In today’s news, a group of high school students were offended and walked out of a talk because they were told that they are too moral to do things like stoning women for being non-virgins on their wedding night or owning slaves. The person giving this talk called them cowards […]
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From Skepchick, Guest Post: IGN Agrees, Women are Whores Money quote: There aren’t many words more denigrating to women than ‘whore’. It’s the one that summons mental images of domestic violence, of the worst sort of reduction to a sexual object. That Deadwood smack of ‘disposable, beatable hole’ makes me physically […]
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From Reason, Born This Way? Nature, nurture, narratives, and the making of our political personalities Money quote: The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor. Everyone loves a good story; every culture bathes its children in stories. Among the most important stories we know are stories about […]
Read MoreMy new favorite GIF
The Film Sack podcast discussed Dazed and Confused this week, so I watched it again…for something like the 20th time. And this GIF was the result: So many potential uses. (What’s the Film Sack podcast, you ask? What, have you been living under a rock? Go here, and enjoy.)
Read MoreHow to be an atheist who doesn’t hate religion
Are you an atheist? Do you hate religion? “Well, I don’t hate it,” I can hear you say. “Or at least, I don’t hate religious people. I just think that fundamentally it’s better not to be religious, because religion isn’t true. And I do really hate a lot of what […]
Read MoreQ: Who whines more than a feminist?
Ji Firepaw: Reformed cad A: Why, whiners whining about feminists, of course! 1. A calm, well reasoned but pointed piece runs on WoW Insider criticizing the fact that a male NPC quest-giver in the Mists of Panderia beta greets male players by complimenting them on their strength, but female players […]
Read MoreMore letter to the editor fun
All from the Wichita Eagle: April 7th: April 10th: April 12th: Today: I’ll be interested to see how long this goes on– also whether any letters will be published from men unhappy about being portrayed as tricking women into using birth control so they can get the milk for free. […]
Read MoreWeekend web readin’, special edition: religion in video games
From Game Front, Questionable Religious Content Money quote: The game industry as a whole sends a really ridiculous message when it backs away from religious commentary. It’s an industry where beheadings, total body disruption, overt sexuality and jokes about poo run rampant, but where everybody gets suddenly very timid and […]
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From Rationalist International, Sanal Edamarku under attack for exposing Catholic “miracle” Money quote: On 10th March, Sanal Edamaruku flew to Mumbai. The TV channel TV-9 had invited him to investigate a “miracle” that caused local excitement. He went with the TV team to Irla in Vile Parle to inspect the […]
Read MoreIf I’m going to be in Wichita….
…you can bet I will be writing letters to the editor:
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