Feb 02 2013
Alternately titled: Yes, but isn’t EVERYBODY kinda mentally ill? What is mental illness anyways? Aren’t we just pathologizing being weird?! BUT SO MANY PEOPLE SEEM TO BE MENTALLY ILL NOW! If you talk about mental health and mental illness long enough someone is going to pull one of these. You know, aren’t we all just …
Nov 21 2012
Rebecca Watson’s talk at Skepticon 5, which made my sides hurt from giggling. So, back in the day, men were hunters and women were gatherers…and now, men like museums while women prefer shopping…And the researcher in question noticed this on a trip to Prague. He went with some friends, and all the men in the …
Nov 13 2012
Alright, admittedly “bad psychic” is redundant, but this morning I got a comment on my old blog from a post I did about seeing a psychic where I used to work: Ashley, people do not pretend its a gift. It is a gift. Because you do not have the gift is why you respond in …
Oct 31 2012
A few days back, I cheerfully pointed out via a comment that when you say things like this: I handle controversy really well; I do not break down in tears, jump to unreasonable conclusions about my safety, or have mental breakdowns. …in the greater context of an article about how, in essence, those who can’t …
Oct 12 2012
This quarter at school, I’m enrolled in a number of classes geared towards a pre-professional student. Of course, I’m a psychology undergrad, and to be a counselor or therapist, graduate degrees and/or certifications are required. However, at this point my class load is centered around learning theoretical orientations, practicing micro-skills (don’t cross your arms at …
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 …
Jul 16 2012
One of my first introductions to critical thinking was through the Encyclopedia Brown books. They were more like riddles than mysteries, but they always taught you to pay close attention to the details and figure out which part was bullshit. The author of these wonderful books, Donald J. Sobol, has passed away today. If you …
Jul 15 2012
“Dreaming is hard. It requires risks. It requires you to own the fact that you are capable of something great.” “Imagine a world in which all the time, all the energy and and all the bandwidth that goes into cyber bullying and trolling instead goes into building good things.” This is part of what it …
Jun 15 2012
I read the comment threads on a lot of these TAM harassment posts and many readers seem to miss the fundamental point: DJ said women were not attending TAM because other women were posting about harassment at skeptic events. He justified this by saying no reports of harassment were made at TAM last year. These …
Jun 06 2012
There has been a lot of discussion about why women don’t report sexual harassment (Ophelia Benson, Greta Christina) and what they’re up against when they do, including hyper-skepticism over claims that are routine, mundane, and unsurprising. I would like to present to you a comment I got today, which you can go find if you …
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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