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Anyone know what happened here? http://www.centerforinquiry.net/dc/events/african-americans-for-humanism-2014-conference/ My first non-cynical guess would be that it was weather-related. Any UK 'Pitters know if this is for realz? http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/wom...

IANAL, my only claim is a law degree in the UK but yeah you nailed it. This is what happens when you get your information from a ten second wiki search.... Seriously? Holy... I know very little of the Skeptic community, who is this person? Are they just a random member of the commentariat? Or of th...

Any actual attorneys here who might have a few minutes to bitch-slap Hj Hornbeck for the following ridiculous sounding claim: Past history suggests Radford has an uphill battle. Of the 41 defamation cases that made it to US courts between 1993 and 2002, only six resulted in convictions, and three o...

Let me see if I have this right re: Ogivorbis(sp?) He claims that as a child he was abused/raped and then coerced into abusing/raping someone else? If so isn't it really cunty to call him a rapist? There's 2 different situations IIRC. 1: Coerced into raping/abusing someone. Yeah we can understand t...

Well, Radford looked a bit foolish to be sure. But Karen/Baxter have fucked themselves. While Radford appears to be the dupe ('cause he is) Baxter/Karen look like they are not acting in good faith. This will absolutely fuck them in a court of law. This is defamation, and Karen/Baxter have just prov...

On the Nugent thread, Theo says: One cannot accuse the person [Ogvorbis] of having committed any crime. This has not been proven and one should treat the person as innocent until they are proven guilty. Self-loathing may lead to feelings of guilt and a need to punish oneself. This is no proof eithe...

In reference to teh Guardian article about men and women's brains being "wired differently". I saw this article making the rounds on twitter: http://www.jpehs.co.uk/2013/12/03/brain-scans-prove-there-is-no-difference-between-male-and-female-brains/ Perhaps someone who has credentials in Science can ...

Screen Shot 2013-11-30 at 10.20.30 AM.png Absolutely fucking brilliant. To be fair, when you know the "true" lesson of the story, before you've even read the story, you don't need to read the story! That wastes time which could be spent being a noble social justice warrior by writing dumbass posts ...

https://twitter.com/Mowgli3/status/405393631130824705 https://twitter.com/jennifurret/status/405391218273554433 These brilliant signs of a complete lack of self-awareness are really quite hilarious. Today we have learned that the Atheist community would be going strong but for that infernal Dear Mu...

Cameron & Scott were directing kick ass women years ago, and without a fuss. The other day I discovered a feminist complaining about "strong woman" characters on movies. There's seem to be a trend towards hating that type of character. I kid you not. Ok so they hate weak wallflower feminine charact...

Gumby wrote:My entry in the Bjarte Foshaug bashing contest.

http://i.imgur.com/aomv8eg.jpg

You've outdone yourself Gumby, genius!

And also bravo on the video Gefan.

:clap:

Makes me wish I had some form of creativity to I could return the favor.

But cheers for the laughs hahaha.

So, I've been in semi-regular communication with Ophelia Benson since I arrived here. What's the general sentiment about her? Does anyone think it would be possible to come to terms? Are we too far gone for that? My take is she is deliberately intellectually dishonest. I generally refrain from sayi...

Is anyone else starting to think that maybe the SJWs have a point? We keep seeing shit pop up about Groethe and Shermer, welch has done a good job showing why Sam Harris is being stupid about the profiling thing, and Dawkins' various "mild pedophilia" and "honey" gaffes are kinda starting to pile u...

Sigh. PTSD from the Internet. Probably the most pathetic thing I've heard people self-diagnose themselves with in a very, very long time. Pssst. You need to read more Caine: http://i.imgur.com/f0Fwbjc.png http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/10/17/thunderdome-37/comment-page-2/#comment-71344...

My favorite piece of rabbit-hole reasoning by Ophelia was when she found a definition of office harassment that said something along the line of: "office harassment occurs when someone in your work environment (office, cubicle space, canteen etc) makes derogatory or critical remarks about you". Oph...

I just checked Ophelia's harassment post again (over 170 comments! - about ten times her normal rate!) As usual the sycophants are justifying their shitty behavior towards the slymepit because we are, according to them "harassers". Interestingly one of them actually links to a definition of the cri...

Oolon has long stated there's no report function on any of the block bot levels other than level 1 (the one for worst offenders). I believe he has also stated this auto flag of level 1 blocks has also been removed. I cannot recall any evidence being provided that the Block Bot itself has caused the...

Oolon has long stated there's no report function on any of the block bot levels other than level 1 (the one for worst offenders). I believe he has also stated this auto flag of level 1 blocks has also been removed. I cannot recall any evidence being provided that the Block Bot itself has caused the...

No surprises to see who is busy behind the scenes. http://i.imgur.com/JTRwF9f.jpg Am I missing something here? Surely Sara Mayhew is already on the blockbot list of evil. I don't understand the need to report her tweets to the blockbot over and over again. Should just one addition of her twitter ac...

Just read Ogvorbis comments. Why are we not going to the police? Am I missing some background information here? Someone appeared here at the time with dug up info about him based on what he'd posted before (such as career field), problem is posting it here is doxxing so no thanks. Feel free to cont...

This is in all fact completely irrelevant, as the green giant's limited response was justified whether he was security or not. Pushing people through windows in movies is fun, since nobody really gets hurt. In real life it's fucking dangerous. Whatever you think about the girls actions I don't thin...

Yawn. Pineaple Cunt is still going, eh? Wake me up after you guys stop discussing her histrionics and giving her pennies with blog hits. I won't link to it, but I found interesting the recent "Guest post by Anna Y", originally a comment from just a couple of hours ago on the "Pardon me, are you suf...

Hue, I think we're talking past each other. Of course, sex with someone who is obviously passed out is rape. I do think, however, that there's a tendency in rape trials to treat not objecting to sex as consent, even if there was never any explicit consent given. I find it ethically way more plausib...

... As a side note: does anyone have a view on Dr NerdLove? It looks like he lifted a bunch of PUA theory while trying to nay say PUA theory. I recall he has a blog post where he talks about how he got "out of the friend zone" with a really old friend. Wanna know one of the things he did? I vaguely...

Hue, I'm not sure if you are advocating for it as law. But I find it interesting as a discussion, so I'm using you as a reason to analyse the issue of enthusiastic consent as law. Apologies if you're advocating no such thing. I don't advocate it in general. In cases of obvious differential in inebr...

I don't get the hate for enthusiastic consent. I find it an ideal fit for random hook-ups up to the point where I find it a waste of time to deal with elaborate mind games what the woman really wants or whatever. Either it clicks and she participates in the flirting and then the escalating (and she...

The Guardian discovers that sometimes people make shit up online:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... ne-persona

PZ still doesn't get why responsible, reputation focused organisations get really nervous when shit erupts. http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/10/13/an-official-reply-from-scientific-american/ This blindness to issues of corporate governance is evidenced in his posts on JREF as well. The f...

And then there is this "Guest" person's latest post which is literally advocating victim blaming: "So fuck you and the SJW no blaming of victims." "It is bullshit to claim that it's horrible to blame the victim." Why is it bad to bad to scrutinize victims (apart from trying to figure out what actua...

David Silverman shifting gears, in a good way. I noticed he shared the Epic Rap battles video featured on the Pit just about at the same time, perhaps coincidence. Anyway, he made an #FF and incuded AmbrosiaX of Elevatorgate-supporter fame. For the non-twitter users, an #FF is a â€œFollow Fridayâ€...

Black Hole wrote another one on Miri's I was bullied through most of high school. I am male and small; I suspect I had it better than some females, but I do not want to compare the pain. It was awful. One day, halfway through my junior year, I was getting beat up again in the locker room. I snapped...

Think is the first "I need feminism because" poster I've actually felt agreement with. She's perhaps exaggerating a tiny bit for effect, but valid point.

NPR Dives right in! Lordy, lordy.... there are teens out there who try to talk other teens into having sex! I had no fucking idea!!!! http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/10/08/230428115/many-teens-admit-to-coercing-others-into-sex?utm_content=socialflow&utm_campaign=nprfacebook&utm_source=npr&utm_...

Another installment in hte ongoing saga of misogynistic video games. An article on Salon says that "The Legend of Zelda is classist, sexist and racist". I won't link directly to the click-bait, but there's a summary with a link here . The particular object of ire is Ocarina of Time. Which came out ...

Damn, look at how bad social justice warriors are skullfucking every area of society they have barged into. Now imagine what they'd do to society if they were allowed to teach their ideology with the full force of educational/governmental authority in classrooms from middle school on. Think about h...

Honestly I just didn't care about Cyrus' outfit. When I watched the video I was convinced she'd lost a bet or something. Why else would you keep your tongue out *that* much? I was curious about that too. So I watched the video of the song her performance was based off of. [youtube]LrUvu1mlWco[/yout...

[youtube]exBPBmTgUN8[/youtube] Pretty good video. I enjoyed the dismantling of the argument that somehow saying "don't get intoxicated to being passed out" is limiting to people's freedom. It's a silly argument if applied to the field of excess voluntary intoxication. Intoxication to the stage of i...

Academic feminist theory has been taught for 43 years in women's studies departments. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_studies) In that time n students have gone through the halls. Assuming each student takes an average of c courses, and each course requires an average of p papers, Q: Estimate...

Does anyone else find the current feminist music video moral panic as laughable as I do? Feminist writers (in the UK at least) seem to be dedicating more column inches to sexy music videos than to pretty much every other "women's issue" put together. To me it's utterly daft even by SJW feminist sta...

Well, you've hit on something that is one of the reasons she runs rings around so many "skeptics". She knows that she can infer and imply shit all day long, and get away with it, because as soon as she's called out on it, she'll say "Show me where I said that", and the skeptics will flail about and...

I understand I am a rape apologist, but I don't find anything rapey about this advice: http://jezebel.com/bro-sends-awful-luring-your-rapebait-guide-to-entire-1442094485 http://i.imgur.com/8iCFfxp.jpg At no point is the student told to ignore consent issues, or ignore behaviors of the woman. He is ...

Apparently if you have sex with someone who is drunk, it is rape, unless you are intoxicated to a comparable degree.I really just have to choose to laugh at people who make up the law and self righteously "explain" it to others. There's no such qualification at all. Nor is drunken sex rape. I had g...

[youtube]CcUMb0V6gQ4[/youtube] He does miss out on the part where SJWs claim any amount of alcohol in a woman's system=no consent=rape. And also the part where consent can be removed after the sex has already happened (without telling the man) in a sort of "recovered memory" way, and then it instan...

As dependable as the sunrise, Ophelia detects bottled rage/violence in another opponent. This time it's Thunderf00t. She must have a special spidey-sense that comes with being a seething bag of resentment. http://i.imgur.com/pCoAo78.png The ability to perfectly diagnose someone using only their ton...

a large step between the "victim does not have a monopoly" to "I know, better than the victim, how to define this", at which point it enters your more standard FTB Commentariat territory. Whether Fog is entering that domain with his stance on Brown... Fog didn't second-guess Chris Brown's interpret...

Over on Ally's blog post about Chris Brown, Andrew poses this question to Ally: Can we also take the victims at their word when they do not consider themselves abused? Ally's reply (emphasis mine)" We can certainly take them at their words that they do not consider themselves abused. However we can...

Yeah that was unfortunate to see. The whole twitter exchanges he had in that time span were not great PR imo. I think I understand his point but I think it would be better if there was some kind of sensitivity here and At least not just take the villain role the FTB have set up. Talking about somet...

Oh my... https://twitter.com/thunderf00t/status/383687478399361025 [youtube]BNsrK6P9QvI[/youtube] Yeah that was unfortunate to see. The whole twitter exchanges he had in that time span were not great PR imo. I think I understand his point but I think it would be better if there was some kind of sen...

I am curious as to what the EBW example is. I'm new to this so I sadly have no idea to what you're referring. EBW's personal history includes documented harassment and abuse. When she encountered Rebecca Watson & Co's claims that the atheist community was full of misogynist stalkers and rape-threat...

Personally I'm not interested in debating whether the story is true or not, unless there's good reason to suspect it and that harm would come from a fake story being believed, I'm willing to take it at face value. Is your normal reaction to being asked for advice to be like "first, prove that your ...

....If you're merely pointing out the ambiguity of the situation... Yes. It seemed you were implying that if he only tried to rape her then it wouldn't be a big deal. No. Ironically, Joshua now faces similar accusations from the baboon SJWs. Here's his reply: http://i.imgur.com/mJm7oUl.png Yeah som...

Meanwhile, back at Pharyngula, the baboonery are still crowdsourcing advice for the woman with an allegedly abusive husband. The situation has now been imagined by baboons to include a husband who only leaves the house for 20 minutes per day, to go to the liquor store; and who will definitely kill ...

Hey, here's Hugo teaching about "enthusiastic consent". Lol http://www.hugoschwyzer.net/2007/07/19/not-just-consent-but-enthusiasm-some-notes-on-college-sex-workshops-and-stoplights/ Hugo wrote: " A dangerous line I sometimes use: â€œThe opposite of rape is not consent. The opposite of rape is enth...

Boy, he really is a small-minded, dishonest baby, isn't he. He should get a room with colon AND Feefee... I need mind bleach now. Thanks. I did go back and look at his "new" post, and he didn't add anything new to it. I have already gone to the Name the Problem post on the Bot, as well as the Gurdu...

From what I've seen, doxxing isn't welcome here. Frankly, I'm not interested in the Block Bot so I'm not going to investigate but here's my thoughts: 1. If you make the information re: your identify easily publicly accessible, then it's fine for others to quote it. (Your name randomly appearing on s...

http://i.imgur.com/XN0UYyH.png CLICK FOR UNEDITED An example of definition twisting and reality shifting by Submor (dingbatsplaining to Richard Carrier how he is a rape apologist): It is clearly possible for a person to be raping someone without knowing it is rape. In the most charitable interpreta...

And? I don't think anyone, least that I can remember, has seriously argued that getting drunk gives anyone the right to commit a crime against your person or your property. Thunderf00t came across like that around the 6-7 min mark. And when I say came across I mean came across. He may have meant it...

Brain fried from deadlines and writing up quotes from clients, maybe I'm missing something really obvious but... Vaguely looked at PZ's anger with "dictionary atheists". I just don't even understand what they're trying to argue. I'm an atheist because none of the arguments for the existence of Gods ...

Sorry if we already have this but on the back of the whole A+ pedestrian victim blaming nonsense we have this: https://twitter.com/Million_Gods/status/382528977933697024 Click the time stamp to see the context. The A+ parody twitter account made the following tweet: "Stop blaming the victim by advis...

Absolutely. Other M was atrocious in its story telling. That one is actually fair enough. It had decent enough gameplay mechanics, but the story was terrible. But at the same time I feel that pointing that out is easy mode, especially considering that there are so many other people who've voiced th...

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