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

https://twitter.com/dELYSEious/status/470003111033962496 http://scontent-b.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-prn/t51.2885-15/925007_525509557554208_1288321117_n.jpg :shock: That is funny as hell, but I am sooooooooo sad for her offspring. Does the kid even have a chance? What do you mean? IIRC, Elyse's most...

Disturbingly, it's actually a reference to a book she would like to write: Yes, exactly. Maternalism. That is why I'm really truly writing a book on how to fuck girls without scaring them. â€” Rebecca Watson (@rebeccawatson) April 20, 2014 That will be a tough niche to crack, given the hundreds of ...

Hmm...well...LOL doesn't really do it here, you'll agree. How about, "Well, you deserved it, Melody." https://twitter.com/MaineMama77/status/457691604594085888 It gets better. There is this sequence: https://twitter.com/MelodyHensley/status/456265708142616577 https://twitter.com/MarcelloCruise/stat...

justinvacula wrote:Re: Slymipedia...Why not just update Phawrongula (sp)

Ya, I don't see the difference. What is slymipedia for that Phawrongula is not? (or vice/versa?) (http://phawrongula.wikia.com)

Lsuoma wrote:In case anyone is interested, The Slymipedia.

But permissions don't seem to be set up to let general public create new (or even the first) page.

+ â€œNot-Blacklistâ€ of PZ Myers, where he declared that he won't attend a conference when Abbie Smith was also invited, and revoked it in the same thread when Sarah Moglia reported to have overheard similar of Dawkins/Watson â€” which caused an outrage. This didn't happen within a single post thr...

He hasn't actually got around to explaining how the "fuck me please" emails of 2010 are consistent with the SA narrative. Meh. It's fully compatible with him being nice for a while, her falling for it, and him turning the crazy back on. Rinse, repeat. ... But Brives' point was that she didn't claim...

screwtape wrote:It's not just the male-female binary that is in trouble, it seems:

http://wondermark.com/c/2014-02-21-1003snake.gif

Re: the second panel: Hello Ed Brayton!

For chess, there is a statistical analysis system used to compute relative rank and ability, called the Elo rating system. The difference in the ratings between two players serves as a predictor of the outcome of a match. Two players with equal ratings who play against each other are expected to sc...

IMO, the "fat/ugly man, skinny/beautiful wife" is mostly a reflection of the differences in innate preferences. And TV/Movies reflect that, as oppose to conditioning us to that. Women tend to look for long term resource providers, so wealth and power are weighted highly. Men are looking for breeders...

I always wonder why when laymen (I'm assuming) think fine-tuning is trivially dismissed they never seem to ask why scientists (even the most militant atheist scientists like Krauss) recognize it as a serous problem? It is not an argument from authority--I am not saying we are right because we are s...

I love the way Marcotte labels disagreement of her as a "lecture". The woman has the self awareness of a block of concrete. Steven Pinker, in the Blank Slate, noting differences between 'Equity' and 'Gender' feminists: "... gender feminists have tried to stipulate that only they can be considered t...

Suppose you get drunk and you get mugged on your way home. You go to the police and they say: â€œ Man up! Your responsiblity. You got drunk, your fault. We know Jim, the mugger, but what's the problem!? You chose to get drunk, and thus its your fault that he mugged you. You practically asked for it...

yomomma wrote:Okay, my story (true story) is what feminists should be focusing on, and not imaginary rape.
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I think you need to check your "attractive woman privilege": there undoubtedly were less "naturally" attractive women who applied for that job and didn't get it because you were better looking. :D

Ophelia has acknowledged the reference to acid in my face , and stated she was wrong. I will give credit where credit is due. It's a shame that more open direct methods of communication are not used. She could have asked you directly and saved herself a blog post . And exactly how would that have g...

Silverman's back at it on Twitter. Poor dumb PZ must be seething. Remember, in a rash moment of enthusiasm he sent Silverman $1200 for beating on Vacula, but now his "Principled Atheist" is going wobbly. I'll laugh myself sick if he renounces the AA lifetime membership he bought only 4 months ago. ...

So those that read FtB, what's the buzz over there about Silvermans fb post? And how about those of you that do that twitter thing? Certainly it must be the talk of the FtB network, and I can imagine there must also be a huge twitter debate raging over it. Right? I mean, when big names weight in on ...

<snip> Can you give more information about what you mean by being bumped off when other people use your connection? Unless you're both using sites that restrict the number of connections per IP address, all that should happen when more users pull more data is that the available bandwidth will be di...

Some guy started another petition to demand that Richard Dawkins acts!

http://www.change.org/petitions/richard ... o-to-f-off :D

The rule shall be whatever benefits us right now! PZ 2 years ago: "The rule shall be that I can use my status (my privilege, which looks to be growing day by day) to prevent another (Abbie; lower status lower privilege, who I want to punish because I do not like her) from getting speaking invitation...

Ooo, found this a bit lower in PZ's original "I won't talk at an event if Abbie there" thread. Seems pretty clear that Zvan already heard the story that is now going around back then. 94. Stephanie Zvan 24 May 2012 at 11:00 am So Iâ€™m sure that everyone who is all "Eek! Blacklisting!" would be tota...

Just a few snippets of comments from the orginal PZ "I won't speak at an event Abbie is invited to" post from last year. (I only got through about 80 posts in an 800+ post thread) 42. Giliell, professional cynic -Ilk- 24 May 2012 at 7:20 am [replying to this quoting of someone else:]The whole "If sh...

https://twitter.com/rebeccawatson/status/375639253545660416 Oh now THIS is good... deeeeeeeeeeeerp http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/CrazyDiamond/Picture2-1.png Myer's comment about his willingness to speak at an event you were speaking at was the first thing I thought of when I read how Dawkin...

A fish Rots from the Head down.

So let me get this straight: - She goes to the DC registration page to register to operate a "fan table". - Immediate below the link to the registration form are the "Guidelines & Rules - Fan Tables" - These "Guidelines & Rules" (which Parody Accountant quoted above) specifically states (in bold tex...

Coyne again defends against a "lame attack" on Evo Psych, and takes a another shot at PZ.

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com ... sychology/

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5143/5829078236_0ee62fbe6a.jpg Who makes those arguments? Maybe some idiot trolls say shit like that for effect. But I don't see the vast majority of people making those arguments to which she's 'responding.' Enough people that any given jury on a rape trial will almos...

Tribble, I am glad you are addressing this oft cited but unsupported assertion that only 2% of rape claims are false. OTOH, the DoJ did a study on DNA evidence in rape cases. What they found in a population of 10,000 cases where the accused had been identified and was a person of interest or charge...

Am I the only one here who thinks this celebration of schadenfreude is a bit premature? The fact is that PZ will win if his main accuser is credible and if her story recites facts that clearly show it was "rape", particularly if he has (as he claimed) more women who will recite a similar story, and ...

freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/08/10/painfully-close-to-the-truth/ (sorry, I haven't bothered to figure out how to freezepage) Title: "Painfully close to the truth" (tags: conferences, ethics) Blog post is this cartoon: http://www.jimchines.com/2013/08/sexual-harassment-conversations-in-comic...

And so the infamous "list of known sexists", not Damion's one by the way, but the one swan referred to during their initial attempt to dictate to orgs who should and who should not be invited as a speaker at cons, finally gets a glimpse of the sun. Thanks be to zeus, and keep those names coming fuc...

Did they take the tumblr page down?

I just went to http://morewillbenamed.tumblr.com/, I got this:

"Not found.
We couldn't find the page you were looking for.
Find out why you may have encountered this error."

I guess when it starts to hit your friends ...

curriejean wrote:
didymos wrote:Here's how she characterized Shermer's comment:

Uh....
http://i.imgur.com/NGLOOXT.png

Would be better if, for the author's name, you used her twitter handle ("delicious").

Physioprof asks the difficult questions. http://freethoughtblogs.com/physioprof/2013/08/04/question/ Ever have something you put on the Internet ages ago suddenly come back to you unexpectedly? I asked this on the Mythbusters forum years ago. Phys stole it! ;) Never did get a satisfactory answer bt...

Why do clinically depressed, delicate flowers like Smellody ... choose jobs that put them in the line of fire? ... What part of her job with CFI-DC requires her to engage with people on Twitter and blogs, etc on issues that result in people being abusive to her? Seems to me that she would be just a...

P.Z. does research or is he just a teacher at some low level college? Seriously I never went to P.Z. for the science. I went there for the anti-religion. He hasn't been involved with research for a long time - about a decade I think. He never really had a good publication record and a gap of a deca...

That's kind of the problem. Unless I tell EVERYONE, how the hell should anyone be responsible because they have a picture of a spider in their preso? I mean, sure, if you're showing pics of decapitated bodies, or porn, yeah, I can see expecting a warning. Unless your session is a medical study of d...

... I took a corner on the outside, passing the car I was racing (a friend was driving) on to a little used access road. Trouble was, this time it was being used by a Buick sedan going 55+ mph in the opposite direction. I was likely doing about 30 mph, so an impact speed of 80 mph, wearing only cut...

This was just posted about CONvergence (SkepchickCon) Any thoughts? https://twitter.com/pzmyers/status/352920351388352512 http://i.imgur.com/gfYKFed.png Here are the panel speakers: http://ow.ly/i/2wSPo LOL Her are all the panelists: http://lanyrd.com/2013/skepchickcon/sckpgr/ Same old, same old. W...

From the interview transcript provided above by Dick Strawkins (bolding added by me): Richard Carrier: ... The liesâ€¦sometimes Iâ€™ve been called that Iâ€™m acting like a woman. Because, you knowâ€¦ Interviewer: Yeah, yeah, yeah Richard Carrier: â€¦thatâ€™s the biggest insult you can give a man. T...

Clearly, it's some kind of single-source campaign. The most recent Skeptic Women list of sign ups: [snip] Somone's ten year old needs some quiet time, away from the computer. Ool0n, is that you? Keep posting them here as they arrive, and I suspect this list will keep growing. (I mean, the point of ...

https://twitter.com/saramayhew/status/349927039333183489 Oh come on, Sara! You know that, in addition to being an internationally recognized researcher in Evolutionary Biology *and* Evolutionary Psychology, and a noted 1st Amendment legal scholar, Rebecca Watson also excels at traveling the world g...

Justin tweeted a link to this Q he posted on facebook: "Can someone please explain to me why Rebecca Watson is included on a "Separation of Church and State" panel at the Empowering Women Through Secularism conference? Thank you." Well, if you check her CV, besides being an active researcher in Evo...

When you give in to bullies once and give them your lunch money, they don't go away; they keep coming back to demand more and more every day, ... ... All Lindsay has accomplished is to make himself look weak, vulnerable, and a tool of the FTBullies. It matters zero fucks what it LOOKS like until we...

PZ has an excellent post over on Panda's Thumb (and probably also at his FTB site) addressing an article in Christain News that was putting a creationist spin on an article published by real scientists. It is PZ at his best: not only pointing out where the creationists were wrong and confused and ly...

AJ Johnson had no objection to the "scheme". That much is crystal from Silvermans post on the subject. Read her email on the subject. http://news.atheists.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/email.png I think it is dangerous to assume that a statement issued by someone in their official business/work ca...

I've been gone from the pit for several months. Nice to know that EllenBeth is still crazy. I think I'll hitchhike down to Florida and see if she'll put me up in her guest bedroom for a few months. Then you have missed alot. Like when the baboons ripped her to shreds for her comments on dongle-gate...

I don't think the word "unmoderated" means what he thinks it means. http://weknowmemes.com/generator/uploads/generated/g1371045848925338204.jpg Unmoderated= Moderated Atheism= Social justice Feminism= Humanism Disagreement=Harassment Happy= Very angry Anybody care to add to the list of Myerisms? Ce...

Interesting development... http://i.imgur.com/zTKH3vJ.png Melody, Melody...tsk tsk tsk... What's the big deal? Why would CFI-DC care about having a conversation with a humanist group in Fla? I mean, it's like hundreds of miles away; almost another country. Isn't it better if all activist groups lea...

Interesting post by Razib examining the correlation between political orientation (e.g., Lib, Con, mod) and views on GMOs, using data from the GSS.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/ ... ervatives/

My ticket for the Dublin conference has arrived. There is no need to worry that I have been excluded. What a relief, I can rest easy now. Well, I had the strange thought that, with the announcement the other day that the Dublin conference was sold out, that he might have been shut out. Particularly...

Weâ€™ll know we have gender equity when we have equal ownership stake in this movement weâ€™re contributing to . ... Our contributions and our ability to contribute more will be weighed alongside those considerations we ask for... Weâ€™ll know we have gender equity when our work is recognized . ......

Oh look, blue sky Notes and Comment Blog by Ophelia Benson Iâ€™m much more optimistic about the Dublin conference now â€“ and thus able to be excited about it again. Itâ€™s going to tackle important subjects, and Ireland needs it. Lucky lucky me to get to be involved. Thereâ€™s a bit of privilege f...

By the way, Ophelia, when you are recognized universally as a loser blogger, languishing in well deserved obscurity and cramming your pie- hole with treats in an attempt to assuage your inevitable grief at losing your unwarranted influence and perceived relevance, you can't point to the doxxing of ...

New piece concerning the assumption that because sexual assault, harassment, and rape exist in society-at-large these crimes also occur at atheist conferences - http://www.skepticink.com/justinvacula/2013/06/01/do-atheist-conferences-reflect-society-at-large/ The problem with the way you phrase thi...

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That's just perfect! You win, Gefan.

Changing subjects a bit - I'm very surprised that Rebecca Watson has gone silent on her blog for the past 10 days. ... Actually, knowing what we all know of her, 10 days may just be a "weekend bender" for those of us normal people. ... Isn't tomorrow Thursday, and so time for another outrageously f...

Just shut up and listen!

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3. Write, "I think youâ€™re right," in Comments sections of articles, Facebook postings etc. of feminist women. Whether or not theyâ€™ve been harassed or attacked, agree with them and do so publicly. ... Publicly agree with women (Feminist women) whether you actually agree with them or not ? What a...

3. Write, "I think youâ€™re right," in Comments sections of articles, Facebook postings etc. of feminist women. Whether or not theyâ€™ve been harassed or attacked, agree with them and do so publicly. ... Publicly agree with women (Feminist women) whether you actually agree with them or not ? What a...

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