Nerds. Nerds EVERYWHERE...

#10801

James Caruthers wrote:Someone tweeted this image:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmsW8qhCUAAgniQ.jpg

My response:
James Caruthers â€@insanementos 2m

@gracecoexist What is feminism? I want to be a feminist ally and learn all about this and speak for your people.
I've decided on the Esteban Winsmore school of trolling.

Subtle... but... bwahahahahahahah

#10802

I just realised one reason why the SJWs may hate Ayaan Hirsi Ali so much ... she is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, an unashamedly right-wing think tank along with another of the SJWs favourite hated people Christina Hoff Sommers

#10803

Satan wrote:
ThreeFlangedJavis wrote:If you take Watson's account as truthful, she wasn't being hit on. What don't people understand about the words "don't take this the wrong way"?
If you believe that then, boy, do I have a deal for you. One bridge, connecting Manhattan to Brooklyn. Slightly used but in perfect, near new condition.

Thanks for the offer, but you can keep your bridge. Considering the fervent skeptic types who attend these conferences, it's not that unlikely that the guy just wanted a chance to chat with a 'big name', is it? You'd have to be a bit of an idiot to lurk around on the periphery until 4 AM an then try to get it on with a stranger staggering of to bed. It sounds a lot more like a shy nerd waiting for an opportunity to talk than anything else.

#10804

This one?

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... 00x168.gif

It implies that 50 Shades of Grey is an instruction manual for life, when it's clearly a fantasy.

#10805

http://i.imgur.com/Fp5ZBmN.png

Nothing to worry about. At this rate, most of these people will die alone.

#10806

feralandproud wrote:http://i.imgur.com/Fp5ZBmN.png

Nothing to worry about. At this rate, most of these people will die alone.

Does it count as "alone" if they're live-tweeting their death and three of their insane followers "favorite" the death tweet a couple hours later?

#10807

free thoughtpolice wrote:welch wrote:
My first permanent duty station in the USAF was Grand Forks, N.D. "Culture Shock" doesn't even BEGIN to describe it.
You were surprised by how white-skinned the First Nations in ND are?

the blue laws were very bizarre.

#10808

feralandproud wrote:http://i.imgur.com/Fp5ZBmN.png

Nothing to worry about. At this rate, most of these people will die alone.

#10809

Southern wrote:
John D wrote:
Dual wielding.jpg
Dual-wielding cosplay. This is how it's done.
With lots of Photoshop? Got it.

There is some editing for sure... but she is actually pretty damn good at this gig. She makes all her own stuff. Check it.
http://kamuicosplay.storenvy.com/

#10810

Suet Cardigan wrote:This one?

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... 00x168.gif

It implies that 50 Shades of Grey is an instruction manual for life, when it's clearly a fantasy.

A fantasy women love.

Why do feminists insist on being sexist and telling women what they should be sexually attracted to, and what kind of fantasies they are allowed to have? So misogynistic.

#10811

One thing I do that most feminists don't: I sponsor a little girl in Senegal financially.

Who's doing more for the actual lives of women and girls now?

#10812

What's the latest on PACER regarding the KS/BR case?

#10813

Meanwhile:

http://img1-azcdn.newser.com/image/9781 ... 81451.jpeg

A female employee of Canada's largest oil and gas company was killed by a black bear at a work site in northern Alberta, reports the CBC. The 36-year-old had just emerged from a washroom at Suncor's oil-sands site when she encountered the bear, reports Global News. Co-workers tried in vain to save her, and she was pronounced dead at the scene. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police then killed the bear.

â€œWe don't know why this happened," says a company spokesperson, who promised an investigation. "We are reminding people to be especially vigilant in dealing with wildlife." Most of Suncor's production comes from these oil sands, also called tar sands, explains Reuters, and the company has a sprawling industrial complex at the site. The region is heavily populated with bears now emerging from hibernation, it adds.

http://www.newser.com/story/186601/bear ... anada.html

Yup, never happens. Black bears are cuddly picnic basket stealing dopes. Anyone who worries about wildlife is a pansy.

Actually, when a Grizzly attacks you it's usually territorial and they just want to smack you around, neutralize you as a perceived threat unless their predatory behavior is triggered. Black bears attack you because, well, they are hungry and playing dead is just being a well-behaved snack.

Bear Encounter Survival Guide: James Gary Shelton:

#10814

ROBOKiTTY wrote:One thing I do that most feminists don't: I sponsor a little girl in Senegal financially.

Who's doing more for the actual lives of women and girls now?

You didn't mention how many Twitter hashtags you've started.

#10815

ROBOKiTTY wrote:One thing I do that most feminists don't: I sponsor a little girl in Senegal financially.

Who's doing more for the actual lives of women and girls now?

Very cool! I lived in Senegal for 4 years.

#10816

I will be speaking for a May 25, 2014 speaker series event in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania with the Humanist Association of Greater Philadelphia.

Anyone in the Philly area? :o

http://justinvacula.com/2014/05/08/may- ... ngagement/

#10817

James Caruthers wrote:
Suet Cardigan wrote:This one?

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... 00x168.gif

It implies that 50 Shades of Grey is an instruction manual for life, when it's clearly a fantasy.
A fantasy women love.

Why do feminists insist on being sexist and telling women what they should be sexually attracted to, and what kind of fantasies they are allowed to have? So misogynistic.

It is weird isn't it. From all of the reviews I have heard about the book is that it is a book bought by women. They don't understand irony do they.

#10818

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

Ahaha. :)

Hahaa. :D

Hoohaaaheehaa! :lol:

Woohoohoohaaheehaaheeeeeehaaaagghhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :lol: :) :lol: :clap: :clap: :dance: :lol: :lol: :lol:

#10819

Dick Strawkins wrote:If the popular understanding of Elevatorgate doesn't include the Steph McGraw incident then it misses the specific event that catalyzed the split, dragged in the SJWs and, most importantly, made it acceptable to label those who were not in 100% agreement with Watson as being in league with the worst of the worst rape threateners.

Another turning point (for me, at least) during the Elevatorgate farce was Phil Plait describing the elevator conversation as "a potential sexual assault".

Here's the thread for those who are feeling nostalgic: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badas ... privilege/.

Comment sections don't come much juicier than that. It has *everything*.

"To be truly safe in an elevator, you really need a 3rd person in there too. That way, you can pass gas without anyone knowing it was you."

#10820

Was just watching Dave Foley's stand-up show called Reasonably Well. In it he tells the true story of being married for 11 year and only having sex once a year. "It wasn't her fault entirely. She was diagnosed... as being a cunt. Well actually it was borderline personality disorder, but trust me, cunt covers it."

#10821

ROBOKiTTY wrote:One thing I do that most feminists don't: I sponsor a little girl in Senegal financially.

Who's doing more for the actual lives of women and girls now?

One thing I do: I raise a daughter. Cos, y'know, I got into a hetero, cis-normative baby relationship that ended up being pro-life.

#10822

On Butterflies and Wheels, there's a discussion of the Cecily McMillan (Occupy protestor) sentencing. Francisco Bacopa is being particularly classy:

So where does this cop live? Where does his wife work? Where do his kids go to school? We can make his life a living hell if we want to .

I wonder if Francisco is considering monogramming one of the cop's kids with a butterfly motif. That would be funny and appropriate, right? Right?

#10823

ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:http://i.imgur.com/RpAdqUZ.png

Ahaha. :)

Hahaa. :D

Hoohaaaheehaa! :lol:

Woohoohoohaaheehaaheeeeeehaaaagghhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :lol: :) :lol: :clap: :clap: :dance: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Yeah, good thing its just S.E. Cupp who is like that. Wouldn't want any other knee-jerk ideologues identifying as atheists... :teasing-dunce:

#10824

I wonder what the meeting was about.....
https://twitter.com/SurlyAmy/status/464190038993952769

http://www.clipular.com/c/5736439144775 ... jOke2zNYY4

Maybe we will find out from the WISCON next week. I am sure CFI knows what they are doing. Never been burned by Skepchicks in the past...

#10825

Brive1987 wrote:Then Richard Dawkins put his foot into the bear trap and brought the old white leaders of the skeptic movement into the specific sights of the SJ folks.

You know, if I were a big enough fan to think Dawkins capable of this kind of 11th Dimensional Chess (and I am a moderate fan and think he's a smart guy, just not that smart or prescient, but humor me), I might suggest that doing that was a deliberate way to immediately expose the demagoguery of the FTB/Skepchick crowd by redirecting their ire away from nameless or powerless persons onto the very public figureheads of atheism and skepticism (who could hopefully take the heat more easily as well). It immediately cast their radicalism into a harsh light and as they couldn't help themselves when it came to issuing ultimatums, a lot of people were forced to choose between them and the Horsemen and went with the latter.

TL;DR version: Dawkins threw himself on the grenade and may have saved the core of skepticism from a more insidious takeover.

#10826

Gonna have to miss WiS3 this year. Decided to check out Imagine No Religion 4 in Kamloops BC instead.

#10827

Michael J wrote:
James Caruthers wrote:
Suet Cardigan wrote:This one?

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... 00x168.gif

It implies that 50 Shades of Grey is an instruction manual for life, when it's clearly a fantasy.
A fantasy women love.

Why do feminists insist on being sexist and telling women what they should be sexually attracted to, and what kind of fantasies they are allowed to have? So misogynistic.
It is weird isn't it. From all of the reviews I have heard about the book is that it is a book bought by women. They don't understand irony do they.

Yeah, no they don't. Not only is "50 shades of grey" written by a woman, but Tetsuya, here, might be the first man I've ever observed talking about that book, online or off.

The only reason I even know that fucking book exists, is because random women I'm acquainted with have decided it would be a good idea to tell me about it. I guess the title stuck with me after the smiling and nodding was over.

I wonder what the average woman would think of a male feminist like this guy trying to save them from their choice of romance/erotica/whatever novel.

#10828

Old_ones wrote:
ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:http://i.imgur.com/RpAdqUZ.png

Ahaha. :)

Hahaa. :D

Hoohaaaheehaa! :lol:

Woohoohoohaaheehaaheeeeeehaaaagghhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :lol: :) :lol: :clap: :clap: :dance: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Yeah, good thing its just S.E. Cupp who is like that. Wouldn't want any other knee-jerk ideologues identifying as atheists... :teasing-dunce:

Beeeyoooootiful. Such 'insight', that one.

SoylentAtheist · #10829

HoneyWagon wrote:I wonder what the meeting was about.....
https://twitter.com/SurlyAmy/status/464190038993952769
http://www.clipular.com/c/5736439144775 ... jOke2zNYY4
Maybe we will find out from the WISCON next week. I am sure CFI knows what they are doing. Never been burned by Skepchicks in the past...

Occam's razor:
The Women in Secularism conference starts next Friday. Surly is a speaker in two panels. She also makes her living by selling wadded up kindergarten style bits of clay at $50 a pop. To make that kind of a profit margin, she has to brown nose the shit out of key organizations she sells at to make sure they endorse her, and to ensure they don't allow any other people sell 'fake' clay jewelry. And the key person who made sure that she was invited to speak at the conference has been griping all month about her mental breakdowns. Surly may also be there a week ahead of time to help out Melody and make sure things go smoothly. Melody is Surly's constant in at CFI. If Surly is lucky, she can potentially sell official CFI clay jewelry as a fundraiser, to further increase her business.

OK. Probably not ALL of those items at once. But there are plenty of non-nefarious reasons to go.

SoylentAtheist · #10830

Or option 2,
They heard around the grape vine that Mykeru plans on attending their WIS3 conference and they are trying to plan what to do about that.

#10831

SoylentAtheist wrote:
HoneyWagon wrote:I wonder what the meeting was about.....
https://twitter.com/SurlyAmy/status/464190038993952769
http://www.clipular.com/c/5736439144775 ... jOke2zNYY4
Maybe we will find out from the WISCON next week. I am sure CFI knows what they are doing. Never been burned by Skepchicks in the past...
Occam's razor:
The Women in Secularism conference starts next Friday. Surly is a speaker in two panels. She also makes her living by selling wadded up kindergarten style bits of clay at $50 a pop. To make that kind of a profit margin, she has to brown nose the shit out of key organizations she sells at to make sure they endorse her, and to ensure they don't allow any other people sell 'fake' clay jewelry. And the key person who made sure that she was invited to speak at the conference has been griping all month about her mental breakdowns. Surly may also be there a week ahead of time to help out Melody and make sure things go smoothly. Melody is Surly's constant in at CFI. If Surly is lucky, she can potentially sell official CFI clay jewelry as a fundraiser, to further increase her business.

OK. Probably not ALL of those items at once. But there are plenty of non-nefarious reasons to go.

I've always assumed her involvement with the atheist skeptical community is purely a matter of business.
She sets up her table of Surlyramics at every conference she attends, and because she has become known as the skeptic ceramic jewelry person she has a kind of monopoly at these events (and one she aggressively fights to protect from the competition of 'fake' alternatives.)
She does sponsor women to attend skeptic conferences but in almost all cases it seems more like a promotional gimmick (I don't think she ever did more than pay for the ticket, and left the major expenses, hotel and travel, up to the sponsored individual) that she uses to project an specific image of her company as a kind of charitable endeavour.
She has precious little expertise on genuine skepticism - certainly no more than your average skeptical conference attendee and probably, considering the geeky obsessiveness that you tend to get with serious skeptics, a lot less than most.
The one area where she might be considered to have expertise is 'running a business targeting the skeptic/atheist market'.
Has she ever been asked to speak on that subject?

#10832

DeepInsideYourMind wrote:I just realised one reason why the SJWs may hate Ayaan Hirsi Ali so much ... she is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, an unashamedly right-wing think tank along with another of the SJWs favourite hated people Christina Hoff Sommers

Well I think there is more to it than that but yeah your right. What is seems to me is that they blow a cognitive fuse when they consider her.

1) She is a woman who was treated brutally by a truly misogynistic and patriarchal culture. Therefore all their vicarious offence taking and claims of oppression pale in comparison. In the oppression olympics she leaves then at the starting line bickering about whether the starting pistol is not a violence symbol of patriarchal ithyphallic oppression.

2.) Her oppression by the misogynistic and patriarchal culture of Islam literally exposes their cognitive dissonance. Patriarchy is bad but so is "Western Imperialism" and since the latter is the antagonist in their daddy issue fantasies and the poor tyrants of the Middle East are victims of that oppression. The women will have to just shut up and be treated as cattle and have their genitals clipped until such time that some Dunning-Kruger dye-jobs can take control of power in the West and stop video-games and tweets from causing real issues.

3.)She, like every woman who stands up for herself and refuses to be a crumbling ruin completely undermines their "women are delicate flowers destroyed mentally by the merest criticism. " narrative which then reveals that they are little more than useless whiners appropriating real issues as a fashion statement.

4.) They are actually racist sexist and classist snobs who don't give a fuck about anyone but their own spoilt entitled selves but are too intoxicated by the smell of their own verbal faeces to realise they are exactly the problem they rail against.

5.) Victim feminism is a cult within the women's rights movement and therefore everyone and anyone outside their belief system is, as far as they are concerned, out to destroy them so they lash out. This leads to a self fulfilling prophecy in exactly the same way that David Koresh collecting guns to fight off the Satantic government forces lead to government forces acting exactly as the Branch-Davidians feared.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali and many like her are their kryptonite.

#10833

Dick Strawkins wrote:
I've always assumed her involvement with the atheist skeptical community is purely a matter of business.
She sets up her table of Surlyramics at every conference she attends, and because she has become known as the skeptic ceramic jewelry person she has a kind of monopoly at these events (and one she aggressively fights to protect from the competition of 'fake' alternatives.)
She does sponsor women to attend skeptic conferences but in almost all cases it seems more like a promotional gimmick (I don't think she ever did more than pay for the ticket, and left the major expenses, hotel and travel, up to the sponsored individual) that she uses to project an specific image of her company as a kind of charitable endeavour.
She has precious little expertise on genuine skepticism - certainly no more than your average skeptical conference attendee and probably, considering the geeky obsessiveness that you tend to get with serious skeptics, a lot less than most.
The one area where she might be considered to have expertise is 'running a business targeting the skeptic/atheist market'.
Has she ever been asked to speak on that subject?

I think you are a bit too focused here. Amy strikes me as someone who desperately wants to be part of the gang and be valued. I'd say that motivates her token skeptic spasms - its the currency of entry. Similarly her 'art' is part of her self worth system. Fake clay = bullying and othering. The fact it makes money is not lost on me at a pragmatic level.

I feel her pain. Every unacknowledged post I make here brings on equivalent 'tears of man'.

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

#10834

Richard Dworkins, summing it up perfectly.

Funny how these truly strong women tend to avoid adopting feminism in many cases. It's sad, because Ayaan Hirsi Ali could really use the help of feminists. These feminist and social justice fucks, MAYBE they could do some good if they turned their toxic energies towards the radical wing of Islam. Maybe not, because the SJL seems to poison anything it touches, but who knows? Maybe they could try to get a rapist Muslim cleric/rapist Catholic priest fired from his job, instead of Pornstache Vacula. I don't condone their passive-aggressive bullying tactics, but in the case of child rape, maybe an exception could be made. Social Justice Wario could tell people what Halal really means, or talk about what life is like for women in fundamentalist Islamic states (or fundamentalist Judaic communities.)

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/201 ... m-problem/

It seems so ass-backwards for a group to claim to be about social justice, and then act super bigoted and sexist whenever the group they claim to be trying to help don't fall in lockstep with their ideology. You're black and you don't agree with us? INTERNALIZED RACISM. You're female and you don't agree with us? GENDER TRAITOR, INTERNALIZED MISOGYNY. See, they don't even respect the people they are speaking to enough to assume that those individuals arrived at their conclusions via their own process of examination. They must have been brainwashed because they were born a certain color or a certain sex.

What's more bigoted than that? Maybe thinking that black people need special debate rules, special college admissions rules and special scholarships, because they are not "good enough" to compete at the level of non-blacks without them? Or thinking that identified "victim" groups should all be shielded from criticism, because they are emotional children who cannot handle other people's opinions?

"The white man is held to a moral standard that, in the West, men [who have immigrated] from other cultures are not held to," she told the Herald. ''If a white man sold his daughter into marriage, most people would be appalled and there'd be an outrage in any national context in any country in the West. But when it's a man from Pakistan or Somalia or Yemen or India, then what you see is this: 'Oh yes, but â€¦'"

http://wwsg.com/ayaan-hirsi-ali-western ... ig-picture

Yeah, how bigoted is that? It's like saying foreigners are savage animals, and we can't expect them to do anything right, so we'd better appease them and change our culture (the culture that built the country they immigrated to) to suit their religion.

If all Muslims were as cool as the Sufis, I'd have no problems with Islam. But we don't live in that world, and women like Ayaan Hirsi Ali are carrying on the genuine feminist activism that does still have a place in this world.

#10835

Those last posts by Dworkins and Caruthers should be at the top oh each new Pit page.

Golf clap.

#10836

Old_ones wrote:Yeah, no they don't. Not only is "50 shades of grey" written by a woman, but Tetsuya, here, might be the first man I've ever observed talking about that book, online or off.

The only reason I even know that fucking book exists, is because random women I'm acquainted with have decided it would be a good idea to tell me about it. I guess the title stuck with me after the smiling and nodding was over.

I wonder what the average woman would think of a male feminist like this guy trying to save them from their choice of romance/erotica/whatever novel.

Not only is 50 Shades written by a woman, so is 9 and an half weeks, and The Story of O

In fact a large amount of BDSM literature is

The Story of O would have SJWs exploding in fits of rage

#10837

James Caruthers wrote:
But the SJL doesn't have a goal. They just want everything to magically be "better" and perfect. Their ideal world changes depending on what time of day it is and how oppressed they're feeling. They love to pretend that anyone born into an "oppressor class" has never had it worse than them, even though the SJWs are usually college-educated and middle or upper class.
.[/i]

Because they have all been the racial minority at some point and I have never been stuck on a ship with 4 Croatians and 20 filipinos. All of them have lost their jobs and careers because of their nationality and I was not made redundant because I was European and the company deemed Europeans too expensive http://maritime-connector.com/the-gearb ... hipowners/

Whats my point? The assumption that I am british, I am therefore privileged is utter bollocks. I have lost my job, my career and my future. Although I am proud to have worked in the merchant navy as I deck officer I feel I have wasted my college years training for a job I can no longer do simply due to the place where I was born. Where is my white privildge? The asians are far more privilidged than I ever was when working at sea. This is where the SJW fail to see the truth of the world. It does not matter what your nationality is, what colour your skin is, who your family are or how much money you have, money grabbing bastards will trample all over you to save a few pence. Its not privildge, its just shitty. But it is also how the world works

#10838

dogen wrote:On Butterflies and Wheels, there's a discussion of the Cecily McMillan (Occupy protestor) sentencing. Francisco Bacopa is being particularly classy:

So where does this cop live? Where does his wife work? Where do his kids go to school? We can make his life a living hell if we want to .
I wonder if Francisco is considering monogramming one of the cop's kids with a butterfly motif. That would be funny and appropriate, right? Right?

Bacopa seems to have an almost perverse talent for saying things that make him persona non grata. I don't think he really gets this SJW thing.

#10839

Hunt wrote:
Bacopa seems to have an almost perverse talent for saying things that make him persona non grata. I don't think he really gets this SJW thing.

Not sure I've ever seen any of the clowns declare him persona non grata. Maybe a sotto voce condemnation of his threats somewhere?

#10840

James Caruthers wrote:
Suet Cardigan wrote:This one?

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... 00x168.gif

It implies that 50 Shades of Grey is an instruction manual for life, when it's clearly a fantasy.
A fantasy women love.

Why do feminists insist on being sexist and telling women what they should be sexually attracted to, and what kind of fantasies they are allowed to have? So misogynistic.

The popularity of the book is hard to fathom though.

A rape fantasy where the woman secretly enjoys it would be one thing. A rape fantasy where the woman doesn't want it and is left in tears? Can't understand the appeal.

Have you read Cliff Pervocracy's line-by-line takedown? It's a good read, as is most of her stuff. (If only all feminists were that level-headed and intelligent!)

#10841

There's a little group of them that they'd all rather have at the highchair table (Nerd...etc) rather than watching them drool.

#10842

[youtube]IPgk0Hv-eTc[/youtube]

Y'all remember ASU right? Here's a much bigger asshole christian (the guy that kid went crazy on was pretty reasonable) protest group.

I've identified a few groups of people here:

1) Crazy asshole christians
2) Stupid college kids who hate free speech, see the "fuck you" screamers and the jackoff who tries to put his sign in front of the christian signs, to block their free expression
3) Stupid college kids getting trolled hard by the fundie christian nuts

And finally...

BANANA MAN and his partner GORILLA GUY!

Doing it right! What Banana Man is doing preserves the spirit of free speech while defusing the situation and taking the sting from the christian nutters' words. He's not playing his music so loud the christian arses can't shout over it. They can still be seen and heard. But what a difference it makes to play a shitty Cher song over YOU DESERVED TO BE RAEPD.

I saw these kinds of christian losers come out of the woodwork when Dawkins came to my school to pimp his book. I did what all the cool kids do and ignored them. 8-) You can't tear down the First Amendment just to remove fools like these from public.

#10843

Hunt wrote:
dogen wrote:On Butterflies and Wheels, there's a discussion of the Cecily McMillan (Occupy protestor) sentencing. Francisco Bacopa is being particularly classy:

So where does this cop live? Where does his wife work? Where do his kids go to school? We can make his life a living hell if we want to .
I wonder if Francisco is considering monogramming one of the cop's kids with a butterfly motif. That would be funny and appropriate, right? Right?
Bacopa seems to have an almost perverse talent for saying things that make him persona non grata. I don't think he really gets this SJW thing.

Just in case Ophelia sends it down the memory hole:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140509082 ... ny-lashes/

#10844

Dick Strawkins wrote:
Just in case Ophelia sends it down the memory hole:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140509082 ... ny-lashes/

there seems to be a bit of sanity left in that dump:

jaggington
May 8, 2014 at 11:36 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Francisco Bacopa #4

WTF? How does harassing someoneâ€™s family make up for the wrongs that person may have done? His wife and his children are not possessions, they are people. How can you possibly think it is acceptable to lash out against such innocent people in the name of vengeance on someone youâ€™ve never met?

#10845

Male privilege strikes again:

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-27327325

The study found that frequent worries or demands generated by partners and children were linked to a 50%-100% increased risk of death from all causes.

Being out of work seemed to increase the negative impact of stressful social relationships. Those who were unemployed were at significantly greater risk of death from any cause than those who had a job, the study said.

Men seemed to be particularly vulnerable to the worries and demands generated by their female partners, with a higher risk of death than that normally associated with being a man.

http://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2014/ ... 013-203675

#10846

ROBOKiTTY wrote:One thing I do that most feminists don't: I sponsor a little girl in Senegal financially.

Who's doing more for the actual lives of women and girls now?

Bitch, they treat a woman every day.

Usually to more wine.

#10847

SÃ¸ren Lilholt wrote:
James Caruthers wrote:
Suet Cardigan wrote:This one?

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... 00x168.gif

It implies that 50 Shades of Grey is an instruction manual for life, when it's clearly a fantasy.
A fantasy women love.

Why do feminists insist on being sexist and telling women what they should be sexually attracted to, and what kind of fantasies they are allowed to have? So misogynistic.
The popularity of the book is hard to fathom though.

A rape fantasy where the woman secretly enjoys it would be one thing. A rape fantasy where the woman doesn't want it and is left in tears? Can't understand the appeal.

Have you read Cliff Pervocracy's line-by-line takedown? It's a good read, as is most of her stuff. (If only all feminists were that level-headed and intelligent!)

From personal experience going back quite a few years, Cliff Pervocracy is a SJW, and a pretty radical feminist herself.
The appeal of the 50 Shades books isn't really hard to understand.
A significant minority of women have rape fantasies. Mind you, not 'real rape' fantasies (coerced sex with an unattractive man), but a fantasy of a strong, dominant man, not really 'taking no' for an answer.
Arguably, a vast majority of straight women like men to 'lead' when it comes to romance and sex. When any kink is involved female submissive (even though most of them are only submissive sexually, sexually submissive does not mean 'relationship doormat') outnumber female dominants by numbers I've seen of 8 to 13 or more to one.
The books contain lots of submissive sex (and arguably some is indeed, non consensual). But in the end (the third book) the 'bad boy billionaire" is tamed, and is quite literally under the protagonists thumb. Add the fact that even women who could take or leave non-penetrative (or heck, even sex altogether) sex (no kinky stuff!) often like to tame bad boys and you can quickly see why these books are so popular.
Heck, add to that the fact that many, if not most of the readers are 'bored housewives' and there you go.

It wasn't that hard.

#10848

Dick Strawkins wrote:Male privilege strikes again:

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-27327325

The study found that frequent worries or demands generated by partners and children were linked to a 50%-100% increased risk of death from all causes.

Being out of work seemed to increase the negative impact of stressful social relationships. Those who were unemployed were at significantly greater risk of death from any cause than those who had a job, the study said.

Men seemed to be particularly vulnerable to the worries and demands generated by their female partners, with a higher risk of death than that normally associated with being a man.
http://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2014/ ... 013-203675

Brothers of the Patriarchy, this calls for a celebration! Drinks are on me, if we ever meet.

#10849

I feel the important thing about Christian isn't that he's hot, it's that he's rich.

#10850

rayshul wrote:I feel the important thing about Christian isn't that he's hot, it's that he's rich.

It reminds me of that old Mrs Merton remark to Debbie mcGee, then an attractive young woman who was married to the much older TV magician Paul Daniels, a man who bears more than a passing resemblance to a something you might have found in the background of the Star Wars cantina scene.

"Debbie, can you tell us, what did a beautiful young woman like you find so attractive in the multi-millionaire Paul Daniels?"

#10851

OK, perhaps a real example of genuine male biological advantage?

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-27323472

"Multiple sclerosis discovery may explain gender gap"

A key difference in the brains of male and female MS patients may explain why more women than men get the disease, a study suggests.

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in the US found higher levels of protein S1PR2 in tests on the brains of female mice and dead women with MS than in male equivalents.

Four times more women than men are currently diagnosed with MS.

#10852

James Caruthers wrote:
Y'all remember ASU right? Here's a much bigger asshole christian (the guy that kid went crazy on was pretty reasonable) protest group.

I've identified a few groups of people here:

1) Crazy asshole christians
2) Stupid college kids who hate free speech, see the "fuck you" screamers and the jackoff who tries to put his sign in front of the christian signs, to block their free expression
3) Stupid college kids getting trolled hard by the fundie christian nuts

I think the "fuck you" screamers are entirely appropriate. The guys covering the signs are borderline only because it's kind of a stupid gesture and doesn't really accomplish anything except to draw your attention to the sign anyway. Acknowledging free speech doesn't means you have to respect that speech at all or go out of your way to ensure that it happens. "I disagree with you, but will fight to the death for your right to say it..." blah blah blah is all well and good, but for speech this stupid, it's really a wasted effort. THE most appropriate thing to do to these guys is to ignore them, because they are indeed trolling. That's exactly why cretins like this target college campuses and usually aren't on the corner of a business district. If you've just spent eight hours shuffling papers you want your glass of wine, not to listen to some addled fundie.

#10853

Dick Strawkins wrote:OK, perhaps a real example of genuine male biological advantage?

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-27323472

"Multiple sclerosis discovery may explain gender gap"

A key difference in the brains of male and female MS patients may explain why more women than men get the disease, a study suggests.

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in the US found higher levels of protein S1PR2 in tests on the brains of female mice and dead women with MS than in male equivalents.

Four times more women than men are currently diagnosed with MS.

I forgot to add,

"Paging Dr Hornbeck, please report to emergency at once!
You need to convince some female MS sufferers that it's all just a social construct!"

#10854

ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:http://i.imgur.com/RpAdqUZ.png

Ahaha. :)

Hahaa. :D

Hoohaaaheehaa! :lol:

Woohoohoohaaheehaaheeeeeehaaaagghhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :lol: :) :lol: :clap: :clap: :dance: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Let's buy him a mug for just these occasions:

http://rlv.zcache.com/darn_i_ripped_the ... vr_512.jpg

#10855

Michael J wrote:
James Caruthers wrote:
Suet Cardigan wrote:This one?

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... 00x168.gif

It implies that 50 Shades of Grey is an instruction manual for life, when it's clearly a fantasy.
A fantasy women love.

Why do feminists insist on being sexist and telling women what they should be sexually attracted to, and what kind of fantasies they are allowed to have? So misogynistic.
It is weird isn't it. From all of the reviews I have heard about the book is that it is a book bought by women. They don't understand irony do they.

Written by a woman, and bought by mostly women, yes. It's also fiction. And fantasy. Tatsuya doesn't seem to understand either of these things, which is sad because I used to read that comic pretty frequently. The thing is, though, and this might be the most ironic thing of all, when he (occasionally) depicted women being ditzy, men as pigs (literally as pigs), and so on and so forth, I thought he was being satirical. But it turns out that, no, he was being absolutely, dead fucking serious. So I guess the joke's on me, eh?

#10856

The Unbelievers finally leaked by the way.

#10857

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Jesus Christ!

#10858

Apparently "thinsplaining" is joining mansplaining in the Newspeak of social justice warriors.

http://bioethicsbulletin.org/archive/da ... s-obesity/

So now anything a non-fat person says about obesity can be characterized as "thinsplaining" and ignored!

#10859

http://24.media.tumblr.com/87046c251ccc ... r1_500.jpg

Turns out I never read the first Gaunt trilogy. Getting into it now and it rips ass.

Too bad the Imperium in Dawn of War is made of wuss and suck unless you spam vehicles.

#10860

James Caruthers wrote:http://24.media.tumblr.com/87046c251ccc ... r1_500.jpg

Turns out I never read the first Gaunt trilogy. Getting into it now and it rips ass.

Too bad the Imperium in Dawn of War is made of wuss and suck unless you spam vehicles.

Who needs who her when you have the Adeptas Sororitas.

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I think I'm in love