"For years, Australian Antarctic expeditioners have been making home-brewed beer in Antarctica, but the tradition was recently banned."
Is there literally nowhere on planet Earth people can go to be let alone to do as they please?
Bars in Antarctica
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Re: Bars in Antarctica
#82Is it still the case an appendectomy is required before spending time there?
Re: Bars in Antarctica
#83Is it still the case an appendectomy is required before spending time there? https://www.bmj.com/content/339/bmj.b4965
IIRC, it's only required for surgical doctors overwintering but wouldn't be very surprised if the policy varies by base.
Re: Bars in Antarctica
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
> doesn't mention the accidents, assaults, and rapes, which trace directly back to drunkenness. What a bizarre assertion. The number of "accidents, assaults, and rapes" across the entire continent can each be counted on one hand. It's one of the safest places in the world.
It's pretty misleading to say that without mentioning that there's only 1000 people on the entire continent, over the winter. I'm on my phone so I don't have the actual numbers, but hypothetically, if Antarctica had one single reported rape every winter, that would be a yearly rate of 100 per 100K, comparable to some of America's worst cities.
It's very misleading to talk about "rapes" when the list of all crimes over all time in Antarctica is literally 5 items long and does not contain any rape.
Re: Bars in Antarctica
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
> doesn't mention the accidents, assaults, and rapes, which trace directly back to drunkenness. What a bizarre assertion. The number of "accidents, assaults, and rapes" across the entire continent can each be counted on one hand. It's one of the safest places in the world.
What is the rate per capita? How does that rate compare to other places?
Rate per capita is a rounding error. It's better to talk about the total number of crimes in Antarctica across all stations, since the first crime in 1959. That total number of crimes is 5.
Re: Bars in Antarctica
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Be careful before relying on data, particularly data for crimes like rape. Incidents are often not reported and going solely off data, one would conclude that regions like India and sub saharan africa are safer for women than places like Sweden and the USA.
What else is there to rely on, if not data? "Lived experience" is just allegations without proof, and in aggregate it's data. Anecdotes? The word of activists that insist that a fifth of men are rapists? It's fine to say the data isn't reliable, but unreliable data about sexual assault in general isn't reason enough to conclude that McMurdo is a place overrun with rapists
It is very obvious that your comment is from the perspective of a man. It is important to empathize with women and realise that “data” is not the ultimate source of truth as many supposedly data-driven but racist AI algorithms will show.
Women face many structural and social objectives that make “aggregate” data on sexual violence almost meaningless and often counter-intuitive.