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Barney Frank, atheism, and representation
Source So Barney Frank came out last night– again. This time as a “pot-smoking atheist” on Real Time With Bill Maher, when Maher gave himself that label and Frank responded by jokingly asking Maher which one he meant: Bill Maher: … you were in a fairly safe district. You were not one of those Congresspeople…
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The Revenge of the Nerds trope
Pictured: Nerd revenge First, a disclaimer: I’ve not seen a single episode of Big Bang Theory. I did, however, read an article about it entitled Why Geek Girls Are Tired of ‘Big Bang’ Bullshit, and contains a lot of complaints about sexism on the show. One of them in particular caught my eye: In the…
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Canon fodder
The cocktail waitresses of Star Trek (2009) So I was watching the 2009 film Star Trek, which annoyingly has no subtitle. No Nemesis, no Insurrection, no Into Darkness, no Into the Woods, nothing. So it will forever be known, to me at least, as “the 2009 Star Trek,” which is unfortunate given that it’s a decent…
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A-baby-ist.
Niall Ferguson So, just as I’m finishing reading comedian Jen Kirkman’s book I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids, historian Niall Ferguson goes and claims that people who don’t have children don’t care about society or the future. Or at least, he claims that about economist John Maynard…
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Why do we laugh at sexist jokes?
Post about stereotyping, clichethinking gets stereotyped,cliched image Let’s say you view love as a battlefield. Okay, more like a football field. Dating, sex, relationships, marriage– they’re all a series of skirmishes against the other team, aka the opposite sex. You compete with others on your own team as well, fellow Men players and Women players,…
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America: lousiest host ever
Okay, here’s the deal. How it should be. If you’re in the United States for reasons beyond your control– that is, you didn’t decide to come here on your own, pay for it on your own, and physically get yourself here on your own– you’re entitled to the rights and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship. Additionally,…