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

Gumby: Banned 5 times!! Sheesh! Well, I -still- feel bad for the guy (in a way), if for no other reason than he must have some sort of emotional problems, being so willing to put up with all of that abuse:(

Renee, they cannot watch Tf00ts video, because if they do, then they would be forced to answer direct questions regarding the content of said video...

Better to just sit on the soapbox all safe and secure, free from criticism!

PZ says, on the Matt Dillahunty video commentary: If other opinions werenâ€™t welcome, PZ wouldnâ€™t allow comments on his blog. Consider this. I allow comments that arenâ€™t welcome, because I like to see idiots expose themselves, and I also enjoy the spectacle as theyâ€™re fed to the lions. Donâ€™...

[spoiler] I see on the Dillahunty thread on Pharyngula they were suggesting that the expression "drama whore" should be replaced by "drama llama", and then someone else piped up with: I think we should encourage dropping the â€œdramaâ€ part too. As a dismissive insult, it carries with it a sexist c...

I am somewhat relieved to see that I am not the only one who had problems with the Dune series. The later books just made me go ???? for the entire duration that I was reading them.

Cunning Punt, are you noleplum99? Or do you just like the quote, it's funny and rather hyperbolic! PZ Myers wrote: "You are the patriarchy personified, noelplum99" noelplum99 wrote: "And to think my mother said i would never amount to anything." I was there the day they replaced all his posts with b...

I am playing LOTRO right now, and the game is going down the tubes. Turbine is trying really hard to charge users for every little thing. Micro-transactions = big money. I do want to play "Age of Conan' with my boyfriend - apparently 'cunt' is a fave word in that game, and your char can run around t...

Cuba self-defined as socialist.

And China self-defined as a republic?

Jack: I reread everything, and I got my terms confused. No wonder the confusion. When you were talking about 'avfm' I was thinking 'random mra' but I typed 'avfm'.

Well no wonder! Sigh. I was so flustered, that I did not properly check to make sure we were both talking about the same thing :P

[spoiler] This poor Rick fellow, who unfortunately are having some massive self- confidence issues and as such have been shamed into growing a mangina, were trying to say that he agreed that this 'potential prostitutes' website is appalling. The result? ETA: rickymoosten will be taking a few days of...

Jack said: Is that what I said? I'm just saying your claim about AVfM sounds like bullshit. I'm aware that some MRAs have said some crazy shit, I even said I'd join in and call it crazy if these views challenged reality. However, of all of the horror stories I've heard about AVfM, past experience ha...

Parge: perhaps Jack and I are talking past each other, and it is nothing but a misunderstanding. He said this: Why do I get that feeling that some of this "crazy shit" you're talking about is about your own failure to understand the points being made? I had previously said that MRA's say some crazy ...

Thank you to everyone who has set me straight regarding Matt Dillahunty's 'diva' april fool's joke. He had me going, and I missed the part where he came clean!

Git wrote:

Well, there is that tiny data point that every fucking time socialism has been tried it has resulted in mass murder and tyranny.

Sweden. Norway. The Netherlands.

Please, show us the mass murder and tyranny.

So if I see an MRA say something that I think is ridiculous, it is because I do not understand the point? So MRA's are -always right-, and if we disagree, we are just too stupid to get it? Is -that- what you are saying? What specifically do you mean by "drunk"? Oops. Wrong topic. Or not. FYI, this ...

Jack Rayner:

So if I see an MRA say something that I think is ridiculous, it is because I do not understand the point? So MRA's are -always right-, and if we disagree, we are just too stupid to get it? Is -that- what you are saying?

edit: 'moral' in the above post should read as 'ethical' I guess. I forgot that 'moral' has religious connotations!

Maximus wrote: Agreed, great post. I just listened to a 3 hour audiobook (available on youtube,perhaps someone could link it) The Myth of Male Power, by Warren Farrel. He was largely involved in the feminist movement, and praises a lot of the great things they accomplished, and goes on to show how i...

Whoa, pause . We're having failure to communicate , it seems. Let me start over: Did you say MRAs say crazy shit about * rape culture *? If so, what? If no, disregard My original sentence was unclear. All I meant to say is that I have only read FTB and a tiny bit of AVFM. I have learned about 'rape...

[spoiler] For the record, I have really only heard the FTB et al. opinions on rape culture. Well, that and a bit of what MRA's have to, but many of them are batshit crazy as well. What's so crazy about stating that "rape culture" does not exist where we live? :think: Jack, MRA's say a lot of things....

Mykeru wrote: My totally anecdotal experience is that people, once they can break out of the "don't get involved" apathy, aren't women hating transphobic misogynistic racist scumbags. Most people think rape is a terrible, inexcusable thing. That gay bashing is a criminal act. That if there is a wide...

I can't guarantee that no one will try to dogpile you or call you names (please remember that "fuck you" is a term of endearment to some), but if we haven't banned oolon then we won't ban you, so you can always just call them names back (: For the record, I have really only heard the FTB et al. opi...

A while back on Ophelia's blog, I made the mistake of pointing out that the person who accused Kevin Clash (elmo) of sexual abuse was in fact a criminal. The guy had robbed someone, amongst other things. And that maybe we should not take criminals at their word, because they are, after all, criminal...

Wow, Kassiane is a fucking fucktard. Setar and Kassiane are made for each other.

Guest wrote: As I said, my own great hope is that we might liberate the Right from this strange possession, and allow there to be a proper Conservative movement again! I agree with you. I am left of center on some issues, a bit more right on others. I too would like to see religion out of politics. ...

Did I break the board with my last post? All I did was use the quote function, as usual. Sorry if I did, no idea what went wrong!

Guest wrote: we are _not_ a progressive movement. We're a movement that includes some progressives - after all, the Communists were atheists to begin with! - but also many liberals and libertarians, and a good many conservatives to boot. And if you have some cause that is more important to you than ...

A happy new year to all at the pit. The hostility from these fools seems, to me, to come from a pathological cognitive dissonance (at least, there are several other signifiers of mental instability over and above the self confessed whining of their "poor me" competitions) in which they are perfectl...

That looks like it is from the safespace forum? Hi :) So sorry, didn't know there were a 'free' A+ forum; I thought you were making fun of the Aplussers beloved "safe space" (such a misleading term, it's the least safe place to post on the internet. Not only will you get banned for absolutely anyth...

Setar and the rest of the A+ live in a made-up world where a Negative-Privilege Coefficient puts them higher in the pecking order. So they cling to anything that lowers their privilege, even if that means being strangely happy about having Social Anxiety. And he has to milk his anxiety for everythi...

I can't guarantee that no one will try to dogpile you or call you names (please remember that "fuck you" is a term of endearment to some), but if we haven't banned oolon then we won't ban you, so you can always just call them names back (: For the record, I have really only heard the FTB et al. opi...

[spoiler] *snip setar bullshit* I have social anxiety as well. Working as a stripper for those two years didn't help either. But I try to give the people I meet the benefit of the doubt, and not shit all over them if they 'hurt' my feelings. More often than not I try to make people happy, instead o...

The FTB commenters are so divorced from reailty. I remember a post on OB's blog from back in August - a commenter was shitting all over us westerners for having the gall to refer to FGM as 'female genital mutilation. See, we should have known, even though such information was not available to us, t...

BTW, what the fuck is a Setar? Sounds angry http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/134/274236ffa84343b0afbcb2e.png http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/9792/ccd088f3c04f44b1ad4b46b.png http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/6193/58c50d9cdf7c403b80aa2d8.png http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/802/bb943b1a891c4ce...

rocko, I already like you!

welcome aboard!

I am also a noobie (been here a whole enitre day wooo), but as of yet, am too damn lazy to properly introduce myself!

BannedAid wrote: If Brayton's business plan is to take some of the shittier blogs with him to form a new network (Hi, Comrade Physioproffe) Oh man, the Physioproffe blog is absolutely terrible. Listen, I like to swear as much as the next person but damn, that blog is all fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuc...

Barbara Drescher brilliantly sums up Pharyngula: "You don't have the right to not be offended. Or to offend me." https://twitter.com/badrescher/status/286303484905672704 I was reading a thread on "A Million Gods" where yet another poster was told, 'stop making this all about you.' The FTBers/A+ers ...

So I checked out the atheism + blog, and came across this post: http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3423 rickymooston, please check your privilege and stop quibbling over the literal definitions of words. you've just gone right into 101 territory with that post. The poor guy, rickmoost...

Slight misunderstanding here. What I meant is, the way I heard the story, was that it was entirely non-controversial of her to ask guys not to be creepy in elevators, cuz you know, the guy was getting all up in her space being creepy. Every FT blog that I visited, fuck, even Godless Bitches and The...

Eucliwood wrote: Um, why is it misogynistic to complain about the way she handled it? The A+er in you is showing. She said, 'guys, don't do that'... the only thing the guy did was ask her if she wanted coffee. It's very easy for a guy to not see a problem with doing this. Perhaps one could think "th...

So PZ refuses to directly address thunderfoot and he also refused to directly address Ed Clint. He'll continue to have his loyal followers but how can he expect to grow his readership. That's the beauty of it. He won't. He has continued to isolate himself bit by bit. As long as he keeps refusing to...

The FTB commenters are so divorced from reailty. I remember a post on OB's blog from back in August - a commenter was shitting all over us westerners for having the gall to refer to FGM as 'female genital mutilation. See, we should have known, even though such information was not available to us, th...

Thanks for the links, Welch's post is beautiful: Did you hear that sound? It was a fucking trap closing around your feet. Again. Look, I get what yâ€™all are trying to do, but given that she, and others, keep manipulating the fuck out of you, maybe you should stop beating your heads against a fuckin...

@anotherlurker: PS, interesting to hear about your experiences as a stripper. How long did you do that line of work? Only about two years. On and off. I couldn't fucking handle it. I have very very thin skin, am easily hurt, and as a stripper you pretty much get insulted constantly. I did meet some...

First - that should have been "bane" not "ban" on my last post. Second - I'd love to know...where the fuck do these asshats at A+ go in the real world? I mean, they certainly can't expect the same level of, well, soft pillows, bouncy chairs/couches, and sweet musak being piped in that they do onlin...

And I hate to point this out, really I do - there's a trope that feminists are ugly but damn, I recently watched a Pharyngula video, and the women ARE ugly. BTW who is "Tony Leung' and some guy named "Scaramanga" - are they Pharyngula regulars? Do they go by different nicknames on the forum? There'...

And I hate to point this out, really I do - there's a trope that feminists are ugly but damn, I recently watched a Pharyngula video, and the women ARE ugly. BTW who is "Tony Leung' and some guy named "Scaramanga" - are they Pharyngula regulars? Do they go by different nicknames on the forum? Many t...

First - that should have been "bane" not "ban" on my last post. Second - I'd love to know...where the fuck do these asshats at A+ go in the real world? I mean, they certainly can't expect the same level of, well, soft pillows, bouncy chairs/couches, and sweet musak being piped in that they do onlin...

They recently piled on someone over the non-use of 'trigger warning' when the original post contained certain icky details, and there was no trigger warning for -that-. The 'miscreant' tried to defend him/herself with this information and was told 'this isn't about you, get off your cross.' I love ...

And I hate to point this out, really I do - there's a trope that feminists are ugly but damn, I recently watched a Pharyngula video, and the women ARE ugly.

BTW who is "Tony Leung' and some guy named "Scaramanga" - are they Pharyngula regulars? Do they go by different nicknames on the forum?

Gumby: are pharyngulates a particularly high caliber of intellectual? Or do they just parrot the same talking points over and over? IMO there's some very bright people there but most of them are pseudo-intellectuals who unravel quickly and resort to personal attacks when serious attempts are made t...

Gumby: are pharyngulates a particularly high caliber of intellectual?

Or do they just parrot the same talking points over and over?

If Pharyngulates are so intelligent, rational and mature, then why is there a "Lounge" and a "Thunderdome?"

Certainly, intellectuals of such a high caliber would not need special places to fight like high school children?

Oh, Geweint.

I have heard FTBers complain about him/her. Apparently Half Fish is rather, controlling? Totalitarian?

Who or what is the Half Fish?

Now, whoever Cutee and Duness are, they have been branded pitters. Well, actually pitsters, but we get the idea. Maybe we'll see them register here in the next days? ... cutee has replied in all-caps about how TRIGGERED she/he is by Ophelia equating the vaxx-shot thing with the raped-and-killed-wit...

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/12/24/thunderdome-13/comment-page-1/#comment-519888 Well, your job, blar, is to answer Joe Publicâ€™s stupid questions. If Joe Public goes on a private blog, gets in the middle of a discussion about feminism and expects everyone to halt and answer whatever...

I don't really have much of a problem with Ophelia - but then again, I have only read her blog on/off for a short while. In short, I know nothing.

I just watched Thunderf00ts video however, and he characterizes many FTBers as 'professional victims' and that sounds about right.

Al Stefanelli, I accidentaly pasted the wrong link, and there seems to be no edit button. Try this one: http://www.myvidster.com/video/4145206/When_Keeping_it_Real_Goes_Wrong_Brenda_Johnson_Chappelles_Show_Video_Clip_ If it does not work, it's probably blocked because Viacom is a douchebag company:(...

Dummy or real is irrelevant. I can hear echoes of similar psychodramatics from maniacs of the past. If real, don't see the point of masking identities if the morons don't bother themselves. I wrote a letter of amicus curiae for a dude who kinda went through the same shit. His girlfriend cheated on ...

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