Tuesday morning roundup

You've got to hand it to Egyptian conservatives who talk about rape. At least they put it all out there:

“Sometimes,” said Adel Abdel Maqsoud Afifi, a police general, lawmaker and ultraconservative Islamist, “a girl contributes 100 percent to her own raping when she puts herself in these conditions.”

and

“You see those women speaking like ogres, without shame, politeness, fear or even femininity,” declared a television preacher, Ahmed Abdullah, known as Sheik Abu Islam.

Such a woman is “like a demon,” he said, wondering why anyone should sympathize with those “naked” women who “went there to get raped.”

When it's that transparent, it's just that much obviously absurd.

Meanwhile: if you were intrigued by your local male victimhood movement, the one in India will rock your world:

The site is heavy with pictures decrying the treatment of men (“Men, this is how the world sees you,” reads one photo of a roll of toilet paper) and petitions like this one, which declares, “Rape is a shield for a woman to harass men sexually and get away with it.”

Writing about the new antirape law, another Facebook commentator introduced a possible future strategy for the group’s members: “Now it’s better to avoid women, like u avoid cobras…”

You do that, guys; I have a feeling the ladies won't miss you.

But you should talk about money before you get married.

Victor Ehikhamenor, in his appreciation of Chinua Achebe, speaks to the power of the written word:

One of my older sisters had warned me that some parts of the book were so tragic I would cry. I never knew until then that written words could elicit such emotions.

On a lighter note: I'm glad someone is holding the groundhog accountable:

Suspect Wanted For Fraud.He may be hiding in a hole. twitter.com/mcpnews/status…

— Montgomery Co Police (@mcpnews) March 21, 2013