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

Jack wrote:
DGS wrote:
Jack wrote:
DGS wrote:And where's my avatar gone? Did it breach some copyright?
You can post what you like when you like, many people do.
okay, can I just ask, are you a Jack of the Richard variety?
I don't know who 'of Richard' is so probably no.

Dick, Jack, dick.

I have no idea what people are talking about when they talk about women fighting each other in the work place. Is this a thing that happens or is this something made up? Genuine question. It would be really helpful if these discussions could be broken down. I want to test myself against other (puta...

I have no idea what people are talking about when they talk about women fighting each other in the work place. Is this a thing that happens or is this something made up? Genuine question.

Think I may have mentioned le feministes in speculative fiction. Here's an interesting example of someone's women's only safe space.

http://lunastationquarterly.com/issue-0 ... -issue-013

This isn't the type of thing you can just drop into, is it? Like when your just winding down with a beer. You guys are up and at it. Always. Would I annoy people by just occasionally dropping in with inane commenst based only on the last 2 posts? I'm also a bit offended that no one - NO ONE has tol...

Ooh I'm never going to catch up on the drama, but it looks like we had a wee guest. Oh Jose, the reason I'm against these dickwits is because they treat people like me like second class citizens, like pathetic, ignorant little hive-minded monkeys who need to be protected and encouraged and patted on...

While I don't mean to be weird about this, EBW seems (from her twitter comments) to be a little odd and I wonder if it's best to stay very far away from her. I feel like the best reaction to her comments is "yes dear".

Thanks LadyChillax! Any tips for twins... let me know. ^_^ I am in a state of ARGH a bit because it might mean I'll have to take up to 3 months off work and I'm nooooot sure I could cope with that... I'm calculating in a worst-case scenario. Re: Karla, I'm not sure if they're the sort of people who ...

There's something freakish about them focussing on Hall.

I mean Hall is a ground-breaking role model for lots of people, male and female.

It's fucking nutso to attack her.

Apples wrote::D Ellenbeth is continues to burnish her reputation for sanity and credibility on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/EllenBethWachs

Good grief.

Congratulations! When are you due, and how are you doing? I am due Augustish, and I am riding the vomit train daily. LOL. codelette I cannot offer any placentas, because my husband has drawn a line in the sand and says I can't take any more home and put them in his kitchen. I have put in the last p...

Oh look at that feminist solidarity for other women! Wear a t-shirt that offends one of Those Who Must Not Have Their Fee-Fees Hurt and suddenly your character and very gender are under assault by those who claim to be all for respect of women. According to Marcotte and her readers Dr. Hall must on...

EllenBeth Wachs should try out as a Fox news journalist with that level of spin on a quote mine. The one instance I saw of "darkie" being used was a jab at the condescending attitudes towards ethnic minorities that pop up in the predominantly white and college educated middle class SJW circles like...

FUCK I LOST MY FUCKING POST. :/ It was lengthy! Now it is gone! Thanks everyone for your congrats. :) It's all a bit mad. No one likes to be patronised. They really can't grasp that treating every minority as a victim is offensive to people in those groups who are quite capable of sticking up for th...

If you're setting up the site I can help with identifying accessibility issues/putting together basic accessibility guidelines for bloggers. That would be a really cool idea. In fact, if you know of a good, easy to follow checklist for people who want to be sure existing stuff is "accessibility goo...

Theoretically I'd be interested in that - I'm pretty sure my gender's not important to me in the slightest, but I doubt I'd want to be a man because a) I'm 100% certain that women get a better deal out of life in virtually every way and b) I'd be a *short* man, and I just don't think I could accept...

If you're setting up the site I can help with identifying accessibility issues/putting together basic accessibility guidelines for bloggers.

Wow, Zinnia Jones latest blog. There is room for experimentation here. So, what could this mean for cis people who donâ€™t believe the sex of their body is important to them? Is there a way for them to put their money where their mouth is? Might we be able to show them, in some small but concretely...

Poor Sally. It's nice the 'pit was able to help her out to go. I don't know, maybe she'll learn some skeptical thinking... although probably not. Not pissing on Sally here, it's just I haven't really seen many people convert from extreme SJW-ness to reality. They always just seem to get more and mo...

Apropos something or other, I wonder how long it is before unsolicited internet hugs become categorised as sexual assault, since going to a website and reading disagreement of one's opinion is already considered bullying and harrassment? (((Richard))) That wasn't asked for, and there's no suggestio...

...while trying to search for how to deconvert a social justice warrior I found this: http://silvermoon424.tumblr.com/post/34081707260/how-to-be-a-social-justice-warrior Those familiar tactics of our FTB friends: http://slipintosomethingfreudian.tumblr.com/post/26777763050/how-sjws-are-the-biggest-h...

Poor Sally. It's nice the 'pit was able to help her out to go. I don't know, maybe she'll learn some skeptical thinking... although probably not. Not pissing on Sally here, it's just I haven't really seen many people convert from extreme SJW-ness to reality. They always just seem to get more and mor...

Yep - also this: I suggest that for the next few months, you make an effort to read at least one book by a female author for every book you read by a male author. I suggest you make an effort to read at least one book by an author of color for every book you read by a white author, and I suggest at...

At the job I am not allowed to talk about, there are generally a mix of public speakers who are male and female when it comes to presentations on different subjects - either internally or at external conferences in the arena. Lemme guess: Elevator maintenance? Getting warm? That's it. We're big cof...

Grrr. In my reading as of late, I'm finding more and more articles/posts on people (feminists and their "white knights") being all bent out of shape over the lack of the female voice within different fields/topics. For whatever reason, many people tend to attribute this to sexism and the patriarchy...

I think that the hardest thing for the Slymepitters is that the smarter FTBers will suddenly stop pushing the rad-fem, rediscover Skepticism, get buddy buddy with Shermer and the rest again and when pushed blame the pit for all the troubles And that a "bad thing" somehow? Our goal, from the very ou...

I think we can safely file our English girl's complaint under, "Stuff that feminism won't solve, you silly bint."

Meanwhile... which 'pitters are going to TAM? I'm considering it for the first time.

http://gawker.com/5957800/lets-ask-lesb ... onger-kids

I was under the impression that all studies on children and the best biological arrangement to raise them in was to have the kids raised by lesbians.

Not quite sure why women are best at looking after children and this is the best gender role for them? I mean once they're out your vage anyone can look after them.

welch wrote:She most certainly is not putting that conference on solo.

Yeahhhhh I wouldn't buy that either. Maybe managing it solo?

Is Hensley trying to make it sound like the 'pit is driving her to a breakdown? Good grief.

I have some experience in the kind of kerfuffle Melody is engaging it. I'm a leetle amazed that she can get away with it - but maybe there's a benefit to her behaving this way to the organisation? I can't quite see what it would be but perhaps it's supporting the women-friendly messaging or somethi...

Boy Ben's post is pretty excellent.

Dr Hale steps in at post #147 to comment on Hensley's "misinformation".

I have some experience in the kind of kerfuffle Melody is engaging it. I'm a leetle amazed that she can get away with it - but maybe there's a benefit to her behaving this way to the organisation? I can't quite see what it would be but perhaps it's supporting the women-friendly messaging or somethin...

Some asshat is attempting to dox people. It started with A+ members and because I said it was not a good thing, the idiot is trying to dox me: https://twitter.com/IbecameCompton First of all, I don't hide my information (at least not overly much) because I learned a long time ago that if someone re...

Good grief. Well, a lot of things have happened. But go Sara, hey.

Oh Al. :(

Take the hashatags out of what the Oaf tweeted, and read the whole tweet again. " stupidbitch nowondersheisonavfm" Read that however you choose, it's a fairly seethrough stunt, which i'm sure the Oaf thought was bery clever of her in affording a measure of deniablity. I have to admit I read Ophelia...

So if I went to Africa - as a white fella - and called everyone names, that would be OK because I'm in the minority. Unless it's a universal rule, in which case my yelling at a President, king or warlord in the heart of Africa would be me oppressing them and failing to check my privilege. Yes buddy...

These cunts defy logic. But if your parents say it, people should say "WOAH NO, SHUT YOUR MOUTH MR AFRICAN MAN." Right? Well, if they're African-Americans, I'm pretty sure they can just say, "STFU you pickaninny or aunt jemima or smoked irishman" (that list of ethnic slurs is fascinating) or someth...

Hey, I was just on Twitter and some guy said: African Americans can never be racist. Prejudice, yes; racist, no. What? Google gave me - "prejudice based on race" as racism, which I think is a fair definition. So what's this guy's point? I hate it when progressives try to change the definitions of w...

About to bugger off overseas for a bit but we haven't heard about Operation Smile recently...

http://support.operationsmile.org/site/ ... pxfid=4840

Paul, do you really understand where your thinking is taking you? Your real problem is that youâ€™re resisting going to the place that all women inhabit. Our thinking, our upbringing, our life experience all combine to make us understand that women are never, ever, never, safe from the reality of r...

Which demonstrates how damaging a generic FTB consumer is to skepticism/scientific inquiry-- They would rather nor learn something, than learn something from me. SCIENCE! I can't wait to see them going out and advocating that people don't use your new patent in their research. No you can't do that!...

Weird... maybe she should do more on Twitter. I don't know, seems more logical than blogging short bits. But who am I to say anything about social media.

So the government is proposing a law about Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination, which includes a provision that "unwanted sexual advances" in public places are illegal if a reasonable person having regard to all the circumstances would have anticipated the possibility that the person would be offe...

I can find nothing, Skep Tickle, and my bing-fu is usually good. It may have been a private correspondence.

I wonder how the rejection of PZ - and the characterisation of him as an ideologue or creationist-like thinker - will affect his standing in the community and the conference circuit. I'm fascinated.

In other news I am watching what I thought would be a skeptic show - "Fact or Faked Paranormal Shit" or something like that. I've just watched a video with a fucking SPIDER on a WEB clearly on the fucking video - you can see the fucking spider's legs - and they're like oooHHhhHhhHHhh we don't know w...

Whoever bet finkfree would come here... I believe you have won. I also agree with fink. To the point where I wish people would stfu about it. As sacha said - this argument has been made for keeping things "nice" and it has been lost, again and again, because there is a) recognition that "nice" is a ...

Not to be a bitch but can we take this discussion about the validity of shops to a side thread? I think it's preeeetty much worn it's shit out.

...they didn't have a 5th series. :(

It's a CONSPIRACY THEORY.

I think this might be a US vs "rest of the developed world" issue. In the US, things like UHC and marriage equality and non-discrimiation legal basics are very much considered social justice issues. Possibly, although the "social justice" phrase is something I've only recently (in the past ten year...

I'm not in the US - which may explain my views on expectations of government. The reason I'll never live in the US is because I don't think it's up to standard in terms of what I would expect of services from a first world country - I don't believe what I'd pay for in taxes would get me what I felt ...

In fact if SJW addressed class issues I would be on board - such as things like access to legal services and mental health support.

Can I get a definition of SJW as it's used here? I know what it stands for, but I consider UHC activism to be a social justice thing, and consider people like Margaret Flowers to be *actual* SJWs: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02052010/profile3.html What is UHC btw? Universal health care. I don...

Can I get a definition of SJW as it's used here? I know what it stands for, but I consider UHC activism to be a social justice thing, and consider people like Margaret Flowers to be *actual* SJWs: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02052010/profile3.html Urban dictionary has a good definition: http:...

Damion, there is no argument that you can offer that will make SJWs change their mind. You might as well pray that they see light. For many of them their entire being is built into who and what they are and they have adopted the SJW ethos as part of their identity. It is their life not an academic ...

...and Harriet hall did an excellent blog post here: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/ind ... r-so-much/

fascination wrote:Ah! I read on this page that something happened with Somedumbguy? I'll use the search function. Anything interesting with FTB or A+? I saw that Skepchick article about the MS paint drawing. Is that the only news?

PZ also did an interview with Concordance and the TruePooka.

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