David Silverman, Amanda Knief, and the rest of the crew at American Atheists have put together what I feel exceedingly comfortable in saying is absolutely the strongest anti-harassment policy implemented in this entire campaign. AA just closed a conference call (to which I was invited, though my day job impeded my participation). They have gone …
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Jun 24 2012
Bullying the bullies into stopping bullying
As I mentioned in my essay on safe spaces, sometimes bullies win. Sometimes the bullies wear at a person’s resolve enough so that one little weird and probably innocuous incident from an unrelated source is enough to rattle that person. Enough to change the calculus used to determine whether something is worth doing, such that …
Jun 21 2012
Let’s play harassment bingo
Time for some more crowdsourcing. Here’s my first bunch of squares for a harassment bingo card. Need a minimum of 24. I have 16. Y u no name names? Witch-hunts Taliban “hysterical” / “histrionic” “feminazi” Leave it to the cops A policy would ruin our convention Mistaking TAM for the entire community “Leave DJ alone!” …
Jun 18 2012
The FtB Conversation about TAM: Transcript Pt. 1
Here’s the first half hour of the transcript for the big FtB Conversation from yesterday, done once again by the indefatiguable Kate Donovan. She’s the poor soul who did the transcript for the “PenisGate Debate”, who volunteered for this as I guess a sort of palate-cleanser. If you’re just joining in, read these two posts …
Jun 17 2012
FtB and Rebecca Watson want TAM to succeed
A Google+ Hangout with ten of us uppity feminists whose irresponsible messaging have been destroying the secular movement. The takeaway is that we want TAM and the secular movement to improve. We want us all to be better. I’ll tell you the truth, I was nervous the entire time. If I’m chattery or stupid, I’m …
Jun 01 2012
The DJ Grothe quote that sticks in my craw.
At the end of this comment, DJ Grothe said the following about the “rumors” of harassment at skeptical conferences: So much of that feels to me more like rumor and distasteful locker room banter, often pretty mean-spirited, especially when it is from just one or a few women recounting sexual exploits they’ve had with speakers …
Tags: bullying, DJ Grothe, feminism, harassment, sexism, sexual harassment, skepticism, TAM
May 30 2012
Onoes, the religious are being bullied by Gay-Straight Alliances in Canada!!
In Ontario, there’s apparently been a bit of a row over school anti-bullying clubs naming themselves Gay-Straight Alliance, or something similar. The row comes mostly from the Catholic schools — naturally — where the proposed clubs are denied on the basis that they have the word “gay” in them, where these Catholic schools consider homosexuality …
May 29 2012
On the “Talibanesque”-ness of harassment policies
The trollitariat have been out in full force recently about the real progress we’ve made recently in finally putting into place structures that will protect women from unwanted sexual advances at atheist/skeptic conventions. They’re getting some help from prominent skeptics like Russell Blackford, who evidently created the meme of the Talibanesquery of this initiative according …
Apr 04 2012
Trolling to be illegal worldwide (Updated: bill dead!)
Update: The below is mostly nullified as the bill was sent back to the House with amendments, but died anyway. Thank goodness. Of course, all the other non-trolling-related nonsense mentioned below still stands! Well, if you happen to troll someone in Arizona, anyway. Arizona House Bill 2549 passed both legislative houses last Thursday and is …
Oct 27 2011
Rick Mercer: Teen Suicide
Given the post I just put up, this one (from two nights ago) is relevant and timely. Three hundred teen suicides because kids don’t realize that it gets better? That’s obscene. Do something about it. MAKE it better, for the kids, now, while they’re most vulnerable.
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