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Trader Joeâ€™s NYC Store Defends 'Racist, Sexist, and Misogynistic' Songs on Playlist: Even after Elliot Rodger's killing spree, Trader Joe's manager says the store will keep playing a famous song that demeans women. By Lynn Stuart Parramore http://www.alternet.org/economy/trader-joes-nyc-store-def...

Which reminds me - ever encountered the concept of " rockism "? It seems to be an attempt to apply identity politics to musical taste. If you think performers who play their own instruments and write their own songs are better musicians than performers who just dance and lip-synch, you're a racist, ...

Hell, I'm not even about to write off everything a professed postmodernist has to say. Postmodernism, as far as I can tell, only makes sense as a way of approaching art. The only explanation anybody's ever given me of it that made sense is that it's a rejection of modernism, and modernism is all ab...

deLurch wrote:Ophelia can never really accept any apology...

Never apologise to an SJW. They just treat it as proof of wrongdoing to use in their continuing campaign against you - remember Bora? They're just spiteful children who delight in running to teacher and getting other people into trouble.

And all the grown ups will say "but why are all the kids crying? " and the kids will say "haven't you heard? Rik is dead. The people's poet is dead. "

And a glass raised to the great Rik Mayall.

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Some quality SJW self-awareness:

Joanna Schroeder, the female feminist executive editor of The Good Men Project, a blog about men's issues, writes a post about how when it comes to women's issues, no man should be allowed to contribute the conversation in any way, never mind lead it.

I think there might be a rude shock awaiting some women who might join this group. The group's name should more accurately be called "The LA SJW Radfem Ideologue's Atheist and Agnostic Group" (LASJWIAAG). Imagine a situation where a woman leaves a fundamentalist sect, becomes an atheist and finds A...

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118005/slenderman-murders-show-youth-crime-isnt-exclusive-boys News of youthful violence is all too familiar to us: the shootings, stabbings, bombings perpetrated by young people are the stuff weâ€”necessarilyâ€”analyze, search for patterns, try to make sense of, ...

paddybrown wrote:*Again, #NotAllWomenButCloseEnough

Yeah, okay. But #NotActuallyAllWomen.[/quote]

Annoying, isn't it? Only had to use it twice to get a response, on the Pit no less.

I'm not being glib about this. Almost everywhere I go, I have to dance and weave through waves of young women with their heads down, thumbing away at their hand helds without looking where they are going. I'm not saying young men do not use their phones often but it seems that from Glasgow to Manch...

That's already been answered: http://youtu.be/0uDu5duFOyg?t=11m13s From this video: If they're too drunk to drive, they're too drunk to give consent. Period. Getting sexual with someone who's wasted, slurring their words, their body's limp, they can't communicate clearly, maybe they're throwing up?...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:What fucking oppression, you fucking fuck?!?

I've long wondered how women square their belief they're oppressed with their belief that they are entitled to scold the rest of the world like they're its feckin' mother. #NotQuiteAllWomenButCloseEnough

And why in the hell is an 11th grader already subscribing to "Rape Culture" when there was NOTHING EVEN REMOTELY RESEMBLING RAPE in the decision of a school board to desire adolescent females not distracting adolescent males? "Rape culture" is, and always has been, just the latest attempt to smuggl...

There's now a #YesAllWomenJokes hashtag on Twitter. About a third of them are po-faced feminists proving the old joke "How many feminists does it take to change a lightbulb? That's not funny." https://twitter.com/slightstrider/status/472996120323305473 https://twitter.com/mariagori_/status/472945847...

Thinking cats who strut on the windowsill winding up next door's dog DESERVE to be chased? Victim blaming! #YesAllCats

In my opinion, sex trafficking histeria is the 'satan panic' of the new millennium. True - it's the white slave trade in a new guise. The Guardian's Nick Davies did a bit of actual investigative journalism into it, and described it as a " moral panic ". "Operation Pentameter II", an investigation i...

Someone should point out to Taslima that not all men are like that. I'm sure she'll appreciate it. There was a case in Pakistan recently, don't know if you've read about it. A young woman was stoned to death by her own family for marrying a man they didn't approve of. That man had strangled his fir...

PeeZus has apparently become quite the expert on psychopathology, with another post claiming that Elliot Rodger's murderous rampage can't possibly have anything whatsoever to do with mental illness. If you believe that Rodger had any sort of mental disorder (of which there are many ), you're basica...

Was reading the article by Soraya Chemaly linked by both Ophelia and Greta, which takes the strong feminist line that the Rodger shooting was culturally driven and not just a deranged aberration: http://www.xojane.com/issues/elliot-rodger-unpleasant-truths In it, there's this quote: Why would anyon...

I also suspect that one of the reasons there are so many more transwomen than transmen is that a number of them are self-loathing male feminists going to extremes to cast off their maleness. Thoughts? I have met enough online - the few who actually want to be Dalyite madfems and are upset that the ...

If you spend all day reading real and fake stories about rape, harassment, or even the flip side of gorging on false accusations you may end up with a very skewed view of the world and how it really works. Yeah, it's Dunbar's number . The human brain is set up to keep track of a social group of abo...

https://twitter.com/yellville/status/471788370713006080 Yeah, this won't start any fights at all. It kind of depends on me ever seeing it happen, and I haven't. Sure, I've seen plenty of comedy shows with stereotypical builders leering over the scaffolding and shouting impolite things at passing wo...

The western world isn't that dangerous for middle-class women and society has done a great disservice to girls to raise them to live in terror. I don't think they've been raised to live in terror, as much as raised to believe that every minor inconvenience they experience is evidence of their uniqu...

Another counterpart to the XKCD "girls such at math" cartoon. http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/how_it_works.png Amy Bishop goes on a spree shooting at the University of Alabama in 2010, and it afterwards turns out she shot her brother dead in suspicious circumstances as a teenager and was a suspect when ...

And I might even be able to do italics properly.

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100% realistic. All women think that when someone asks them for their number.

If I thought all women thought that about men, I'd be fucking terrified of them[/].

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didymos wrote:Missed this:

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#YesAllDamsels

Good one.

I thought we weren't supposed to question the sexual identity of trans* people. If any of the men Rodger murdered were trans men, then we are to recognise them as men and not claim they were in any sense not men. Or did I miss a memo?

*This is a footnote. I don't spell words with asterisks.

.... Yes, it's all very convoluted logic of the kind that was used to justify the Iraq war ("someone said there were weapons of mass destruction there!") You can argue the rights and wrongs of the 2003 Iraq war (or even the 1992 one if you prefer) but it is a matter of fact that Iraq possessed weap...

And now an Ask Slymepit post: I'm considering switching from a 3-blade disposable razor to a traditional safety razor. What do I need to know to avoid shaving my face off? Ta! I use Merkur 34C, badger brush, and Col. Conk shaving soap. I shave my whole head and have never had a problem with cuts. Y...

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Sorry Phil, had to post this.

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Sorry about your mate though.

Feminist reaction to spree-shooting:

"It's all about me, and it's all your fault."

Does PZ Myers really believe the following line he wrote in his latest post? My point is that Elliot Rodger was as sane as your average Republican. It seems profoundly silly to have such a demonic view of half the electorate in the US. I'm a lefty myself but I find it ridiculous to suggest that the...

The trick is to identify what feminists' blik[/] is. And I think I have: "all men are bastards". "Bastards" isn't strong enough. "Scum," "assholes," "parasites," and "sub human" are closer to the truth. Feminists who are more open about their radicalism use these terms. The ones who are identifiabl...

HAAAAAAHAAAAAAAA! https://twitter.com/glosswitch/status/470585504640270336 How is "patriarchy did it" "nuanced?" That piece Justin posted the other day from the Daily Telegraph is apposite: The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote of a 'blik' which in his native German translates as a 'way of seei...

Regarding shaving, this is all you need: http://i.imgur.com/HIhv7kd.jpg No, seriously, Bic's single razor is still the best for shaving. One good blade is just as good on a single swipe as 3 or 4 or 5 or however the fuck many they're stacking on each others nowadays and this is coming from a bushy ...

This came up on Failblog:

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On a lighter (but still SJW-related) note, JESUS WAS A RACIST!

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At the centre of this is an allegation of unspecific sexual misconduct. You probably got it from the context or the link, but that should be "an allegation of unspecific sexual misconduct against McCrea ." McCrea is best known in Northern Ireland for being pro-gay marriage in a culture that is well...

Interesting situation close to my home that might be worth keeping an eye on. Politics in Northern Ireland. Last year two guys from the Ulster Unionist Party, Basil McCrea and John McCallister, quit the party, teamed up with Tina McKenzie, businesswoman and daughter of a former IRA man, and formed N...

TheMan wrote:Celebrities read mean tweets about themselves... hilarious.

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"David Blaine looks like his voice is putting his face to sleep" is actually pretty good.

Men are really terrible... for sure. When I was young (and ever more rude than I am now) we would comment about a woman with a great body and a plain face by saying something along the lines of "I would totally fuck her, but she would have to put a bag on her head!" This evolved into the shortened ...

I can get to the full paper (via institutional access) for one of the references in the Women are wonderful (WAW) wikipedia page I linked just above. (Maybe others, too, but this is the one I tried.) Rudman LA, Goodwin SA. Gender differences in automatic in-group bias: why do women like women more ...

There is a physical basis to differences in language use between men and women. On average, women have a higher fundamental frequency than men (ergo higher pitch). Partly it's because women have smaller vocal tracts. A higher F1 means the harmonics are spaced farther apart, and fewer of them get am...

Women are victims; women should be treated like victims; women are precious flowers... it's fucking Victoria era bullshit. THIS IS NOT FEMINISM, THIS IS A RETURN TO THE VALUES OF THE PAST. GET OUT YOUR FUCKING SMELLING SALTS. I don't believe for a minute that women get more harassment or threats on...

Interesting witch-hunt going on at the moment in Britain. The Chief Executive of the Premier League, Richard Scudamore, had some of his private emails leaked to a Sunday tabloid by a temp. I haven't been able to find out what they actually said, but everybody has decided they're unacceptable and mis...

From Facebook:

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Im hardly blown away. Is the bar so low that we should be impressed when someone entertains the idea that we shouldn't perform a blood ritual on boys? Yes, I'm afraid the bar is that low. Our culture's level of empathy for male bodily autonomy is "The Talk" on Katherine Kieu Becker. Anything better...

Just thought this was funny: https://twitter.com/AmyBloomBooks/status/467071974653845504 Amy Bloom is a big-time literary writer who is also a psychiatrist. But she doesn't seem to understand the appeal that a prostitute might have for a heterosexual male. And she seems to be implying that women do...

http://i.imgur.com/Wu4kdlY.jpg I think Mayhew is dead wrong on this one - Watson made a perfectly valid point. I agree. I don't understand the investment some women have in the idea that male circumcision is totally no big deal. Even if it's not as severe as FGM - and it's certainly not as severe a...

I've been peeking in periodically on this over the past 3 weeks: http://www.secularwoman.org/sponsor_caroline_fiennes Help Secular Woman Sponsor a Keynote Speaker at the Foundation Beyond Belief Conference This summer Foundation Beyond Belief (FBB) is hosting their first national conference on July...

When I hear about Boko Haram, I can't help thinking somebody's "updated" PG Wodehouse with a token Muslim character. Am I a bad person?

The feminist bros on the pull...

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Here's what I don't understand. Why WOULDN'T you ask heterosexual men what they think of hair or makeup-type things? If your goal is to feel pretty to guys who like girls, why not ask dudes? If you want to impress those who are glad you're not a threat (Watson) or those who have alternative taste, ...

I mean, is anybody in the press actually, sincerely, emotionally offended that Jeremy Clarkson almost said "nigger" while reciting "eenie meenie miney mo" in an outtake - or do they just see an opportunity to make a fuss, sell newspapers and claim a high-profile scalp? When I was a kid, it was "Een...

The idea of a link between watching football and domestic violence is not new: http://www.snopes.com/crime/statistics/superbowl.asp Yeah. Not to mention the persistent myth of the thousands of women loudly "expected" to "trafficked" into the area to work as prostitutes when there's a major sporting...

I took the time to read Ally Fogg's post about offense, and I have to say I find it very lacking. He completely ignores that in today's society where identity politics permeate most of media and public discourse, being offended has become 'weaponized', and that telling someone either "Good. I fully...

If someone already posted this here, I missed it. [youtube]m1gRNv561CE[/youtube] Some of the 48 privileges overlap IMO, and I assume they're not all seen outside "Western" culture/etc. Many are old hat but there were a couple that were new observations to me (esp the one about cosmetics/appearance)...

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