review, see page 45.
The chasm between 58% and 6% represents dishonesty of Biblical proportions. The result of such dishonest advocacy has made it appear that law enforcement is terribly, and uniquely, ineffective when it comes to rape.
Importantly, the Stern Review noted that use of the attrition rate instead of the conviction rate "may well have discouraged some victims from reporting." Id.
Despite the Stern Review's well-publicized report, the prominent UK rape activist group, Women Against Rape, continues to wrongly state that "the conviction rate for rape is 5.7%." http://www.womenagainstrape.net/resources
It is only fair to question that organization's motives in light of the concerns raised by the Stern Review.
(2) Their fight to keep false accusers from being charged hurts would-be rape victims and innocent women
For every other crime, our criminal justice system is premised on the notion that criminal sentencing deters criminality. Generally, the more serious the harm caused by the criminal act, the more severe the sentence --except when it comes to false rape reporting.
The less we deter women who lie about rape, the more likely are women make false claims, thus reducing the integrity of every legitimate rape claim.
In false rape case after false rape case after false rape case, judges and law enforcement personnel bemoan the fact that every rape lies diminish the integrity of every legitimate rape claim. Yet, some prominent feminists have made it clear that they don't want any false rape accuser even to be charged for their crimes, much less subjected to a custodial sentence.
Lisa Longstaff of Women Against Rape has been quoted as saying the following: "Every prosecution [of false rape claims] puts women who have been raped off reporting it." Another time, she called efforts to prosecute women for making false rape claims "a concerted witch-hunt."
In New Zealand, when a 17-year-old New Zealand girl was arrested after falsely claiming that she was dragged off by three youths and sexually assaulted at knifepoint, Dr. Kim McGregor, director of New Zealand's Rape Prevention Education, was quoted regarding false rape complainants: "I would recommend some form of therapeutic intervention rather than charging them." Dr. McGregor claims that "someone needed to be 'pretty distressed' to make a false allegation of sexual assault," and that "very few women made false complaints as a form of revenge."
If women are permitted to lie about rape with impunity, what is to stop other rape liars? And what will that do to the integrity of every legitimate rape victim?
Aside from other rape victims, feminists have no concern about the effects of rape lies on those innocent women who love and depend on the men and boys destroyed by rape lies. Rape lies do not occur in a vacuum. Almost every man or boy snagged in a false rape claim has a wife, girlfriend, daughter, mother, female employees who depend on him, or female friends and relatives. When a male loved one is falsely accused, few women dismiss it as "just desserts" for an undeserved beneficiary of privilege and patriarchy. Almost uniformly they are appalled. It is for good reason that we include "women" in the subtitle of this blog -- most of the notes we receive telling us that a man or boy was falsely accused of rape are from desperate mothers suffering immensely because of the the rape lie.
Never once have I heard an anti-rape feminist express the slightest concern about those women. Never once.
(3) Their insistence on naming men accused of rape often hurts rape victims
Anonymity for men accused of rape is a controversial subject. Naming men on the basis of even far-fetched accusations is sufficient to destroy them forever. The problem of false claims when it comes to rape far outweighs the problem of false claims for any other crime, both in volume and in terms of the stigma. In contrast, anonymity for women who cry rape is taken as a given.
But naming men probably actually hurts many legitimate rape victims, and it is likely that more women would "come forward" if the men they accused were anonymous. Why is that? When a woman accuses a male acquaintance of rape and he is publicly identified, it often isn't difficult to infer who the accuser is. It is reasonable to assume that most rape victims would prefer not to have their identities revealed even by inference when they accuse an intimate acquaintance of rape. It is also reasonable to assume that the benefits accruing to women by keeping the accused anonymous would outweigh the benefits of naming men accused, despite feminists' repeated citation to a serial rapists named John Worboys.
But this problem has never been seriously explored and there is no public discourse about it because the primary intention on the part of those who insist that even factually innocent men accused of rape be named seems to be punitive, a twisted sort of "get-evenism" for the past sins of actual rapists.
(4) They make clear to rape victims that they have no civic duty to report their rapes, thus endangering other women
When bystanders watch as a woman is being gang raped, any person of good will is appalled, and we question what mentality prompts people to do nothing when someone is being hurt. In some countries, there exists a legal requirement for citizens to assist people in distress.
Yet, when it comes to rape victims, we hold them to no duty to report. Everyone appreciates that a rapist is typically a serial perpetrator, and that it is likely that most rapists will repeat their assaults on other innocent women. Yet consistent with the current philosophy to treat rape as a "different" kind crime, feminists have created a culture where it is the height of insensitivity and political incorrectness even to suggest that rape victims have a civic duty to report their rapes. Instead, they take steps to assure rape victims that there is no imperative to immediately report their rapes when they should be preaching the opposite. (Among many other things, they extend or eliminate altogether statutes of limitations, signaling that a rape victim may sit on her claim for a long time, before bothering to report it.)
But every failure to report a rape means that a rapist is at large, likely taking new victims. Is it not at all troubling that there is so little concern for these other would-be victims?
(5) They create a culture that encourages women to take reckless chances with their own safety.
We need to teach both young men and young women that the alcohol-fueled hook-up culture is a disaster for too many young people. Unfortunately, the prevailing feminist mantra is for young women to "party like the guys," without bothering to tell them about the "regret asymmetry" that separates the genders: women experience much greater after-the-fact regret than men do. Sometimes feelings of regret are translated into feelings of "being used," and sometimes feelings of "being used" are misinterpreted or purposefully misconstrued as "rape."
Asking the police, a judge, or a jury to sort out what happened in an alcohol-fueled tryst based on a "he said/she said" account can put an impossible burden on our law enforcement and judicial apparatuses. Nobody ever wins in that scenario. See here. Even true believer feminists, like prominent feminist legal scholar Aya Gruber, admit that the criminal justice system is not equipped to deal with date rape.
Yet when these irrefutable points are posited, puerile far left ideologues -- whose idea of effective argumentation is to shout "BULLSHIT!" and to cite financially interested "studies" by the sexual grievance industry -- trot out the "victim blaming" label, as if their inapt and childish incantation could somehow shame the truth.
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Please change "the attrition rate for rape" to "the attrition rate for alleged rape" - Mar 28, 2011, 9:10:00 AM
One thing you left off is that they create gender divisiveness by insisting that masculinity has to be "redefined." I am inclined to take action for women's rights, but when I see this sort of crap that maleness itself is all fucked up in our culture (and not just that rape is awful or that men shouldn't make sexually suggestive remarks to strange women, etc.) it really turns me off to the whole movement.
- Mar 28, 2011, 9:12:00 AM
- Archivist said...
Thanks, AfOR, for that catch. It is changed.
Axel, I agree. The misandry at work taints their entire movement with a patina of untrustworthiness. - Mar 28, 2011, 9:14:00 AM
The bottom line is that liberal feminists are pro-rape.
Sure, emotionally they are against rape, like everyone else. Yet, at the same time they want rape, even more rape, as clearly demonstrated by the policies they support. - Mar 28, 2011, 10:26:00 AM
- atlas said...
Great article! Thank you.
- Mar 28, 2011, 10:26:00 AM
Anon at 10:26:
I agree. Like when the Duke rape case was revealed as false, I swear to God half of the feminists were freaking disappointed . Disappointed because a girl hadn't been brutally gang-raped like she'd said. - Mar 28, 2011, 12:56:00 PM
- atlas said...
MH wrote: "Like when the Duke rape case was revealed as false, I swear to God half of the feminists were freaking disappointed."
On the day the case was thrown out of Court I was a regular poster at the sfgate which is the San Francisco Chronicle's site. The liberal men generally accepted the verdict without problem or further comment after previously expressing outrage at the players prior to the whole jury trial circus. Many of the liberal women were still outraged at the players after they were declared innocent and the corruption exposed with some of the women wishing extreme sentencing upon the players for any future accusations. I never saw any regular female commentators ie liberal feminist there acknowledge the issue that false-rape claims do occur. - Mar 28, 2011, 1:29:00 PM
Mar 28, 2011 12:56:00 PM
Yes, and the other half still insist something must have happened.
In the late-sixties early-seventies feminists claimed women were justified in making false accusations of rape, because men had all the power. Then some time after Roe v. Wade, they changed their position to "women never lie about rape". - Mar 28, 2011, 1:48:00 PM
Thank you for speaking up for rape victims. The trouble is that feminists pay lip service to rape victims, but allow the integrity of every real rape victim to be diminished to the point that they are perceived as liars.
- Mar 28, 2011, 2:02:00 PM
- Archivist said...
Anon: you are welcome. We are allied with rape victims on these issues.
It is unfortunate that the screeching banshees who pretend they are allied with rape victims doesn't care about the epidemic of false accusations that tarnish every actual rape victim. - Mar 28, 2011, 2:04:00 PM
One only look at Gloria Allred hugging and kissing Larence Taylor's "victim" on the news yesterday to see where the "second rape" is coming from.
PAYDIRT! PAYDIRT! PAYDIRT! Hugs and kisses all around... - Mar 28, 2011, 3:10:00 PM
I think most women, whether or not they have ever been raped or falsely accused someone of rape, take comfort in the fact that they have a "nuclear monopoly" regarding rape. Any woman can destroy the "other side" with the simple touch of a button.
- Mar 28, 2011, 3:18:00 PM
All lies, it never happened:
[ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- The University of Central Florida has confirmed it forwarded allegations to its police department regarding claims that a fraternity used a date rape drug as part of a dangerous drinking game it played with a sorority.]
When are men and boys going to get a break? - Mar 28, 2011, 5:53:00 PM
It's under investigation, and there are several witnesses
- Mar 28, 2011, 9:45:00 PM
- Archivist said...
"Witnesses" can go either way.
Fear of date rape drugs were all the rage two years ago, but it's been shown their use is incredibly rare. - Mar 28, 2011, 9:48:00 PM
"I am inclined to take action for women's rights..."
I'm not. We men have heard REPEATED exhortations to "take action for women's rights" for at least 20 years that I can think of,under that exact banner, that exact slogan.
But it all goes one way. Whenever men's rights are being violated, clearly, indisputably, and the clarion call is sounded for women to "take action for men's rights" you can literally hear the crickets chirping.
Another example is paying for dates. Despite young women having more employment prospects and higher earnings than young men in many cases, ask 100 women who should pay for the date and the inner prostitute comes out in full force. 99 times out of 100,the answer is "him".
No, I'm not at all inclined to "take action for women's rights". I've been doing it for 20 years and the only thing I get for it is a new round of shaming and "man up" the NEXT time women need something from me.
"...but when I see this sort of crap that maleness itself is all fucked up in our culture (and not just that rape is awful or that men shouldn't make sexually suggestive remarks to strange women, etc.) it really turns me off to the whole movement."
That IS the whole movement,friend.
Think about it. What do 21st century Western women have to complain about, what about their situation can POSSIBLY improve?
So they turn their attention to men. To "improve" US by making us into them.
In the Kingdom of the Blind, the One-eyed Man gets his eye poked out in an effort to make him more like everybody else.
That is it in a nutshell.
There's two things I can say for certain, women are on their own from now on,and no matter how bad the situation gets for men, I will thank god I was born one. - Mar 29, 2011, 7:21:00 AM
"Anonymous said...
I think most women, whether or not they have ever been raped or falsely accused someone of rape, take comfort in the fact that they have a "nuclear monopoly" regarding rape"
OK, that's like saying MOST MEN take comfort in the fact that they have a "Nuclear Monopoly" regarding rape.
MOST women and MOST men are decent human beings that would NEVER intentionally harm.
It's why rape, and false accusations of rape are relatively rare considering there are MILLIONS of human beings roaming the plantet unraped, and not committing rape. - Mar 29, 2011, 11:15:00 AM
I think most women, whether or not they have ever been raped or falsely accused someone of rape, take comfort in the fact that they have a "nuclear monopoly" regarding rape. Any woman can destroy the "other side" with the simple touch of a button.
Absolutely! The threat of false rape accusations is a tool that every feminist wants in her box. What better way to keep us down? - Mar 30, 2011, 2:20:00 PM
One thing you left off is that they create gender divisiveness by insisting that masculinity has to be "redefined." I am inclined to take action for women's rights, but when I see this sort of crap that maleness itself is all fucked up in our culture (and not just that rape is awful or that men shouldn't make sexually suggestive remarks to strange women, etc.) it really turns me off to the whole movement.
Ever read 'The Canterbury Tales?' Check out 'The Wife of Bath,' which is all about how women strive to control men and beat them down.
Yes, in fuckin' medieval times! The femnuts have always been with us in one form or another, and they've always been trying to "modify masculinity." - Mar 30, 2011, 2:23:00 PM
- Archivist said...
Aside to anon who said: "It's under investigation, and there are several witnesses."
A "witness" is not necessarily a prosecution witness. A "witness" is someone with first-hand knowledge about the events at issue. - Mar 31, 2011, 11:10:00 AM
In a post that disappeared, I made it clear that the witnesses I'm referring to are witnesses for the prosecution.
Or do you just enjoy arguing. - Apr 1, 2011, 12:03:00 AM


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Cut the working week to a maximum of 20 hours, urge top economistsFor extra credit, explain which famous economic fallacy these 'top economists' (ho, ho, ho) have committed, and why they are obviously deranged.
Job sharing and increased leisure are the answer to rising unemployment, claims thinktank
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- DIVINE said...
Guardian, who cares? lump of labour fallacy
- Monday, January 09, 2012 10:29:00 pm
- Richard said...
Ditto, New Economics Foundation, ditto.
'New', in a previously unknown sense of 'comlete tosh', perhaps.
It's economically illiterate, and I am surprised that a soi-disant sophisticated paper like the Groan didn't spot that. - Tuesday, January 10, 2012 12:15:00 am
- Phil Walker said...
And I was wrong: it took two comments! Richard correctly identifies the newspaper and the think-tank, so takes the prize, which is to be named in the sidebar as the current quiz winner. You'll be replaced next time I run a fun, fun quiz with whoever wins that one (including being replaced by yourself, if you win).
And here is the link to the original Guardian article: link. As usual, a handful of the commenters have picked up on the Guardian's inability to spot economic woo, while most of them think this plan is flawless. - Tuesday, January 10, 2012 9:33:00 am
- Anthony Smith said...
Maybe I'm missing the fallacy, but I'm reading the NEF argument as being: given the current amount of paid labour, it would be better if it were distributed more evenly (e.g., better to have two people working 20 hours per week than one working 40 and the other unemployed). I missed the bit where they said the amount of work available to labourers is fixed. Obviously it won't double overnight (so maybe treating it as relatively fixed is not too unrealistic), but where do they claim it is fixed?
- Tuesday, January 10, 2012 10:13:00 am
- Phil Walker said...
You said it yourself: "given the current amount of paid labour". That's the assumption that paid labour is fixed, right there. If the demand for labour fell then you wouldn't be able to distribute the work in the way nef suggest; if demand rose, then some work would go undone.
And it's nonsense for various reasons. At the lowest level, the French 35-hour week has not been a raging success. It is credited with creating hundreds of thousands of jobs, but in an environment where employment grew throughout the West, and with large state subsidies. It does not look like a self-sustaining solution. Why should 21 hours be any better?
Moreover, employing two individuals has a higher fixed cost than employing one, so it is less efficient. Consequently, output will decrease at the margins. Import prices will rise, and I would expect hourly wages to fall, since marginal productivity would decline.
But the nef papers on this routinely fail to explain whether they expect hourly pay to fall or rise, and what effects there will be on prices. Working half a week and therefore getting half the pay mightn't be so painful if prices halved; but there is absolutely no reason to believe they would. In my view, the most likely outcome is that most things would seem as much as twice as expensive as they used to be — or more, in the case of imports.
It gets even worse than that. The lump of labour fallacy is wrong in the same way that 'They come over here, taking our jobs!' is wrong. It's exactly the same fallacy: the idea that there is a certain amount of work which needs to be done and that if one person does it then another person can't. If you believe in restricted working hours as a boost to employment, then you ought to believe that closing the borders would be good for employment.
The lump of labour model is a zero-sum model of the economy; manifestly false since the economy grows faster than the population. It has no recognition of the demand which is created by the person with the job which may, in turn, employ the otherwise unemployed person. And it baffles me that nefites of all people, as self-described Keynesians, should need such a point explaining to them.
It is possible that as productivity rises, we may choose to take more of the productivity in leisure time rather than in remuneration. But the law cannot make this happen any more than the law can turn gravity on its head. - Tuesday, January 10, 2012 10:56:00 am
- Phil Walker said...
On the French experience, here is a CEPR paper which backs up quite how dismal the 35-hour week has been (pdf).
Theoretical models suggest reducing hours can tilt an economy towards capital and away from labour; other empirical studies suggested that reducing work hours increased churn in the labour force; wages tended to go up to compensate for the lost hours, which sounds nice until you realise that this decreases demand for labour; and the authors found that satisfaction with work hours and amount of leisure time did not increase. (The latter probably because workers replaced market output with domestic output.) This really doesn't look good, and that's for a slight 10% reduction in hours. - Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:15:00 am
- Anthony Smith said...
"Working half a week and therefore getting half the pay" - that doesn't follow (tax-free allowances). And if one person works 40 hours per week to support himself and an unemployed person, then there is just as much money to earned and spent as if both those people worked (say) 25 hours per week (allowing for the lower efficiency that you mention, which I think would lead to falling hourly pay). So it's not obvious that the latter situation would lead to decreased demand for other goods, on average (even if sales of expensive holidays and of Asda Smart-Price Edible Plastic would suffer).
No doubt it is a complex issue. But if, in purely monetary terms, it is better for one person to work ridiculous hours and for the next person to be unemployed, then I think the problem is that we are thinking in purely monetary terms. That's what I like about the NEF emphasis on wellbeing rather than on GDP.
(I'm not sure your immigration point works. Surely no one is claiming that demand for labour is independent of the size of the population?) - Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:50:00 am
- Phil Walker said...
Sorry, half the pay before tax 'n' benefits. This isn't a story in which the State figures, beyond telling everyone that the standard work-week is 21 hours.
Throughout this idea, the nef makes assumptions which cannot be defended. For a start, that prices will change in line with household incomes. I don't believe that assumption for a moment.
(And when thinking about changes in demand, it's not a good idea to assume that only things you dislike would suffer. I would expect an increase in people struggling to pay rent and fuel bills, before transfer payments; which is mad, because one of the claimed benefits is a decrease in transfer payments!)
They also assume that the unemployed are doing nothing which we would not miss if we lumped them with 21 hours of paid employment, taken from the currently employed. Or that they would not miss.
For example, consider a family with one working parent and one home-managing parent: it is not necessarily a gain to force them both to de-specialise. If one parent is significantly better paid than the other, then it can be eminently sensible for the better-paid parent to work full-time and bring in enough money so that the other can manage the household effectively.
They also forget about heterogeneity and skills: we cannot lose half a surgeon and gain half a hairdresser. That is folly. But if we think about those skilled jobs, in healthcare, education, manufacturing or service, who would pick them up, who isn't already doing it? Or do we get ill half as often, need our hair cutting half as often, educate our children half as much, too?
I shall think about the immigration point further. You may be right, but something is bugging me: it does look like the two positions are too similar for comfort. - Tuesday, January 10, 2012 2:33:00 pm
- Anthony Smith said...
Barbers used to perform surgery too you know...
I must admit that 21 hours does sound very low, and agree with the point about sharing the paid and unpaid work between two parents (I suppose I didn't have such situations in mind when thinking about unemployed people). I think I need to listen to Start the Week as I'm only going on the Guardian article for now...
On immigration, if all the people coming into the country take up full-time jobs, then P(unemployed | British) goes up, presumably (assuming constant lump of labour per capita). Probably not by much though. - Tuesday, January 10, 2012 3:01:00 pm
- Phil Walker said...
Yes, so the argument is then that not every unemployed person is doing nothing. that is, it doesn't just go for families: we all benefit from people doing voluntary work, and from artists or actors who are not necessarily conventionally employed.
Now, this business of worthwhile labour may be less true for people claiming jobseeker's allowance, as claiming it implies that they are looking for work. But certainly just averaging out across the working-age population is illegitimate: you should really be looking at claimants, and I guess adding a fudge factor for non-claiming unhappily unemployed. Unemployment, though, is not all that high: about 8.3% of the workforce is out of work and claiming they'd rather be in. I would expect that we'd see quite a lot of things fold which we would rather didn't fold, all because an economic engineer looked at a bunch of averages and thought 'Why don't we...?' without asking about the structure which lies beneath the averages. - Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:52:00 pm
I am certain that the eminent economists who came up with this are currently working, in their spare time (the other 148 hours per week) on perfecting Douglas Adams' Infinite Improbablity Drive to enable them to go hitch-hiking all around the Galaxy.
- Tuesday, January 10, 2012 10:43:00 pm
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Labor intensive President Obama trying to make nice and -- support of labor unions with a speech today at the building trades legislative conference.
-- Keystone Pipeline debacle do his words have any weight are Peter -- is at the white house with a look at how the speech went Peter.
Analyst that's right president trying to mend fences with the building and construction workers the union.
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Mend the fences -- -- cement.
-- its support of the union members in this election year by talking about infrastructure so the president.
Hammered Republicans on Capitol Hill who have rejected -- his job supplanted jobs proposals which would include infrastructure projects.
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Thousands and thousands of union jobs take a listen.
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-- -- -- Way to put folks back to work.
Now here's what day unions sad don't want the president rejected the Keystone Pipeline quote it's beyond disappointing that President Obama placed a higher priority on politics rather than our nation's number one challenge.
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Cymopterus aboriginumJones. White Cymopterus, Indian Parsley. (Plate 6.3) A stemless perennial from a rootstock covered with the persistent bases of old leaf stems. Leaf blades 1–4 in (2.5–10 cm) long, naked, with 3 to 10 spreading rays. Fruit winged on all sides. Flower: White.
Distribution. Rocky places, especially on dolomite; Desert Scrub and Pinyon-juniper Woodland, 5,500–9,000 ft (1,677–2,744 m).
Lomatium foeniculaceum(Nutt.) Coult. & Rose. ssp.inyoense(Mathias & Constance)Theobald. Inyo Mountain Parsley.(Lomatium inyoense) (Plate 6.4) A very small, stemless perennial with leaf blades tufted at ground level, their stems below the surface. The blades are 1/2–1 in (13–25 mm) long, finely divided, grayish, some purple-tinged. Flowering stems are mostly 1 1/2–3 in (4–8 cm) long, naked, commonly turned to one side rather than erect, usually with only one ray developed. Fruit is narrowly winged on the edges. This is the smallest parsley in the range. Flower: Whitish to pale yellow.
Distribution. Mostly in the Bristlecone Pine Forest in the Inyo Mountains, but there are some occurrences in the White Mountains; Subalpine Zone, 9,400–11,000 ft (2,866–3,354 m).
Ssp.fimbriatumTheobald. White Mountain Parsley. (Lomatium macdougallii Coult. & Rose) Much like ssp. inyoense but a larger, sturdier plant with less of the stems underground. Rays of the inflorescence are longer, and 2 to 14 are well developed. Flower: Pale yellow.
Distribution. Rocky slopes and flats; mostly in the White Mountains; Desert Scrub to Subalpine Zone, 5,700–10,500 ft (1,738–3,201 m).
Lomatium mohavense(Coult. & Rose) Coult. & Rose. Mojave Parsley. (Plate 6.5) A grayish perennial with much the same growth habit as L. foeniculaceum but much larger and coarser. Leaf blades are triangular in outline, mostly 1 1/2–2 1/2 in (4–6.4 cm) long and much divided, on stems about the same length. Flowering stems are 4–12 in (1–3 cm) tall, with rounded umbels 3–4 in broad. Mature fruit is roundish, pale-veined, and narrowly winged on the edges. Flower: Yellow, purple, or deep maroon.
Distribution. Dry slopes; Desert Scrub to Pinyon-juniper Woodland, up to 8,500 ft (2,591 m).
Pteryxia petraea(Jones) Coult. & Rose. Rock Pteryxia. A perennial from a deep root, the slender stems 6–16 in (1.5–4 dm) high. Leaf blades are pale green, 1–6 in (2.5–15 cm) long, narrowly oblong in outline, much divided, and fernlike, as the species name implies. The ultimate segments are extremely fine, scalelike on threadlike divisions. Lower stems are covered with the persistent bases of old leaf stems. The inflorescence is rather slender and open, with unequal rays up to 2 in (5
cm) long. Flowers are minute. The fruit is ovoid to oblong, flattened, and winged on the edges, about 1/4 inch (6 mm) long. Flower: Yellow.
Distribution. Rocky canyon walls; Pinyon-juniper Woodland, 6,000–8,800 ft (1,829–2,683 m).


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I've been involved with roleplaying online (Vampire: The Masquerade) for just over ten years now. The chronicles i've played in over the years are set up with no definite end in sight. There are loosely based storylines to be followed, but the majority of it is decided upon by actions of the players (who do not know the things the PM's know). I can tell you from experience, a game of any kind where Storytellers (or PM's in this case) have to come up with information on the fly based on what other players are doing or thinking is a very exhausting job. Not only do you have to create all the information at a pace much faster than if you had done it before the game started, but you have to constantly monitor the people involved on the playing side. With these roleplaying chronicles, all that information is made more readily available through one message board. The ARG world is not limited to just one message board, however. How would you maintan a proper monitoring of countless groupings of players across the internet? Even if you catered it simply for the desires of say, this forum. It is still a very tall order to ask a group of people to constantly monitor that information and quickly and successfully create storylines and plot-points (not to mention puzzles) that maintain the players attention and enjoyment.
It's a great thought, kind of like a Choose Your Own Adventure book. But it's not possible in this medium at this point.
Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 1:16 am
Story vs World Games
I believe you have just touched a subject that pertains to pretty much all Games in a general sense.
The issue is basically Interaction, or lack thereof.
From a practical standpoint, true unfettered interaction prevents telling a solid storyline. Conversely, a strong story cannot help to limit interaction.
The reasons for this are numerous, but can be shown clearly.
With true interaction as a goal, one quickly realizes that if every action affects the end state, more interactions means exponentially more end states (each choice at least doubling the outcomes).
When telling a story is the goal, having a precise end state (or precise steps to visit in order) prevents the players from having any actual impact from a practical point of view.
To this effect, games wanting to maximize interaction are typically made up of a minimum set of Rules. Any story-type gratification comes from navigating the game world while respecting the proper behavior.
This does not yield very potent stories (for example, famous chess matches can be seen as stories, but they communicate very little). Most games fall in this category.
Adventure games (and ARGs, as far as i am concerned), tend to shy away from rules in order to embrace a story, while making it as immersive as possible.
One might think that immersion and higher interaction go hand in hand.
I beg to differ.
Through tabletop RPGs and LARPs, I have come to realize that stories are fickle things. Storytelling games usually take one of two roads:
-Cadavre Exquis: Mostly improvisation between friends. This can be incredibly satisfying, but usually requires you know your fellow players VERY well, or else it degenerates in random chaos, every player pulling the proverbial bed sheets their way.
-Elaborate Scenario: In which players have a list of precise goals to accomplish (at least as far as the DM is concerned) to get to specific ending (or perhaps a few well defined potential endings). Usually the choices made by the players have been planned, and so their actual impact is minimal, even though from their perspective, they were never told what to do.
No matter the road taken, one thing is almost always true: No matter where you think you are leading your players, they will go everywhere and do everything they shouldnt.
The bottom line is that you should never trust players to go where you want them by themselves.
And, the way I see it, there lies the incompatibility between interaction and immersion.
Immersion occurs when you can act on instinct and yet still manage to follow the rules. The act of thinking about rules brings you in the META level of the game, not thinking about them brings you closer to it's story.
To come back to the original post, an ARG without definite plot, characters, puzzle or story, basically means an Alternate World made up mostly of rules. To this extent, MMORPG are exactly that. While in some cases they try to tell a central story, most are content (as well they should) to provide a highly interactive environment where players can experiment at will.
I see ARGs as the storytelling version of MMORPGs, where fundamental interaction is mostly sacrificed, in order for a more detailed story to be told.
As was said before, the best thing an ARG can pull off (or any story telling game for that matter) is to maintain an apparent limitless interactivity, while still controlling the flow of the narrative (getting the players where you want them).
Trust your players to have some fun, but don't trust them to do what you expect if you give them real choices.
Justin "too deep" Case
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 2:13 pm
the more players begin to play, the more stressful it becomes on the PM, I know from experience.
Paranoia factor is rediculous for all parties. Mainly for the PMs.
I'm willing to put up with the stress if it works correctly.
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 9:58 am
I guess one of the dangers might be that the players catch on as to what is happening i.e. they are writing the story. What if a consensus of players decide to put the idea to the test by manipulating the characters to do extreme things like. Rob banks, try and row across the Atlantic or worse still stand for election!
I began work on an ARG with no definite end, no definite puzzles, no definite plot, and no definite characters.
Isn't what your describing a bit like real life with a good dose of paranoia thrown in for good measure
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 2:14 am
I'd personally be really interested in playing such a truly interactive game. To me it's one of the greatest potential strengths that this genre holds. However, achieving it in a way that would be satisfying for the players I believe would require either hugely extensive resources or a limit to be placed on the number of players.
It'd be really interesting to get Dave S.'s thoughts on this however after his experience during Chasing The Wish. During CTW, from what I understand at least one of the characters came to play a different, larger role than what was originally planned due to the player response to her.
The danger of an ARG such as the one you descibe however might be that it does not have sufficient behind-the-scenes guidance and control to stop it from basically becoming an online RPG.
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 11:22 pm
I guess that's what I truly meant to say, the end result doesn't change, but the methods of arriving at the end do.
Similar to a choose your own adventure book, there is a story set out, but depending on what they choose, or believe, divers plot twists and endings.
The characters have base personalities, but they should be able to react to the ways the puppets play with them, just as the storyline and puzzles should.
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 9:37 pm
Re: my mistake
Eliza wrote:
I just meant to ask if elements should be set in stone, or completely subject to change.
If they're completely subject to change, they could have not existed in the first place
if your willing to let your story become totally different its kind of like saying "think of a story and i'll make it happen". The players aren't going to be suprised if you do what they have already proposed should happen. Just like steve said: The players can't really change the plot, they just are made to think that they can.
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 9:20 pm
my mistake
I believe that you inferred that by "no definitie" I meant "none"
There is indeed a story, puzzles, plot, and characters, however nothing is to be set in stone, everything is subject to change, and might just do so.
It is impossible to have a ARG without a plot already laid out,
I just meant to ask if elements should be set in stone, or completely subject to change.
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 9:15 pm
Just my opinion:
A good ARG needs to have a compelling story and interesting characters to make it truly enjoyable. Otherwise, it's just solve a puzzle to get to the next puzzle, which isn't very fun after a while.
As far as the plot changing according to players' actions, here's the secret. The players can't
change the plot, they just are made to
that they can.
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 9:10 pm
Re: Aggressively Adaptive ARGs?
Eliza Welkommen wrote:
I began work on an ARG with no definite end, no definite puzzles, no definite plot, and no definite characters....
Do you think, from a player perspective, that it would be fun at all?
I'm curious to see how it will turn out.
No Puzzles, No Plot, No Characters... me thinks, no players... (note I have not yet discussed the end)...
Sorry... let me explain better...
There are a number of players who are playing for the puzzles. With no definite puzzles, the PM will be pressed to scramle to toss in relavent puzzles to keep these players interested, sure some puzzles will be able to be crafted in a few minutes to a few hours, but how much of that will a PM be able to think up and code on the fly (AnthraX101, Mart and Danny, and Jamesi excepted) and got set up an a web page or out in the mail to arrive in a timely manner?
Plot... with out a plot you have no story to move the players through your puzzles. If all you want is something puzzle heavy, I'll point you to places like Riddle planet and JMX. Changing a storyline to fit some good speculations by the players is fine, but you have to have something in place for them to speculate about, just keep in mind that major changes will mean thinking up new ways to have players get from one puzzle to the next, which is more thinking and coding on the fly. Possible sure, but it will eat up a lot of time, social time, school time, work time...
Characters... some people are no good at solving puzzles, and many of them prefer to interact with the characters. Like the Puzzles and the Plot, there needs to be a solid foundation for the players to get a feel for them, or else it will fail to keep interest.
To End or Not to End... You do not have to mention an end point, however, keep in mind you do need to set one for the PMs piece of mind. Remember that your assistant PMs and BTS have other projects they would also like to play or assist with They might not want to volunteer for something that goes on for an extended length of time, especially if it is to be self perpetuating. People get burnt out when working too long at one thing and not getting closer to putting all the pieces together.
In order to keep people interested you would need to have one dem fine premise to get people interested, excited and keep them coming back for more.
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 8:44 pm
Re: Aggressively Adaptive ARGs?
Eliza Welkommen wrote:
I began work on an ARG with no definite end, no definite puzzles, no definite plot, and no definite characters.
This is just my opinion and speculation, not having been a Puppet Master, but I think that you would at least want some solid characters, perhaps even a couple of general plot milestones to reach. Even if you adapt the big-picture stuff (and the medium-picture stuff), you are still going to have to build out the "baby steps" as you go: the puzzles, the character interaction, the clues, small pieces of story. For this to be consistent, I would think that you'd need at least some sense of who the characters are, their motivations, etc.
I think you would need to do a lot of plot weaving to keep things consistent and to keep players interested. What you described sounds sort of like those "pass it around the campfire" stories. You know--the kind where one person starts, brings it to a cliffhanger, then passes to the next person, etc. While these may be an interesting way of preventing boredom in the wilderness, I am not sure how well they stand on their own as engaging and captivating stories.
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 7:37 pm
Eliza Welkommen
Aggressively Adaptive ARGs?
I began work on an ARG with no definite end, no definite puzzles, no definite plot, and no definite characters.
The ARG's point is to adapt based solely on the theories of the puppets, which means having a puppet master constantly monitoring what the puppets discuss.
Is it feasable for adaptation to be this aggressive?
Do you think that once the ARG adapts a certain amount of times, that people will begin to wonder how long it is before their theories get adapted into the plot?
Do you think, from a player perspective, that it would be fun at all?
I'm curious to see how it will turn out.
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 7:19 pm
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Focus {Week 9 of Selfie Saturdays}
This is probably coming 8 weeks too late, and by now most of you have already figured out how to work with focus in a self portrait situation. However, for those who are new to this, this will make your life just a little bit easier.
The hardest thing about shooting self-portraits is the focus. You might have the concept, you have the model ( you ), and the location, proper framing can be done in post-processing, but how do you shoot without looking in the viewfinder?
The key to this is, of course, the right equipment. You are going to spend 10 x the amount of time on a self portrait if you are shooting without a remote. You will be limited to fewer locations if you don't have a tripod.
If you're serious about improving your skills as a photographer, about making sure that you have a few pictures of yourself alongside those millions of pictures of your kid and any inanimate object you can find, if you want your family to look at the pictures from the holidays and remember that you went with them, you NEED to buy a remote and a tripod. You will see how many more uses you'll get out of those two accessories, beyond a simple self portrait: family photos, steady hand, goofing around with your kids, you and your hubby in the same shot together {OMG}, not having to be by the camera at all times.
NOTE: I take my tripod and remote ON ALL VACATIONS. Just in case.
Now before you rush to buy a remote, make sure it has two things:
It's wireless
It has a 10 second option
The remote I have always used ( since I started self-portrait photography in 2008) is this one: Canon Wireless Remote Control RC1 for Canon XT/XTi, XSi, and T1i Digital SLR Cameras
Now probably for some of you I won't be telling you anything you don't know already, but if I can help one person take better more focused pictures, I am happy with that.
Shooting without a remote
{even if you're a remote shooter, you might want to read this, because there will be times when you don't have your remote with you, or you lose it or you simply have to resort to manual trigger, because the remote keeps focusing on the wrong things- it all happened to me more than once}
The key to shooting without a remote is knowing EXACTLY where you are going to be once the shutter is triggered. I am talking your FACE, specifically.
TIP: The easiest way to achieve sharp focus when you're using the in-camera timer is to have stand-in, like you kids or you significant others, because you can give them direction. Position them where you need to be, focus on their face, hit the shutter button and ….beep…beep….beep… run to stand in the exact spot they were occupying. Let me demonstrate that for you:
TIP: If you don't have a human stand-in, you can always use a chair or any other tall object. Actually, a second tripod works great since it can be set at any height.
Now, I have been shooting with a remote for a long time, so when I started to write this post, I was honestly rusty when it came to in-camera timer shooting. So to make it more close-to-reality, I decided to go out and shoot some selfies with one goal only- to see how well I do focusing without the convenience of a remote. In the end, I was very pleased with the results. S0 let me show you what I did.
This was the very first shot I did, focusing on the branches and then positioning myself so that my face was inline with them. I circled in white where the focus was placed.
TIP: I shot at f/2.8 which is a relatively difficult aperture to get the focus right. I could have gone to f/1.8 but even when shooting a standard photo, it's sometimes hard to find the focus on that aperture. So I'd suggest you practice with a smaller aperture, until you're comfortable enough with the focus to get it right with something more challenging like f/2.8 and larger. You're going to get more artistic pictures with better apertures, however an out-of-focus picture is no more appealing, whether it has a blurry background or not.
That was a pretty basic simple shot, so I decided to complicate it a bit.
TIP: Hammocks are notoriously difficult when it comes to getting the focus right. You're never sure where exactly to focus, they move constantly. It took me about 2 shots to get this one right. I focused right on the middle part of the hammock where I knew my face would be. Without taking my eyes off the spot where the focus is, I carefully lie down, keeping my feet directly on the ground, not letting the hammock move uncontrollably, until my body in the horizontal position. Once I have my face where it needs to be and the hammock is still, I take my feet off the ground and put them on the hammock. Now ALL THIS HAPPENS in the 10 seconds that my camera timer goes "beep… beep… beep…"
Next challenge was shooting from the top. This was relatively easy. I found a patch of the grass that looked slightly different. I placed my focus on it, and ran to position myself with my eyes DIRECTLY over the spot. Not your shoulders, or your body, or your head. EYES!
Next was shooting from below. Same trick: focused on a specific branch, positioned my face in line with it and voila! The problem was that when I would actually get to the branch, I'd get confused which one I focused on, since they all look alike. But out of about 10 photos, I got 4 perfectly in focus.
This is my favorite shot of the set. I made sure to get a lot of glare and sun into the shot and it worked out perfectly with the focus.
And isn't that the goal? To take 20 pictures (or more like 50-100 if you're new to self-portraiture) with the hopes that 1 of them will be gorgeous!
And finally,
TIP: If you have a really nice slightly off focus shot, you can always put it in a diptych with something even more out of focus to create an illusion of sharpness haha
Preferably something without you in it. Like out of focus trees, or flowers or whatever works for your shot.
The photo on the right looked significantly out of focus before I placed it next to the other one (I didn't have a blurry shot of the branches, though that would have worked even better}
TIP: Sometimes, we don't have branches and trees and hammocks to focus on. Sometimes all we have is a blank wall. However focusing on that wall isn't an option since your face is going to be on a different level with the wall. Those are the toughest shots, and what I do in this case is turn to manual focus. It looks pretty much like this:
focus on the wall
back up the focus just a bit
run to get the shot,
come back to check how out of focus it was
adjust the focus a bit further
run back to the wall to pose
now back to the camera to see if you got the focus right (nope, it's a bit off)
change the focus slightly
run back to shoot
check the shot to see how close you're getting to being in focus.
And this goes on and on, until you finally hit the spot, and now: "NOONE BREATHE!" You can take unlimited pictures in that spot as long as you don't touch the focus. YAY!
Also instead of changing the focus bit by bit, you can always move yourself inch by inch until you got a shot that's in focus. But the danger here is that you'll forget where you're supposed to stand, since you moved around a bit.
These shot were all taken using this method. It took me probably A WHOLE hour to take 20 good photos, including the focusing time and 50 out-of-focus trial photos.
Shooting with a remote
Shooting with a remote is pretty self-explanatory, so there's only 1 tip I can give you.
TIP: The best way to get the right focus when shooting with a remote is to avoid reaching your hand out to trigger the shutter, like in the picture below. Instead, keep the remote at your body/face level.
It doesn't happen too often but once in a while the camera focuses on the remote itself (or somewhere in the middle), leaving you with a slightly or majorly out of focus shot. And since you're using your remote to shoot, you tend to not check every picture, assuming it's focused properly. I've had to redo quite a few shots after I found out that the camera managed to focus on my hand instead of my body. It doesn't happen all the time, but the few times it does happen is enough to ruin your whole photo set.
If the camera is too far away and it won't trigger until you stretch your arm out, make sure you do it fast and try to keep the remote slightly lower that the camera while triggering it.
Our challenge this week will, of course, be focus related. This time again you're free to take any self-portrait you want with 1 condition: BOKEH!
For those not up on the lingo, Bokeh is the blur we get shooting at large apertures, specifically those beautiful light spots as a background that gather in clusters and give any photo a magical feel.
This should give you the practice of shooting with large apertures and learning to get the focus right. Make it pretty!
Example {the background that consists of those little balls of light} on the left side.
So Week 9 Selfie Saturdays: ANY Self-Portrait that involves BOKEH


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My ultimate goal is to work in the film/game industry as a concept artist. My interest is going more towards environments, vehicles and props. Also matte painting is something I'll definitely going to look into.
But I'm also going crazy from artists like James Jean, Ashley Wood, Chris Appelhans, Wes, etc.. So characters, creatures too.
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I'm really serious with my art and I gave up alot of things in my freetime including my school and other hobby's. This is what I want in life, I know its a long shot and people in my surroundings are thinking this dude is going crazy, but it turned my world around about a year ago and I'm going for it. Some of you guys propably know this feeling all to well.
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John Megas is Not Painting Pandas Painting Light Bulbs
Thursday, November 10th, 2011I'm eager to see the upcoming exhibition titled "Signals" by our reviews writer John Megas. Opening at Gallery 122 on Saturday (opening reception is from 7-10pm) the new work is a departure from his paintings on demand (Panda Licking a Light Bulb). The focus for the exhibition is the impact of power lines on the landscape. The end result are paintings with a rhythmic beauty to them despite the clutter that we as people create on nature.
More information can be found at can be found on the calendar here