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

Someone must have posted a link to Maggie McNeill's blog at some point surely? Here's her new piece on ladies' smut site Cliterati , criticising second-wave feminist activism in the UK. While transwomen are hounded to death, they obsess about the number of womenâ€™s pictures on banknotes. While sex ...

One, to pick a couple of idiocies out of Marcotte's predictable nonsense, unless I very much misunderstand the concept. Customer's do not "buy" prostitutes, they rent them. This is a very important distinction. When feminists talk about women "selling their bodies" or men "buying women's bodies" it...

Jezebel Groupthinkers respond with compassion, empathy and understanding after hearing of Hugo Schwyzer's completely authentic (and in no way attention seeking) suicide attempt.

Today is Flounceday in the UK. The day when all the decent, lovely, non-abusive, feminist people like Caitlin Moran go on a tweeting strike, boycotting the site to protest against trolling. I don't know how we'll make it through a whole day without endless 140 character arguments about the feminist ...

The main difference is that the pictures in lads' mags are flatteringly photoshopped and emphasise sex appeal, while the women's magazines seek out paparazzi shots of celebrity cellulite and obsessive over the slightest weight gain or wrinkle. That's where I step off the SJW train, to be honest. I ...

This is hilarious. Top shelf Lads mags like Nuts and Zoo are having to cover up their front covers and are to be made only available to over 18s because "won't somebody think of the children!!!???". To give you and idea of the horror of a Zoo front cover it looks like this: http://1-ps.googleuserco...

I don't know how many tweets Sarah made, I know that Zvan's post made me think Zvan is mentally ill, if only because she thinks that was a productive use of her time. There are going on 250 tweets pasted into that blog post, and they call Sara Mayhew obsessive... Didn't that lot cry harassment when...

While we're on the subect of stupid computer programs, you guys are gonna love this. A Scottish feminist by the name of Alyson MacDonald made a "Female Experience Simulator" that is supposed to replicate the harassment women suffer or some shit. Trigger Warning, may induce laughter. http://brightgr...

Uh, I'm not really seeing the big deal here. A 45 year old dude and a 27 year old woman? On the telephone? I don't see how that makes him Feminist Satan. Hugo has repeatedly criticised men who pursue younger women. See this column in The Atlantic for example: If there's one tangible thing that men ...

Am I the only one amused by the seemingly limitless hatred of this Hugo Schwyzer dude? The guy has a checkered past, apparently, but there seems to be more hate for him than there is for us. I saw this coming a good couple of months before he actually flounced. His holier-than-thou male feminist ma...

Try to contain your excitement: Sarkeesian's new video is here. [youtube]LjImnqH_KwM[/youtube] Is there any indication she actually played the games this time? Rather than just grabbing gameplay clips from other people's videos and reading a synopsis from Wikipedia and TV Tropes, like in the previo...

The hen's night (bachelorette party etc) culture is ridiculous. The hypocrisy in women who call themselves feminist, and rail against "misogyny", who then behave like wild pigs over a bucket of slop when a male stripper appears and who drink through penis straws and eat penis shaped cakes but fail ...

I think I've found the SJW version of Captain Kirk fucking up androids with crazy-logic: http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18s1a11i8rm0jjpg/ku-medium.jpg This is one of my pet annoyances right now. I've seen that cartoon, and another one just like it, posted on a number of different leftist/feminist ...

In some other news. It was only a matter of time until Christian tweeters discover familiar ideas. Great authoritarians think alike! Hey PZ, Ophelia and Gang perhaps you wanna team up with him? Oolon could lend his expertise in block botting. I find it interesting that the person who started the pe...

In the UK there's been a big feminist campaign to "civilise" twitter, with some demanding that it be pay-walled, or require the user's real name and address to discourage "trolls". Now it looks like thin skinned Christians are jumping on the bandwagon. He's not for censorship, but that Dick Dawkins ...

Rejecting the unfalsifiable, po-mo construct, "Teh Patriarchy" isn't the same as not acknowledging that patriarchal social elements exist. Other conspiracy theorists pull the same bullshit, acting as if you can't reject their New World Order theory without denying that various families and corporat...

This sounds familiar.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23486027 Welcome to the Victorian era. But campaign group Lose the Lads' Mags said the Co-op was not going far enough. Spokeswoman Sophie Bennett said: "The so-called 'modesty bags' they are demanding from publishers are designed to allow the Co...

Back in the 80's there was a serious anti-science streak in feminism. Math and science were considered masculine and aggressive and didn't value "women's intuition". The phrase "womyn's ways of knowing" was bandied about. In my experience that's still a fairly common view in the world of women's st...

To me, that actually looks like a significant breaking of ranks within The Sisterhood. It answers the question; at what point, if any, will Marcotte distance herself from extremism on her own "side"? I think it's to be commended. I'll be interested to see if there's any push-back from (say) Cathy B...

Ophelia has a post up, copy-pastaing Amanda Marcotte, which is nothing but a gaping and stupid "no true Scotsman" about "radical" feminism. Marcotte is manufacturing a false history of radical feminism by treating anti-trans and anti-sex ideology as some kind of recent corruption of the movement, w...

Anyone looking to engage in some feel good slacktivism today? On July 19th, 2013, people are gathering in 35 cities across the globe to protest against violence against sex workers. Following the murders of Dora Ã–zer and Petite Jasmine on the 9th and 11 of July 2013, sex workers, their friends, fam...

In the EU (outside Germany which has weird laws about both) it is the other way round. In the UK a TV presenters tit accidentally popped out during a show. People just thought it was funny and it has no affect on her career at all, in fact it gave her a nice human touch. This was just after the Jan...

Agree totally. In fact I am not aware of any man that likes them, I assume women do stupidly oversized tits just to please themselves. Also I would have no issue with women having them after a mastectomy but I assume that goes without saying. My assumption is that there must be some guys who love t...

Ugh.... Seriously, what a bunch of hateful cunts. By the way, from the comments on that video: Each of the FEMEN women involved in this protest had to audition, including disrobing to make sure she had a good enough body to participate. Then they displayed their topless bodies to the crowd. They al...

Thing is, they're so Victorian in their attitudes... You go out and read about sexual mores and practice during the Victorian era... You can't but help notice so many of the similarities, including the control strategies. The idea that women are victims who need to be saved from men's "beastly lust...

Of course, we could ask him why he used them as a reference and see what he says rather than assuming the worst. I'm not assuming anything about his motives one way or the other. I agree that it could easily have been the first anti-MRA link he found, rather than anything representative of his view...

http://www.skepticink.com/debunkingchristianity/2013/07/03/i-must-completely-dissassociate-myself-from-mens-rights-groups/ Linking to rationalwiki for evidence... really? Did you see the feminist site he linked to for an attack on men's rights? Out of all the relatively reasonable and liberal femin...

I think that Chris Hall and yourself spectacularly miss the point of the poem. I'd pretty much agree with your interpretation of this. What's worth pointing out though, considering how hypersensitive SJW types usually are about "appropriation" and other language crimes, is the blatant hypocrisy. It...

No one doubts the existence of idiots. The extent of their influence is very much in doubt. I have not seen much in the way of argument for the proposition that the influence/power/control of the RadFems/Feminists is over rated but here is a good one I think: Conspiracy theories where feminists con...

https://twitter.com/ivanabacik/status/350184471087153153 Doesn't legalization of prostitution empower women*? Alot like legalization of abortion does? I've always thought that the harm reduction and personal choice arguments for legalised abortion and prostitution are pretty similar, but for mainst...

As for dogmatic feminism, I'm actively on the lookout for it now. It's a tough one, but I gotta say that religion was tougher, and dogmatic feminism is almost certainly on its way out in the coming future, like religion is currently. I wish I could believe that, but I see radfems go virtually uncha...

If you think prostitution is forced then the obvious answer is to penalise the pimp. Even a cursory investigation would show that a lot of prostitution is not forced, so you have the wonderful situation of prostitutes advertising services with relative impunity that will get their clients prosecute...

I don't think it's so much "anti-sex" as "anti male sexuality", female sexuality is generally something that is encouraged and viewed as something good, as long as it occurs in a situation that 100% controlled by the women. I don't think it's true that female sexuality in general is viewed as a goo...

One of my best friends, now deceased, was a tranny. What do these femi-Nazis have against m-f trannies? The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male by Janice Raymond is the origin of a lot of radfem arguments against transpeople. "All transsexuals rape women's bodies by reducing the real fem...

Prostitution is made illegal (I'm not sure but I guess it's already illegal in Ireland) with all the legal penalties falling on the purchasers rather than the prostitute her or himself. Actually, prostitution is current legal in the Republic of Ireland. A lot of the things associated with it, like ...

Latest additions to the misogynist archive include: EWTS key speaker Kate Smurthwaite, FTB new boy Ally Fogg, and finally Dave denouce-the-shit Silverman. http://slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=328 Feminism 101: "It's only misogyny when they do it!" Smurthwaite was in Cambridge yesterday, d...

then he gushes about meeting an extreme puritanical radical feminist like Kate Smurthwaite I disagree. I wouldn't say she's puritanical or radical, even. I certainly don't see her sharing the same insane views as Marcotte, Hensley and McWrong. Did you follow the links in my post? She describes hers...

No doggehs or kittehs here, but thanks for the heart warming fucking welcome.

PZ has posted a video clip of stand-up comic and secular activist Kate Smurthwaite verbally bitch-slapping a dude on a chat-show. That's right - the clip is called "Atheist Bitchslap." So much for splash damage. Seeing that was what convinced me to stop lurking and sign up here. What I find ironic ...

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