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

This still doesn't make much sense. The only people who can do this policing are those who are familiar with the subject area. Courses are monitored for quality externally, which should effect whether students choose to study there. Research work is at risk of not being published or cited, in which...

[spoiler] When used as insults terms like "bitch" and "twat" and "cunt" are inseparable from sexism. They are unambiguous negative referents to feminine/female as negative. Incidentally, "prick" and "cock" are inseparable from sexism too for the identical reasons. In all cases that is an act of sex...

Apparantly, pointing out that someone is being histrionic causes rape threats:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... ent-540269

Just to play devils advocate, PZ Myers might be right. The future of the atheist movement may well belong to him and his kool-aid drinking friends. I don't go to atheist conferences. I used to contribute to a skeptical podcast, but don't bother any more - part of the reason is certain people making ...

Did you guys spot this gem at A+? Apparently alcoholics don't have problems even remotely comparable with those experienced by the professional victims of that forum:

http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3605

Cunning Punt, Pharyngula IS intimidating. Deliberately. This is a feature, not a bug. It's not for everyone. Just like I don't necessarily want to post at Place X because their environment doesn't suit me (for example I'd be fucked if there were a no swearing policy. I loves me a swear I do), I don...

In this interview, Watson is recounting Elevatorgate to a female radio presenter. Listen from the 4.30 mark: http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/sat/sat-20121208-1105-rebecca_watson_girls_and_shopping-048.mp3 After she tells the story, the radio presenter says "Hang on, that wasn't threatening" Watson: "O...

The more I think about it the more I think labelling the Slymepit as a feminist site (at least for a while) would be good. My new avatar ruins any hope of this becoming a reality. I like that picture, women in the future will have good abs :D In keeping with the topic of Sci-fi and vile misogyny, I...

Can I just say all you folks are a little late with the Star Trek theme. Does Voyager really count though? Fuckin' Janeway... WORST. STARFLEET. CAPTAIN. EVER. *cough* Jonathan Archer *Cough* Archer didn't get lost in space. No, he basically didn't do shit at all. Enterprise was created to make peop...

There is nothing that gets a Rad Fem riled quite like pubic hair removal

http://skepchick.org/2013/01/pubic-lice ... g-extinct/

I know I complain about ElevatorGATE, but his Storifys today have been really juicy. Twitter is drama-central today. Martin Robbins blocking Natalie Reed, Rhys Morgan blocking Julian, Dawkins being bugged about a 'racist' joke about trousers on his Facebook page (which he doesn't maintain)... http:...

jjbinx007 wrote:
AnonymousCowherd wrote: Don't bother. She'll only be stating the bleedin' obvious.
Menstruation jokes are simply NOT funny.

Period.

You don't get this kind of pure comedy gold on FTB.

Not sure how productive it is for both sides to keep launching attack petitions against the other. It already looks like its getting out of hand.

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I think this video is bullshit. Europe in general has far greater support for women's healthcare and for maternity leave, and this dose not make women 'unemployable' at all.

Speaking of the far left having the same problems as the atheists, the Socialist Worker Party in the UK is getting slammed by feminists. http://www.newstatesman.com/laurie-penny/2013/01/what-does-swps-way-dealing-sex-assault-allegations-tell-us-about-left Laurie Penny is the Rebecca Watson of the B...

EdwardGemmer wrote:Hidey ho. I am lucky enough to be banned by Pharyngula and SkepChick. Is this the last atheist message board I can join without being banned?

No, fuck off!

J/K welcome to the Slymepit :)

[spoiler] Still reading "Laughter is Bourgeois" - its like a bloody secular prophecy of our situation: "It was easy for small ideologically coherent, disciplined groups to intimidate the great mass of non-ideological and anarchic young people. What was once one big happy family became ridden with d...

Still reading "Laughter is Bourgeois" - its like a bloody secular prophecy of our situation: "It was easy for small ideologically coherent, disciplined groups to intimidate the great mass of non-ideological and anarchic young people. What was once one big happy family became ridden with disputes, o...

Speaking of the far left having the same problems as the atheists, the Socialist Worker Party in the UK is getting slammed by feminists. http://www.newstatesman.com/laurie-penny/2013/01/what-does-swps-way-dealing-sex-assault-allegations-tell-us-about-left 1. Some incident (probably a legitimate comp...

Would Western societies be patriarchy then, Windy? Look at the U.S. Senate, for example: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_United_States_Senate If that's not a mostly patriarchal institution, I'll eat my racist hat. Is it primarily patriarchal though? Is the dominance of men the fundament...

Still reading "Laughter is Bourgeois" - its like a bloody secular prophecy of our situation: "It was easy for small ideologically coherent, disciplined groups to intimidate the great mass of non-ideological and anarchic young people. What was once one big happy family became ridden with disputes, of...

Re: "Do these people never laugh?" "Laughter is bourgeois": http://www.akpress.org/laughterisbourgeois.html Slightly incomplete transcript here: http://archive.org/stream/LaughterIsBourgeois/LaughterIsBourgeois_djvu.txt That is quite interesting - it implies PC as we know it emerged from Maoist fel...

Oh, and here's ischemgeek to explain how it's all part of "rape culture". Is ANYTHING not part of rape culture?! The universe (as described by MEN) began with a Big Bang. We all know 'bang' is a euphemism for sex. Male physicists suggest that time originated at the Big Sex, so that any concept of '...

Jonathan wrote:Good grief.

Someone on Atheism+ posts a limerick that includes the word "wanker" and is accused of sexual harrassment!

What is wrong with these people?!

Wait, but after Jen McCreight's encounter with a homeless (and possibly ill) man, I thought wankers *were* harassers? I'm confused.

Surly Amy wants to extend her grants to blokes, apparently: http://skepchick.org/2013/01/will-there-be-more-surly-grants/ Maybe we should extend an olive branch to this one. She isn't in the same league as PZ Myers and Ophelia Benson in terms of crushing dissent, and does sound like she is having a ...

Im surprised if you found it effected you IRL in the UK, but the Skeptics in the pub sadly does have a connection with you know who through hubby I guess. Even so, I'd have thought the British Humanists seem largely to consist of intellectuals and academics.... isnt that a more appropriate bunch to...

So, he's tried to discredit Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and now Sam Harris. When will he go after Daniel Dennet, I wonder? What boggles my mind is how Pizzy McShitfarts Myers seems to think he is on the same level as these giants. Harris is another embarrassment to the movement with his N...

So, he's tried to discredit Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and now Sam Harris. When will he go after Daniel Dennet, I wonder? What boggles my mind is how Pizzy McShitfarts Myers seems to think he is on the same level as these giants. Harris is another embarrassment to the movement with his N...

Patriarchy suffers the same problem as "privilege" in that it takes an observation about differences between groups (men get paid more than women) and then uses this as a basis to claim social imbalances between specific members of the groups (man X unfairly has more power than woman Y, regardless o...

So, anybody in the UK been watching Stargazing Live? What do you all think? Fans or not of Brian Cox? Only seen the first episode so far. I thought he was pretty good on it, knows his stuff, he's very enthusiastic about the subject and has a knack for putting across concepts in a way that children ...

Self-interacting dark matter (SIMD) is a contender for explaining certain properties of dark matter haloes i.e. the difference between the ones predicted by large scale cosmology and the ones we actually infer from galaxies. I've honestly not read much into it, but I don't get the impression many pe...

#CallClegg whatever you like. Personally, I'm going with 'cunt'. Christ - can you believe someone said that? They must be misogynist, since 'cunt' is vagina, and it's basically saying that if Clegg is bad as a vagina (which reduces women to mere vaginas) then he really must be bad, since vaginas (i...

So, anybody in the UK been watching Stargazing Live?

What do you all think? Fans or not of Brian Cox?

Thank you for answering my question! So I guess if you could lower a rod across an event horizon (without falling in yourself), then you wouldn't be able to pull it back? Part of the reason I ask is because I thought that you weren't supposed to be able to tell if you had crossed the event horizon,...

Thank you for your reply! Your blogs look good and clear to me. For some reason I thought that we had landed probes on Mercury, but apparently not! It would be extremely difficult. Getting into Mercury orbit is hard enough, because as you fall in towards the Sun you pick up a lot of speed, which me...

I'm not a physicist, but given that dark matter is a placeholder that's basically "we don't know what this is yet", wouldn't we need to know a lot more than we currently do to either prove or disprove dark matter? Anyone is free to call me a moron on this subject, but my uber-layperson level unders...

I want to start a non-FTB related thread, as I'm worried if I spend too much long in the big thread I might end up being too damn negative all the time. So lets try science. I do research into dark matter, and am aware that some people are skeptical of the concept (as in, they think its a lazy fudge...

I love the contrast between PZs strident nuttery, and his revenue generating adverts
http://s1.postimage.org/626e9e5az/pzfail.jpg

They've scared off another: http://freethoughtblogs.com/tokenskeptic/ Or we have. Depending on who you listen to. She was always pretty non-confrontational and not a good fit for the baboon squad. She has already been declared a non person by many of the Horde for not conforming to the Received Wis...

[spoiler] Sigh. So, Dillahunty has a new video up on Free Speech, Censorship and Banning. I haven't watched it yet (gearing up to be masochistic this morning) but I'll put it here for everyone else to torture themselves as they see fit: [youtube]lqbp3MNhnCc[/youtube] [/spoiler] The amusing part is ...

"I hate it when people talk to me! How dare these 'doctors', 'nurses' and 'midwives' talk down to me as if I don't have any relevant training!?"

http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3528

The descent continues...

Why FFTB should get to determine who is in a position of leadership in any secular/atheist movement:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/almostdiamo ... sionalism/

[spoiler] And she was trying to Doxx me too BTW. http://i1192.photobucket.com/albums/aa335/woolybumblebee/Wooly-Half-Doxxed_zps1be71107.png Her little minions are trying to find info on me, and all they can find is an old entry on Ophie's blog that was bullshit and outed as such, and a website from...

Thread on "The dictionary atheist debate" begun today by hyperdeath at a+ forum: http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=3520 (So I guess "debate" isn't a ban-inducing word there...yet.) Exi5tentialist says (bolding added by me): I don't think dictionaries describe the meaning of words. ...

Does the Slymepit maintain a Lexicon of Atheism+ newspeak? Reading some of their car-crash threads I've noticed they've defined "doubling down" as "Not immediately kowtowing to the judgement of the resident powers"

Taslima Nasreen on her FfTB soapbox today: All men everywhere are rapists and misogynists. http://freethoughtblogs.com/taslima/2013/01/05/men-are-the-same-everywhere/ Men are the same everywhere! Steubenville football team players kidnapped, raped and urinated on a 16-year-old girl. But instead of ...

Michael Nugent has retracted his article about the "bullying" of Melody Hensley This article was originally titled â€˜Publisher of video flagged for bullying admits Melody Hensley has been harassed and bulliedâ€™ but WB has since clarified that she does not admit this, so keeping that title would b...

Who wants to be (t) that this calm, measured response will sound like screaming, hateful, misogyny to you-know-who? sQ33Zo0zZEI I notice Dillahunty made a comment on this young chaps video. I have to wonder if the chap submitted it as a video response, but Matt hasnt allowed it - just seen fit to m...

So twice in about 4 days, we see PZ expounding about something (Gravity Lamps, tf00t's video), without examining the original material. Where in the scientific method, which I think is the method most worshipped by what he claims to be his brand of atheism, where in the scientific method is that? W...

Who wants to be that this calm, measured response will sound like screaming, hateful, misogyny to you-know-who?

[youtube]sQ33Zo0zZEI[/youtube]

Well Blimey - Peezee's finally been persuaded to watch Tf00t's video. The poor dear: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/01/03/i-think-youtube-culture-really-has-gone-pathological/ Weirdly, Peezee thinks it's all about tf00t wanting to get away with being sexist. Or something. It was a grea...

Nugent is a well trained toilet slave. He likes Melody Hensley to use him and make him feel like a dirty boy - [spoiler] http://i.imgur.com/C5WJZ.jpg [/spoiler] https://twitter.com/MelodyHensley/status/286685205547335680 How can anybody think that Melody Hensley is in any way suitable to be in a pu...

[spoiler] Git wrote: Well, there is that tiny data point that every fucking time socialism has been tried it has resulted in mass murder and tyranny. Sweden. Norway. The Netherlands. Please, show us the mass murder and tyranny. Yeah, I am an anti-socialist myself (here in Norway, not to be confused...

Ok, I just had to: http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr03/2012/11/15/11/enhanced-buzz-20048-1352998518-7.jpg What a poser. Does she have a nictitating membrane surgically implanted in each eye? I think not. Does she make her boyfriend wear a condom with hooks on it to lacerate her vagina ...

http://skepchick.org/2012/05/sex-and-the-keynote/ Notice how the avatar at the bottom of that is stick thin? As are Amy's and Rebecca's. None of these women are what you would call fat, but neither are they as thin as their avatars make out. Body image issues? The Patriarchy forced them to have thi...

Guest wrote:http://skepchick.org/2012/05/sex-and-the-keynote/

Notice how the avatar at the bottom of that is stick thin? As are Amy's and Rebecca's.

None of these women are what you would call fat, but neither are they as thin as their avatars make out. Body image issues?

^^Crappy editing like that is what happens why I try to write on forums whilst I'm doing work. I really ought to be doing work.

PZ has previously claimed to get 3 million hits per month. Currently I would be surprised if he's getting 1/10th of that. Indeed the web stats seem to bear that out with the WHOLE of FTB currently pulling in ~300k visits per month. http://www.attentionmeter.com/?d1=freethoughtblogs.com&d2=&d3=&d4=&...

Executive Summary: PZ is an incompetent libellous cunt, and a failure as a scientist. Re his gravity lamp train wreck: the thing described could easily make a worklamp that emits 64 Lumens for a half an hour! Perfect for reading his non-existent book by. Even by privileged Western standards. ______...

Now that we have both Thunderf00t and Richard Reed posting here, can I have a resolution to a question that's been bothering me: http://i.imgur.com/Gvl3u.jpg Thunderf00t http://i.imgur.com/WH6eh.jpg?1 Richard Reid AKA The Shoebomber. Separated at birth? I think we should be told! I'm going with the...

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