Ophelia Benson

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Date registered: August 26, 2011
URL: http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/

Biography

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?

Latest posts

  1. Sunday morning — May 19, 2013
  2. The coffee is ready — May 18, 2013
  3. Saturday morning at WiS2 — May 18, 2013
  4. Having fun yet — May 17, 2013
  5. More documenting the harassment — May 15, 2013

Most commented posts

  1. Jim Jefferies — 600 comments
  2. I’m out — 535 comments
  3. A man generally cannot know — 389 comments
  4. Page o’ nonstop monitoring and harassment — 318 comments

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May 13 2013

Counter to the goals of the wider atheist movement

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PZ on his own post on Justicar’s latest jeu d’esprit: You know what also annoys me about this? It’s explicitly counter to the goals of the wider atheist movement, in which we want people to step forward publicly and be the face of atheism. Look at that story about Gage Pulliam, for instance: he went …

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May 12 2013

Oh no, a street sign!

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The Audacity of being public post was mostly about this, but I was being cryptic for the time being. I’ll stop being cryptic now: it was about Justicar doing a video to call Jen a fucking nitwit for not totally concealing her location from creeping stalking peering thugs like Justicar – who takes very good …

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May 12 2013

Preferences

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This thing about feminism and skepticism, and the idea that they make a natural pair… I don’t think they do, really. I think they can be compatible, but I don’t think they’re made for each other. You can be skeptical about any given social arrangement, but since feminism can be a social arrangement, that means …

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May 12 2013

The audacity of being public

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There’s a weird trope out there – it’s been out there for awhile but it’s getting more and more so (more weird and more out there). One form of it is to complain of “threat narratives” and in the next breath to assert that we are the most vile awful loathsome abominable people ever. In …

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May 12 2013

Because of Templeton

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Brian Leiter hosted a discussion of the Templeton Foundation the other day. Jason Stanley (Rutgers, moving to Yale) started a lively discussion on Facebook with this comment, which he gave me permission to repost here: Because of Templeton, we may expect a huge number of papers and books in our field taking a religious perspective …

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May 12 2013

We’re back!

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Back, I tell you, back!

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May 11 2013

Meet the neighbors

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The greetings committee has certainly wasted no time making our new colleague Yemi welcome. She wrote a post on What are Anti-Atheists+ afraid of? and along came Damion Reinhardt and “pitchguest” and john greg to respond. john greg is as shy and sweet as ever. Yemisi, you are indeed a perfect fit with FfTB. Dogmatic; poor English …

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May 11 2013

You think

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Jesus and Mo get serious with the barmaid – too serious. Pass the crisps.

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May 11 2013

Bruce Gorton pummels the idea that it is better to be unified than correct

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Guest post by Bruce Gorton, originally a comment on Then the community can embrace Jamy Ian Swiss is precisely what is wrong with society, if the reaction to his last talk on Skepticism and ‘identity politics’ is anything to be believed. I haven’t watched the talk, so recognise what I am talking about is how …

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May 11 2013

Getting the names right

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Via Ron Lindsay at CFI blogs, Leah Libresco posts about “A new forum for Catholic/atheist dialogue.”  Brandon Vogt, author of The Church and New Media has opened a new site called Strange Notions, that’s meant to be a forum for debate and discussion between Catholics and atheists.  For some reason, it seemed like the readers of …

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