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

Off topic but does anyone have a good takedown of the "1 in 5 college girls are raped" statistic. I ask this because while the stat sounds alarmist and bullshit I have yet to hear a decent response. The responses I have heard have simply been things like "most of the victims did not think they were...

JacquesCuze wrote:
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Oh! How coyly feminine! Well that's good because WISC should celebrate all women, even those that break stereotypes.

All this time, Miri's face looked so familiar, but I couldn't place it. Now I remember!

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This year there are zero female scientists! http://i.imgur.com/3UVFQcm.jpg Apparently, there are no women in typography, either. Indeed. All it's missing is a black background for maximum shitty design points. Apparently, there are no women in web design either: http://www.womeninsecularism.org/ Go...

Dick Strawkins wrote:This year there are zero female scientists!

http://i.imgur.com/3UVFQcm.jpg

Apparently, there are no women in typography, either.

While all of you were following StupidGate, I successfully loaded a 7-yo, barely halter-broke stallion into my little 2-horse straight-load. It was his first time inside a trailer ever, and he ended up quietly walking in of his own accord. The new owner was ecstatic, the old owner slinked away after...

In other news: From The Guardian Baby boys and girls receive different nutrients in breast milk . Tests on mothers' milk in both monkeys and humans have showed that levels of fat, protein, vitamins, sugars, minerals and hormones vary enormously, but there is evidence that milk made for female and m...

Gumby wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:Note how kasserine insults people with incontinence.
She's just flaunting her explosive diarrhea privilege.

She's still acting callously toward giardia-atypical*folk.

Scented Nectar has a informative post , and some eye-opening links, on the Woody Allen situation. Check it out. Because my GF brought up the subject this weekend (she faithfully reads Perez Hilton, but I love her just the same, cuz she does my laundry), we talked at length about the subject, and did...

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I can't find a clip, but there's a great line from TIN MAN where the adoralicious Zooey Deschanel shouts, "You're out of your tiny minds!"

Nobody is pure enough for queen snowflake Kassiane. It is not sufficient to affirm that you agree with her. You must express your agreement exactly right, otherwise you'll rub her the wrong way. Like all SJWs she's a passive-aggressive bully, but she must be one of the worst of the bunch. I bet she...

Finally shut down the HJ Hornbeck debate, as the gonk kept repeating himself, and doesn't even know the difference between sexual and asexual reproduction. I did open a new post , asking HJ to answer specific questions as to how evolution, behavior, genetics, etc. work without sex. Feel free to add...

Finally shut down the HJ Hornbeck debate, as the gonk kept repeating himself, and doesn't even know the difference between sexual and asexual reproduction. I did open a new post , asking HJ to answer specific questions as to how evolution, behavior, genetics, etc. work without sex. Feel free to add ...

What Jan, Hunt, Soren, & Barnowl said about evolution.

What Jan, Hunt, Soren, & Barnowl said about evolution.

windy wrote:
KiwiInOz wrote:
windy wrote: That last part is correct: Peacocks don't have cocks.
Then how do they pee?
They don't, they just poo.

If that were true, they'd be called "poocloacas," but they aren't. As Foucault observed, words define reality. Windy is wrong. Philosophy, QED.

I haven't the slightest clue what anyone's talking about right now. I think I'll go clean the kitchen.

ROBOKiTTY wrote:I liek the feathers. Make him look all dignified, like a peacock.

Stop perpetuating the myth of the pea fowl binary!

You don't need to have feathers to be a peacock. You don't even need a cock to be a cock.

Here are all the choices of gender that Facebook now allows. I note it includes my preferred choice, which is of course, big ender. No otherkin though. Bigots! http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/02/13/facebook_custom_gender_options_here_are_all_56_custom_options.html Agender Androgyne And...

Peezus Christ: http://skeptischism.com/atheismneat/2014/02/05/evidence-free-feminism/#comment-162 You come up with a model of evolution without sex, one that explains away meiosis and fertilization, that provides alternate models for kin selection, mating strategy, eusocial insects, eye color, peac...

I used Xanax once, for a severe alcohol withdrawal. Then for the next one, I used temesta. none of these drugs made any difference: I still felt like shit. So back to drinking it was. I have a friend who hordes her prescription xanax, then gobbles them all at once like skittles, washed down with di...

Maybe we just need to re-educate society to understand that the acts in which a trans^woman engages while drunk aren't hyr fault and we should stop blaming the victim. We need to stop buying into orthodox Crime Binary construct, and instead embrace trans*crime as part of the Lawfulness Spectrum. I,...

Wow Matt Cavanaugh. Just read HJ Hornbeck's most recent comments on your blog. He's far more "out there" than I'd previously realized. Did he really compare being a non-expert in science to being a non-expert in religion? For those who haven't been following the conversation, Hornbeck was asked abo...

I'll tell you one thing: Having read the entire thread on Matt's blog, I hope to fuck that HJ Hornbeck never reproduces (whether sexually, asexually or by any other means) because his genes should definitely not be passed on to future generations. It's genetic determinism to assume that HJ is a sup...

Lo and behold! "Decriminalise non-disclosure of HIV" has caught on. Ah well. https://twitter.com/morganmpage/status/433693783323324416 I like how her sure-fire way of keeping trans-people out of prison is just to legalise lots of crimes she assumes trans are into. She describes herself as a "trans-...

Matt having visited that post a week ago, and then coming back, let me suggest you get rid of nested comments and go to flat time linear comments (like here). It would make it much easier to figure out what's new. Per your suggestion, I've reset nesting to 2 deep. See if it sticks. I may also chang...

real horrorshow wrote:Don't know the details of this specific case, but any of those protesters who isn't' a strict vegan can fuck off, little Ms Godwin especially.

I thought I spotted a pair of Doc Martin's.

Guestus Aurelius wrote:But what about when two (or more) women disagree on something? If you agree with either, you necessarily disagree with the other and are therefore Not Believing The Womanâ„¢.

Just apply Hornbeck's Razor:

â€˜Conflicting evidence is evidence of your preferred conclusion.â€™

Isn't this Grimms Betonungverschiebung or something like that?

I find it totally reasonable that a plain-looking woman could go her whole life being pampered and spoiled, then wake up one day at around age 40 to find her looks fading fast, and still act like the spoiled bitch she was at age 12. Some people age but don't mature. You gotta check this one out: Ev...

Even if science is regarded as a subcategory of philosophy, it's still pretty damned different from the rest of philosophy, and that fact can't have escaped the earliest "scientists." They knew they were doing something different. I don't denigrate philosophy. When done well, it demands much of and...

Wait, you're expecting Philosophy to come up with a final definitive 'answer'? Like what, 42? Philosophy is not an event, it's a process, like science. Unless you assume the existence of an external moral authority, like god, then I'm afraid you aren't going to get 'definitive, unequivocal answers'...

You are, presumably, excluding things like atheism and humanism from the 'field of philosophy'? If so, that's a bit unfair of you. Also the conclusion that 'religion is made-up bollocks' is pretty much taken as read in modern philosophy. One of my tutors (a Jesuit) had a catch phrase he used on stu...

Lousy Canuck kept in moderation my last comment, in which I noted that on my blogs, my policy* is no moderation.

* In theory. In practice, Wordpress bites.

Clarence wrote:
Ms. Andry's bod is ok.

Ah, so you're a clavicle man.

bhoytony wrote:
JacquesCuze wrote:

But while I am dissatisfied with my body, the fact remains that I am still considered conventionally beautiful. And I know this.

http://i.imgur.com/1T7juxA.jpg

WHAT?

Ms. Andry is unsuccessfully trying to match this standard of beauty:

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Peezus has decided to pick a fight with Dawkins over a recent tweet. It's the top one in this list: http://i.imgur.com/3rEt4KZ.jpg I don't see the big problem. I'm guessing (from the other tweets he's done today on this question) that he's not discounting philosophy entirely, but rather pointing ou...

ianfc wrote:
SÃ¸ren Lilholt wrote:...which way you choose to wipe your arse.
A while ago McEwan at Shakesville asked that question, ie do you fold or wad the paper. Can't recall the consensus or any boasting.

McEwan use TP? That's what her Iain's for!

JacquesCuze wrote: If you enjoy a Pat Condell rant, here is Pat Condell discussing Liberals vs. Progressives

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Yeah, that's a good rant.

But we're just futzing over semantics. However we decide to label them, we all agree they suck.

Apples wrote:
It's so cute, because his wife is an alcoholic.

I think we're being a bit too judgmental of Mr. Elyse. This is, after all, likely his only chance of ever getting laid.

I notice HJ Hornbeck and oolon getting into a spot of bother over on Ophelia's site. hjhornbeck February 11, 2014 at 11:24 am (UTC -8) Eh, Braytonâ€™s a bit wrong on that one. There is a small branch of second-wave which is highly essentialist, openly embracing a sexual binary and discriminating on...

Progressive. I use Progressive and Liberal to mean two different groups. Progressive means..well..wanting Progress. Liberal, at least to me is a state of demanding instant perfection RIGHT NOW. I guess there are different meanings on opposite sides of the Atlantic. In Europe the term progressive is...

MoFo just translates to a badass motherfucker in practice. That's Ms. Andry to you. She never stops with these digs at her husband, who, I will mention again, just lost his job. Why is he taking her out to lunch? Why isn't he saving his remaining cash? Why is this bitch still complaining about ever...

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'spose not...

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How many sexes to the Borg have?

You are a pathetic, stupid, lying, attention whore. This must be from the part of the bible that says, "Insult thy neighbor." Fuck, heddle! That comment at WEIT must be like a month old. Y U troll teh atheist blogs? Get a fucking life. Get a dog, and throw it sticks. Go play outside. Run along, now...

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Note how, while the woman must walk her snack dog on a leash, the reindeer is at liberty and has joined up with the man. Coincidence? I think not!

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Martin Wagner. The only man on Earth capable of making Greg Laden look cool.

My money's on Martin being the culprit behind the attack, as revenge for them taking away his stapler.

If he wasn't so evil, he'd have changed his last name so that he didn't share it with an evil overlord like Wagner. I was going to comment on the "wagner" thing. When I see that name, it brings memories of some blood-crazed marines in choppers over Vietnam. Or Hitler. Tss tss tss :naughty: ????? Ho...

Reading Greg Laden's latest bit o nonsense, I found this: http://i.imgur.com/EBCm4i2.png - there's no way Zvan is gonna come first in any race, and as for Greg and intelligence...well, no. In any case, you've got the double whammy there of two whiter-than-white crackers talking about two things in ...

real horrowshow said: And Saruman turns out to be killable. A bloody Balrog can't take out Gandalf, but his fellow Istari can be offed by a disgruntled former employee with a knife? Aside from the rest of your clear and obvious misunderstanding, or actually lack of comprehension of what the stories...

I enjoyed the LOTR films the first time round, but I couldn't rewatch them. If you took all the close-ups of Elijah Wood looking at the camera with big sad eyes and cut half the frames from them, you'd have one normal-length film. So I shouldn't feel bad about falling asleep during the movie. I'm l...

It's understandable that the FTBconners are clueless about science, statistics and other tools of the patriarchy. But that they seem to have no clue about what a feminist icon like de Beauvoir actually said (since none of them spotted HJ's bullshit) is even more hilarious somehow. They really do li...

A recent study on stereotype threat in young female chess players has been making the rounds: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/does-really-happen-stereotypes-undermine-performance-180949546/ ...the researchers watched men and women play chess at twelve different tournaments. They saw 219 gi...

SoylentAtheist wrote: Elements are just a social construct.

Hornbeck's next talk will be on "Social Justice Chemistry."

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Note: isotopes are now referred to as "big beautiful elements", radioactive elements as "non-conforming elements", ions as "electron-challenged."

DDOSing for a difference of (political) opinions is a dick move. I have no idea what actually happened there, and hope it was just a glitch. I'm also quite hopeful it wasn't the doings of a Pitter, because if it was, I'd be obliged to tell the perp to go fuck themself. It is highly suspicious that,...

I don't like Woody Allen movies. Never have. And this whole thing reads like a Woddy Allen movie. I'll pass. Yeah, the one about the tangled relationships of a group of upper-middle class, Jewish, New Yorkers who talk too much is... most of them. Yeah, but TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN and SLEEPER are hil...

ROBOKiTTY wrote:Another variation on safehugs is non-contact hugs.

My friend & I once had reiki sex in public. It grossed everyone out.

But it certainly seems to me quite plausible that â€“ since the group is a significant part of the environment that is supposedly the main player in â€œNatural Selectionâ€, which Kauffman suggested â€œwe might as well capitalize as though it were the new deityâ€ â€“ the group is thereby both an a...

Today has been the most interesting pit day in a long time. So thank you all for the lulz and education. :character-beavisbutthead: Anyone remember seeing an article like that? Can you help me find it? No, but Windy pulled a quote from ISNA.org. That might be a good place to start a search for like...

real horrorshow wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote: Not now that Skep Tickle has nuked Hornbeckistan twice:

Bockscar wrote:... Itâ€™s not my fault you took on biological sex determination without (apparently) understanding it....
Bock's Car. I see what you did there.

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