Mykeru, what a Cnut, eh? Discuss.

[Southern]

All aboard for the Slymepit field trip, to a Chelsea art gallery...

Jesus fucking Christ, Service Dog, I'm not so glad you're back anymore. Or am I? Now I'm confused.

But, the most Bjarte-outrageous thing about this art gallery is that Yoko Honda is charging 500 bucks for that oeuvre d' crap.

[Jan Steen]

Nobody mentions that the Lousy Canuck is going to write a video game?

He even has some standards for it:

I actually have most of a plot in mind for the game, too. It will involve mythology, mostly Japanese mythology for the main plot but with a whole hell of a lot of every other mythology for bosses and minibosses and enemies. It will involve skepticism and atheism, because I just can’t help myself. It will feature a female protagonist in the role of generalized, omnitalented badass, because every other game in the world is apparently incapable of letting you be a female protag without also making her somehow stand out from the “default” of male, or throwing her into a dungeon to be rescued or a refridgerator to be plot motivation, or hiding her behind a really expensive goal on the project’s Kickstarter page.

I'm not surprised he bought the Anita bit - he's not really smart enough to look at it without blinders, but...wow. He is going to run afoul of Anita, though, since he apparently doesn't want the female character to be different from the male character, meaning she would be the same - a pseudo-male (I forgot what term Sarky uses for that). What's wrong with making two (or more) distinct characters, whatever the sex (like, you know, real life)?

Anyway, considering the talent he has displayed so far, I don't see his game going anywhere. Sad - I'd like to see it in a Sarky video, and watch his head explode trying to justify himself without breaking his ideological blinders.

I managed to obtain a screenshot of Lousy Canuck's prototype.

http://i.imgur.com/U8RFhTz.jpg

[Scented Nectar]

Anyone else here like building in 3d worlds? Here's a small gallery of some of my activeworlds.com builds.

Before visiting, I am going to assume that every one of these buildings is extremely phallic, and topped with great big purple domes. :D

Now to go and look...

Very nice, SN (with a :( included for lack of phalluses).

I could build them, and maybe even give them your grinning face, but the company would probably boot me out. They have a history of banning people for bad words and such. I got banned for a while years ago, but I can't even remember the details of why. I've been building there since 1997, I think. It had something to do with some guy calling the mother of one of the staff a 'conasse', which I was told meant 'cunt' in French. People are so fucking touchy about that word!

[Tony Parsehole]

Incidentally, McEwan is blaming Coogan for a movie he didn't write, direct, or produce, but merely performed in.

I bet she blames the factory worker who packs the cheescakes for making her so fat.

[Jan Steen]

I should have known that you fuckers were all onto it much quicker than I was.

[Tony Parsehole]

I should have known that you fuckers were all onto it much quicker than I was.

We're like flies around shit.

[Bourne Skeptic]

I should have known that you fuckers were all onto it much quicker than I was.

We're like flies around shit.

I always thought we're more like vultures around a bloated, rancid corpse.

[ConcentratedH2O, OM]

I should have known that you fuckers were all onto it much quicker than I was.

We're like flies around shit.

I always thought we're more like vultures around a bloated, rancid corpse.

Hey, enough with the needless insults. It's called freethoughtblogs.com, for fuck's sake.

[Clarence]

Regarding this much discussed comic:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/e1cc513e11db ... 4_1280.png

What irritates me even more than the dishonest statistics is that the bloody thing is outright racist!

To quote the comic: "82-91% of homicides are intraracial (whites killing whites, POC klling [sic] POC)"

No! There are more than two races in the world. Besides "whites" and "blacks", there are asians and native americans, and more. A black person killing an asian is intraracial, for heaven's sake! And this extends throughout the entire comic. As we all know, asians have significantly better educational outcomes than whites. So, is she considering asians as white? Or just pretending that they don't exist? Apparently the latter -- anyone who doesn't fit into her black/white narrative just gets ignored, because apparently trying to explain that white privilege means that asians are more likely to get university educations than whites is rather hard to explain. And, yes, although racism is thrown around willy-nilly these days, I do think that this counts.

And there are few things more annoying than a racist smugly lecturing you about racism!

Her little 'confetti' fest up top there, doesn't fool me. She's clearly happy about my bukkaake. *Spooges*
Oh yes, now where was I?

You are correct that the person making this piece seems to be racist.
Not only do they forget about the existence of other races, but I bet they believe 'reverse racism' does not exist due to powerprivilegepatriarchy, etc, and etc.
But more to the point they are stupid. Most of the things they consider 'privileges' are inter-group differences (which may or may not have a discriminatory cause or not) and thus do NOT necessarily apply to any individual white person or help him/her in any way.
Other's have pointed out there stupid misuse of the probably unverified statistics they did use in that post.

It's annoying propaganda and the real reason behind it is to try to make a white person seeing it feel guilty and thus be more amenable to believing more of their bullshit.

[free thoughtpolice]

Hey, enough with the needless insults. It's called freethoughtblogs.com, for fuck's sake.

I thought a true FTB insult would be the new one: "go give cunnilingus to a running chainsaw".

[welch]

I should have known that you fuckers were all onto it much quicker than I was.

We're like flies around shit.

:hankey:

[Cliché Guevara]

http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/20401/portlandia-review/

So, if you are this sort of person, if you are of the Portlandia demographic, you know middle aged, female dilettantes who wind up making and selling jewelry. But the Portlandia sketch on this is about the whole story, how that all fits together. The information always comes second hand. You ask someone about their aimless sister and learn that she’s found a career as a DIY jeweler. She didn’t wind up selling jewelry for no reason. She does it because she is lazy and untalented, so she doesn’t want to work, but she still wants to express herself and pretend to work. And this leads to making jewelry or some other rubbish and selling it at swap meets or online. And then the kicker is that, in defiance of every law that governs the universe, people not only buy her stuff but grossly overpay for it and she is making money.

[Guestus Aurelius]

Of course, one can define racism in such a way that it only includes prejudice/discrimination/antagonism wielded by a member of the most privileged race against non-members (in short, prejudice + privilege).

And that's fine with me, because racism is just a word, and I'm more interested in concepts. If other forms of racial prejudice/discrimination/antagonism don't qualify as racism by definition, then so be it. But whatever one chooses to call those other forms of racial prejudice/discrimination/antagonism, they're still bad, and they're not justified.

Hispanics being "racist" against blacks, blacks being "racist" against whites, trans* people being "something-ist" against cis people, women being "sexist" against men—in large-scale societal terms, these things might not amount to as big a problem as white-against-black racism, cis-against-trans* something-ism, or man-against-woman sexism, but they're still bad.

Many SJWs seem to operate with a definition of morality that's only relevant at the largest-scale problems in society. To them, privilege trumps all. A less-privileged person being absolutely terrible to a more-privileged person is perfectly justified and to be applauded. A more-privileged person inadvertently saying something just a wee bit insensitive and thereby offending a less-privileged person is to be crucified.

They don't care about people as people. They care about people as statistics.

[Matt Cavanaugh]

What irritates me even more than the dishonest statistics is that the bloody thing is outright racist!

To quote the comic: "82-91% of homicides are intraracial (whites killing whites, POC klling [sic] POC)"

No! There are more than two races in the world. Besides "whites" and "blacks", there are asians and native americans, and more. A black person killing an asian is intraracial, for heaven's sake!

I agree that those comics are racist and tend to lie with deceptive presentation of statistics. The murder stat is accurate however. I checked one of my favorite sites, the FBI's Uniform Crime Report (UCR), and found


White kills White .... 44.5%
White kills Black ...... 3.3%
White kills Other ..... 0.7%

Black kills White ...... 7.3%
Black kills Black ...... 41.0%
Black kills Other ...... 0.6%

Other kills White ..... 0.6%
Other kills Black ...... 0.2%
Other kills Other ..... 1.8%

So it's actually 85.9% -- 87.7% same race murder (2012), depending on what the 'others' were.


However, since whites are 77.9%, and blacks 13.1% of the US population, another way to spin this data is to say:

"A black person is more than 13 times more likely to murder a white person, than a white person is to murder a black person."

We can play this game all day long.

[Matt Cavanaugh]

The shitty comic panel claiming
Percentage of prisoners
White: 11%
POC: 88%

is patently false. Bureau of Justice Statistics for 2011:

White ...... 33.6%
Black ....... 37.8%
Hispanic .. 22.8%
Other ......... 5.9%

[ReneeHendricks]

Son of a bitch. This is what happens when I don't keep up with you guys - another freaking 10 or more pages. Not going through them all. I'll just *attempt* to catch up. Got hitched and am now officially "R. Kelly" :D

[katamari Damassi]

Son of a bitch. This is what happens when I don't keep up with you guys - another freaking 10 or more pages. Not going through them all. I'll just *attempt* to catch up. Got hitched and am now officially "R. Kelly" :D

So you'll be peeing on teenage girls then?

[ReneeHendricks]

Son of a bitch. This is what happens when I don't keep up with you guys - another freaking 10 or more pages. Not going through them all. I'll just *attempt* to catch up. Got hitched and am now officially "R. Kelly" :D

So you'll be peeing on teenage girls then?

:D Nah, but it is rather funny. Renee Kelly is nice - French-Irish (though I'm actually Norwegian and English, mainly).

[rpguest]

http://i.imgur.com/69BILt4.jpg

you basically win everything

[ROBOKiTTY]

Got hitched and am now officially "R. Kelly" :D

:dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:

[James Caruthers]

The shitty comic panel claiming
Percentage of prisoners
White: 11%
POC: 88%

is patently false. Bureau of Justice Statistics for 2011:

White ...... 33.6%
Black ....... 37.8%
Hispanic .. 22.8%
Other ......... 5.9%

Not surprised. I'm almost fucking positive the graduation rates are bullshit.

http://blackboysreport.org/national-sum ... tion-rates

In my own state, black, latino and white males all graduate at approximately the same percentages. As for women, well, women graduate (and attend) generally in much larger percentages than men. Usually 60/40, but sometimes trending towards 70/30.

Only the absolute lowest numbers given for graduation percentages by state were close to the number cited on tumblr. I suppose the very poor districts (slums and the like) could end up skewing the entire national average way down, but I still think the number cited for tumblr is low.

On average, states with low graduation rates for Black male students (New York, Nebraska, South Carolina, Delaware, Illinois, Florida) tend to have concentrations of those students in under-resourced districts (New York City, Charleston, Duval County, FL and Chicago) where both Black and White male students perform poorly. Many states like Arizona, Vermont and Oklahoma with above average Black male graduation rates also have smaller than average gaps between the graduation rates of Black male and White, non-Latino males.

http://blackboysreport.org/national-sum ... tion-rates

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/arc ... us/276604/

Or how about this?

Asian students had the highest [high school -James] graduation rate (81 percent) followed closely by white students (80 percent). To be sure, a significant opportunity and achievement gap remains for minority students, although the Ed Week report notes some positive, decade-long trends:

With a graduation rate of 68 percent, and the gap between Latino and white students has been cut in half;

Black students posted a graduation rate of 62 percent, which represents a 30 percent narrowing of the gap with white students.

Do SJWs treat asians as a minority? Because they're kicking every ass in the room, scholastically. Note the 62% for black students. Admittedly, this is high school and not college.

http://americaswire.org/drupal7/?q=cont ... e-campuses

The people who really seem to need help in college are black men and not black women. The gap between black women and black men is as big as the gap between black women and all other students. How does feminism help black men do better in college, again?

http://fuckyeahfeminists.com/post/16294 ... -black-men

That’s another annoying thing about white feminism: how they treat black men. There’s a difference from understanding, that like white men, black men have the tendency to be sexist and misogynist AND using their manhood as an excuse to racially demonize them … mostly by way of the black male rapist myth and citing their greater inclination to violence, and etc. They also like to talk about rap music, yes, because every black man is a copy of 50 Cent or that annoying Tyler the Creator they like to talk about.

In this way, feminists are some of the most openly racist people in American society. They can get away with it because it comes under the banner of supporting women.

But I certainly haven’t forgotten the history of lynching at the bequest of white women & black men incarcerated right now falsely accused. I certainly haven’t forgotten that white women make more money than black men. And I certainly haven’t forgotten that when white women ally with white men, they are much better off than patriarchy allows black men to be.

I also hate how in white feminism white women’s rights and black men’s rights are often juxtaposed. It seems, that every advancement made the white man chooses whether he’s going to stick with his race or his gender. Feminism operates under the idea that white men will choose to stick with his race.

The traditional sexist black movements operated under the idea that white men would be so sexist that they’d rather give increased opportunities to black men than their white women. And I believe that historically we’ve seen examples of it going either way. Although, I’d say that when white men have chosen black men it has been for mostly nominal things, such as the right to vote, when we all know that black people for the longest could barely vote in most places even though it was legal.

I believe that certain things should be deferred to black women, such as black male sexism. Since white women are clearly too racist and too ignorant to adequately work towards a solution themselves.

Every time I hear a white feminist open their mouth about black men, I have a visceral reaction of anger. Not because I think black men are perfect. Far from it. But because they’re misrepresenting the problem to the detriment of black women as much as black men.

The interesting thing about white feminism is watching how they relate to white men by contrast. While black men are fully vilified without thought, white men are tiptoed around (don’t get into Hugo S). Which then turns feminism from a movement seeking for white women’s equality with white men, to a movement willing to make concessions for merely an improved situation.

Meanwhile, I’m over here, not wanting to coddle black men’s sexism or misogyny, since more so than white people, we can honestly not afford to do that. I think seperatism in white feminism is more plausible than serpatism in black feminism. Black Americans are in a terrible position in this country, that will only worsen if sexism is not sorted out within our own communities. Among other things, such as colorism & etc.

However, we can’t solve black sexism by taking cues from racist white feminism.

Seems like there's a pretty deep trench between the feminism of upper-class college women and the problems a black man faces growing up with no money, in a bad neighborhood. The bit about the feminists being openly racist without fear is very insightful.

Obviously this person is working with the tools his SJW playset allows him to use (patriarchy conspiracy, intersectionality), but it's still an interesting read.

He is confused about one thing. That's not the "black rapist myth," that's the "male rapist myth."

[James Caruthers]

Lol, I shoulda known I'd uncover some funny shit after citing that fuckyeahfeminism blog.

A female changes from a child to a woman. At fifteen she is but the playmate of boys and girls of her own age. At eighteen she becomes a sex object to every man.

http://fuckyeahfeminists.com/post/72102 ... a-woman-at

>_>

http://fuckyeahfeminists.com/post/72095 ... n-there-is

...

Keep trying mate, your tongue is not quite reaching to her boot. Unless this is a woman writer, in which case she's masturbating in text format.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/c8ffe606b457 ... o1_500.jpg

My new gender identity is Adolf Hitler. I now gender-identify as the Adolf Hitler gender. Whenever you greet me, you must say "Sieg Heil, Mein Fuhrer!" and ask me about my preferred method for gassing jews. To do otherwise is to oppress me with your gender-normative cishetero imperialist binary culture of intersectional patriarchy.

[James Caruthers]

"In one experiment, mothers were asked to guess the steepness of a carpeted slope that their 11-month olds would be able to crawl. Then the children actually crawled the slope, and the difference between actual and mother-predicted angles was noted.

The results showed that both boys and girls were able to crawl the same degree of incline. However, the predictions of the mothers were correct within one degree for the boys and underestimated their daughter’s ability by nine degrees.

What this shows is that the presumption that boys are more physical causes parents to encourage their boys more in physical activities while cautioning their girls. This further translates into providing more opportunities for boys to be physical and fewer for girls. The result?

Boys actually do develop stronger physical skills than girls. But not because of anything innate or biological, but rather because of the gender roles that the parents subconsciously projected onto their babies. "

http://fuckyeahfeminists.com/post/70193 ... -guess-the
http://everydayfeminism.com/2013/11/gnp ... it-sexism/
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/scmsAdmin/upl ... 202000.pdf

Looks like some incredibly stupid nonsense, but I haven't looked over the pdf yet and probably won't get to it tonight.

[Guestus Aurelius]

What cracks me up about those gender-neutral pronouns is that you need to be told how to pronounce them—if you're going by spelling alone, good luck! Hir? Xir? Xyrs? Fuck you.

If you have a difficult-to-pronounce name, well, that's your name, and nobody worth knowing will hold it against you. But if you're choosing a new word that you demand people use when they refer to you, choose something that's easy to pronounce, FFS! Think about it: "Call me zzyzxyqr or die cis scum!"

Also, aren't third-person pronouns usually used in somebody's absence? There are exceptions, but typically don't we use them when someone's not within earshot? So what's the BFD?

[Guestus Aurelius]

"In one experiment, mothers were asked to guess the steepness of a carpeted slope that their 11-month olds would be able to crawl. Then the children actually crawled the slope, and the difference between actual and mother-predicted angles was noted.

The results showed that both boys and girls were able to crawl the same degree of incline. However, the predictions of the mothers were correct within one degree for the boys and underestimated their daughter’s ability by nine degrees.

What this shows is that the presumption that boys are more physical causes parents to encourage their boys more in physical activities while cautioning their girls. This further translates into providing more opportunities for boys to be physical and fewer for girls. The result?

Boys actually do develop stronger physical skills than girls. But not because of anything innate or biological, but rather because of the gender roles that the parents subconsciously projected onto their babies. "

http://fuckyeahfeminists.com/post/70193 ... -guess-the
http://everydayfeminism.com/2013/11/gnp ... it-sexism/
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/scmsAdmin/upl ... 202000.pdf

Looks like some incredibly stupid nonsense, but I haven't looked over the pdf yet and probably won't get to it tonight.

The results show that we harbor biases we're not aware of. Why does anyone need to go from that to "and therefore males and females have equal physical strength on average"? The actual results are eye-opening and important on their own, and more and more studies have been coming out that attest to our unconscious biases. That's what we should be talking about. These anti-biology morons think they're helping the cause by insisting that there are no innate differences, but they're actually distracting from the real issues.

[Matt Cavanaugh]

1) The Cray-Cray is strong with fuckyeahfeminists.

2) Looks like I'm gonna have to finish writing that post debunking implicit bias.

[jimthepleb]

Son of a bitch. This is what happens when I don't keep up with you guys - another freaking 10 or more pages. Not going through them all. I'll just *attempt* to catch up. Got hitched and am now officially "R. Kelly" :D

Congratulations Renee.
I always knew you could fly, you just have to believe.
Now leave those groupies alone!
Hope your chap is well and happy now that he now has a hitched to his own flame haired hottie.
Lucky bastard.

[paddybrown]

Lol, I shoulda known I'd uncover some funny shit after citing that fuckyeahfeminism blog.

A female changes from a child to a woman. At fifteen she is but the playmate of boys and girls of her own age. At eighteen she becomes a sex object to every man.

http://fuckyeahfeminists.com/post/72102 ... a-woman-at

Credited a Dr John Watson, not Sherlock Holmes' sidekick but the creator of the psychological school of behaviorism. If the quote is accurate, then I don't know what he was doing when he was fifteen. When I was fifteen, I was so fucking horny all the time my sexual desire for my female "playmates" was painful.

But the choice of this quote by a feminist blog suggests something to me. It strikes me that a large part of feminism is nostalgia for childhood, when they had no responsibilities, and adolescence, when they not only had no responsibilities but matured physically earlier than boys and had a great deal of social and sexual power. Teenage girls have the physical characteristics of a woman but the social status of a child, which makes them desirable but at the same time untouchable, protected. Once they reach adulthood it's no longer wrong to desire them, so they have to deal with men sexually on a much more equal footing. Sexual harrassment, with its deliberately nebulous and goalpost-shifting definition, seems to me an attempt to give adult women the same desirable-yet-forbidden power they had in adolescence, with HR and public opinion replacing parents and teachers as the protecting adult.

[Za-zen]

http://i.imgur.com/69BILt4.jpg

The medallion is crying out to be surlyised.

[Søren Lilholt]

All aboard for the Slymepit field trip, to a Chelsea art gallery...

I don't "get" modern art. I went to the Baltic in Gateshead once and for the life of me I couldn't work out if they were mocking us uneducated plebs or not.

" Let's put this chair-lift on a skateboard and attach a spring to this slice of Edam cheese....These fuckers won't know we're taking the piss!"

Taking the piss is their art form.

[Søren Lilholt]

I thought this bit of comment section from a Shakesville post on the Golden Globe awards was lulzworthy:

Modiano

Did anyone else squee when Steve Coogan was on stage with the real Philomena? What a class act.

I have not seen the film yet, but I've heard such good things. Really looking forward to seeing it before The Oscars.

Melissa McEwan

Content Note: Rape "humor"

Modiano Is that the same Steve Coogan who sang a song called "Raped in the Face" in Hamlet 2, and subsequently defended it as good fun? Because, if so, I'm not sure I'd call him a class act.

Please understand: I'm not saying "you're not allowed to like him," or "don't like his work." We all like problematic stuff, etc. I'm just uncomfortable with a rape apologist being designated a "class act" in this space.

In other words; nice commenting privileges you've got there. Be a shame if anything were to happen to them.
Incidentally, McEwan is blaming Coogan for a movie he didn't write, direct, or produce, but merely performed in.

And Alan Partridge once said that he didn't like Jews, therefore the actor Steve Coogan is clearly a despicable anti-semite.

FFS, how do people this stupid even switch on their computer?

[paddybrown]

I thought this bit of comment section from a Shakesville post on the Golden Globe awards was lulzworthy:

Modiano

Did anyone else squee when Steve Coogan was on stage with the real Philomena? What a class act.

I have not seen the film yet, but I've heard such good things. Really looking forward to seeing it before The Oscars.

Melissa McEwan

Content Note: Rape "humor"

Modiano Is that the same Steve Coogan who sang a song called "Raped in the Face" in Hamlet 2, and subsequently defended it as good fun? Because, if so, I'm not sure I'd call him a class act.

Please understand: I'm not saying "you're not allowed to like him," or "don't like his work." We all like problematic stuff, etc. I'm just uncomfortable with a rape apologist being designated a "class act" in this space.

In other words; nice commenting privileges you've got there. Be a shame if anything were to happen to them.
Incidentally, McEwan is blaming Coogan for a movie he didn't write, direct, or produce, but merely performed in.

And Alan Partridge once said that he didn't like Jews, therefore the actor Steve Coogan is clearly a despicable anti-semite.

FFS, how do people this stupid even switch on their computer?

Meanwhile, Roman Polanski, who pled guilty to drugging and raping a 13 year old girl and absconded before sentencing, gets a free pass.

[windy]

Son of a bitch. This is what happens when I don't keep up with you guys - another freaking 10 or more pages. Not going through them all. I'll just *attempt* to catch up. Got hitched and am now officially "R. Kelly" :D

Congrats! :occasion-cake: :obscene-drinkingcheers:

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

I just accompained Gefan to the airport for his flight back home. It was a very pleasant few days in his company. And the cats really liked him, too.

[Dick Strawkins]

I thought this bit of comment section from a Shakesville post on the Golden Globe awards was lulzworthy:

Modiano

Did anyone else squee when Steve Coogan was on stage with the real Philomena? What a class act.

I have not seen the film yet, but I've heard such good things. Really looking forward to seeing it before The Oscars.

Melissa McEwan

Content Note: Rape "humor"

Modiano Is that the same Steve Coogan who sang a song called "Raped in the Face" in Hamlet 2, and subsequently defended it as good fun? Because, if so, I'm not sure I'd call him a class act.

Please understand: I'm not saying "you're not allowed to like him," or "don't like his work." We all like problematic stuff, etc. I'm just uncomfortable with a rape apologist being designated a "class act" in this space.

In other words; nice commenting privileges you've got there. Be a shame if anything were to happen to them.
Incidentally, McEwan is blaming Coogan for a movie he didn't write, direct, or produce, but merely performed in.

And Alan Partridge once said that he didn't like Jews, therefore the actor Steve Coogan is clearly a despicable anti-semite.

FFS, how do people this stupid even switch on their computer?

[youtube]eEltnZsba8c[/youtube]

[BarnOwl]

WARNING: Potential Downton Abbey spoiler below:
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Counseling available for those triggered by a Downton Abbey plot line:

Did you tune in to tonight’s Downton Abbey episode? If the sexual assault plot line was a trigger for you, our hotline is here. Just visit www.online.rainn.org

No, really.

Last night two of my running club coaches held a victim-blaming rape apologist self-defense workshop, in response to the recent murder of a young woman who was running in a park about two miles from where I live. Learned several useful techniques that might help me avoid an assault or escape relatively unharmed. If I did manage to incapacitate an attacker, however, I doubt I'd have the gonads to put flexi-cuffs on them; probably I'd just run away as fast as possible and call the police.

[Tribble]

"In one experiment, mothers were asked to guess the steepness of a carpeted slope that their 11-month olds would be able to crawl. Then the children actually crawled the slope, and the difference between actual and mother-predicted angles was noted.

The results showed that both boys and girls were able to crawl the same degree of incline. However, the predictions of the mothers were correct within one degree for the boys and underestimated their daughter’s ability by nine degrees.

What this shows is that the presumption that boys are more physical causes parents to encourage their boys more in physical activities while cautioning their girls. This further translates into providing more opportunities for boys to be physical and fewer for girls. The result?

Boys actually do develop stronger physical skills than girls. But not because of anything innate or biological, but rather because of the gender roles that the parents subconsciously projected onto their babies. "

http://fuckyeahfeminists.com/post/70193 ... -guess-the
http://everydayfeminism.com/2013/11/gnp ... it-sexism/
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/scmsAdmin/upl ... 202000.pdf

Looks like some incredibly stupid nonsense, but I haven't looked over the pdf yet and probably won't get to it tonight.

I hate this phony ideologically-based reasoning. Babies and children are not yet dimorphic in any significant way. Then puberty hits. Come 16 and it's sorted out as most every boy and girl is significantly into puberty and suffering from the consequences of their hormones. And 16 is giving it a cushion.

And no amount of PoMo feminism will ever change that. And it's something that every person who calls himself, or herself, a skeptic should realize and accept. To massage in a quote I love... "... reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." -- RP Feynman

As athletic populations, men and women are different -- men will never be as suited for ultra-endurance and flexibility as women and women will never be as good in the speed/strength areas as men. And men and women know this. And while they may erroneously project different levels of competency it's less out of 'malevolence or cultural dysfunction' but more along the lines of we're approximating machines, not computing machines. And our approximation model says that, on average, boys are more capable in feats-of-strength/speed athletic activities than girls due to superior our inherent, biologically-driven physical attributes.

So, let's do a brief run-down.

On average a man is 5' 9" and weighs 190lbs. He's, on average, 15% fat. A woman is, on average, 5' 4" and weighs 163lbs. She's, on average, 27% fat. Men, on average can process (thanks to relatively larger lungs) 10% more oxygen than a woman. Men also breathe faster than women and have a greater stride length than women. Plus our hips are better suited for most types of running due to inherent biological differences.

The consequences are obvious as the world-record holder women in the 100-, 200-, 400-, 800-, 1,500- and 3,000 m runs are slower than the best times by 15-year-old U.S. boys. This is despite the fact that these elite, Olympic women get far more coaching and support at their level than HS boys do at track which is, usually, an afterthought (unlike the Big 3 -- Football, Baseball, Basketball) in most HS athletics.

OTOH, women do have SOME significant physical advantages and they're clear to those of us without ideological blinders. Women are much better at burning fat and carbohydrates. Therefore on ultra-endurance events, they've got a competitive advantage. And those hips that suck for most running, guess what, they're actually better for 'ultra endurance' events. This makes women superior at things like swimming the English Channel.

Women are also, inherently, more flexible (both ligaments and muscle fibers) than men and possess a lower center of gravity relative to height. That's why they're gymnasts and can do things that men really can't do in most of the 'flexibility' events, like the balance beam, the floor exercises, uneven parallel bars, etc. Only on the super physically demanding apparatus, like the rings, do men out-perform women.

And no amount of PoMo Feminism will change that.

The funny thing is, they didn't do a dance/ballet test to check for gender discrimination against boys. I think it'd be interesting, but I believe it would likely only show that our approximation machines are getting it right for adults while getting it wrong for children. Though I think they'd get it wrong and assume it was cultural problem when, in fact, it's recognizing men and women are different and our behavior towards the education and opportunities we give to our children reflects that.

[Tribble]

(Yes, I know women don't do the rings. I've seen a few try and they really can't.)

[welch]

What cracks me up about those gender-neutral pronouns is that you need to be told how to pronounce them—if you're going by spelling alone, good luck! Hir? Xir? Xyrs? Fuck you.

If you have a difficult-to-pronounce name, well, that's your name, and nobody worth knowing will hold it against you. But if you're choosing a new word that you demand people use when they refer to you, choose something that's easy to pronounce, FFS! Think about it: "Call me zzyzxyqr or die cis scum!"

Also, aren't third-person pronouns usually used in somebody's absence? There are exceptions, but typically don't we use them when someone's not within earshot? So what's the BFD?

pronounce all of them like you were the Muppet Show Chef after his 4th bottle of Aquavit.

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

pronounce all of them like you were the Muppet Show Chef after his 4th bottle of Aquavit.

That's mostly what I sound like about 95% of the time.

[katamari Damassi]

(Yes, I know women don't do the rings. I've seen a few try and they really can't.)

Which is really too bad, because you haven't lived until you've had your rings done properly.

[katamari Damassi]

Meanwhile, Roman Polanski, who pled guilty to drugging and raping a 13 year old girl and absconded before sentencing, gets a free pass.

In fairness, the SJL is furious about the Polanski case, so you can't accuse them of hypocrisy here. I agree justice was never done in that case, but have a hard time getting exercised over a 40 year old case where even the victim wants you to drop it. And I still like his movies.

[Guestus Aurelius]

"In one experiment, mothers were asked to guess the steepness of a carpeted slope that their 11-month olds would be able to crawl. Then the children actually crawled the slope, and the difference between actual and mother-predicted angles was noted.

The results showed that both boys and girls were able to crawl the same degree of incline. However, the predictions of the mothers were correct within one degree for the boys and underestimated their daughter’s ability by nine degrees.

What this shows is that the presumption that boys are more physical causes parents to encourage their boys more in physical activities while cautioning their girls. This further translates into providing more opportunities for boys to be physical and fewer for girls. The result?

Boys actually do develop stronger physical skills than girls. But not because of anything innate or biological, but rather because of the gender roles that the parents subconsciously projected onto their babies. "

http://fuckyeahfeminists.com/post/70193 ... -guess-the
http://everydayfeminism.com/2013/11/gnp ... it-sexism/
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/scmsAdmin/upl ... 202000.pdf

Looks like some incredibly stupid nonsense, but I haven't looked over the pdf yet and probably won't get to it tonight.

I hate this phony ideologically-based reasoning. Babies and children are not yet dimorphic in any significant way. Then puberty hits. Come 16 and it's sorted out as most every boy and girl is significantly into puberty and suffering from the consequences of their hormones. And 16 is giving it a cushion.

And no amount of PoMo feminism will ever change that. And it's something that every person who calls himself, or herself, a skeptic should realize and accept. To massage in a quote I love... "... reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." -- RP Feynman

As athletic populations, men and women are different -- men will never be as suited for ultra-endurance and flexibility as women and women will never be as good in the speed/strength areas as men. And men and women know this. And while they may erroneously project different levels of competency it's less out of 'malevolence or cultural dysfunction' but more along the lines of we're approximating machines, not computing machines. And our approximation model says that, on average, boys are more capable in feats-of-strength/speed athletic activities than girls due to superior our inherent, biologically-driven physical attributes.

So, let's do a brief run-down.

On average a man is 5' 9" and weighs 190lbs. He's, on average, 15% fat. A woman is, on average, 5' 4" and weighs 163lbs. She's, on average, 27% fat. Men, on average can process (thanks to relatively larger lungs) 10% more oxygen than a woman. Men also breathe faster than women and have a greater stride length than women. Plus our hips are better suited for most types of running due to inherent biological differences.

The consequences are obvious as the world-record holder women in the 100-, 200-, 400-, 800-, 1,500- and 3,000 m runs are slower than the best times by 15-year-old U.S. boys. This is despite the fact that these elite, Olympic women get far more coaching and support at their level than HS boys do at track which is, usually, an afterthought (unlike the Big 3 -- Football, Baseball, Basketball) in most HS athletics.

OTOH, women do have SOME significant physical advantages and they're clear to those of us without ideological blinders. Women are much better at burning fat and carbohydrates. Therefore on ultra-endurance events, they've got a competitive advantage. And those hips that suck for most running, guess what, they're actually better for 'ultra endurance' events. This makes women superior at things like swimming the English Channel.

Women are also, inherently, more flexible (both ligaments and muscle fibers) than men and possess a lower center of gravity relative to height. That's why they're gymnasts and can do things that men really can't do in most of the 'flexibility' events, like the balance beam, the floor exercises, uneven parallel bars, etc. Only on the super physically demanding apparatus, like the rings, do men out-perform women.

And no amount of PoMo Feminism will change that.

The funny thing is, they didn't do a dance/ballet test to check for gender discrimination against boys. I think it'd be interesting, but I believe it would likely only show that our approximation machines are getting it right for adults while getting it wrong for children. Though I think they'd get it wrong and assume it was cultural problem when, in fact, it's recognizing men and women are different and our behavior towards the education and opportunities we give to our children reflects that.

Nice post.

In fairness, though, making correct approximations is perhaps something that we should try to overcome in certain circumstances (and I'm not implying that I think you'd disagree—you can speak for yourself). For instance, my understanding (which might be wrong) is that unconscious gender bias has been shown to have an effect on hiring decisions in academia. Sean Carroll discussed a recent PNAS (what an unfortunate acronym) study on the subject here: http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blo ... s-showing/

On the other hand, I doubt that Sean Carroll is dispassionate on this topic. Here he is straw-manning Steven Pinker, wrongly accusing him of denying the possibility of cultural influences on the gender gap in physics/engineering/mathematics (Pinker's actual argument is simply that there's evidence that biology is a factor): http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmi ... ll-curves/

[Lsuoma]

pronounce all of them like you were the Muppet Show Chef after his 4th bottle of Aquavit.

That's mostly what I sound like about 95% of the time.

Just like most Frogs.

[Scunner]

In other news, last night's episode of How I Met Your Mother is getting in trouble on Twitter under the hashtag #HowIMetYourRacism, BuzzFeed, Jezebel, and this guy http://blog.angryasianman.com/2014/01/w ... i-met.html. Their crime? This:

http://www.angryasianman.com/images/ang ... ther06.jpg
http://www.angryasianman.com/images/ang ... ther09.jpg
http://www.angryasianman.com/images/ang ... ther08.jpg

For context, this occurs during a parody of oriental action films. Surprisingly, they're not going after the stereotypes on show but allegedly the characters are done up in yellowface. I don't see it, but then I'm a privileged white male who is unaware of the racism around him.

[Matt Cavanaugh]

I just accompained Gefan to the airport for his flight back home. It was a very pleasant few days in his company. And the cats really liked him, too.

Who's up for SlymeCon!

[Really?]

In other news, last night's episode of How I Met Your Mother is getting in trouble on Twitter under the hashtag #HowIMetYourRacism, BuzzFeed, Jezebel, and this guy http://blog.angryasianman.com/2014/01/w ... i-met.html. Their crime? This:

http://www.angryasianman.com/images/ang ... ther06.jpg
http://www.angryasianman.com/images/ang ... ther09.jpg
http://www.angryasianman.com/images/ang ... ther08.jpg

For context, this occurs during a parody of oriental action films. Surprisingly, they're not going after the stereotypes on show but allegedly the characters are done up in yellowface. I don't see it, but then I'm a privileged white male who is unaware of the racism around him.

I saw some idiot on AV Club complaining about this. I just think that the crazy people won't be happy until privileged white people stop interacting with people of other races in any manner.

IT'S RACIST TO APPRECIATE ASIAN MARTIAL ARTS FILMS AND TO SUBJECT THEM TO AFFECTIONATE PARODY.

YOU'RE REINFORCING THE IDEA THAT WOMEN BELONGING TO A CONQUERED CULTURE ARE MERE CHATTEL IF YOU DATE A NATIVE AMERICAN OR FILIPINO WOMAN.

ENGINEERS SHOULD BE 50% WOMEN, BUT WOMEN SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO CHOOSE THEIR PROFESSION FREELY.

[dogen]

I just accompained Gefan to the airport for his flight back home. It was a very pleasant few days in his company. And the cats really liked him, too.

And there was I thinking that your mysterious pitter guest was one of the well-known ones. Gefan? Never heard of him.

[Lsuoma]

I just accompained Gefan to the airport for his flight back home. It was a very pleasant few days in his company. And the cats really liked him, too.

And there was I thinking that your mysterious pitter guest was one of the well-known ones. Gefan? Never heard of him.

Now we need a new video: Phil et Gefan Vont en Bateau.

[Pagancat]

More SJW video game bullshit. This time Dracula is a rapist.

[youtube]_4-PKNdVhP8[/youtube]

[Sunder]

Well, this looks like it could be fun. Seems something interesting is developing in the comments section :popcorn: : http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... rganizers/

Funny how Peez has gone kinda soft on Dawkins recently. My speculation: he's hoping to get a flattering puff from the Dawk on his Happy Atheist pamphlet - cos lord knows, he needs the sales - and is probably going to try to get back in his good books by the time of the 2014 World Humanist Conference.

You might be right, but it's disgusting. You know if Dawkins was ever really down to the point he couldn't get back up, PZ would kick him.
What a fucking ass-kissing cowardly charlatan. Apparently the 'judgment' of PZ depends on whether you have power or something else he wants but doesn't have.

That thread is fascinating. PZ is trying to compliment Dawkins...but is careful not to be too flattering. And all of the Horde members are slamming Dawkins because that's what Peezus has taught them to do for the past couple years. Amazing.

Looks like it's mostly AnthonyK stroking a big hateboner.

PZ wastes no time in comparing Dawkins to Limbaugh so if he's trying to get back in the man's good graces (an impossible task for someone who's flung as much shit as he has) then he's going about it back-asswards.

[Søren Lilholt]

And no amount of PoMo Feminism will change that.

Nice analysis, Tribble - i learnt something there.

What disgusts me about this PoMo lie is that it is almost exactly what creationists try to do. They KNOW they are lying, yet feel it is their obligation to disseminate the lie to ensure others are brainwashed, for their own good. The science doesn't align with the reality they want to create, so they lie about the science rather than accepting their views are in error and modifying them. It's a hoax - nothing more nothing less, and 'respectable' SJWers like PZ should be making some pretty clear statements against it, if they want to retain even a shred of credibility.

[James Caruthers]

I found the methodology of that study very suspect. When describing the mothers selected, it sounded to me like each participant was someone the "researchers" knew personally. Each participant received a medal for participating, rather than, you know, money or something else valuable one would give a stranger for her/his time. The study has the stink of soft sciences, which isn't necessarily bad, but it definitely makes any conclusions suspect.

The study is actually not nearly as SJW as the articles reporting on it, which I found incredibly slimy on the part of the reporting SJW websites. The study outright admits that the bias in mothers may be in ANTICIPATION of later sexual dimorphism. Which I don't think anyone would really argue with, outside of the SJWs, of course. This is a clear-cut case of correlation/causation fallacy. Researchers notice that mothers are biased to think their infant sons are stronger than their infant daughters. This isn't true, because the genders haven't diverged yet (because the babies aren't grown up enough yet, duh.) The mothers' expectations would probably be more accurate for 10 or 15-year old sons and daughters.

So the SJWs conclude that, because the mothers are incorrectly estimating the difference in skills between male and female infants, they are somehow the cause of the sexual dimorphism between men and women. That really is the argument being made. That the attitude of the mother is creating the sexual strength difference between all men and all women. Like every damn mother is fucking strength-training her son while locking her daughter in a room to play with dolls. Obviously the SJWs reporting on the study never heard of tomboys or male nerds. Some women are stronger than some men, but in my experience, even lazy slacker men can usually lift and carry more than women who exercise regularly. YMMV on that one.

[Ape+lust]

In other news, last night's episode of How I Met Your Mother is getting in trouble on Twitter under the hashtag #HowIMetYourRacism, BuzzFeed, Jezebel, and this guy http://blog.angryasianman.com/2014/01/w ... i-met.html. Their crime? This:

http://www.angryasianman.com/images/ang ... ther06.jpg
http://www.angryasianman.com/images/ang ... ther09.jpg
http://www.angryasianman.com/images/ang ... ther08.jpg

For context, this occurs during a parody of oriental action films. Surprisingly, they're not going after the stereotypes on show but allegedly the characters are done up in yellowface. I don't see it, but then I'm a privileged white male who is unaware of the racism around him.

Aw kee-rist, there they go again. Fuck those bored, blighted, over-indulged wastrels.

The top Buzzfeed tweet is from Suey Park, the Jen McCreight of Korean SJWs who's renown is a hashtag, #NotYourAsianSidekick (so some people assume "Asians" are smart overachievers, how fucking horrendous. Especially when you're the living counterexample). Of course she's all over this, she wants her 16th minute of fame. If you poke around at her site you'll find this:

http://imgur.com/dMUeEpD.png

Nevermind the stone racism, it's criminally unfunny. Bjarte could spelunk in it all day and not find a thing that amuses him.

So dress-up is yellowface. Alright then, no spaghetti westerns for you. And there will be no Japanese surfer dudes, no Chinese cattle rustlers, and no Korean James Bond types, ever, because cultural authenticity is what the shining justice of our future demands. Fuck acting, it has to be ethnically real. You chumps can be noodle makers, samurai, and tree spirits. So solly.

These are the types who made "oriental" an insult for no fucking reason, except that they could. Orientals, the ones not raised in suburban navel-gazing America, couldn't give two shits about it. Now the snowflakes call themselves the more imprecise "Asian." Yet they're the same bunch who'll give USAians grief for using "American." Hey eastern rim imperialist dipshits, guess what? You don't own all of Asia!

[Really?]

In other news, last night's episode of How I Met Your Mother is getting in trouble on Twitter under the hashtag #HowIMetYourRacism, BuzzFeed, Jezebel, and this guy http://blog.angryasianman.com/2014/01/w ... i-met.html. Their crime? This:

http://www.angryasianman.com/images/ang ... ther06.jpg
http://www.angryasianman.com/images/ang ... ther09.jpg
http://www.angryasianman.com/images/ang ... ther08.jpg

For context, this occurs during a parody of oriental action films. Surprisingly, they're not going after the stereotypes on show but allegedly the characters are done up in yellowface. I don't see it, but then I'm a privileged white male who is unaware of the racism around him.

Aw kee-rist, there they go again. Fuck those bored, blighted, over-indulged wastrels.

The top Buzzfeed tweet is from Suey Park, the Jen McCreight of Korean SJWs who's renown is a hashtag, #NotYourAsianSidekick (so some people assume "Asians" are smart overachievers, how fucking horrendous. Especially when you're the living counterexample). Of course she's all over this, she wants her 16th minute of fame. If you poke around at her site you'll find this:

http://imgur.com/dMUeEpD.png

Nevermind the stone racism, it's criminally unfunny. Bjarte could spelunk in it all day and not find a thing that amuses him.

So dress-up is yellowface. Alright then, no spaghetti westerns for you. And there will be no Japanese surfer dudes, no Chinese cattle rustlers, and no Korean James Bond types, ever, because cultural authenticity is what the shining justice of our future demands. Fuck acting, it has to be ethnically real. You chumps can be noodle makers, samurai, and tree spirits. So solly.

These are the types who made "oriental" an insult for no fucking reason, except that they could. Orientals, the ones not raised in suburban navel-gazing America, couldn't give two shits about it. Now the snowflakes call themselves the more imprecise "Asian." Yet they're the same bunch who'll give USAians grief for using "American." Hey eastern rim imperialist dipshits, guess what? You don't own all of Asia!

Great point. I guess we can stop listening to the SJL nagging for a non-white English cismale Doctor Who or James Bond.

[Guest]

Some women are stronger than some men, but in my experience, even lazy slacker men can usually lift and carry more than women who exercise regularly. YMMV on that one.

QFT.

If you want some good anecdotal evidence, ask anyone who works for FedEx, UPS or some other shipping company.

Very athletic women enter these jobs thinking they will have no problems keeping up with men. The longest I've seen a woman last is slightly over 3 years. Meanwhile I've seen small, below average men last more than 10 years.

[Tribble]

More SJW video game bullshit. This time Dracula is a rapist.

[youtube]_4-PKNdVhP8[/youtube]

And he is, but one who takes his time. And the women LOVE IT which is why most vampire fiction is directed to the FEMALE audience.

When Anne Rice wrote Interview with the Vampire, it was just a gothic horror fantasy that had decent (modest) sales and was taught in my HS literature as a modern gothic horror. When she wrote The Vampire Lestat and ramped up the SEX and DOMINATION, including getting beyond the quasi-homosexual relationship between Louis and Lestat... Holy shit did her literary star rise and she's sold over 100 million books now, including 8 million of Interview with the Vampire which had only been 'modest' in its reach prior to the career explosion caused by The Vampire Lestat.

[Tribble]

Fuck. The click-wheel button broke on my Razer Naga (Molten Edition) so I'm MMO/Shooter fucked for the next couple of days. Yeah, I know, first world problems. :violin: :roll: But it was a shit-cool looking mouse that's functional in everything but shooting the enemy...:

http://www.hitechreview.com/uploads/201 ... Molten.jpg


I'd love to get another one, but seeing as it only lasted two years, I think I'll step down in price and get the 2014 Razer Naga MMO mouse instead:

http://techgage.com/wp-content/uploads/ ... 00x392.jpg

Same essential functionality, but without the extra $60 of 'cool' you get from the Molten. I may have to give up gaming in shame... :oops:

[Pagancat]

More SJW video game bullshit. This time Dracula is a rapist.

[youtube]_4-PKNdVhP8[/youtube]

And he is, but one who takes his time. And the women LOVE IT which is why most vampire fiction is directed to the FEMALE audience.

When Anne Rice wrote Interview with the Vampire, it was just a gothic horror fantasy that had decent (modest) sales and was taught in my HS literature as a modern gothic horror. When she wrote The Vampire Lestat and ramped up the SEX and DOMINATION, including getting beyond the quasi-homosexual relationship between Louis and Lestat... Holy shit did her literary star rise and she's sold over 100 million books now, including 8 million of Interview with the Vampire which had only been 'modest' in its reach prior to the career explosion caused by The Vampire Lestat.

And then there's Twilight.

[AndrewV69]

In other news Boys were 'battered stupid' by nuns

Nuns used to batter boys stupid during daily abuse at a children's home in Derry, one victim has claimed.

I for one am shocked. Shocked I tell you to hear this. Actually I am not. I suppose my Irish Catholic Nuns were not as bad in comparison but then the boys in their care did have homes to go to at the end of the day.

Anyway, I believe I have said this before, if not explicitly then implicitly, keep your children, especially boys away from Catholic Nuns (need I mention Priests?) otherwise chances are they will be abused, one way or the other.