Do you recall those pastors who made it into the news lately for making outlandishly bigoted statements about homosexuals from […]
feminism, gaming
Video games are like porn
Yep, I’m going to make the comparison. But perhaps not how you think. I am not talking about this: Is […]
feminism, psychology, sexuality, skepticism
Women who don’t like sexual aggression from strangers are prudish children. Or childish prudes. Or something.
I don’t like Psychology Today, part 2: So Elyse of Skepchick wrote a blog post a couple of weeks ago […]
follow-up, gaming, sexism
Defenders of male imagery in gaming strike back
So, some of the people who took exception (let’s call it that) to Anita Sarkeesian’s “Tropes vs. Women” Kickstarter project— […]
feminism, gaming, sexism
“You don’t think you can beat her without a cheat code.”
Jay Smooth on the whole tropes vs. women thing:
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The beauty of internet legal absurdity
If you don’t already read Matthew Inman’s webcomic The Oatmeal, or the group blog Popehat devoted to “law, liberty and […]
feminism, follow-up, gaming
Sexist trolls, meet Streisand Effect
Not the kind of video game trollI’m talking about It’s now nearly the end of the funding period for Anita […]
food, politics
Quote of the day
From Jason Foscolo’s blog Food Law: At the NYT, Bittman evokes Mrs. Lovejoy in his support of the Bloomberg Soda […]
atheism, religion
The big bad atheist will blow your religion down?
Ronald Lindsay, president and CEO of the Center for Inquiry (CFI), wrote a piece for the Huffington Post comparing coming […]
evolution, religion, school
How to deal with science you don’t like: call it religion
Artist: Person who didn’t exist yet, according to nearlyhalf of Americans The revelation that in 2012, 46% of Americans believe […]