If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

As of last week we also have this public accusation of him violating the policy. She says he hit on her and non consensually touched her arm and leg. There are comments from another student corroborating that these aren t new accusations. This is the accusation that the Secular Student Alliance inv...

Michael Shermer : best way to deal with anybody that wishes to deny your freedom of speech because they regard your opinions as unacceptable to them is simply to say nothing. You may think this quite defeatist but I would suggest it is empowering. The problem is that not every one thinks like this s...

Why is Miri Mogilevsky asking for donations ? She is a qualified therapist and so should be able to survive financially without having to rely on the generosity of strangers. Though she could blog full time if she was paid to do so given her systematic and clinical approach to all which she discusse...

The beauty of the slymepit is we welcome all views here though I think we can do without any virtue signalling when disagreeing with someone elses view. Luckily enough pitters are taking the more non judgemental view whilst countering such opinions. This is always the best way to deal with current ...

Comparing todays western society that is presumably going to be an Islamic society with present Sharia states and speculating what the crime rate will look like here when the Muslim majority presumably introduce Sharia I do love the misrepresentation you are propagating with this view But do you kn...

the left has shifted to the authoritarian stances previously occupied by the right And the sad irony is that one of the things the left values is free speech but it seems to be only free speech which it approves of. Now the problem is that political correctness which is also a sacred cow of the lef...

Now our lovely Katie is not the least bit afraid to say whatever she thinks even if on occasion it makes absolutely no sense. Like when she expressed contempt for place names for children and then seemingly forgot the one she had gave to her daughter I like testing myself against those who would hav...

Also a belief system or mindset is not some thing you can physically contain Kierkegaard once said you can stop the march of an army but not of an idea I might note that various forms of totalitarianism - fascism and communism in particular - have been more or less stopped in their tracks. Which ar...

we should be deporting the lot of them You can certainly do that if they are foreign nationals who have broken the law but not so with indigenous ones who were actually born here. And renouncing their status as citizens as has been suggested in some quarters would make them state less. However that...

I find Alastair Reynolds writings to be good hard Science Fiction Have read all of his books apart from the latest one. A fantastic imagination and a great storyteller. An astrophysicist who used to work for the European Space Agency so he knows his stuff. The only one of his I did not like was Cen...

Miri recently wrote a piece about the way that the science fiction writer Peter Hamilton portrayed his female characters and because she perceived it to be misogynistic was implying that no one should read him. Although she did not go all out and say so. But that was what she was not so subtly hinti...

Except they are not women. They are men. The violence usually happens when the man they have been giving blow jobs to in a back alley at 3 in the morning feel up the package that is not supposed to be there below the waist and find out they have been having sex with a man Trans should not be giving...

I searched for gay people killed in my area for being gay and immediately found a mother who beat her son to death fearing he was gay No one is denying that homophobia exists in America as that would just be nonsensical. However the fundamental difference between first world and third world countri...

Somehow their conversation turned to sex fantasies and she said that she had a rape fantasy. So he went for it. As he was about to enter her she said No. From behind. He misunderstood that as meaning she wanted it in the butt so he penetrated her anally some thing she was not prepared for. It was p...

You think blacks are more likely to respond with violence to a verbal insult Calling a black person nigger is more than just a verbal insult. It is a racial slur that indicates the one using it thinks they are less human than them purely because of their skin colour. You start using that word with ...

Some on the left do not want to criticise Islam since it may be perceived as Islamophobic which is akin to racism. Although this is a false analogy since Islam is an ideology not a race. It is in point of fact absolutely fine to criticise it but not to criticise Muslims but even here the perception ...

The prohibiting of certain words may be well intentioned though ultimately it is for each individual to decide what they can or can not say. I always listen to what social justice warriors have to say about this but I do not always agree with them. One such example is the word fat which is perceived...

There is nothing to stop Steersman from calling black people niggers if he really wants to. Though I would however suggest he does not actually do it in front of them for it might result in him requiring immediate hospitalisation. I would also suggest he examines the reason why he would want to do i...

The one difference I notice is that the other side have a tendency to be more authoritarian in their thinking although to me that is less important than what the actual thinking is. And so one such example is the banning of particular words because they are deemed to be discriminatory. In principle ...

the Slymepit are predominantly left liberals As too are all social justice warriors so one would expect there to be much common ground between them. The fact there is not can be because of one of two things. Either one of them is not as left liberal as they think they are or the left liberal spectr...

Rebecca Watson has posted a piece over at Skepchick with regard to Nugent dissociating himself from Myers and in its comment section various references are made about Slymepitters which I will now refute with regard to my self. Number One : they post rape and death threats online : I have never post...

Comparing the Slymepit to Stormfront is as wrong as wrong can be now
It may be many things but it is not a hate site so would suggest any one
who thinks it is just comes and visits it before forming any opinion on it

The notion of sides is a false dichotomy as everything exists on a single spectrum and is more shades of grey than the absolutes of black and white. Groupthink may be unavoidable but one would have thought that on atheist / social justice sites it would be less prevalent for those posting on them wo...

The tribalism of the internet is not caused by the internet itself for that is merely the symptom. The actual cause is human psychology and the evolutionary need to form groups for reasons of self preservation. That may no longer apply or at least not as much so but the trait is still there so it ma...

Myers asked if Ascharya was a Pitter because she supposedly supports Geert Wilders. I will come to that in a moment but she was wrong to suggest that Ayaan Hirsi Ali should be forgiven gaffes because of who she is since everyone must be held to account for what they say regardless of who they be. Al...

Myers is absolutely right with regard to Ayaan Hirsi Ali when he suggests that no one should be given special treatment because of who they are. And kudos to him too for suggesting it of his side as well. The implementation of this in practice may or may not match up to the ideal but that is entirel...

With regard to what Dick Strawkins said earlier about taking sides : I find that it is better to disregard entirely the whole notion of having such demarcations in the first place. There are sound reasons for this. Firstly no one has a monopoly on wisdom so it will transpire by the laws of averages ...

DaveDodo007 wrote:
the Pit is mine and the six guests can go and fuck themselves

hello Dave why am I not surprised to see you here now ha ha ha

It is always interesting when one learns something new. I would be interested though to know who exactly buys infected blood and for what purpose ? Also in the view that one should pay for any blood which they receive and that if they do not want infected blood they should not have lost so much in t...

I see nothing wrong in principle with those who want to be protected from cyber abuse from doing that via Block Bot. For after all that is what it was originally intended for. However its use is misappropriated when it is also used to filter out opinions that are not abusive but merely different to ...

I should mention that gamers did create a change dot org petition to have me banned from Bay Area Science Festival So you could be prevented from appearing in a public space for no other reason than you said things that some do not agree with. This is absolutely no different to those that try to ba...

On free speech : it is important to state that the rules governing it are different depending upon whether one is in a private space or in a public space. In a private space there exists an obvious hierarchy as some have more authority than others and so can get to decide what can or cannot be said....

The term ally applies to those who empathise with a particular demographic but are not part of it themselves. If the ally is privileged by comparison then they may have to demonstrate such empathy before being accepted. A good ally should also never attempt to dominate but participate where that is ...

Why are university campuses in this country denying some the right of freedom of speech Why is it that political correctness and identity politics appear to be incompatible with it Why is it that the most prominent targets of all of this are of the left and not of the right What are the long term co...

There is a great social stigma to announcing you are a victim of an STD True though that has got nothing to do with having it treated. If you attend a clinic you will only see others who have or may have one and the medical professionals who work there. There is no reason for anyone else to know. H...

There is a great social stigma to announcing you are a victim of an STD True though that has got nothing to do with having it treated. If you attend a clinic you will only see others who have or may have one and the medical professionals who work there. There is no reason for anyone else to know. H...

Well we are only just passing through and our time as a species is limited One sees the logic of his position though I want to hang around a bit more But death is nothing any way but a transference from one state to another And unless you are a sadist or a masochist you have nothing to worry about A...

I knew I remembered your Nym. You post walls o weird on Rational Skepticism. Are we going to get justified posts here too Not really because my cyber home is Rat Skep . The weird has reduced over time anyway but that is not because of any conscious desire to conform but just where I naturally am. I...

Can it be retrospectively invoked One cannot say but yes it could be What if all evidence is circumstantial Believe the woman if that is the case What happened when this was tried in Ohio The college shut down but not for that reason Do non students have to comply if having sex with students Yes tho...

Hunt wrote:
If Libby really wants to convince me

She has stated that she is sometimes sexist

If you read the article you would know this

I always thought the metalhead makeup was weird for what is at best a hard rock band Now I am not a big fan and is because of their image which is deemed more important than the music. Other bands had interesting visuals as well but with them it did not eclipse what they were supposed to be about :...

I make a distinction between attributing stupidity to an individual and to an idea. The former is capable of emotion so one avoids causing offence by using such a term. The latter however is not so the same degree of reluctance can be disregarded. Though avoiding causing offence as a natural defaul...

I have no problem with Ophelia deciding she cannot abide people using particular pejoratives on her site - there's plenty of sites that discourage bad language for a variety of reasons.My main issue is not even whether I can use certain pejoratives on non-FTB sites - it is the idea that I must rega...

If you donâ€™t belong to the marginalized group that is pointing out that a certain term makes them uncomfortable or is a contributor to their marginalization, is it fair for you as an outsider to say itâ€™s ok because it doesnâ€™t make me uncomfortable Here is what I would do : I would listen to y...

But many of those who rail against the use of cunt seem perfectly happy to use other pejoratives Non gender specific words such as shit or wank or fuck are perfectly acceptable to feminists because they cannot be perceived as misogynistic. Male gender specific words such as cock also for the same r...

The use or perceived use of the wrong word can be problematic so a few examples of this now which have come to my attention Resigning because you used the word niggardly and which offended a black Here is the Oxford English Dictionary which shall put you right on that one I accept one hundred per ce...

My professor actually had the fucking balls to say that he was using his class to advance his marxist/SJW views (that's not the outrageous part) and that if you had a problem with it, you could leave. Bitch, please. The class is an upper-division English course called "American Crime Fiction." The ...

http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2014/01/she-looked-it-up-in-a-dictionary/ The post is about some twitterers sending offensive or annoying tweets to or about people they don't like Ophelia is, of course, ecstatic that these individuals are getting punished in court or threatened wit...

Most of the feminist women I meet have at least as much "privilege" as I do, in any way that you could possibly measure that in real terms Privilege works both ways. Less you really are at the bottom of the food chain then there is always someone below you. But whenever one is referencing it it doe...

You may be right about the percentage of abuse feminists receive online from those who are non MRA. But what conflates it in in their mind would be the obvious misogyny. From their point of view then it makes no difference if they actually are or are not MRA. Though one should try to avoid generalis...

ON AGNOSTICISM AND ATHEISM AND THE NATURAL DEFAULT POSITION ON REALITY Let me begin at the beginning. It was not determined that the Universe that came from the quantum leap before the Big Bang 13 . 82 billion years ago would produce life. That happened completely randomly [ I am using random here ...

How does she define a consensual sexual experience? Does she mean sexual abuse and criminal rape? How is feminism supposed to fix past abuses? Feminism is powerful, but it doesn't have access to time machines. Is she a proponent of the SJW "enthusiastic consent at all times or it's rape" idea? Does...

One of the advantages of being old [ I am forty nine ] is that you no longer are surprised by what others say no matter how unbelievably nonsensical it is. And the above comments of Phoebe Kwon shall take some beating in that particular department for as long as I live. I suppose I should make allow...

All you need are clear unambiguous rules against shit you do not want. Want your forum to be worksafe ? Users may not post NSFW images or link to NSFW content. I do not really care whether a forum chooses very liberal or extremely draconian rules as long as everyone knows going in what the rules ar...

Miri had an informative post the other day admitting that she never asks people out It is a little confusing overall ( she claims she is not shy to make the first move or to ask for sex but never asks people out ) but I read in to that she lets others ask her out and once that happens she is confid...

On the Do Not Feed The Trolls panel Cristina Rad made a joke that if all she ever did was deal with abuse on her You Tube channel she would have ended up in a mental institution : This was referenced with some spontaneous laughter before she carried on talking : Later Rebecca Watson said that one sh...

In the Evolution v God documentary Ray Comfort asks P Z if he has ever looked at a woman with lust and he answers enthusiatically in the affirmative that indeed he has : So I wonder what Rebecca and Ophelia and Stephanie would make of this : Would they see it as blatant misogyny or would they defend...

I some times wonder why Chas keeps hanging out with the FC . I would have thought they would have driven him crazy by now . He does keep trying to inject some sanity in those parts but not too successfully IMO She has just given him his marching orders after he asked her if she could do any better ...

Reece Elliott British bloke who made threatening comments on Facebook about killing 200 students in a US school before killing himself has been sentenced to 2 years and 4 months in prison Is this not an attack on free speech : No it is nothing of the sort and in deed there is no such thing short of...

Irish Parliament passes a law approving of limited abortion : That is not some thing I expected to hear in my life time : Nothing can now prevent a hospital from saving the life of any woman whose life is in danger from a pregnancy : And so congratulations to everyone that voted for it And not a sin...

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