Update: Ron Lindsay posted a transcript of his remarks, which is good because this liveblog doesn’t do the actual words spoken justice. I need to emphasize that this man used his opening remarks to tell women to stop being so forceful about getting people to stop talking over them and listening to them for once. …
Category Archive: Gender
May 12 2013
Trans woman refused at bridal shop in Saskatoon
I’m several days behind on most of my news and blog feeds at the moment, but this post at TransGriot caught my eye. Rohit Singh, a young trans woman, was browsing wedding dresses at a bridal shop in Saskatoon for her upcoming nuptials. When she asked to try one on, she was refused, being told, …
May 06 2013
Memo to blowjob-forcing fan: it’s a RAP concert, not a RAPE concert.
Here’s another of the myriad ways that patriarchy and rape culture hurts men. I know this is going to be counterintuitive to some of you mouth-breathers, but if your first reaction to this story is “that guy has all the luck” or “but he’s a rapper who raps a lot about sex” or anything other …
Apr 29 2013
“But I’m a nice guy!”
Okay, if you haven’t already seen this video that’s been floating about recently, you probably should. I see this absurdism, and reductio ad absurdum of the entire Men’s Rights Movement, as a defense mechanism against the completely counter-intuitive pushback against feminism. I mean, how else do you deal with ideas that are so patently absurd …
Apr 21 2013
Thou Shalt Pirate Pornography
A few people are pointing this out as an example of some of the religious hypocrisy endemic in organized Catholicism. While they’re making a good case about it — this is in fact hypocritical, if you consider piracy stealing — I’d rather point out that this makes these people every bit as human as anyone …
Apr 20 2013
NZ MP delivers great speech in support of gay marriage
New Zealand has legalized gay marriage, and MP Maurice Williamson delivered this bang-up speech to mark the occasion and express his feelings about gay marriage in general, and the opposition to gay marriage in specific. Well said.
Apr 15 2013
Spot the Sexual Language
If you were watching the SkepTech hash tag on Twitter during the conference last weekend, you probably would have seen the usual suspects making the usual whine-plaints about harassment policies, and how they’re ruining all the fun at conferences. Then you would have seen some of those same whiners lose their shit over the fact …
Apr 08 2013
Canadian birth control recall — for placebos instead of real pills
Here’s one of those screw-ups whose impact would be significantly dampened if it wasn’t covered up by the drug corps responsible. Users of Alysena-28, by Canadian drug company Apotex, should check their pills’ batch number. Apotex says one batch of the Alysena-28 may contain two weeks of placebo sugar pills instead of one, adding the …
Apr 07 2013
Giving my very lifeblood for skepticism at #SkepTech
Oh man, SkepTech was a blast this weekend. Maybe a bit TOO jam-packed with epicness, though; such that I ended up missing several panels just getting food or, say, giving blood. Yesterday I gave blood for the first time ever. It’s something I’ve always meant to do, but every time there was a blood drive …
Apr 04 2013
Paul Cameron: “Gays more likely to have sex with kids and animals, according to survey produced by My Rectum”
Okay, that’s not an exact quote, but damned if it’s not close enough to be serviceable. Some survey this anti-gay group produced, has apparently determined that a quarter of gays have had sex with kids or animals. I’d love to see the methodology used. Actually, hell — I’d love to see evidence that the “survey” …
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