jjbinx007 wrote:Rawrsome wrote:but we’re simultaneously getting this bizarre vibe that CFI, as represented by Lindsay, does not like this feminist stuff, and would rather that we all went away and the MRAs who are crowing about his talk were here instead.
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WTF is with PZ and his think exactly like us or you're a card carrying woman hater....
Notice Myers didn't even attempt to deal with what Lindsay actually said? Watson writes an inaccurate hit-piece on Lindsay and sits back smugly waiting for the apologies, but Lindsay writes back with a fact-laden fuck-you.
If Lindsay had written anything inaccurate Myers would have been all over it. There wasn't even anything there to quote-mine. All Myers could do was talk about a "vibe" of the place he was "feeling" (is Myers psychic now?) and then moan that people were tweeting using the conference hashtag, which has nothing to do with Lindsay anyway.
It was satisfying to see Watson's bullshit get shot down in such a manner.
Of course, now that Watsons lies and distortions have been pointed out to her, she will obviously do the correct thing and post a retraction/amendment acknowledging her mistakes.
Of course she will.
Oohhhhh, it gets even better this morning
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What has also caused all these people to lose confidence in Lindsay is that today, he posted a complaint against Rebecca Watson, who is here both as a speaker and as a sponsor of attendees here, comparing her to a propagandist for North Korea, and blathering misconceptions about his odd understanding of the idea of privilege and asserting that there is an effort to silence men (he’s very resentful of the idea that men might be expected to be silent long enough to listen to the experience of minorities). Or rather, he’s unhappy with the hyphenated entity Myers-Watson (really, we aren’t married, not even close), because he also posted a tirade against me for stating that shutting up and listening, that is, paying attention to and respecting the experiences of the underprivileged, is an appropriate strategy for learning about and responding to the concerns of people outside your class, sex, and race. Which, I thought, was the goal of this conference.
The majority of those conference attendees look to be about as "underprivileged" as I am. Which is to say,
not very. And the next paragraph has a statement about how much attendees paid for conference fees, travel, accommodations, Surlyramics, etc. Contradictory much?
I was put in the unusual and awkward position of having to reassure these attendees that CFI really was a great organization (something the head of CFI should have been doing, right?) despite the apparent opposition of the man in charge…a man who had just posted a bitter complaint about me on the web. I had to remind them that the woman who was specifically in charge of this conference, Melody Hensley, was on their side, and supported the cause of women in secularism despite the apparent intransigence of her boss.
I’m only here as an attendee myself, yet here I am having to defend the organization. I have no reputation as a diplomat, yet here I am trying to put out the fires that the CEO of the organization himself has enflamed. What kind of screwed up mess is this?
Oh poor poor PeeZus, such a martyr for social justice! Disingenuous asshole, maybe you should stop flying all over the planet and partying (usually on someone else's dollars or euros) and try actually
doing something for a change. Literally
doing something to effect change.
Hopefully, it's the kind of "screwed up mess" that will put an end to the gravy train for bloviating asswads like yourself.