Archive for the 'Bloggery'

Hey, we added a couple of male bloggers here…I thought we were supposed to be man-hatin’ banshee feminists? It’s surprising but true, though, that some people with a Y chromosome and a penis can actually care about social justice. Say howdy to Ally Fogg and our very newest addition, Tauriq Moosa, who helpfully explains how to pronounce his name in his first post.

What’s going on, gang? Stephanie discusses a common fallacy about harassment. Avicenna finds an MRA woman making excuses for pedophilia. I need to shower now. Aron debated a creationist rapper. I’m hoping it was a rap battle. Ashley is getting all miscellaneous up in her place. Brianne is in Belize. I am envious. Black Skeptics announce that Sikivu Hutchinson has a new book, Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels. You will buy it. Buy it NOW. Miri explains privilege. C’mon, people, it’s really not so difficult! The Digital Cuttlefish cheers as we hit a new record—the highest CO2 in 3 million years! Ed says a rude word to the goons who arrested atheist bloggers in Bangladesh. Jason expresses his exasperation that Benedict Cumberbatch has been cast as…Khan Noonien Singh? WTF? Taslima features an ex-Muslim who is proud to be an atheist. Stephen looks at Iceland, and notices that they spurned the austerity option…a wise choice. Religion is “a great body of knowledge”? Ophelia doesn’t think so.

Freethoughtblogs has a brand new addition, YEMMYnisting, who is “Proudly Feminist, Proudly Bisexual and Proudly Atheist.” I think she might just fit in.

Whatcha doin’, readers? There’s stuff on FtB, like always. Miri is writing about beauty. Avicenna makes an interesting observation about American news coverage of terrorist violence: if it’s foreign, it’s bloodless, if it’s domestic, we stare at the victims. Taslima is advertising sex tourism for married men. Kate questions the dogma about MPD. Mano notes that churches are two-faced about keeping government from meddling in religion. Privileges OK, responsibility…not so much. Brianne is gazing upon children and getting all judgmental. Sikivu will be at the LA Times Festival of Books. Maryam defends outspoken freethinkers. Ian is highly qualified to discuss pride. Karen is finding fault. Greta has written a book. Comrade, I am hungry. Feed me! Stephen is advising the Commies. Ed has gone to Louisiana and eaten all the food! The Digital Cuttlefish flings rhymes at the blamers.

Bad news: I’m informed offline by Mattir that fellow hordeling crowepps has passed away, not particularly expectedly. She wasn’t the most loquacious commenter here, and I didn’t know her at all aside from reading what she wrote here. But I always liked what she had to say. She was funny: I am boggled by the lack of logic behind “Make me a sammich.” Seriously, so you don’t want to listen to someone’s opinion, you want to treat them as having no more value than a household appliance, so you send them into the kitchen, where all the *poisons* are, to prepare food? Want a side of Valium overdose with that, or just a garnish of the traditional rat poison? I didn’t know her well enough to say with certainty that she made the world a better place — those who knew her can weigh in on that — but she definitely made Pharyngula a smarter place. Thanks for that, crowepps.