While officials insist that the investigation is still on-going, a source familiar with the information reports that the primary suspect in the case of Missing Day Eight is, in fact, Day Seven. When pressed for details about what a potential motive might be, the source commented:
"We know from other cases involving number sevens that they can be cannibalistic. It's possible Day Eight fled or was a victim of foul play. I think we all remember how not too long ago, in a different string of numbers,
seven ate nine."
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Man that was painful. But I wanted it so bad!
No, yesterday disappeared because I did other writing projects. But now, I'm back!
A brief update on exercise-
The Fatigue:
15 minutes of touches on the ball
[like it sounds!]
5 minutes of jump rope
[it sucked!]
I really want to, you know, win a game. Eventually. Sooner rather than later. And there was at LEAST one moment in the game on Tuesday where if my touch and speed had even been incrementally better, I had a goal in the bag.
Anywho!
The response my last blog received really caught me off guard. I actually got really nervous because Aberlyn called me while I was still at work and told that a lot of people were reading it. Thanks for the emails, comments, and all that; the encouragement and criticism are both really appreciated.
I'm working on a follow up, one that is a little more personal and specific about the effect of modesty culture in my life and my thinking, and demonstrating why I believe it is a significantly broken system of belief and practice.
But a friend brought up a really good question about the scientific/biblical basis for my statement about nothing about skin being inherently sexual. I wanted to clarify that point:
On the biblical basis, Jesus made it really clear that adultery happens within a man's heart. It's not about the woman. It's not about what the woman is doing, that's not why the man lusts after her. Even a woman working as a prostitute is appealing to sexually broken men. Healthy men do not respond to a prostitute's advances, nor are they tempted beyond their control, because they know and wholly believe that nothing about what she is offering will satisfy them, and she is not their's to sexualize- even at her own invitation.
Any of the girls who have been violated and/or raped while fully and "modestly" clothed do and have testified to me that the way they dress has zero power to control or influence the behavior of men. Because in the hearts of men who struggle with sexually objectifying women (or rather do not struggle, but happily give over to objectifying women, which is often the case), the woman is already a sexual object. Those areas of her body are areas that, in his heart, he is already prepared to engage with in a sexual context in his own mind and, at times, through physical action.
The idea that something magical happens to a girl's skin between age ten (where no man should look at her tummy or chest or butt and sexually objectify her) and age twenty is absolutely baffling to me. The only thing that changes is that because she is "physically mature," men now view her as a legitimate/legal satisfaction for their sexual appetite. And that's why they lust after her, regardless of whether she is wearing a high-collared knee-length dress or her underwear.
Indefatigable. Let's go.
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