Jul 30 2012
This is the talk I gave at Dragon*Con last year, which was itself an expansion on the talk I gave at TAM9. It’s about how to use emotions to your advantage when trying to promote a cause. I talk about Prop 8, the importance of social justice in getting people to like atheists, and how to be a dick in an effective way.
The powerpoint and notes for the presentation are here: http://freethoughtblogs.com/ashleymiller/2011/09/06/do-be-a-dick-sometimes-emotions-and-skeptics/
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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northierthanthou
July 30, 2012 at 2:10 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The interplay between emotion and reason can be really fascinating. It’s nice to see someone addressing the connection.
northierthanthou
July 30, 2012 at 2:14 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Damn, the comparison between the two commercials is hard to take. The first one fails on so many levels.
Ticktockman
July 31, 2012 at 9:56 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Oh wow — this is you! I was at that panel but completely forgot your name. Well fancy that! I hope you’ll be returning to Dragon*Con this year. If so, see you at the SkepticTrack.
-TTm
trazan
August 17, 2012 at 7:26 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Nice, but it autoplays every time I load your blog and I have to scroll down to find it and press pause. Maybe some blog wizard could wave their wand at it? /first-world-problems
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August 2, 2012 at 2:25 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
[...] beings as if they have no emotions or that those emotions don’t matter. Again, I point to Ashley Miller’s talk about this very topic at Dragon*con. I also point to Julia Galef’s lecture on the [...]