Periodic Table of Swearing

[JAB]

Some time loooong ago on this thread, or maybe even at erv, I think it was James Onen that mentioned a study that concluded that women-only groups give status and support to those in the group that show victimhood and lack of agency. And the opposite for men-only groups that give status to lack of victimhood and agency. I think this may play into the colourblindness issue.

From the men-only point of view, to call attention to someone's victimhood would be to lower their status. In a women-only point of view, to ignore their victimhood would be to lower their status. So if trying to be generous to the newcomer, each group would behave differently and be put out by the behaviour of folks coming in with the other point of view.

I don't want to suggest that the men-only point of view is held only by men (hi women pitters) or that the women-only point of view is held only by women (hi PZ). So I guess I could have tried to figure out different names... victim-valuers and agency-valuers?

[John Brown]

I think PZ is once again showing that he's blind to "podium privilege". He showed it the first time when he didn't see the difference in power between RW on stage and Stef in the audience. This time in the video and responses to it he shows it again. The woman from the audience didn't know PZ would be embarrassing her for laughs when she volunteered, and social pressure required her to grin and bear it. How he doesn't see that he trapped her in this awkward situation (more and longer and more publically than EG did to RW on the elevator) is astounding.

I can see you don't understand how this works. Allow me to elucidate.

As long as you *say* the right things, you're completely free to act like an entitled douche-bag.

If you *do* the right things, but make an innocent gaffe that may be offensive to someone, somewhere, you're literally Hitler.

[ReneeHendricks]

Oolon upset because he was trolling and we ignored him:

http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/12-12-12/#comment-7904

The poor baby. Maybe some more kiddie porn would cheer him up.

Poor wittle oowon. I should attempt to shed a tear.

Wait for it....














Nah. I got nothin'.

[welch]

First, that not all hostile responses are the same, some could be sexist, some racist, and some just generic insults. And not all kinds of hostile responses are possible in a given situation. For example, when Dawkins is talking about lack of any good evidence for God, it's really hard for a believer to come up with a hostile answer that is sexist; it is possible but it will look stupid. On the other hand, after Dawkins wrote his "Dear Muslima", it was extremely easy for the moron part of FTB to response with hostile and sexist remarks. And by the virtue of being a woman, it's easy for the assholes to come up with sexist insults. Of course, similarly, if you are a white male and you engage in discussions of sexism or racism, it is extremely easy for your opnonents to respond with sexist/racist remarks and it would sting: they just have to say that you are a white male and therfore "privilleged", "sexist" and all the usuals.

Dawkins has received insults from theists that I would qualify as "sexist".

From RD's hate mail:

I'm sick of hearing about you, and your theory of evolution. YOU may have evolved from monkies, but leave me out of it! Have you ever tried to make love to a monkey? I mean I wouldn't be surprised if you have, since sodomites are now running all our Univercities. But I either way I hope you DO get sodomized by satanic monkies in hell!

The only reason he was down in the bible belt was so that he could fuck his twenty year old grad students and he probably does dream about raping Irish farm girls.

Oh right. Thet gay insults. Good point. I stand corrected.

I read somewhere that she has been threatened with rape, again, that's a bad thing to tell someone, but not because she's a woman, but because she's a human being (taking into account both genders can be raped).

What bothers me is the assumption (made by many people I've read online, not you specifically, since I don't know if you agree) that any disagreement or insult hurled her way is because she's a woman.

I guess on this point we can agree to disagree. And of course, there's really no way to test it. Even if we could rewind the time and have her video be made by a guy, probably just because of that difference the videol would not have been popular.

So basically, I still think some of the hostile reaction (and not the criticism) is because she is a woman but also because she is an outsider to the gaming community which is again, highly correlated with her being a woman.

well, it wouldn't matter, because the greater issue is her angle. If a guy said he was going to show how misogynistic and bad gamers and gaming are, he'd get the same reaction. She's announced she's doing a hit piece, and expects, what, enthusiasm and help? Really?

A better angle would have been to say she was doing a serious study of how gamers deal with gender, and looking to see if the popular opinions, (gamers are all rejects, socially retarded, hate women, etc.) have any validity and how much. That could have at least been taken seriously. What Sarkesian announced was a hit piece, with a predetermined outcome. The response was just as predetermined.

[welch]

I think PZ is once again showing that he's blind to "podium privilege". He showed it the first time when he didn't see the difference in power between RW on stage and Stef in the audience. This time in the video and responses to it he shows it again. The woman from the audience didn't know PZ would be embarrassing her for laughs when she volunteered, and social pressure required her to grin and bear it. How he doesn't see that he trapped her in this awkward situation (more and longer and more publically than EG did to RW on the elevator) is astounding.

unless he's bagging on Shermer for getting lucky with an audience member. Then he's totes aware of podium privilege.

[Lsuoma]

Some time loooong ago on this thread, or maybe even at erv, I think it was James Onen that mentioned a study that concluded that women-only groups give status and support to those in the group that show victimhood and lack of agency. And the opposite for men-only groups that give status to lack of victimhood and agency. I think this may play into the colourblindness issue.

IIRC, someone created a YouTube video (GWW?, WBB?) that was later posted here about the thesis that victimhood and lack of agency empower women. Anyone remember that?

[Tigzy]

Oolon upset because he was trolling and we ignored him:

http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/12-12-12/#comment-7904

The poor baby. Maybe some more kiddie porn would cheer him up.

Poor wittle oowon. I should attempt to shed a tear.

I see Sally Syringe didn't exactly come out smelling of roses on that thread, either :lol:

They don't do too well on their own, do they.

[Gumby]

Yes Baal, where were you when StevoR was advocating genocide against all Islam just because a few Jihadists operate under its banner? Where were you when the Slymepitters are making rape threats against Rebecca Watson and run intimidation tactics against other women who are well known skeptics? Until you address those problems with you taking them repeatedly to task, and linking to it for our verification, you haven’t a leg to stand on. We will ignore your criticism, since it comes from an obvious HYPOCRITE.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... ent-510630

Did anyone here ever make rape threats against Rebecca Watson?

No.

Or is Psycho of Redhead just lying?

Yes.

[AndrewV69]

Oolon upset because he was trolling and we ignored him:

http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/12-12-12/#comment-7904

The poor baby. Maybe some more kiddie porn would cheer him up.

Poor wittle oowon. I should attempt to shed a tear.

Wait for it....

Nah. I got nothin'.

Well apparently only four people put him on ignore. Speaking for myself only, I kept hopeing (in vain it turned out) he would say something interestng.

Instead, most of the time all I got was some apparently confused/convoluted thought processes that in the end were not worth responding to.

*shrug*

[ReneeHendricks]

Oolon upset because he was trolling and we ignored him:

http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/12-12-12/#comment-7904

The poor baby. Maybe some more kiddie porn would cheer him up.

Poor wittle oowon. I should attempt to shed a tear.

Wait for it....

Nah. I got nothin'.

Well apparently only four people put him on ignore. Speaking for myself only, I kept hopeing (in vain it turned out) he would say something interestng.

Instead, most of the time all I got was some apparently confused/convoluted thought processes that in the end were not worth responding to.

*shrug*

I was one who put him on ignore. He really didn't have much to say that wasn't full of FTB brown-nosing, in my opinion. I have no patience for people like that.

[AndrewV69]

Some time loooong ago on this thread, or maybe even at erv, I think it was James Onen that mentioned a study that concluded that women-only groups give status and support to those in the group that show victimhood and lack of agency. And the opposite for men-only groups that give status to lack of victimhood and agency. I think this may play into the colourblindness issue.

IIRC, someone created a YouTube video (GWW?, WBB?) that was later posted here about the thesis that victimhood and lack of agency empower women. Anyone remember that?

What I remember is this:


http://www.genderratic.com/p/1402/v-lea ... -warlords/

Women deal damage by taking away other women’s victim cred and inflating their own.

Women are socialized to see their potency in terms of their ability to command-control others into doing stuff for them. The less agency they are seen as having, the more victim cred they have and the more ability they have to shame others into doing something for them. (This is also why women’s beauty efforts and social graces function to ape the behavior of juveniles. Children are helpless, looking and behaving like a child evokes that.)

[Dilurk]

So she is being attacked not because she is female but because she does not know what she is talking about?

She's being attacked because she's a woman and says things that immature little guys who play stupid video games don't like. Both components are needed. And also, I have little difficulty imagining that a lot of sexist asshole are in the gaming world.

LOLOLLOL! Nice troll attempt. It's obvious you're kidding. ;)

Anyways, out of all of the critiques that I've seen on Sarkeesian and her stupidity, the pair of videos produced by this gentleman are probably the best, both in production value and in theme. Recommended viewing for anyone at least marginally interested in the subject;

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LpFk5F-S_hI

Thank you. I concur with the conclusions. These people have given feminism a bad reputation.

[Gumby]

PZ Brainwashed Christian fundamentalist defines the parameters of what is sexism Christian and what isn't, and it seems he can just change them at will to suit his purposes, even if they contradict each other all the time.

They are religionists. All their behavior can be matched to the behavior of religious people.

If what PZ did on that stage isn't "exploiting an asymmetrical power/privilege relationship" according to what they have said all year, I want to see a full heartfelt apology to ElevatorGuy.

How does one apologize to someone who never existed?

[John Brown]

Before I sign off for a bit, I couldn't help but notice Ben Zvan is posting elsewhere.

http://menagainstassholesandmisogyny.tu ... -is-a-maam

I bet he just makes all the ladies swoon.

[Dan]

I think PZ is once again showing that he's blind to "podium privilege". He showed it the first time when he didn't see the difference in power between RW on stage and Stef in the audience. This time in the video and responses to it he shows it again. The woman from the audience didn't know PZ would be embarrassing her for laughs when she volunteered, and social pressure required her to grin and bear it. How he doesn't see that he trapped her in this awkward situation (more and longer and more publically than EG did to RW on the elevator) is astounding.

She looked uncomfortable to me. That Paul couldn't see it speaks volumes. She couldn't get off stage quick enough.

[welch]

I think PZ is once again showing that he's blind to "podium privilege". He showed it the first time when he didn't see the difference in power between RW on stage and Stef in the audience. This time in the video and responses to it he shows it again. The woman from the audience didn't know PZ would be embarrassing her for laughs when she volunteered, and social pressure required her to grin and bear it. How he doesn't see that he trapped her in this awkward situation (more and longer and more publically than EG did to RW on the elevator) is astounding.

She looked uncomfortable to me. That Paul couldn't see it speaks volumes. She couldn't get off stage quick enough.

Of course he couldn't. PeeZus is A Proper Feminist. As an APF, nothing he does could ever be anything but fully supportive of women. Therefore, any unease on her part was not correct thinking, and probably a remnant of her programming by the penisocracy. She may even be a Secret Gender Traitor.

[Gumby]

They remind me of a tribe huddled around the campfire, the leaders are free to invent whatever stories they wish when the listeners are too afraid to wander off and look for themselves.

My impression is slightly different, maybe because my first impression of FTB was during the tf00t debacle. The FTB regulars seemed to me to be not only have developed a deep tribalism, but also a severe, paranoid siege mentality.
It was almost as if they had dug themselves a bunker, where they huddled together, protected in their "safe space" from all the dangerous imaginary trolls and misogynists on the outside.

During the tf00t event, I honestly got the impression that these people reacted almost as if they were at war, the extreme hostility they showed towards everyone and anyone who dared to say anything in tf00ts defense was almost surreal. Polite, civil posts, from Youtube newcomers, were meet with "FUCK YOU!", porcupine-requests and wishes of getting fucked sideways with a rusty knife, and when the newcomers just went "WTF?! calm down?", they were banned for being tone trolls and JAQing off.

Don't forget also that during TF00tgate, PZ started gleefully using TF00t's real name in posts. Of course, his brain-dead commentariat ran with it, and dutifully referred to TF00t by his real name. Of course, his real name is pretty much common knowledge on the internet now, but that's not the point. The point is when ignorant fuckers like Surly Amy and Brownian hysterically shriek "DOX! DOX!" when someone shows that they have already freely posted their identity information on the internet, they can just shut the fuck up and take it... because they have shown many times that they are perfectly willing to do the same. And TF00t never even posted his name on the internet to my knowledge... he was truly doxed by some pissed-off Muslim. So Surly Amy and Brownian can just fuck off.

[Jan Steen]

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

[Altair]

I guess on this point we can agree to disagree. And of course, there's really no way to test it. Even if we could rewind the time and have her video be made by a guy, probably just because of that difference the videol would not have been popular.

So basically, I still think some of the hostile reaction (and not the criticism) is because she is a woman but also because she is an outsider to the gaming community which is again, highly correlated with her being a woman.

I can agree to disagree. Let's hope some FTB'ers read this and learn a bit about civil discussion.

[Altair]

Of course he couldn't. PeeZus is A Proper Feminist. As an APF, nothing he does could ever be anything but fully supportive of women. Therefore, any unease on her part was not correct thinking, and probably a remnant of her programming by the penisocracy. She may even be a Secret Gender Traitor.

I would love to know "Not a dog"'s opinion on PZ's position on this matter:

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(Via elevatorgate)

[Gumby]

Of course he couldn't. PeeZus is A Proper Feminist. As an APF, nothing he does could ever be anything but fully supportive of women. Therefore, any unease on her part was not correct thinking, and probably a remnant of her programming by the penisocracy. She may even be a Secret Gender Traitor.

I would love to know "Not a dog"'s opinion on PZ's position on this matter:

Sin título.png

(Via elevatorgate)

That tweet, of course, is written with the assumption that sexism only runs in one direction, i.e. men being sexist towards women. Just looking at any number of FtB blogs, or the A+theism forum, is incontrovertible evidence that sexism runs both ways. Sexism is not just "men hatin' on women", no matter what the wannabe dictionary-changers say.

[Altair]

That tweet, of course, is written with the assumption that sexism only runs in one direction, i.e. men being sexist towards women. Just looking at any number of FtB blogs, or the A+theism forum, is incontrovertible evidence that sexism runs both ways. Sexism is not just "men hatin' on women", no matter what the wannabe dictionary-changers say.

I agree completely, but if PZ wanted to be consistent, he either should stay silent on this issue, or refute Not a Dog's ideas.

Yeah, I know PZ and consistent have never been used in the same sentence before.

[AndrewV69]

More from GendeEratic:

http://www.genderratic.com/p/1402/v-lea ... -warlords/

There may also be some posturing regarding who is the biggest victim–which is not about helping people, it’s the female version of a pissing contest. Another common behavior is martyrdom out-maneuvering in which one woman will engage in elaborate and unwanted efforts to ‘help’ others in order to claim the martyrdom high ground and it’s + 50 agility points.

You do realize that you can "test" this hypothysis?

Try reviewing, say the wails of OB "they want to kick me the cunt" AKA the Talking Pune vs the Twatson "rape threats" (that smirk she has on her face is aimed at other women BTW).

For an example of a male socialized into female behaviour, Satar reaching for Tranny/Gay bashing status. And so on. The baboons are a target rich environment if you ask me for testing this sort of behaviour vs the theory(s) proposed concerning agency and power.

[AndrewV69]

@Lusoma, perhaps this is the video you were thinking of?

[youtube]fulDotdSS0Q[/youtube]

[KiwiInOz]

I love technical innovation that can actually be useful in the developing world. Here is an LED lamp that is powered by gravity. How cool is this!

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671448/a-5 ... wsletter#1

[Gumby]

That tweet, of course, is written with the assumption that sexism only runs in one direction, i.e. men being sexist towards women. Just looking at any number of FtB blogs, or the A+theism forum, is incontrovertible evidence that sexism runs both ways. Sexism is not just "men hatin' on women", no matter what the wannabe dictionary-changers say.

I agree completely, but if PZ wanted to be consistent, he either should stay silent on this issue, or refute Not a Dog's ideas.

Oh I know you and everyone else here knows that. I just facepalm when the ever-moronic FtB/A+ ideologues think otherwise.

Yeah, I know PZ and consistent have never been used in the same sentence before.

Oh, it's easy to use "PZ" and "consistent" in the same sentence.

"Expecting PZ to be consistent is like expecting Half-Fish to inform his sex partner of his HIV-positive status".

See? Nothing to it.

[DataNotDogma]

Ophelia writes about insulting prophets.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterflies ... -prophets/

Oh right, the first charge fell apart so they dug up something else – “statements critical of Islam and Christianity.” Jeez. I wonder how many centuries in jail I would get if I were in Egypt.

I don't know. She might fit right in. I am fully aware of the difference between jail time and being banned from a blog or whatever, but the tactics seem to be the same.

[sacha]

There are already plenty of men who feel ashamed that being dominant and rough turns them on because they are made to feel ashamed by society, which has succeeded in convincing them that not only is something wrong with them for being sexually aroused by this, but that women, like children, cannot give consent
I'm just glad that I got to experience everything I wanted to try (at least twice) when I was younger, now I want less physical dominance, and more psychological, so I very rarely have any "evidence" left after a particularly enjoyable evening, and I'm very glad that my age preference in men is mid to late 50's, because elder men with more experience are able to read women a hell of a lot better, choose a hell of a lot better, and the men I'm attracted to, not only have a good idea of what sort of person I will be after, but know precisely what will interest me, long before our clothes are shed, and if they ever had any shame about what they like, they lost it years before they met me.

My bold etc. You realize don't you, that you just gave PZ a raging boner?

That is IF, in that video of PZ making poker sex jokes, he was overdoing it pretending the opposite, saying he would submit to having sex with the volunteer. Maybe his real inclinations are quite the opposite to "submitting", and he's all ashamed and extra feminist because of it?

PZ is a submissive/masochist. There is not a chance in hell he can be dominant sexually.

[sacha]

My bold etc. You realize don't you, that you just gave PZ a raging boner?

You know what would surprise me less than anything in this world? Pics surfacing of Myers in a dog collar getting pissed on by a gang of east European whores in school uniforms.

absolutely

[CommanderTuvok]

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/ ... 845763.jpg

[KiwiInOz]

There are already plenty of men who feel ashamed that being dominant and rough turns them on because they are made to feel ashamed by society, which has succeeded in convincing them that not only is something wrong with them for being sexually aroused by this, but that women, like children, cannot give consent
I'm just glad that I got to experience everything I wanted to try (at least twice) when I was younger, now I want less physical dominance, and more psychological, so I very rarely have any "evidence" left after a particularly enjoyable evening, and I'm very glad that my age preference in men is mid to late 50's, because elder men with more experience are able to read women a hell of a lot better, choose a hell of a lot better, and the men I'm attracted to, not only have a good idea of what sort of person I will be after, but know precisely what will interest me, long before our clothes are shed, and if they ever had any shame about what they like, they lost it years before they met me.

My bold etc. You realize don't you, that you just gave PZ a raging boner?

That is IF, in that video of PZ making poker sex jokes, he was overdoing it pretending the opposite, saying he would submit to having sex with the volunteer. Maybe his real inclinations are quite the opposite to "submitting", and he's all ashamed and extra feminist because of it?

PZ is a submissive/masochist. There is not a chance in hell he can be dominant sexually.

I have him down as more of the bear type.

[Miss O Gynist]

Sigh! Does Phawrongula have a documentation on when PZ Myers said it was okay to joke about women? If it does, can anyone point me in the right direction?

Because I'm pretty sure he (PZ) has said on several occasions that you can't make jokes about women in any capacity if they're to do with sex or whatever, but I can't find a proper quote to pin it on. I blame my Google-fu. Lance Finney on Reap's video about PZ keeps making concessions about PZ's nature even though he seems ignorant about the subject overall, and I can't just leave it open like that. I need to "close" in, so to speak.

He says in the original video that you should not talk this way to your students. Admits its a bad idea. Why is that, if they are over 18?

[Justalurker]

He says in the original video that you should not talk this way to your students. Admits its a bad idea. Why is that, if they are over 18?

Huh? It's a bad idea because of power differential. Teacher:student. Age has nothing to do with it.

[mordacious1]

Oh right, the first charge fell apart so they dug up something else – “statements critical of Islam and Christianity.” Jeez. I wonder how many centuries in jail I would get if I were in Egypt.

Or maybe Saudi Arabia? "Oh, my little bride, let's take off your burka....OH MY FUCKING GOD! PUT IT BACK ON! PUT IT BACK ON!"

[Mykeru]

@Lusoma, perhaps this is the video you were thinking of?

[wootube]fulDotdSS0Q[/wootube]

Or this?

[youtube]KBgcjtE0xrE[/youtube]

[JAB]

He says in the original video that you should not talk this way to your students. Admits its a bad idea. Why is that, if they are over 18?

Huh? It's a bad idea because of power differential. Teacher:student. Age has nothing to do with it.

Likely because at the university he hasn't got control of the process, the harassment office does. Tenure won't protect you from that sort of thing. There is a power differential in the video of him at the conference, but PZ has control of how the incident is perceived by the group as a whole because there are a lot of his adoring fans there who will believe everything he says. Unfortunate for him that it ended up on youtube and people who aren't his followers can judge him. It's one of the reasons he has to make sure to slander us at every turn.

[Mykeru]

He says in the original video that you should not talk this way to your students. Admits its a bad idea. Why is that, if they are over 18?

Huh? It's a bad idea because of power differential. Teacher:student. Age has nothing to do with it.

Likely because at the university he hasn't got control of the process, the harassment office does. Tenure won't protect you from that sort of thing. There is a power differential in the video of him at the conference, but PZ has control of how the incident is perceived by the group as a whole because there are a lot of his adoring fans there who will believe everything he says. Unfortunate for him that it ended up on youtube and people who aren't his followers can judge him. It's one of the reasons he has to make sure to slander us at every turn.

The best part is how utterly hapless he is. To cite a cliche, PZ Meyers couldn't get laid carrying a bunch of bananas in a bonobo whore house.

Still, I wonder how wifey feels, really feels, about the dumb, bearded dumpling toying with the young things.

PZ is a submissive/masochist. There is not a chance in hell he can be dominant sexually.

Speaking of which, how'd you like a ride on my bully pulpit, baby?

[franc]

[JAB]

franc, that's two recent posts where it could be argued that you've added a smilie... if we define it as one of those yellow balls with an emotive face. Are you changing your mind about them?

[Badger3k]

Oolon upset because he was trolling and we ignored him:

http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/12-12-12/#comment-7904

The poor baby. Maybe some more kiddie porn would cheer him up.

Poor wittle oowon. I should attempt to shed a tear.

Wait for it....

Nah. I got nothin'.

Well apparently only four people put him on ignore. Speaking for myself only, I kept hopeing (in vain it turned out) he would say something interestng.

Instead, most of the time all I got was some apparently confused/convoluted thought processes that in the end were not worth responding to.

*shrug*

I was one who put him on ignore. He really didn't have much to say that wasn't full of FTB brown-nosing, in my opinion. I have no patience for people like that.

I guess I'm another, then. I got tired of reading his piss-poor attempts, and having to scroll through them on my iPad. He never said anything I considered valuable or funny, and I could follow the conversation from those who did still try to talk to him (or troll him). Life's short, why waste it with losers?

[Mykeru]

I guess I'm another, then. I got tired of reading his piss-poor attempts, and having to scroll through them on my iPad. He never said anything I considered valuable or funny, and I could follow the conversation from those who did still try to talk to him (or troll him). Life's short, why waste it with losers?

The problem wasn't that Oolon was a troll. Trolls can be quite entertaining. The problem was he was a dull, plodding, pedestrian, boring-assed troll.

[Altair]

franc, that's two recent posts where it could be argued that you've added a smilie... if we define it as one of those yellow balls with an emotive face. Are you changing your mind about them?

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe he's been replaced by a cyborg.
We need to ask him something only Franc would know. Maybe about the secret Misogynistic Handshake.

[franc]

franc, that's two recent posts where it could be argued that you've added a smilie... if we define it as one of those yellow balls with an emotive face. Are you changing your mind about them?

PZ must be rubbing off. The second was a sincere present to those who's lives are hollow and sad without cutesy things wriggling on screen.

[HoneyWagon]

Too funny not to share. This just happened
http://i.imgur.com/kdcAB.png

[Altair]

Too funny not to share. This just happened

http://i.imgur.com/kdcAB.png

Fucking unisex nicknames, how do they work? :lol:

[HoneyWagon]

Oh, It keeps getting better

http://i.imgur.com/bMmFt.png

[welch]

Too funny not to share. This just happened
http://i.imgur.com/kdcAB.png

Greg laden: how can such a penis be that continually butthurt?

[HoneyWagon]

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/ ... 855117.jpg

From one of the posters

[Badger3k]

Someone needs to tell Stefunny that it is never OK to joke about Rape. What's wrong with her - has the patriarchy finally gotten to her?

[Gumby]

franc, that's two recent posts where it could be argued that you've added a smilie... if we define it as one of those yellow balls with an emotive face. Are you changing your mind about them?

PZ must be rubbing off.

Dude. Trigger warning. Please.

[welch]

And now for something completely different: another batch of punkin' pies in da oven. Damn my house smells good

[HoneyWagon]

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/ ... 855440.jpg

[Altair]

Someone needs to tell Stefunny that it is never OK to joke about Rape. What's wrong with her - has the patriarchy finally gotten to her?

I didn't read her whole post and didn't watch the video, but I have to admit I LOL'ed at this comment:

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[Badger3k]

Someone needs to tell Stefunny that it is never OK to joke about Rape. What's wrong with her - has the patriarchy finally gotten to her?

I didn't read her whole post and didn't watch the video, but I have to admit I LOL'ed at this comment:

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Well, it's apparently true.... LOL.

[JAB]

franc, that's two recent posts where it could be argued that you've added a smilie... if we define it as one of those yellow balls with an emotive face. Are you changing your mind about them?

PZ must be rubbing off. The second was a sincere present to those who's lives are hollow and sad without cutesy things wriggling on screen.

Thanks franc. Nice to know you care.

[Lsuoma]

@Lusoma, perhaps this is the video you were thinking of?

[wootube]fulDotdSS0Q[/wootube]

Or this?

[fooltube]KBgcjtE0xrE[fooltube]

Yep, that's the one.

[franc]

Thanks franc. Nice to know you care.

I do. Have another -

http://www.slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic ... 482#p36482

[franc]

Some images for the photoshoppers -

http://www.artofdrink.com/blog/temperan ... -the-1800s

[Pitchguest]

So, er, Physioprof pitches in:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/physioprof/ ... -feminist/

Seriously, what the fuck is up with this guy? Why does he add extra letters to words? Why does he end most words with an e? :?:

[BarnOwl]

Meanwhile, over at Butthurt & Whingeing:

Isn’t that great? Needlepoint is a girl thing, atheism is a guy thing. Nothing sexist about that! Nothing to see here folks, go on home, take your needlepoint with you.

<snip quote from Justin Vacula>

Apparently Vacula is completely unaware of the many reports of vicious sexism in gaming, and just can’t imagine why WoW attracts a male population. Just one of those quirky things – guys like World of Warcraft, women don’t like being told “tits or GTFO” – isn’t life mysterious and fascinating.
One of the reasons – only one – what Shermer said was so wrongheaded is the fact that it treats the current situation as something that just happened, randomly, somehow, probably because guys do guy things and women do women things. The reality is that the current situation happened partly because women kept being ignored. Women didn’t get invited to speak at conferences, women didn’t get talked to or about, women didn’t get listened to. That situation is improving now, but it’s just clueless to look around vaguely and say “hmm, not many women around,” and conclude that that’s because “it’s a guy thing.”

I'll be the first to admit that I think the (over)reaction to Shermer's statement about the atheist community is ridiculous, and redolent of people who have too much privilege, self-absorption, and time to do anything and everything except actual productive work, but can we stop referring to "guy things" and "girl things" please? Whatever the intent, it has the flavor of oversimplified thinking, and the terminology is reminiscent of one of those annoying 1950s musicals set in some dead-boring US town.

I can't speak for anyone else, but as a straight cis-gendered woman, my life cannot be categorized in terms of "guy things" and "girl things." Nothing I do works in those terms: not research, not teaching, none of my hobbies (knitting, spinning, art journaling, gardening), not my running club, not the equestrian activities, nothing that my students excel or fail at, none of the university committees, none of the community volunteering ... nothing. Nada. Nichts.