Category Archive: Privilege

May 19 2013

Asking the Wrong Question about Ingersoll #wiscfi

I ended up missing the last two talks of the Women In Secularism conference because I had to catch a stupid plane that was stupid ten hours earlier than I would have stupid liked. Stupid. Blah. Okay, I’m happy that I’m home, and completely bloody spent, but in a good way. A mostly good way. …

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May 19 2013

Women In Secularism 2 – What the Secular Movement Can Learn[...] liveblog #wiscfi

What the Secular Movement Can Learn from Other Social Movements with Greta Christina, Carrie Poppy, Desiree Schell, and moderator Soraya Chemaly

May 18 2013

Women In Secularism 2 – Maryam Namazie liveblog #wiscfi

Secularism: A Right and Demand of Women Worldwide Maryam Namazie

May 18 2013

Women In Secularism 2 – Jennifer Michael Hecht liveblog #wiscfi

The History of Atheism, Feminism, and the Science of Brains with Jennifer Michael Hecht Tremendous hope and despair expressed here. Very first thing we can do to forward our goals is to show up.

May 18 2013

Women In Secularism 2 – How Women’s Concerns[...] liveblog #wiscfi

How Women’s Concerns Can Best Be Advanced within the Context of a Secular Agenda Moderator: Jamila Bey Panel: Soraya Chemaly, Susan Jacoby, Amanda Marcotte, Katha Pollitt

May 18 2013

Women In Secularism 2 – Susan Jacoby liveblog #wiscfi

Author of The Great Agnostic, about Robert Ingersoll. E-book called Last Man On Top. Why the Lost History of Secular Women Matters Today

May 18 2013

Women In Secularism 2 – Gender Equality in the Secular Movement liveblog #wiscfi

Moderator: Greta Christina Panelists: Ophelia Benson, Elizabeth Cornwell, Debbie Goddard, Stephanie Zvan

May 17 2013

Women In Secularism 2 – Amanda Marcotte liveblog #wiscfi

Set up late after the 20-min break. Missed opening. Amanda Marcotte – Skeptics Love Challenging Popular Beliefs Standing up to patriarchy is not easy, does not make you popular. Anti-secularists make everything about gender, about sexuality, moreso even than school prayer etc. Theocrats spend 90% of their time on gender-related issues.

May 16 2013

Privilege, Dialogue, Harassment, and the Anti-Availability Heuristic

The Availability Heuristic is a well-known cognitive bias that primes people to more readily believe something when they can easily come up with examples. Of the cognitive biases that I’ve encountered among rationalists in the skeptical and atheist communities, this bias is the one I’m most capable of coming up with examples. I am therefore …

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May 13 2013

Cumberbaaaaaatch!

Okay, look, there are big spoilers for some relatively new nerd media that I’ve probably already given away by the title if you’re savvy, but I’m putting below the fold anyway. And to spoil the post proper, just to be meta for meta’s own sake: I’m going to rant about what I’m spoiling.

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