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

She most be a Twitter veteran... http://i.imgur.com/9CFl4YA.png Fuckin' self-centered asshole and her PTSD self-diagnosis. I can empathize with her. Like, when I got back from Afghanistan, I couldn't be in open places with lots of people around me, would jump out of my skin when other cars drove in...

Holy crap. @secularwoman is just doubling down on the stupidity.

Elsa is a disingenuous moron.

https://twitter.com/elsalroberts/status ... 8608066560

Jack wrote:
Apples wrote:Secular Woman accuses Eshto/Ryan Grant Long of #mansplaining:

That's a great exchange thanks:)

Mansplaining? Jesus, fuck. Seriously?

Still watching the Richard Carrier car crash.... his ideas about black atheists (at ~24:00) are cringeworthy. Apparently, there is a list of concerns (inner city poverty etc.) which black atheists are supposed to care about, seperate from the ones white atheists are supposed to care about. Maybe he...

Nerd of Redhead, the been-there-done-that, ultra-scientist-in residence at Meyers's blog, doesn't understand the meaning of "null hypothesis": Iâ€™m still waiting for them to evidence that feminism is wrong, not just presuppose it ... you and the horde have shown evidence for the conclusion that th...

all i can easily find is blu talking about it http://www.skepticismandethics.com/2011/10/who-are-skeptic-illuminati.htm considering all zvan's comments over time, would be REALLY interested in the truth of it I wish I had a link. I just remember at the time wondering how she came up with 'Zvan', li...

http://i.imgur.com/tPEa4N5.jpg More non-offensive pics in accord with conduct policy.... with Greta Christina http://eventifier.co/event/aacon13/?page=3 It's a good thing there's no sexualized clothing, you know, like half-naked men, or people being deliberately offensive to religious beliefs there...

I can't believe this stupid fucking "MEN SIT WITH THEIR LEGS OPEN AND IT'S OPPRESSION!" shit has actually starting to take off. We were making fun of this years ago. If they are taking up part of her seat's space, that's easy to fix. I've done it many times. I immediately push their leg back onto t...

Finally, a lovely comment which shows these SJWs for what they are: US/Eurocentric cumspots who have zero understanding, and actually complete disdain, for true social injustice in the world. Docfreeride says: And you know, as disappointing as the trolls are here, there are blogs in poorer countrie...

We need to stop these threats of women raping other women with a barbed wire baseball bat.

Er...I mean....what?

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2013/0 ... tnews.html

Can I just say that this meltdown at Pharyngula has been FUCKING GLORIOUS. It's the way things go. They are in the middle of a purge, which will repeat itself sometime down the road until the whole board becomes another Shakesville echochamber and PZ himself is finally driven out. The revolution al...

PZ Myers 24 March 2013 at 6:08 pm (UTC -5) I came here thinking this was just the slympit exaggerating shit to drum up hate against you guys. Wait, you came here from the slymepit to complain that we are too abusive? Are you stoned out of your mind? Please, tell me, what kinds of things have the â€...

Tony the Queer Shoop, cluck-splaining why men should check their privilege and shut the fuck up about the Adria Richards fiasco: You do not get to determine what is or is or is not a minor offense to women. You have not lived your whole life being treated as an objectified sex toy who exists for th...

Sexism, racism, and objectification on national TV. Dongle joke included. Where's the outrage, P.Z. Myers? This is sexist terrorism! Jesus Christ. This whole thing is dripping with white privilege. Where's the fucking outrage, FTB? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=61f...

Sexism, racism, and objectification on national TV. Dongle joke included. Where's the outrage, P.Z. Myers? This is sexist terrorism! Jesus Christ. This whole thing is dripping with white privilege. Where's the fucking outrage, FTB? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=61fX...

I'm going to do a Nugent, and attempt to nevotiate a nirvana like state of harmony between the warring parties. Proposed pit rule:. 1; if you have a problem with a post of poster, skip it, or them. 2; if rule 1 does not solve your problem. Fuck off. Meh. Those back and forths can get tiresome, and ...

I'm just going to leave this here: http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/dl-opinion/the-sexual-politics-of-meat-20130320-2gfx0.html Here are five reasons why feminists should try to eliminate meat: 1. Eating meat is associated with male power in its most vile and repugnant forms. In a logic tha...

Interesting - I thought she worked in public policy. (Not sure where I read that, I've never been to her blog so I'm not sure.) From her homepage: "Stephanie Zvan is an analyst by trade, but she's paid not to talk about it." Whatever she does, it's super important and super secret like a ninja or a...

I'm not even sure Stephanie Zvan is a real person. I think it's more likely that someone took a retarded chimp from birth, put it in front of a TV that only played radical feminist science fiction documentaries for a decode, and then had that chimp program an Internet chat-bot to write blog posts i...

In the interest of strict accuracy, Zvan's post reads, "They capitulated to sexist terrorism (or at least in the presence of sexist terrorism), sending the message that this behavior will work in the future." So she's not necessarily saying SendGrid fired Richards because of the DDoS or the hater-t...

As Rayshul said, it's a damn fine day to be a 'pitter. Welcome to the motherfuckin jungle, EllenBeth! We'll leave the light on for ya, and help yourself to some crab juice. http://i.imgur.com/qEuOH1X.jpg It's so delicious when they eat their own. Hopefully EllenBeth now understands what this has be...

Predictably, Zvan is defending Adria's actions: Politics everywhere you look in this situation, from start to finish. There are going to continue to be politics as long as professions are considered to belong to one gender or another and that perception is enforced using sex and gender as weapons. ...

apropos of nothing, my part of an IM convo where I was able, finally, to properly articulate why only focusing on women as rape/sexual assault victims is bad, because my friend was about to be rather upset as it was almost coming out as WHAT ABOUT TEH MENZ, and I really didn't want her to think it ...

Well, it's not even April yet, and Stephanie Zvan has won the FTB Asshat of the year with her "sexist terrorism," comment.

If anyone can say something more vile, vapid and cretinous than that in the next 9 months, I'll be very surprised.

Can anyone here point me to a good history of the concept of "rape culture?" I'm also looking for a scholarly critique of it as well.

One thing I'm mildly annoyed about in this case is the euphoria over these convictions. These are teenagers being sentenced to prison. This is no cause for celebration. Two, my thought is that these guys could have done anything they wanted to this girl. They did not engage (as far as I can tell) i...

Oh shit I was going to gut this fish from the Thames. If only the UK government hadn't banned carrying knives. This is total bullshit. I'm genuinely curious here. Based on some of your comments, I doubt we'd agree on much in the debate, but it's always good to get other perspectives. This isn't com...

Number of practical applications John can think of for carrying a knife so far: 0 No, no...I actually have quite a few. But you miss the fucking point. I don't answer to you, and I never will. This is something you'll never understand. It's none of your fucking business, anymore than explaining to ...

Yeah he talked about the UK and knives because he actually has no clue. Americans think they're badasses because they're more at risk of gun crime. You really are a facile little child. I like how you speak for a population of over 300 million people who are deeply divided on these issues. Grow the...

I don't think John is getting the point. Cars are useful, he still hasn't identified a single instance of knives being useful in an urban environment. No, I get it just fine. You're the one who is telling me there is a God and then deflecting by telling me it's my job to disprove it. Just saying th...

Do you mean just a knife or something like a leatherman supertool? there's a difference. Also, if you do a lot of electrical work, a knife of some form is pretty much a necessity. I'm talking about carrying a knife wherever you go. Banning knives in public doesn't mean you can't use them altogether...

It'd be terrible if UK citizens couldn't carry knives. They wouldn't be able to gut fish or something, no there's a good reason, really. Saying something like, "the only reason to carry a knife is to mug someone," is like saying, "the only reason to have sex is to have children." But, nice try. Thi...

Wham! I lol'd. Nicely done. Great links too. I hadn't heard of the Dred Scott case before. Horrendous bigotry; entirely 'prim and proper' at the time. Blech! if ANYONE has links to the actual judgement against Alan Turing, I'd love to have them. That's the one I like to use as an example of how pri...

John Brown wrote:
Thing is, I don't think your right to drive a car is worth more than my risk of being hit by a lunatic with a knife.

So, there's always that.

Er..."...lunatic with a car."

It'd be terrible if UK citizens couldn't carry knives. They wouldn't be able to gut fish or something, no there's a good reason, really. Saying something like, "the only reason to carry a knife is to mug someone," is like saying, "the only reason to have sex is to have children." But, nice try. Thi...

cunt wrote:It'd be terrible if UK citizens couldn't carry knives. They wouldn't be able to gut fish or something, no there's a good reason, really.

Saying something like, "the only reason to carry a knife is to mug someone," is like saying, "the only reason to have sex is to have children."

But, nice try.

You are one special fucking dumbass John. Come to London and flaunt some of that yank cash around. Meh. I've been there, along with places far more dangerous. The only justification you've given for supporting such a ban thus far are your feelings, while disregarding the negative unintended consequ...

You are one special fucking dumbass John. Come to London and flaunt some of that yank cash around. Meh. I've been there, along with places far more dangerous. The only justification you've given for supporting such a ban thus far are your feelings, while disregarding the negative unintended consequ...

Sorry, no I am not aware. /confused I thought you were suggesting something about people who agree with Justicar on the issues of guns and the 2nd amendment must be religious fanatics. (The standard US liberal thinks anyone who isn't 100% on board with their ideas of gun control are right wing fana...

Justicar now has 2 videos on Feinstein. I agree with him on this issue in general. Guns and the 2nd Amendment. He's full of shit. The UK is discussing legislation barring people from carrying a knife... that's good. I wonder if he's ever been threatened with a knife, because he seems to assume that...

Justicar now has 2 videos on Feinstein. I agree with him on this issue in general. Guns and the 2nd Amendment. He's full of shit. The UK is discussing legislation barring people from carrying a knife... that's good. I wonder if he's ever been threatened with a knife, because he seems to assume that...

I'm with Maddow on this. If you watch the video you can see the condescension dripping off Cruz. I think "hysterical" was implied by him, who has repeatedly proven himself to be an asshole, and was desperate to save face after the rebuke he'd just received. Oh, come on. Diane Feinstein is notorious...

I'm with Maddow on this. If you watch the video you can see the condescension dripping off Cruz. I think "hysterical" was implied by him, who has repeatedly proven himself to be an asshole, and was desperate to save face after the rebuke he'd just received. Oh, come on. Diane Feinstein is notorious...

So Senator Ted Cruz talked about the Constitution yesterday in debating gun-control with Senator Dianne Feinstein. It was utterly routine -- if you've ever watched C-SPAN you've seen it a million times. Politicians play to the audience, read Constitutional amendments out loud, etc. Cruz (who is a c...

How big is anti-vax over in the US right now anyway. It seems to have died down here quite a bit, probably because the tabloids now have another princess to fawn over. It's noticeable. ERV did a really good job of pointing out religious objections, but in the U.S., the crusade against vaccinations ...

DGS wrote:
John Brown wrote:
I'm going to give her/him the benefit of the doubt
Her/him? Do I look like a her/him?! Is it the eyebrows?

I've made assumptions based on avatar pictures before. It did not go well for me.

DGS said (http://www.slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=75582#p75582): Humans go to war over resources. Oil is the resource by which we enjoy our quality of life and stability. I never understand when people don't think our quality of life, our civilization, isn't worth fighting for. But I'd hazard...

Has PZ ever been this critical of Hitchens before? Yeah, he still defends him, but it's a pretty tepid effort. I get the distinct impression that he's trying to placate his commenters in advance. Now understand, I have no problem with criticizing Hitch- I took issue with some of his politics too- b...

In other non-slymepit-infighting not-news-to-anyone, SallySyringe is an idiot: That's the twitter BS I was watching today. A lot of people crawling out of the woodwork to take unwarranted uneducated swipes at Richard Dawkins. Unbelievable. "Purge the intellectuals" - it's an inevitable feature of a...

The Cardinals knew that if there's anyone who can shelter a German from being prosecuted for human rights violations, it's someone from Argentina.

This Harriet Page femsplanation is hilarious. My favorite quote: So while a feminist making a generalisation might hurt your feelings or your pride, and might make you feel maligned and misunderstood, it could NEVER, ever, be the same as sexist generalisations about women. Never forget that the con...

Just in case you weren't sure whether you're a Sexistâ„¢, Ophie has cadged a Dana Hunter post of someone's facebook piece on how men are pigs. There's a list 'splaining that you are a sexist if: -You think jokes about rape and domestic abuse can be funny. - You know that victim-blaming is wrong, bu...

Yeesh. Sorry for messing up the quotes in that last post.

I don't think she does ignore cultural influences, but I did link to the article talking about how women are treated in Japan and how that might have affected the development of those games. I think those games might have been influenced by the technological limitations of the time when they were r...

EdwardGemmer said: Because for her to get a C, there has to be someone else who can at least get an A. No, no there does not. That is a false dichotomy, or false equivalence, or something like that. I have been in many, many classes in college where the best marked obtained by anyone was a B- or C+...

Look, if you sit down at the console your intent is supposed to be recreation, not looking for facile reasons to be offended. The lack of a Supermaria sis character is the equivalent of refusing to play ball because it's of the wrong colour. Encouraging a kid in these attitudes is not the wise thin...

In three or four sentences, Myers has pretty much proven that he knows dick all about video games, its culture, basic economics or how technology works. He's also shown that he's incredibly myopic and American-centric in his thinking. I don't take all that out of it. He's just lazy. He could say, N...

Bullshit. She COMPLETELY ignored cultural influences on the designers of both video games. The fact someone ELSE did not doesn't erase the fact that Sarkeesian did. What the fuck dude, you keep trying to make it sound like she did anything but the bare minimum for a "C" on her little video book rep...

I don't think she does ignore cultural influences, but I did link to the article talking about how women are treated in Japan and how that might have affected the development of those games. Speaking of, here's the latest from P.Z. on the gaming community: freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/03/12...

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