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

So in the spirit of New Media Douchebags, is Rebecca Watson being serious, or is she dumber than I thought? The "chick" in "I am not a 'skep chick'" did obviously not refer to the network, but made emphasis on the "chick" part. Which the t-shirt makes extra clear when it says, "I am not a woman ske...

...I also like how everyone have been using "Dr. Hall" when addressing, well, Dr. Hall in that thread, except Rebecca, who jumps right there with "Hi, Harriet. If that had been done to one of their allies by a man, how long would it have taken them to take offense because he was belittling the fema...

(The RW quotes come from Tigzy's post, I just don't want to handle the nested quotes) Rebecca Watsonon 19 Feb 2013 at 10:46 am You didnâ€™t mention me as a person included amongst your feminist critics, but I suspect many people reading this will assume Iâ€™m in there somewhere, possible because you...

Wait, Wowbagger (same as the Wowbagger of "die in a fire" fame??) is a long-time JREFF member w/ >13K posts?? From the same thread Altair linked above: http://forums.randi.org/showpost.php?p=9012255&postcount=23 Damn, I hadn't noticed that. JREFF's Wowbagger doesn't sound as insane as die-in-a-fire...

Nice comment by JREF's poster Hokulele The line-up this year is much more interesting than last year's, to the point where I will probably register, rather than just skulk around the edges (like last year). The last slate of speakers felt like it was a lot of "so-and-so blogs about such-and-such", w...

Any comments ... http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/rape-a-lack-of-conviction/ Wait - doesn't that graphic fail if 12% of reported rapes are false allegations? I'm questioning the 78k "estimated". How is that estimate done? What definition of rape were they using? Did it have some...

Amanda Marcotte â€@AmandaMarcotte @saramayhew Yeah, you're not being skeptical . That would require being willing to allow that violence against women could be endemic. How about: Violence against HUMANS is fucking endemic. Can we all just fight against that: Violence against every human being reg...

Man, I love Sara Mayhew, she's engaging Amanda Marcotte and making her show her true colors. Sara is getting better at arguing with them, she's not letting Marcotte change the topic and is maintaining the conversation related to the actual article. https://twitter.com/saramayhew/status/3031370419427...

Wow, just fucking wow. The blog he wrote was almost 100% feminist ideology. He added in the skeptical part of conflating "beaten or raped" with "economic abuse" and other things that are decidedly NOT beatings and/or rape and said, hey the true numbers are bad enough, no need to artificially inflat...

http://i.imgur.com/QjuoEnc.jpg I really love that "other shit I don't care about" line. Yes, I am an executive director for CFI, but I don't give two fucks about some of the things that are covered in our mission statement. Is nobody in that organisation reading her stuff online and having second t...

I just noticed that the title of the EvoPsych article linked by Stephanie, as well as by the skepchicks is titled 5 Ways to Make Progress in Evolutionary Psychology: Smash, Not Match, Stereotypes . I find that very stupid coming from someone who's supposed to be a scientist. Some of the commenters c...

Lsuoma is about to be rich. It just jumped to $7.80. How is this determined? According to Project Wonderful's "Advertise Here" page, it has to do with someone, probably the advertiser, "bidding", but I'm not exactly sure how they decide how much to pay. It's now 7.70 on american traffic. I also fou...

Hey guys. A perfect summation of why the FTBers / A+ers / Skepchicks aren't reasonable. SHUT UP AND LISTEN. http://www.freezepage.com/1360680036EYRKJNUZDR Welcome to the fold Mr McDonald. I'm sure you'll see your name on the block bot shortly. I like how she seems genuinely surprised that "Shut up ...

True. For do we not get told that our intent matters not, but it is the history of our sins that controls the word? Preach it! Now she's trying to paint the #stupidbitch as ironic, something that other people would call her. Even if the hashtag referred to herself, her claim that she never used tha...

incognito wrote:All I have to say is, you people have no appreciation for David Allen Coe.
:snooty:
Or Anal Cunt.
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I'm not sure feminism would be particularly good at dealing with men and boy issues, considering it is about women. I think one flaw that people like our favorite friends go to is dealing with feminism as if it is some way of life. Promoting women and women's values and a women's point of view is g...

THE POPE IS RESIGNING. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21411304 Which person speaks the word of God if there are two Popes (one former and one current) alive? What if they disagree? The Godfather sorts it out. That or Thunderdome http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S3mG83Hq5aM/UEV6EjLq18I/AAAAAAAAD60/KX0Inof...

Another blog writes criticism of Rebecca Watson's antics and PZ's only response is to call it "over the top" pz.PNG This is the link: http://www.msatheists.org/2013/02/i-usually-try-to-restrict-my-posts-to.html I have ignored this hoping it will go away, but it is clear to me that it is only getting...

ReneeHendricks wrote:Wait, sorry - that's what you said Altair LOL That's what I get for watching a show while trying to reply :D

Hehee, no problem, I'm trying to work while I reply, it's not easy either :lol:

.... and then says she was referring to herself as a stupid bitch for not knowing that it was there? Or something. 9:05a: "Oh ffs - you misread. I meant *I* was the stupidbitch. for not knowing, no wonder *I* was on AVFM." No fucking way that tweet was meant to be interpreted as Ophie calling herse...

Huh? I don't begrudge anyone the odd cookie. In fact, I have been known to bake them for my friends. I even generally manage to not have 'eated dem all' when they come round for tea and a chat. I do, however, insist on calling them biscuits. Because they are:- Biscuits. As long as I can eat them, I...

If you don't mind getting covered in shite. My friend is a plumber and has told me enough horror stories to put me right off the idea. I've spent most of my life doing dirty, dangerous and very physically hard work, but I draw the line at being hosed down with turds and tampons. Woe is me! Porn mov...

Ah, Submariner beat me to it.

Submariner Seems rather obvious that both jobs you mentioned are power differential jobs. In other words they provide the job holder with an instantaneous degree of power over others. While this type of power dynamic has typically been associated with male behavior, I see no reason why females shou...

http://www.freezepage.com/1360524406OAWJRUGSZM : In which Ophelia shows us a new form of oppression Brilliant. Someone has scheduled a â€œSecular Leaders Summitâ€ in Los Angeles forâ€¦May 17th. (An email is included which ends with the following) Due to available space we ask you limit your repres...

Dawkins under fire for describing a woman as histrionic . :o https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/300562363713736704 bad richard :naughty: These people are desperate to find something to be offended by. Marcos Caceres â€@marcosc @ActuaryByDay @swanderyck how does her being a woman add any inf...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:LICD, LFG, C&H, Oglaf, XKCD...

SMBC is good too.

The funny thing about hair color preference, is that at least in the circles I run in, I know of very few people who prefer blondes. It's mostly a preference towards black/red hair. I think the place/country/city where you live plays some role on hair color preference. In South America there seems ...

On a totally unrelated note, what used to be my favourite webcomic, Sinfest, has now jumped the shark. For some reason, Tatsuya Ishida got totally enamored with feminist concepts like "The Patriarchy" and decided he would implement into the comic, which turned every character into a bland black and...

jimthepleb wrote: HAHAHA such bullshit, redheads are seriously my thing. My missus is auburn, Isla fisher is my fantasy woman (used to skate with her brother) and Audrey Hollander is my favourite porn star....so wrong on all counts Nate.

I'm partial to Madison Young, myself.

bahahahaha "Itâ€™s not her sexuality, itâ€™s the producersâ€™ idea of the marketâ€™s idea of the readersâ€™ sexuality." Oh, Ophie. Oh, Ophie! It's cute how she tries to deflect the blame into others when she's taken to task by one of her own. After calling the woman in the pic a "pouty poochy seduc...

I've been looking at that exchange of tweets, on and off, all day trying to make sense of it. Is there a mis-spelling? Did she not hear correctly? Did the dude actually say something about "fat"? Is there some use of the word "hat" of which I was previously unaware? Was the Stefalump sexually assau...

acathode wrote: Bah, it was hilarious when it was done to A+, complaining about them doing basically the same thing would just stupid. Heck, who takes twitter seriously anyway? Only the creepy clowns, from what I've seen...

Is there any other kind of clown?

Submariner wrote:Bit of good news here. Step-daughter got accepted to university also. She wants to be aerospace engineer.

I believe that's a STEM field, innit?

Maybe she can build a pink space shuttle?
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Ophie seriously doesn't see how hypocritical she is? http://www.freezepage.com/1360459144WAINQQIMRL I wonder if Zvan will tell Ophelia her opinion on the use of hashtags: http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/7117/dibujonoi.png Jezebel also has a post about the hashtag (http://jezebel.com/5982901/femi...

1) How can skepticism determine whether or not it's wrong to cause people pain? 2) I'm a skeptic who is also a feminist. For me, feminism is about countering misogyny primarily. This is a pretty good explanation: http://dispatchesfromtheclaphamomnibus.blogspot.com/2011/12/towards-defining-darwinian...

Her first video is due to be released soon, at least that's what her page says. Prediction: She won't mention the way males are stereotyped, or just killed because someone had to die in that scene. Oh no, it'll be all about how female characters are over-sexualized, or stereotyped. Another equity f...

About console games though, I loved Dragon Age, specially, since they rip on the Catholic church :dance: And I can't wait for Dragon Age III. I loved, loved, really loved Dragon Age I, but loathed Dragon Age II. It felt like the games had been relased in the inverse order, 2 felt like a first game ...

Is there an article? I was guessing this was about Novella's back-and-forth with Ophelia over at the Harriet Hall thread: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/gender-differences-and-why-they-dont-matter-so-much/ Hmm, thanks for pointing it, Aratina's first tweet makes more sense after read...

I haven't read Novella's article, but I'm going to have to read it, because Ophelia, Aratina, Josh and Joe are really PISSED at him https://twitter.com/OpheliaBenson/status/299231676075233280 Aratina Cage â€@aratina @OpheliaBenson Ugh. I see Steve Novella is ganging up on you now, saying you were n...

A least now you can say to any stalker you originated a forum that houses the internets craziest collection of psycopaths, rapists, and terrorists, so they better back the fuck off. Hell, yeah! if anyone stalks a pitter, we'll photoshop their pictures and mention them on twitter! a lot! No one mess...

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 Hmm, that's a phrase that's hard to define, b...

If we split this thread into 3 1. Serious A/S discussion 2. SJW take downs 3. The Lulz (no holds barred) who would go where? I would go to number 2 and number 3 the most, and sometimes to number 1. The thing I like about the pit's single thread though, is that I don't have to choose between jokes, ...

I'm not the person I pretend to be here. I mean, I have the same name, same address, same life, same face, same everything... except for the attitude. This place is such a relief from everyday pressure, I would leave if it was to change. Alternatively, I could be Barry Crocker... I thought we were ...

And no, I have not forgotten Gorski telling Abbie he might go all orac on her over this. wish i could find the exact comment, it was quite amusing in its impotence. So Gorski is not exactly a disinterested observer here. Do you mean this one? It would have been one thing if ERV had simply said she ...

Benson just linked right to us on her blog. Main page and everything. Prepare for influx. Ah, same old, same old. They have to be blinded by their own rage not to notice that the expression "on acid" refers to LSD and not attacks with some chemical substance. I also love how they go from "someone's...

In addition to the seriouspit linked above, there is also a new crassless thread started by Submariner here: http://www.slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=255 The urge to post a fart joke is almost overpowering. I wonder if the seriouspit is serious enough and if we'll need other flavors of 'p...

I guess I can see that. The only problem is that both A+ and FTBs appear to be in a state of terminal decline. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=atheism%20plus%2C%20slymepit%2C%20freethoughtblogs%2C%20JREF&date=6%2F2012%209m&cmpt=q Interesting graph. Looks like we'll have to go back to talking...

Am I missing something obvious to the rest of you but invisible to me? Are we only allowed to post on one site? I regularly post on several different forums. Just because a new forum opens doesn't mean you have to abandon this one. I am not getting my knickers in a twist over a few crude jokes on h...

This is bullshit. Comment #5, Scr... Archivist, says the following: Our side of the rift wants more participants, and the other side wants fewer. Where did s/h/it come up with this complete bullshit? http://www.freezepage.com/1360077727RPPYYTDBES (from http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaesverdad/...

Nononono, hes quite right. Any time you call a man a version of 'woman' it is a misogynistic insult. Likewise, every time a tom-boy/athletic/lesbian/'lesbian-looking'/homely woman is called a version of 'man', society views it as a complement, because men are better than women. DERP!! Or maybe refe...

What I've Learned from FtB/Skepchick/A+, including PZ's post tf00t linked: 1) If you call a man by any female term, such as "chick", it's to belittle him and you're a misogynist - This holds true for all such words in all places and uses, for example it holds true for "cunt" even if you and he both...

So... Results today along with taking out the stitches. They found precancerous cells at the back of his tongue and throat. 23 lymph nodes were removed and 2 of them were positive for cancer - squamous cell carcinoma. They were unable to determine the originating point. So... In a few weeks he'll b...

Stephanie Zvan responds to Damion's post about "ceasefire terms" http://www.freezepage.com/1360026884YWRMIETKJD Damion frequents the pit. He gets benefits from it in terms of people to spread his message without him doing it personally and of participants in his drive to â€œtestâ€ the Center for In...

A recent tweet by Sara Mayhew:

Sara E. Mayhew â€@saramayhew

Why are you assuming prominent white male atheists don't get sexually explicit hate mail? http://j.mp/11lJAFL @richarddawkins does.

Gee, I wonder what she's talking about ;)

In addition, to maybe throw a fox in amongst the chickens, I wonder how you and Altair â€“ and others â€“ viewed the â€œdoxingâ€ of â€œCreepy Bitter Girlâ€ and Mykeru which, one might argue, show a great many similarities with the AVfM case. I'm not familiar with the Creepy Bitter Girl thing. I'l...

Someone seems to be implying that Rebecca Watson is lying in some way about the recent photoshop she's talking about on her blog? http://i.imgur.com/dIYbJrY.jpg The sender might also be alerting rebecca of what's there. Nothing to suggest the sender actually made the drawing (I haven't looked at it...

Jesus fucking christ Altair there are scales of responsibility and it can belong to more than one person or group at a time. Just because the person wielding the weapon bears ultimate responsibility doesn't mean that AVFM wouldn't be culpable. In case you hadn't noticed the actual truth of how much...

Yeah, you not Rayshul. I thought as much. That right there, is why the Mens Rights people won't be listened to no matter how good their arguments are. I don't understand clearly why you believe that it would be AVFM's responsibility. If someone assaulted Michael Shermer because the FC(n) called him...

1) Can you scientifically prove that genocide is wrong? 2) You and I are working with different definitions of feminism there. There are skeptic feminists, but they're not going to be found in the feminist-only circles. 1) Scientifically? Assuming that by scientifically we mean using experiments an...

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