Oh, I know there are sadder ones– Ugliest Tattoos is on my blogroll. But this one must be way up there: PZ Myers writes: I have a recommendation for his left arm, though—something from Leviticus 19. Lev 19:26 Eat not on the mountains, nor shall ye employ auguries, nor divine by inspection of birds..
Somebody pointed out in the Pharyngula thread that while “female” can be used as a noun, so can “black,” and it doesn’t sound very good to refer to a black person as simply “a black.” Comedian Lisa Lampanelli refers to “the blacks” on purpose because being offensive is her shtick. I think that using those.
Bill Bailey, hilarious feminist …is that it’s still possible to make general statements criticizing them and be taken seriously. Richard Dawkins weighed in on the sex/gender dispute, pretty much attributing all of the consternation to a blanket disapproval of the “million dollar challenge” (an experiment intended to show that women are essentially sexual gate keepers by asking.
Wonder how he managed to narrow it down to ten…. This is a very good list explanations and examples of fallacies commonly made by politicians. In the world according to Gretchen, all children would learn about logical fallacies in school at a young age and then go home and apply that knowledge when watching politicians.
Via Dr. X’s Free Associations: Research Shows Testosterone Reduces Mind Reading Abilities, Empathy Levels New research conducted by scientists from the Utrecht and Cambridge Universities has found that an administration of testosterone under the tongue in volunteers can negatively affect a person’s ability to “mind read”, an indication of empathy. Moreover, the effects of testosterone administration.
I really wish the term “mansplaining” would go away. I understand the problem it’s meant to convey– a man assuming he knows more about something than a woman and condescending to her about it– but it’s an awkward portmanteau and just strikes me as juvenile. Like there’s no way to effectively point out instances of.
Claudia guest posts at Friendly Atheist on what she dubs “Femalegate“: The situation: There’s a discussion and the subject of inclusion of woman in the movement comes up. The panel has 5 men and 1 woman. In the audience, men outnumber women two to one. The complaint that women are hit on too much at.
…of the same panel at a regional meeting of American Atheists in Huntsville, Alabama on the subject of gender relations: One says it all went to hell and it’s no wonder a woman who stood up to ask a question ended up in the bathroom in tears with people consoling her.The other says the woman.
Oatmeal pretty well sums up my thoughts about football on this Super Bowl Sunday taking place in, of all places, Dallas: In short: Don’t give a damn. Never have. Have a very hard time, actually, understanding why people do. But I hope the people currently congregating by the hundreds of thousands at Cowboys Stadium, and.