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		<title>An opportunity to help</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/21/an-opportunity-to-help/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 17:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PZ Myers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As mentioned in this post, I was waiting for Foundation Beyond Belief to put up a crisis response page. If you were thinking of making an aid donation, go here to help victims of the Oklahoma tornado. I&#8217;ve seen some reluctance to donate because Oklahoma&#8217;s senators, Coburn and Inhofe, are fucking selfish scumbags. Don&#8217;t let [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[As mentioned in this post, I was waiting for Foundation Beyond Belief to put up a crisis response page. If you were thinking of making an aid donation, go here to help victims of the Oklahoma tornado.   I&#8217;ve seen some reluctance to donate because Oklahoma&#8217;s senators, Coburn and Inhofe, are fucking selfish scumbags. Don&#8217;t let that hold you back &mdash; the children who were killed or hurt or made homeless didn&#8217;t vote for them, so just think of them when you dig into your pockets.   (Also, apparently my very general link from last night led to about $3000 in donations &mdash; you can do better now that you&#8217;ve got a specific focus!)]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The gang that terrorizes the internet</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/21/the-gang-that-terrorizes-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PZ Myers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atheism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adam Lee has a nice summary of the Women in Secularism conference. However, he does reveal that we Ftbullied him into talking the picture below, which is a no-no. You were told not to tattle, Adam Lee. The next time we meet, expect a pantsing, or even a swirlie. Also, put your lunch money in [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Adam Lee has a nice summary of the Women in Secularism conference. However, he does reveal that we Ftbullied him into talking the picture below, which is a no-no. You were told not to tattle, Adam Lee. The next time we meet, expect a pantsing, or even a swirlie. Also, put your lunch money in an envelope and mail it to me right now.      Oh, and look &mdash; even more ftbullying! We&#8217;re all holding signs abusing the theocratic governments that jail atheist bloggers.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>So&#8230;that&#8217;s rape culture, all right</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/21/sothats-rape-culture-all-right/</link>
		<comments>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/21/sothats-rape-culture-all-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 13:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PZ Myers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The normalization of rape continues apace. Three teenagers face sex assault charges after they raped a 12-year-old girl at gunpoint and posted a video of the December attacks on Facebook, prosecutors said. Scandale Fritz, 16, Kenneth Brown, 15, and Justin Applewhite, 16, were all ordered held in lieu of $900,000 bail in a hearing today [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[The normalization of rape continues apace.   Three teenagers face sex assault charges after they raped a 12-year-old girl at gunpoint and posted a video of the December attacks on Facebook, prosecutors said.   Scandale Fritz, 16, Kenneth Brown, 15, and Justin Applewhite, 16, were all ordered held in lieu of $900,000 bail in a hearing today before Criminal Court Judge James Brown, said Cook County state&#8217;s attorney spokeswoman Tandra Simonton. The three were charged as adults.    That&#8217;s not just dumb, it&#8217;s a problem of attitude: now raping a 12 year old girl is something so amusing, something to be proud of, to the point where rapists are sharing videos of their criminal attacks on facebook.   I&#8217;m curious to know if they were surprised when police officers showed up at their door, and I&#8217;d love to know what kind of excuses they offered.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Put down the cell phone!</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/21/put-down-the-cell-phone/</link>
		<comments>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/21/put-down-the-cell-phone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 13:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PZ Myers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Damned monkeys. Stop gawking, put the cell phone away, and flee. We get these things up here in Minnesota, too, and one thing you will not get from me is a video showing it off. I&#8217;ll be in the basement, hiding under a mattress.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Damned monkeys. Stop gawking, put the cell phone away, and flee.    We get these things up here in Minnesota, too, and one thing you will not get from me is a video showing it off. I&#8217;ll be in the basement, hiding under a mattress.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A humanism relevant to humans</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/21/a-humanism-relevant-to-humans/</link>
		<comments>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/21/a-humanism-relevant-to-humans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 12:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PZ Myers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Equality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/?p=11038</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sikivu Hutchinson has a new book, Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels, and she was recently interviewed about it. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? That humanism can be culturally relevant to communities of color. Traditional mainstream white-dominated freethought/atheist/humanist models don’t offer an adequate basis for social justice. They don’t address the intersection [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Sikivu Hutchinson has a new book, Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels, and she was recently interviewed about it.   What’s the most important take-home message for readers?     That humanism can be culturally relevant to communities of color. Traditional mainstream white-dominated freethought/atheist/humanist models don’t offer an adequate basis for social justice. They don’t address the intersection of women’s rights, civil rights, anti-racism, heterosexism, the racial wealth gap, and educational apartheid.     &hellip;     So while there are numerous grassroots atheist groups spearheading their own projects, the movement as a whole continues to be publicly defined by a handful of superstars and their limited vision. The absence of historical and sociological context for atheist politics, and its disconnection from social justice activism, will keep it in the lily-white one-percent column.     I have no patience for single-issue white male atheists who inveigh against the backwardness of organized religion as the fount of all evil and then have the luxury to retreat into their segregated ivory towers, insulated conferences, and highly-paid seminar bubbles. In Godless Americana I address the lived experiences of some of the most religious communities on the planet in one of the richest nations on the planet. I probe the sociological context for faith traditions and hyper-religiosity in American communities of color.     I have this grand, optimistic vision of humanity&#8217;s future, and escaping the dead-end lies of religion is part of it. But mostly what I see are people &mdash; all people &mdash; given the security and knowledge to live lives with true meaning, where they can grow and learn and engage in productive struggle, fighting to make the world a better place with every generation. I have my causes and my biases, but I don&#8217;t see how we can achieve that goal by having the causes and biases of a narrow subset imposed on the whole;...<br /><a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/21/a-humanism-relevant-to-humans/#more-11038" class="more-link">Read more</a>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Mary&#8217;s Monday Metazoan: How ladylike!</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/20/marys-monday-metazoan-how-ladylike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 00:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PZ Myers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Organisms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the lovely Pink Dragon millipede &#8212; it&#8217;s bright enough to belong in the girls&#8217; aisle at the toy store. It also squirts cyanide at you if you annoy it.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the lovely Pink Dragon millipede &mdash; it&#8217;s bright enough to belong in the girls&#8217; aisle at the toy store.      It also squirts cyanide at you if you annoy it.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Who are these guys?</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/20/who-are-these-guys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 00:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PZ Myers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hey, we added a couple of male bloggers here&#8230;I thought we were supposed to be man-hatin&#8217; banshee feminists? It&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey, we added a couple of male bloggers here&hellip;I thought we were supposed to be man-hatin&#8217; banshee feminists? It&#8217;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.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Disaster in Oklahoma</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/20/disaster-in-oklahoma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 00:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PZ Myers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moore, Oklahoma has been completely flattened by a tornado. Homes and businesses have been destroyed, but also a couple of schools and a hospital. And here&#8217;s a time-lapse video of this monster ripping through the countryside. Action News 5 &#8211; Memphis, Tennessee What can we do? I mentioned it to Foundation Beyond Belief &#8212; go [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Moore, Oklahoma has been completely flattened by a tornado. Homes and businesses have been destroyed, but also a couple of schools and a hospital.      And here&#8217;s a time-lapse video of this monster ripping through the countryside.  Action News 5 &#8211; Memphis, Tennessee  What can we do? I mentioned it to Foundation Beyond Belief &mdash; go to the &#8220;Crisis Response&#8221; link and tell them you want to contribute to the relief efforts. If enough of us do that, they&#8217;ll set something up to take your godless donations and send them to where they&#8217;re most needed. And then send them money!    Zingularity also has a post on the catastrophe.    Foundation Beyond Belief now has a crisis response page. You can make charitable donations there.    The death toll is at 51 and rising, with at least 20 dead children.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t tell the anti-choicers!</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/20/dont-tell-the-anti-choicers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 18:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PZ Myers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or we could be in big trouble. The antis of Ireland have a whole arsenal of secret weapons in the battle to keep women pregnant that I haven&#8217;t seen deployed here &#8212; they have access to Catholic magic. I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;d be able to resist if they started cruising our country with magic paintings, [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Or we could be in big trouble. The antis of Ireland have a whole arsenal of secret weapons in the battle to keep women pregnant that I haven&#8217;t seen deployed here &mdash; they have access to Catholic magic. I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;d be able to resist if they started cruising our country with magic paintings, magic garments (guaranteeing immunity from hellfire!), and magic faces.   No word yet on whether they have any magic briar patches.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>That&#8217;s a fine looking Horde we&#8217;ve got there</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/20/thats-a-fine-looking-horde-weve-got-there/</link>
		<comments>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/20/thats-a-fine-looking-horde-weve-got-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 17:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PZ Myers</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/?p=11024</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A small fraction of the Horde gathered at Women in Secularism 2, and they dismounted long enough to stand for a portrait. Mount up again, we&#8217;ve got a world to conquer!]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[A small fraction of the Horde gathered at Women in Secularism 2, and they dismounted long enough to stand for a portrait.      Mount up again, we&#8217;ve got a world to conquer!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>[Lounge #419]</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/20/lounge-419/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 17:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PZ Myers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Open Thread]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the lounge. You can discuss anything you want, but you will do it kindly. Ooh, momma and baby caecilians! Status: Heavily Moderated; Previous thread]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is the lounge. You can discuss anything you want, but you will do it kindly. Ooh, momma and baby caecilians!   Status: Heavily Moderated; Previous thread]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Which path shall we take?</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/20/which-path-shall-we-take/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PZ Myers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amanda Marcotte has written an excellent open letter to the Center for Inquiry &#8212; it&#8217;s measured and reflects the consensus of the 30+ people who packed my hotel room on Saturday night. Well, there are exceptions. This was Justin Vacula&#8217;s response on twitter: Get out, Amanda, you not welcome here. Take your dogma elsewhere (you [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Amanda Marcotte has written an excellent open letter to the Center for Inquiry &mdash; it&#8217;s measured and reflects the consensus of the 30+ people who packed my hotel room on Saturday night.   Well, there are exceptions. This was Justin Vacula&#8217;s response on twitter:   Get out, Amanda, you not welcome here. Take your dogma elsewhere (you too, Ophelia)    This is the same guy who couldn&#8217;t get anyone to pay attention to him at the Women In Secularism conference &mdash; we had more interesting people to talk to &mdash; so he spent his Saturday doing an interview for that misogynist hate site, A Voice For Men.   Who&#8217;s supposed to get out again?]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I&#8217;m home!</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/20/im-home-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PZ Myers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It took longer than I thought &#8212; I was so worn out from an invigorating and stressful weekend that I didn&#8217;t trust myself to drive all the way from the airport to Morris, so I got a cheap motel room and got some sleep before completing the journey. And that means I&#8217;ve arrived back just [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[It took longer than I thought &mdash; I was so worn out from an invigorating and stressful weekend that I didn&#8217;t trust myself to drive all the way from the airport to Morris, so I got a cheap motel room and got some sleep before completing the journey.  And that means I&#8217;ve arrived back just barely in time to switch out of the lampshade on my head and dancin&#8217; shoes to tidy up and swing into professorial action and run some meetings. The blog thing will have to wait a little while as I get some work done.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Mere atheism</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/19/mere-atheism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 23:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PZ Myers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russell Blackford (@Metamagician) made a problematic assertion on twitter (the following paragraph is from four sequential tweets): Just to be clear. My stance as a pro-feminist man does NOT follow from the fact that I am an atheist. Even if I became a philosophical deist overnight, I would maintain the same stance. Let&#8217;s not oversellMere [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Russell Blackford (@Metamagician) made a problematic assertion on twitter (the following paragraph is from four sequential tweets):   Just to be clear. My stance as a pro-feminist man does NOT follow from the fact that I am an atheist. Even if I became a philosophical deist overnight, I would maintain the same stance. Let&#8217;s not oversellMere atheism what mere atheism entails. None of which is to deny that actual religions can be used to provide false rationales for some abhorrent views.    That&#8217;s a bit of a mess, so let&#8217;s unpack it. I find interesting because my pro-feminist stance does follow from the fact that I am an atheist; perhaps we ought to recognize that there is more than one way to be an atheist, something I&#8217;ve been saying for a long time, and apparently Blackford and I are very different kinds of atheist.   There are some peculiarities in that statement. There is also more than one way to be a feminist, so announcing that one would still be feminist if they were a &#8220;philosophical deist&#8221; is both trivial and irrelevant: irrelevant because no one denies that there are religious positions that are compatible with feminism, and trivial because Blackford selected as an alternate a philosophy that&#8217;s about as close to atheism as you can get. I think we&#8217;d have a very different answer if he had speculated about an overnight conversion to Southern Baptist, or Amish, or conservative Muslim. As he notes at the end, there are religions that would impose abhorrent views that are incompatible with feminism. So about half of his comment is empty noise that contributes nothing to his thesis.   The interesting part is this: that &#8220;mere atheism&#8221; does not entail feminism. I both agree and disagree.   The agreeable side is that if we assume he means &#8220;mere atheism&#8221; the simple position that no gods or supernatural forces exist, then it&#8217;s true that that does not directly promote feminism. We could have a...<br /><a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/19/mere-atheism/#more-11016" class="more-link">Read more</a>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Remnants</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 12:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PZ Myers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amongst the debris left over from last night&#8217;s late ruckus in my hotel room, I find in my possession many empty wine and beer bottles, a quarter of a fifth of vodka, one set of mysterious keys and a Shelley Segal CD. Look for me at the conference and I&#8217;ll return them to you. Except [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Amongst the debris left over from last night&#8217;s late ruckus in my hotel room, I find in my possession many empty wine and beer bottles, a quarter of a fifth of vodka, one set of mysterious keys and a Shelley Segal CD. Look for me at the conference and I&#8217;ll return them to you.   Except for the clutter, the room is surprisingly tidy and undamaged. You atheists really have no idea how to trash a hotel room, do you?]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>It&#8217;s 4am and people are really annoyed</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/19/its-4am-and-people-are-really-annoyed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 08:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PZ Myers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a strange evening. I had a crowd of people descend on my hotel room after the evening&#8217;s events at Women In Secularism and a good day of wonderful and inspiring talks from strong women, and besides just wanting to talk and celebrate, they wanted to complain. These are people who came here for [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a strange evening. I had a crowd of people descend on my hotel room after the evening&#8217;s events at Women In Secularism and a good day of wonderful and inspiring talks from strong women, and besides just wanting to talk and celebrate, they wanted to complain. These are people who came here for a conference on women&#8217;s issues, and they were really annoyed that the head of CFI, Ron Lindsay, chose to use the opening talk of the conference to basically chastise the attendees and instruct them in how to behave, and I&#8217;ve had more than one person tell me that they were irate that their introduction to an event that they paid a considerable sum of money was to be greeted by a talk that pandered to people who hated the event, and were volubly complaining on the internet throughout the day about it. The impression they had was that the organization was unhappy to be sponsoring this conference.     That is a weird and impolitic message to send to attendees. It was especially weird to hear that on day one, and then to watch Melody Hensley, the person who did the organizational work to set up the meeting, make fundraising pitches at the evening reception on both days. Melody definitely stands behind the purpose of this event, there&#8217;s no doubt about that at all, but we&#8217;re simultaneously getting this bizarre vibe that CFI, as represented by Lindsay, does not like this feminist stuff, and would rather that we all went away and the MRAs who are crowing about his talk were here instead.   Who is he supporting? The people who actively invest in this meeting and CFI, or the jerks who lurk on the internet and rage at women all day long with no commitment to any cause besides hatred, and are openly hoping to see the meeting fail?   What has also caused all these people to lose confidence in Lindsay is that today, he posted a complaint against Rebecca Watson, who is here both as a speaker and as a sponsor of attendees here, comparing her to a...<br /><a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/19/its-4am-and-people-are-really-annoyed/#more-11013" class="more-link">Read more</a>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s getting silenced?</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/18/whos-getting-silenced/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 17:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PZ Myers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rebecca Watson has a few things to say about The Silencing of Men at Women in Secularism, and Ron Lindsay&#8217;s opening talk. You know, there is a very, very tiny grain of truth to what he said &#8212; I&#8217;ve been in a few situations this weekend where I&#8217;ve felt uncomfortably like an outsider because I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Rebecca Watson has a few things to say about The Silencing of Men at Women in Secularism, and Ron Lindsay&#8217;s opening talk. You know, there is a very, very tiny grain of truth to what he said &mdash; I&#8217;ve been in a few situations this weekend where I&#8217;ve felt uncomfortably like an outsider because I&#8217;m a man &mdash; but the thing is &hellip; that&#8217;s fair. I should be somewhat marginal here, because this is an event to try and correct the privileges I can usually rely on feeling at other events. So my internal conversation when I&#8217;m feeling that way is &#8220;OK, that was a bit weird. Shut up. Think about it. Do they have good reason to think that way? Maybe I should consider where they&#8217;re coming from more.&#8221; My plan is to listen and learn here.   What I think now is that even if Lindsay hadn&#8217;t said those objectionable things that so thrilled the Misogyny Brigade, he would have been wrong to speak at this event anyway. He objected to being told to &#8220;shut up and listen&#8221; and instead asserted his privilege as the head of the organization to lecture at the attendees&hellip;but shutting up and listening in this case was exactly what he needed to do, and speaking in the opening session was an extraordinarily impolitic thing to do instead.   It is perfectly legitimate to tell someone to shut up when you&#8217;ve heard their voice in a thousand variants many times before, and you need some small space in which to express yourself, too. This conference should be that space for the many who have been shushed.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Women in Secularism is going strong</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/18/women-in-secularism-is-going-strong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 11:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PZ Myers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m off in Washington DC at Women in Secularism 2, and I&#8217;m taking it easy. You can try to follow what&#8217;s going on at the conference via twitter, but that&#8217;s going to be a mess: unlike every other conference I&#8217;ve ever been at, the twitter feed for this one is nearly completely divorced from the [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;m off in Washington DC at Women in Secularism 2, and I&#8217;m taking it easy.  You can try to follow what&#8217;s going on at the conference via twitter, but that&#8217;s going to be a mess: unlike every other conference I&#8217;ve ever been at, the twitter feed for this one is nearly completely divorced from the reality of the event. It seems that if you put on a woman&#8217;s conference, the anti-feminists will send a representative or two to attend and throw out occasional twisted remarks prejudicial to the event, which will then be echoed by the obsessive mob in the lovely manosphere.   It&#8217;s genuinely bizarre. If you thought the #wiscfi hashtag was a corrupt mess before the conference, it&#8217;s even worse now. It&#8217;s representative of the endemic bigotry against women that even atheist/skeptic cons don&#8217;t get this degree of malicious nastiness from their opponents.   It didn&#8217;t help that the opening remarks (by a bearded white guy, no less) were basically a high five to the people trolling the con &mdash; Ron Lindsay tut-tutted the attendees for using the concept of privilege to shut down conversations with&hellip;who? The thugs who hate the whole idea of Women in Secularism? It was the most inappropriate, uninspiring, wrong-headed conference opening ever. The director of CFI trolled a conference built by his own organization, and offered words of encouragement to the people trying to disrupt it!   All I can think is that he decided to make all the other talks look good by starting off on the lowest note he could. He shouldn&#8217;t have bothered, all the talks on the first day were excellent. Oh, you aren&#8217;t here? We&#8217;ve got three people from FtB live-blogging it all.   Jason/Miri/Kate covered the first panel, on faith-based pseudoscience. The panelists discussed the ways medicine in particular is undermined by quackery, and to give the True Skeptics&trade; conniptions, specifically addressed how religious lies...<br /><a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/18/women-in-secularism-is-going-strong/#more-11009" class="more-link">Read more</a>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Spare me this &#8216;deficit model&#8217; nonsense</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/17/spare-me-this-deficit-model-nonsense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PZ Myers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it&#8217;s something in the air: Spring brings out the sociological criticisms of science, or something. But for some reason, this week people have been talking at me about the &#8220;deficit model&#8221; repeatedly, and it is really beginning to annoy me. The latest source is Alice Bell in the Guardian, who says some sensible things [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Maybe it&#8217;s something in the air: Spring brings out the sociological criticisms of science, or something. But for some reason, this week people have been talking at me about the &#8220;deficit model&#8221; repeatedly, and it is really beginning to annoy me. The latest source is Alice Bell in the Guardian, who says some sensible things (don&#8217;t treat scientists as a priesthood!) and then gets all mushy-mouthed over the myth of the deficit model. How nice of her, though, to define it for us.   It&#8217;s the critique of the so-called &#8220;deficit model&#8221; many of us have been dancing to for decades. The deficit model, if you&#8217;re lucky enough not to have come across the term, assumes science has the knowledge the public are deficient in, and that many of our social ills will be solved if we all listened to the experts. It&#8217;d be a nice idea maybe if science, the media, policy or people were that simple, but they&#8217;re not (I talked about similar issues in my Radio Four piece on scientific literacy last year).    Oh, no&hellip;it brings back cranky memories of those annoying rounds of argument with Mooney and Nisbet, who loved to slam us with sneering rebukes that we&#8217;re true believers in the Deficit Model, and don&#8217;t you know, everybody rejects that model nowadays.   And I&#8217;d just, what, say what, I what? I&#8217;m right here, why are you arguing with that caricature? Look, I&#8217;ve spent decades battling creationists, giving them the actual facts in the face of their distortions, and I know they heard me, and I know they&#8217;re not so stupid they couldn&#8217;t comprehend what I was saying, and yet they&#8217;ll be back the next week saying the same lies. I know that there&#8217;s more to getting people on the side of reason then calmly stating the evidence while equipped  with a Ph.D.  I don&#8217;t know anyone who subscribes to this &#8220;deficit model&#8221; of which you speak.   Here&#8217;s the model I actually...<br /><a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/17/spare-me-this-deficit-model-nonsense/#more-11007" class="more-link">Read more</a>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Friday Cephalopod: The Great White Cuttle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PZ Myers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(From TONMO, on a page about raising captive cuttlefish)]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[(From TONMO, on a page about raising captive cuttlefish)]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Creeps get what they deserve</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/16/creeps-get-what-they-deserve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 17:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PZ Myers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook allows porn sites? Yeah, it looks the other way. So I find it hilarious that a group of feminists managed to gain control of a facebook page dedicated to creepy content and give it a total makeover. The Bra Busters page now has just over 3,000 subscribers. One admin spent an hour removing all [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Facebook allows porn sites? Yeah, it looks the other way. So I find it hilarious that a group of  feminists managed to gain control of a facebook page dedicated to creepy content and give it a total makeover.   The Bra Busters page now has just over 3,000 subscribers. One admin spent an hour removing all the old content, including memes about women being “bitches” and “sluts,” upskirt shots, creepy close-ups of bras and underwear, and a photo of Jennifer Lawrence’s nip slip. (“She looked very unhappy and the guys on this page were laughing and joking about it,” wrote one moderator.)   About a thousand members have so far “unliked” the new Bra Busters and complained loudly about the change in management, with such eloquent phrases as, “fack (sic) you bra busters new editor bitch!! &#8230; go scissor your buth biker slut girlfriend.” The original male moderator seems to have disappeared.    Most ironically, after ignoring lots of sexist content that objectified women, when the new Bra Busters management started posting photos of men with their comments superimposed &mdash; their own public photos, with their own public words &mdash; Facebook finally stepped in and told them to stop that. I guess objectifying men is a no-no.   So the feminists moved those photos offsite, to a new page called Whiney Dudes. It&#8217;s great to see these straight-up images of guys putting on their friendliest face&#8230;next to their words of hate.      But&hellip;but&hellip;they look so normal!    Unfortunately, there isn&#8217;t universal cause to celebrate: it looks like the site takeover was by the transphobic wing of feminism, so hate&#8217;s been replaced with a different flavor of hate.   (via Stephanie)]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>After they defeat Darwin, the creationists will be coming after psychiatry next</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/16/after-they-defeat-darwin-the-creationists-will-be-coming-after-psychiatry-next/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PZ Myers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think David Dobbs is going to be amused to learn that the Discovery Institute thinks he has just demolished Darwinism by way of psychiatry. But in an article that is delusional even by the standards of that bastion of lunacy, the DI argues that the collapse of evolution is just around the corner. Again. [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[I think David Dobbs is going to be amused to learn that the Discovery Institute thinks he has just demolished Darwinism by way of psychiatry. But in an article that is delusional even by the standards of that bastion of lunacy, the DI argues that the collapse of evolution is just around the corner. Again. Like always.   Here&#8217;s how David Dobbs decided the demise of Darwinism: he wrote a positive review of a book critical of the impending release of DSM-5, The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry. Such a small thing, the tiniest pebble that will lead to an avalanche of destruction and the total demolition of the edifice of modern science.   Or not. The book is critical of one component of the understanding of the mind, and it&#8217;s no surprise&hellip;hasn&#8217;t every edition of the DSM led to the gnashing of garments and the wailing of teeth, or something? As Dobbs points out, there really are fundamental flaws in how psychiatry handles mental illness.   The DSM, Greenberg concludes, “dresses up symptoms as diseases that are not real and then claims to have named and described the true varieties of our suffering”. Technically, the APA concurs, admitting sotto voce (for instance, in planning documents and public discussions for earlier versions of the DSM) that many psychiatric diagnoses are constructs of convenience rather than descriptions of biological ailments. This originates in an explicit decision the APA made, during the creation of DSM-III, to base diagnoses not on aetiology but on recognizable clusters of symptoms that seem problematic. The APA did so recognizing that this would mean stressing consistency among clinicians in recognizing symptom clusters rather than any other marker of a condition&#8217;s origins.     A slippery deal, but essential. For by formalizing this scheme, psychiatry can claim medical legitimacy and accompanying insurance coverage and pay rates so that it can help people. Unfortunately, writes Greenberg,...<br /><a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/16/after-they-defeat-darwin-the-creationists-will-be-coming-after-psychiatry-next/#more-10997" class="more-link">Read more</a>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The scarlet crayon of atheism</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/16/the-scarlet-crayon-of-atheism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 13:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PZ Myers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to understand how people &#8212; not just people, but self-declared &#8220;leaders of the atheist movement&#8221; &#8212; can claim that atheism is only the lack of belief in any gods, and further, that absence of god-belief entails no other significant consequences. It&#8217;s been difficult, because that way of thinking is alien to me; [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to understand how people &mdash; not just people, but self-declared &#8220;leaders of the atheist movement&#8221; &mdash; can claim that atheism is only the lack of belief in any gods, and further, that absence of god-belief entails no other significant consequences. It&#8217;s been difficult, because that way of thinking is alien to me; atheism for me is all tangled up in naturalism and scientific thinking, and it&#8217;s not just a single, simple cause but has a whole cascade of meaning. But I&#8217;m trying, and I think I&#8217;m beginning to get it. There is a reasonable way to regard atheism as important while at the same time limiting its import.   Think of atheism as something like having a favorite color in a world with a set of cultural mores that dictate the value of colors. You&#8217;re five years old, and in kindergarten, and the teacher asks you to draw a picture of your mommy in your favorite color. You proudly go for the big red crayon in your box, and you start to draw, and everyone in the class turns to look at you strangely&hellip;and every single one of them is holding a blue crayon. &#8220;Everyone knows your favorite color is supposed to be blue,&#8221; they say, &#8220;You&#8217;re weird.&#8221; The teacher helpfully takes your red crayon away and gives you a blue one instead.   You might be a little resentful. You might think this is an infringement of your rights and an attempt to police your thoughts, and you&#8217;d be right. That would be a terrible thing to do to children. And then, what if you grew up and discovered that enshrined in your country&#8217;s constitution was a clause that specifically said the government did not have the right to dictate the citizenry&#8217;s favorite color? Why, you might become a crayon activist, fighting for the right of everyone to choose their own color, and you&#8217;d go to meetings where everyone would wave red crayons in the air and draw slogans on signs in red.   You might...<br /><a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/16/the-scarlet-crayon-of-atheism/#more-10994" class="more-link">Read more</a>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Botanical Wednesday: Twisty</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/15/botanical-wednesday-twisty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 03:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PZ Myers</dc:creator>
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		<title>I think we call that an own goal</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/15/i-think-we-call-that-an-own-goal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 22:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PZ Myers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in the Houston Chronicle blog, Female atheists fight for equality in freethought movement, goes out of its way to find some people who disagree with that sentiment. I don&#8217;t know whether the author was being cunningly ironic or not (he is a religion writer), but he really picked the worst possible critics, which [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[An article in the Houston Chronicle blog, Female atheists fight for equality in freethought movement, goes out of its way to find some people who disagree with that sentiment. I don&#8217;t know whether the author was being cunningly ironic or not (he is a religion writer), but he really picked the worst possible critics, which I find amusing.   “A lot of women are coming out as atheists and freethinkers,” said Hensley, “whether they want to become an active member of the community is another question.” Not only do women face backlash from religious groups opposed to their atheism and feminism, but there are sources of adversity within the secular community as well. Sites such as Slymepit.com and A Voice for Men are countering Women in Secularism’s claim that atheism and feminism fit together hand-in-glove.   As Justin Vacula of Skeptics Ink said, “I fail to see how refusing to believe in God leads to the ‘logical conclusion’ of abandoning long held beliefs about women and men.”    Yes, because reason never leads to the abandonment of traditions and beliefs. Somebody hand that man another shell for his shotgun so he can blow off his other foot.   And to find critics, the author had to go to two hate sites. I think the point is clear.    The article I linked to has since been revised, specifically to include a more accurate Vacula quote.   “I fail to see how refusing to believe in God leads to the ‘logical conclusion’ of abandoning the belief that women exist to serve men.”    I&#8217;m speechless.]]></content:encoded>
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