Rush Limbaugh issued a double backflip notpology today for his slut/prostitute/sex tape remarks about Sandra Fluke, saying first that he didn’t mean to attack her personally (err…how do you say that someone is a slut who needs to learn how to have sex less on accident?), and then continuing to misrepresent the content of and.
Georgetown University’s president, John J. DeGioia, repudiated Rush Limbaugh’s slut/prostitute/sex tape diatribe today by not exactly endorsing Sandra Fluke’s message, but noting that her testimony had been respectful and sincere while condemning speech such as Limbaugh’s as “misogynistic, vitriolic, and a misrepresentation of the position of our student.” He did this in an email sent.
Really? Because it looks like that…hurts. As a follow-up to this post, I feel compelled to share these: Cracked’s 5 Most Ridiculously Sexist Superhero Costumes, and R.K. Milholland’s Super Stupor! comic mocking such costumes and poses Comics are almost certainly the most sexist medium in geekdom. By that I do not mean that a).
…according to Newt Gingrich: because anything other than one man and one woman is pagan. Seriously: It’s pretty simple: marriage is between a man and a woman. This is a historic doctrine driven deep into the Bible, both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, and it’s a perfect example of what I.
…though she has been tempted. It’s easy to see why: Becoming a board member of a secular non-profit and being invited as a speaker to events has really opened my eyes. You start interacting with a diverse group of people who have been in the movement a long time, and you get a behind-the-scenes glimpse..
I have my own law, devised under the screen name Rillion which I’ve used since about 2000. The law isn’t quite that old, but it has existed at least since 2005. Rillion’s Law states: The amount of knowledge a person has about a particular subject is inversely proportional to his or her tendency to make.
And here’s Jen McCreight’s take on both the Twitter argument last night (I had a resolution against taking part in those, and of course broke it. Good thing it wasn’t a New Year’s resolution) and the article itself. Jen takes more time to work through the straw men (or straw women) in the article than.
I love Penn Jillette. I do, very much. But he does tend to carry the denouncement of prudes and blowhards so far that it gets to the point of practically denying that authentic assholes exist. Let me explain. Earlier this evening, Penn tweeted a link to this letter addressed openly to the “skeptical community from.
“Dude, we don’t want to see that shit. Here, have a sip ofDouche-Be-Gone so you’ll stop being so…you know.” Concerning the topic of online sexual harassment against women, atheist and otherwise, and what to do about it, Stephanie Zvan defends the use of social disapproval: I’ve even seen a couple of people say things like, “Social disapproval.
From the Huffington Post’s list of 2011’s Most Absurd Quotes About Women– And Who Said Them: An anonymous Egyptian general spoke to CNN about why female protestors arrested during anti-Mubarak demonstrations were strip-searched and forced to submit to virginity tests. “The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine. These were girls.