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Here's what appears to be a more constructive approach to making conferences more inclusive (from Hacker News): https://adainitiative.org/2012/08/defcon-why-conference-harassment-matters/ This is my first exposure to the Ada Initiative, but they seem at first glance to be less victim-oriented than ...

RebeccaB wrote:With Bunnygate, he fucked up. He posted the cartoon approvingly, and went off-line for a bit; and when he came back, he found that the commentary had taken on a vicious momentum in a direction that cast a bad light on him.

Before Bunnygate there was the Michele Bachmann corndog incident.

Dilurk wrote:Click throughs are what use to do it, now I'd guess they sneak in ad counts via js. Even iff adblock sanitise those they would still see a count on the server. I don't even want to give them that.

How about using NoScript?

Really, I have been pissed off so often over the years, and Iâ€™ve just had to choke it down and tolerate it. I keep coming back to this and scratching my head. It's his blog. Why did he have to "choke it down and tolerate it"? Seems like PZ simultaneously wants to cultivate a free speech zone and ...

Commenting in codes! DO NOT WANT! http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/07/28/tzt-16/comment-page-2/#comment-417744 Wow, is it just me, or does PZ seem to be acting like some sort of stereotypical passive aggressive wife/mom? I sort of thought the comments were for people to discuss and argue...

Funny Isis has been brought up - I think she's the first time I encountered that privilege argument. I remember reading and going... how can that be an argument? *I* disagree with you, it doesn't mean my vagina just fell out. :lol: I keep laughing at that image. "It's 10 o'clock, do you know where ...

Im saying if you can perceive something where it cannot exist (eg female having "male privilege"), that should result in some serious self reflection about what you think you are perceiving. Ooh, ok, you meant you(general) and not you(tachikoma). Gotcha. Agreed, and this is consistent with observat...

You'd think that after the way SC was treated by Isis, SC would learn not to jump to conclusions about the privilege of strangers on the internet. Alas, the lesson did not sink in. As for what happened with Laden, I think I see the same pattern in some of the other white knighters. Commenters inclu...

Does anyone remember a brief war he was in in Isis's comment thread a few years ago where Isis was jumping all over him for his inability to see that he was speaking from priviledge? And Physioprof was white knighting all over the place to support Isis? And I think that was the same time Isis was a...

Kind of a derail, since I don't talk about what I play (FWIW I play JRPGs) but I thought this Genderratic blog entry and the ensuing comments are a good discussion about the tropes vs. women in video games fundraiser . I tend to think that the answer to "how come there aren't any characters I like" ...

Aquaria was a marine? Seriously? Like Dave Springer Marine? That's...sad. At least, ex-military of some sort. Not satisfied with my hazy memories, I tried searching for comments on FTB but didn't have much luck. http://freethoughtblogs.com/rockbeyondbelief/2012/01/31/if-youre-so-innocent-why-wont-y...

I posted the demographic data towards the end of the ERV thread. It came from Alexa ranking information: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/freethoughtblogs.com Under the "statistics summary", click on read more to get this: While we estimate that 53% of visitors to Freethoughtblogs.com come from the US...

Dilurk wrote: Hard for me to believe SC is an assistant/adjunct sociology professor. Wow.

Remember, Comrade PhysioProf is also actually a professor of some sort. It's not that surprising...

I suspect, although I obviously lack the data to support my suspicion, that there is a demographic element involved as well. The few times I've read the comments on Pharyngula, I got the distinct impression that the majority of commenters there were of undergraduate age. The vibe I get here is that...

Honestly, I have to wonder if Ixchel is sincere in his extremism, or has been working deep-cover for a long time in order to defeat the baboons using their own idealogy. I guess a variation of Poe's law could come into play here, I dunno. It's as funny as fuck, though. I remember seeing "strange go...

A femtheist femsplains how men shouldn't be offended by the term "mansplaining" Comes with a handy-dandy flowchart! If it were posted by an anti-feminist I would have thought it was a parody. Basically if a woman claims that she has experienced sexism, if you say anything other than unconditional s...

I'm not following. Who is Ixchel? Who is SG? What is TZTs? Who is TM? What is TET*? TM is probably "truth machine", who was a regular at least in the 2005-2009 years. I think around 2009 he got sick of Pharyngula and stopped posting. TM was known for having a very aggressive and contemptuous style ...

Sorry, got a detail wrong. The bunny in a dress with pink-colored speech balloons.

About the sexual harassment video: to clarify, the commenter on jref posted that link clearly with tongue in cheek. I personally had a hard time (ha) deciding whether the video was real or a hilarious parody. If PZ thinks he's a leader maybe he should try posting the very mildest criticism of femini...

From the rationalia thread: The sure do like their tu coques...or is that just one person that does....? Is it wrong that every single solitary bloody time I see them use that phrase, the only thing I can think about is two enormous penises with French accents and berets...? Somebody on the jref th...

Heheh. Mind-reading, sport of kings No, the conclusion is that Pappa thought using violent, threatening rape imagery to attack a group of women was funny. That's more than just being "bad at jokes." I think it tells us something about him. I think your over-protectiveness of women says something abo...

Quoting some more from the Kafkatrapping article Directly related to the tweets Justin posted: One very notable pathology is a form of argument that, reduced to essence, runs like this: â€œYour refusal to acknowledge that you are guilty of {sin,racism,sexism, homophobia,oppressionâ€¦} confirms that ...

A little old, but a nice summary From what I have gathered over the last year: - Rebecca gets offered coffee in an elevator at a skeptic's convention that isn't TAM , and vlogs about it. - Elyse gets offered a swinger's business card at a skeptic's convention that isn't TAM , and blogs about it. - T...

Justin: those Horse Pheathers tweets are a textbook example of Kafka-trapping

Is it just me or does "A hermit" (FfTB defender on the rationalia thread) sound like the person that was trolling this forum earlier? The usage of smilies in this post in particular seems similar.

Luke Muehlhauser, on August 1, 2010 http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=10632 Yes, this kind of victimology has been building in the atheosphere for quite a while now, and IMO elevator-gate was just the catalyst that brought it to light for a lot more people. I started lurking at Pharyngula in 2005 an...

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=38275

Pappa wrote:Should we sue PZ for libel, like, just for a laugh?
Poll:
Oui
Non
Le fromage
Le bacon

(a few serious and non serious comments ensue)

Bella Fortuna wrote:(I don't think this was serious)

fretmeister wrote:but PZ said the rape thread was serious so this one must be too!

:lol:

AndrewV69: Point taken. On big boobs: to be fair, I can see how a singular (or in the minority) woman might feel uncomfortable surrounded by guys laughing about "big boobs", and how that is different from a group of women joking and complaining about their big boobs. However, I still think that labe...

Even linux is not safe - http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/07/19/1923200/microsoft-apologizes-for-inserting-naughty-phrase-into-linux-kernel Microsoft has apologized and promised to rectify the fact that one of its developers slipped a sexist phrase into Linux kernel code supporting Microsoft's Hy...

80+ pages on the JREF thread and it looks like Watson et al. aren't the favored. Looks like 50-50 to me (especially earlier in the thread). MattusMaximus is defending Watson's honor with all the white shining metal he can muster. It's rich that he refuses to look at evidence of her bad behaviour be...

That was not the point. Did you pay attention to what I bolded? Sorry, I actually did not see the bold. On my system the bold isn't very obvious. Still, though, I think this puts too much fault for the whole hysteria on PZ being an academic professor, when a large number of the commentariat are not...

America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered In the Obamacrats) [Hardcover] David Gelernter (Author) http://www.amazon.com/America-Lite-Imperial-Academia-Dismantled-Obamacrats/dp/1594036063/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342821438&sr=8-1&keywords=david+gelernter/vdare Meh, the b...

MISANDRY â€“ Gender Politics and Raising Boys http://www.genderratic.com/p/1739/misandry-gender-politics-and-raising-children/ I've read about RocketFrog while lurking at Genderratic and at Feminist Critics. He's been treated pretty horribly and his life and mental space seem sadly fucked up. What'...

This seems apropos. Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs (paragraph spacing indicate skipped text) Early studiers of cults were surprised to discover than when cults receive a major shockâ€”a prophecy fails to come true, a moral flaw of the founder is revealedâ€”they often come back stronger than be...

I figured since I've been posting so much I might as well register. Ah, no more annoying captchas.

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