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

Her piece isn't exactly the best argued piece I've ever seen but Peezus takes a characteristically nasty line on it - as he does any time he identifies a woman as a potential chill girl. In the end he's ranting away about locking up atheists he doesn't like in mental asylums! :shifty: https://web.a...

Peezus is having a freakout because youtube talking head Jaclyn Glenn has posted the following video criticising the politicising of the Elliot Rodgers situation and making the point that it's arrogant for those using the #YesAllWomen hashtag to claim to be speaking for all women. [youtube]kOfuVQC29...

I would take anything said by or about Avicenna with a huge grain of salt. There's the odor of fraud about him thicker than gumbo. There's 1.2 billion people in India and by some amazing coincidence Avibollocks is at the scene and is the first person they think of to do the autopsy. They chose a fa...

Goddamned Dropbox. Fuckers. Here: [youtube]GrRx8chKEEU[/youtube] So you're a cis admin? :think: What about the trans admins? :naughty: Thoughts and tips... Good delivery but I think your material relies too much on the idea (an idea that you have a habit of expounding upon here at the pit) that nob...

https://twitter.com/creatrixtiara/status/471907520504528896 How is that sexist and not just being a jerk? Bay to Breakers appears to be near anything goes giant costume run/walk, complete nudity included. I notice that FTB seems to have entered a team. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_frZdyDXLLLE/RlFDmJgf...

https://twitter.com/BunnyCatLady/status/471885116994621440 OK, that's just plain nuts. Also: no one tell her about chubby chasers. Um, yeah. She is "afraid" of being thin. https://twitter.com/BunnyCatLady/status/411569405047214080 If you are happy with your bodysize, that is one thing. But don't bu...

didymos wrote:Oh, wait. That was rape joke. *self-flagellates*

If you write #CAH after a rape joke it instantly makes it OK.
Or so Miri, Ed Brayton, Justin Terribeaults and Svan have shown us.

didymos wrote:
Wat.

The amount of sheer idiocy on show with a lot of these #YesAllWomen tweets is amazing.
It's like a global audition for FTBIdol - a nontalent show that attempts to find suitable new members of the FTB blogging stable.

ERV wrote:
Kirbmarc wrote:
Ericb wrote:http://images.dailykos.com/images/86145 ... 1401243737
100% realistic. All women think that when someone asks them for their number.
Muder via telephone call is my #1 concern.

#yesalltelekinesis

There's an app for the telephone rape.

Over a year later after discussion came up whether Teh Riftâ„¢ exist, it's finally breaking up. Recurring unfair attacks and smearing, and the open hostility towards newly formed Secular Council (for no good reason) from the Social Justice League seem to have prepared the ground to speak openly abo...

Ooops, partially ninjad by Aneris!

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didymos wrote:
You apparently live in Atlanta, and you worry about war on a regular basis? Interesting.

Frankly my dear...

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didymos wrote: This was back in the 30s, and it was her publisher's idea.

Are you telling us that 80 years ago people were quite sexist?

Never!

:snooty:

.... Yes, it's all very convoluted logic of the kind that was used to justify the Iraq war ("someone said there were weapons of mass destruction there!") You can argue the rights and wrongs of the 2003 Iraq war (or even the 1992 one if you prefer) but it is a matter of fact that Iraq possessed weap...

SPLC Spokesman: California Shootings Part of â€˜War on Womenâ€™ http://www.donotlink.com/jxG Mark Potok, a spokesman for the Southern Poverty Law Center, told MSNBC host Joy Reid on Tuesday that the killing of four men and two women by alleged murderer Elliot Rodger was part of a â€œwar on womenâ€...

Here's the annoying youtuber Laci Green's take on the Elliot Rodger situation. If you cut through her annoyingness and bias (no easy task!) her basic point seems to be that ER was taking cues from society in general which treats women as objects and therefore he wanted the same. I don't know which ...

I'm not sure I've got the hang of this hashtagging business.

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Here's the annoying youtuber Laci Green's take on the Elliot Rodger situation. [youtube]HPFcspwbrq8&bpctr[/youtube] If you cut through her annoyingness and bias (no easy task!) her basic point seems to be that ER was taking cues from society in general which treats women as objects and therefore he ...

I recently spoke for the Humanist Association of Greater Philadelphia this weekend. Here's the recorded talk and Q&A: [youtube]S8smLDlOrgY[/youtube] I recently recorded for the Antisocial Justice Podcast with Beargie and ZoeJen. A finished product should soon be available. I'll be speaking at a cit...

It does show double standards but I think there is more to it than that. If a man is getting abused like that by a woman I don't think most other men would look at the situation and think the guy is in real physical danger at that moment. Stepping in to intervene might even be seen as insulting the...

http://i.imgur.com/zT0kaqg.jpg Hi. Peezus here. Well, this is my last blog post, it has all had to come to this. Soon is the day of retribution, the day in which I will have my revenge against humanity, against all of you. For the last eight years of my life, ever since pharyngula became popular, I...

Ophelia has decided to throw a little petrol on the flames in her latest "I hate Shermer!" episode. http://i.imgur.com/mcjKJKm.jpg As usual the source is Carrie Poppie. What Poppie is referring to is an incident that occurred at DragonCon 2008 and involved the astronomer and skeptic ( although not ...

Ophelia has obviously been sniffing around the pit. She posted this about the non anonymous accusations of sexual misconduct about Shermer. A. She's always sniffing around the 'Pit. B. I thought she had claimed that the accusations had been made "under oath" or "in a court of law" or something like...

Ophelia has obviously been sniffing around the pit. She posted this about the non anonymous accusations of sexual misconduct about Shermer. Update: oh and thereâ€™s also PZâ€™s account. So thatâ€™s two non-anonymous sources. Slime pitters are all agitated, asking me in unapproved comments if I have ...

Pitchguest wrote:Nope. She's genuine. She's a PewdiePie fan, likes One Direction and thinks THIS was clever enough to be retweeted:

Sodding. Hell.

Well she did get 849 retweets.

Interesting how these enlightened liberal UK residents choose very selectively when to activate their Good Samaritan powers. [youtube]u3PgH86OyEM[/youtube] It does show double standards but I think there is more to it than that. If a man is getting abused like that by a woman I don't think most oth...

[youtube]QOiRQld9j34[/youtube] Bus man defends himself from a crazy lady who wanted to beat him with a heavy metal scooter. Woman portrayed as the victim. "He should have walked away. She didn't want to listen." Yeah, you dumb motherfucker, that's because she was trying to assault him with a weapon...

Za-zen wrote:
The atheist movement is full of people who were given a fish.

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Looks like a bunch of victim blaming to me. Don't tell women to use their keys as a weapon. Tell the attackers (who are more likely to attack and kill men) not to attack. Those are pretty common measures to take, and women may well take them - and talk about them amongst themselves - more often tha...

I think the feeling is mutual.

Can someone PLEASE point out to her that she and her commenters are incredibly stupid and don't know how to use google? There's a whole site that has captured every damn RS cover. http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/rolling-stone/ Laughing at Ophie is one thing. But photoshopping her face onto a nak...

Skep tickle wrote: Oh, there you guys go, always doing "research" to evaluate some "claim" when the TRUTH should be OBVIOUS. :roll:

Fact-shaming!

I've learned today a good friend of mine killed himself yesterday morning. 42 years old. I did my first LARPs with him, and last time we spent some quality time together was on new year's eve 2005 in Monaco, where he was living and working. No one has any idea what went wrong and why he did it (the...

OK, I found this funny at least. Ophelia has a post about the prevalence of sexism in the media and illustrates it with a juxtopositioning of male stars versus female stars on the covers of the Rolling Stone magazine. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Boeh1hACAAArdKp.jpg:large From Ophie: Now of course th...

This woman is an absolute piece of trash. http://i.imgur.com/ZXryrtp.jpg she's found what a lot of people want. The magical reason that explains why life isn't perfect. No matter what the problem, "misogyny". Didn't get the job you wanted? Misogyny. Weren't able to buy the house of your dreams? Mis...

I've been trying to find any evidence to connect Elliot Rodgers with the MRA scene. I'm not seeing anything so far. Here's the list of channels he subscribed to on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ElliotRodger/channels?flow=list&view=56 There's a couple of channels that are linked to the PUA sc...

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It's ironic that the behavior of the 'feminist fantasy' is that of Elevator Guy.

Of course we now know that even politely asking (and then politely taking no for an answer) is also harassment, so even Tatsuya Ishida is not pure enough.

Does PZ Myers really believe the following line he wrote in his latest post? My point is that Elliot Rodger was as sane as your average Republican. It seems profoundly silly to have such a demonic view of half the electorate in the US. I'm a lefty myself but I find it ridiculous to suggest that the ...

The trick is to identify what feminists' blik[/] is. And I think I have: "all men are bastards". "Bastards" isn't strong enough. "Scum," "assholes," "parasites," and "sub human" are closer to the truth. Feminists who are more open about their radicalism use these terms. When I read this type of rhe...

This #NotAllMen and #YesAllWomen stuff is fascinating. Both seem to be used as a way of dispelling any sense of nuance in debates over gender. For example, the actual proportion of men who will rape is probably less than 5% of the population. The remaining 19 out of 20 men have historically treated ...

Skep tickle wrote:I wonder who's tweeting for @SecularCouncil, responding to Benson et al but managing to keep responses cool (as in, not heated or apologetic, and not letting it escalate).

AronRa?

In other news: The only surprise to me is that this does not happen more often. Apparently a certified Nice GuyÂ® gets pissed off and goes on a rampage and vows that 'I will slaughter every single blonde slut I see': Seven people killed as son of Hunger Games assistant director carries out drive-by...

"That still seems to be the problem. I really want to say to any organization that tries to represent atheists: get out more. Broaden your circle of friends. Circle jerks tend to be self-perpetuating and pointless."

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Skepticon anyone?

:whistle:

Ophelia has three more posts up on her butthurt over the GFC. :lol: Yes, Peezus is fuming too! :lol: :lol: "That still seems to be the problem. I really want to say to any organization that tries to represent atheists: get out more. Broaden your circle of friends. Circle jerks tend to be self-perpe...

Quick everyone, PZ Myers pants are on fire! In the comments of the Butterflies and Wheels post about Michael Shermer: http://i.imgur.com/tK2TEIQ.jpg "Actually, I have never been accused of sexual harassment." Some of his behavior onstage has certainly been compared to sexual harassment. " I donâ€™t ...

Dick Strawkins wrote:Christ, Pitchguest, that sounds like a hoffific experience you just went though.

Still, it could have been worse - you might have had Avicenna as your physician!
:doh:

Damn my pudgy fingers "horrific"!

PZ has an opinion piece at time.com, religion section: http://time.com/109050/a-nation-of-growing-atheists-still-wouldnt-trust-one-to-run-the-country/ I'd give it a C- for content & construction. Aside from that, PZ, you may want to contact your editor there & have him/her/xir correct the typo in t...

Christ, Pitchguest, that sounds like a hoffific experience you just went though.

Still, it could have been worse - you might have had Avicenna as your physician!
:doh:

Ophelia is on a roll today. http://i.imgur.com/X89A8of.jpg I get the impression that this was another of her "men!" posts, decrying something offensive committed by the non-sugar-and-spice-and-all-things-nice segment of society. The trouble is that the description, while it is really just a joke bas...

Ophelia has decided to throw a little petrol on the flames in her latest "I hate Shermer!" episode. http://i.imgur.com/mcjKJKm.jpg As usual the source is Carrie Poppie. What Poppie is referring to is an incident that occurred at DragonCon 2008 and involved the astronomer and skeptic ( although not a...

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They do say "strongly implicitly" prefer, not "kinda" or "sometimes" but by their nature women prefer "their own gender" (though they likely mean sex, not gender). You know how it is, you try for some grand finale to your paper because otherwise it seems like just another pebble in the pile. :) But...

http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2014/05/its-more-of-a-guy-thing-2/ "It's more of a guy thing" - Benson's Shermer/Rogers photo post. Benson, and her faithful, see Shermer draped on Rogers and disapprove. As Al Dente comments in 2 posts (pertinent parts here combined: A fair number o...

Thunderfoot got along with him at one point, or still? And most people here seem to be ok with him, so maybe it's not so bad that he's there. I was glad I didn't recognize anyone else as a usual FCn suspect... and I hope those usual suspects are feeling very left out :) Thunderfoot and Aron Ra regu...

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Plonk wrote:
Forget the harassment policies, these organizations need better photo policies.

http://i.imgur.com/Vs0JeKj.jpg

Source of the original photo is http://www.secularcouncil.org/.

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Gottle of geer anyone?

But Western countries seem determined to import the former type over the latter. Possibly out of ignorance on how to tell the two apart or perhaps they are belibers in the "blank state" or whatever. I simply can not get over how willfully ignorant so many Westerners are. It is simply amazing. The i...

BruceFPressPhoto-WIS3-aha-830x460.jpg Yipee.... We are at Women in Secularism III !!!!! I know this has been said many times before, but I absolutely fucking LOVE the juxtaposition of one of those empowering "We Can Do It" t-shirts being worn by someone who gets bedridden if someone calls her names...

The Jesus and Mo artist has just joined patreon, prompting the following comment from fan Jerry Coyne: Thereâ€™s also a note that you can contribute to the artist via Patreon, and Iâ€™d urge you to consider that (see below). The artist actually accomplishes something (remember all the Jesus and Mo k...

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