Noooooo!
Say it ain’t so! Say Barmaid (rumored to be …) hasn’t become an accommodationist! Say she’s just taking a day off to muster extra strength for the next blast. At least tell me she served them sour beer.
The Barmaid usually only reacts to their stupidity, so if they aren’t saying or doing anything stupid, she doesn’t react.
If that’s being an accommodationist then sign me up to be an accomodationist. Because if religious folks promise to stop saying/doing stupid and dangerous things I’ll stop pointing out that they’re being stupid and dangerous. But – and this is key – they have to make the first move.
Ophelia Benson is a columnist for Free Inquiry and the co-author of The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense, Why Truth Matters, and Does God Hate Women?
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Aratina Cage
January 11, 2012 at 11:48 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
A comic with no substantive dialog? Offensive!
Ophelia Benson
January 11, 2012 at 11:54 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
How can you say that?! Mo thinks it’s nice!
Well he would, wouldn’t he.
Don
January 11, 2012 at 11:56 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
This is really crossing the line.
J&M has been around for years without apparent rage, indignation or hysteria. (Unless you cont Giberson.) I guess UCL want to change that.
evilDoug
January 11, 2012 at 11:57 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Noooooo!
Say it ain’t so! Say Barmaid (rumored to be …) hasn’t become an accommodationist! Say she’s just taking a day off to muster extra strength for the next blast. At least tell me she served them sour beer.
Ophelia Benson
January 11, 2012 at 1:08 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Barmaid is totes being sarcastically literal – like, “see what this gets you?” This is despite being perfectly aware that they will not get it.
jerthebarbarian
January 11, 2012 at 1:24 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
The Barmaid usually only reacts to their stupidity, so if they aren’t saying or doing anything stupid, she doesn’t react.
If that’s being an accommodationist then sign me up to be an accomodationist. Because if religious folks promise to stop saying/doing stupid and dangerous things I’ll stop pointing out that they’re being stupid and dangerous. But – and this is key – they have to make the first move.
Ophelia Benson
January 11, 2012 at 1:32 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
That’s a point – she’s probably just all “oh the blissful silence.”
Ophelia Benson
January 11, 2012 at 1:32 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I’m pretending not to know what she thinks in order to maintain the mystery.
:- )
Michael Fugate
January 11, 2012 at 2:07 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
It’s a mystery – isn’t that the answer to “What is religious knowledge?”
Pierce R. Butler
January 11, 2012 at 6:11 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
The levels in the boys’ glasses aren’t dropping.
Is the sound of sipping offensive too?