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Ok can we stop talking about online harassment as just some big joke, or as drama or rage-blogging or doing it for the clicks or any other dismissive bullshit now?
Utah State University plans to move forward with an event featuring a prominent Canadian-American author, blogger and feminist, despite threats of terror, a spokesman said Tuesday evening. [Read more…]
Part of the point of #AnApostatesExperience was to provide a counter to the pablum put out by Reza Aslan. Heina talks about how unhelpful Reza Aslan is to ex-Muslims.
I read his No god But God when I was experiencing doubts but trying to stay Muslim. Even then, I found his trumping up of some highly uncommon “liberal”/”progressive” interpretations of Islam to be a bit disingenuous. [Read more…]
Sexism? What sexism? I don’t see any sexism. There’s no such thing as sexism.
A New Hampshire Republican has sparked outrage after he called a Democratic congresswoman “ugly as sin” and claimed she would lose to her female Republican opponent because she’s more “attractive.”
New Hampshire state GOP Rep. Steve Vaillancourt wrote an incredibly sexist blog post last week in which he compared current Democratic US Rep. Anne McLane Kuster to opponent Marilinda Garcia. Specifically, he attacked Kuster’s appearance while creepily praising Garcia’s.
So let’s go straight to the blog post.
Vaillancourt starts with a warning, “to avoid the PC police sending out a warrant for my arrest.” Haha. See what he did there? Haha. The guy’s a wit. [Read more…]
Peter Ford at the Christian Science Monitor excoriates the hypocrisy of Western journalists’ failing to report on the murder of Muhanad Akidi.
But you have likely never heard of Mr. Akidi. Why not? Because he was an Iraqi Kurd, not an American.
It is hard not to detect more than a whiff of hypocrisy here, in a part of the world where the United States is often accused of hypocrisy. [Read more…]
I saw this on Twitter yesterday but couldn’t find any news sources at all, so I delayed posting about it. Now there are news sources, such as the International Business Times.
Tributes have been pouring in for Kurdish journalist Muhanad Akidi, who was reportedly murdered by IS militants yesterday [13 October].
His death was confirmed by the Kurdistan Democratic Party, who said he was executed at the Ghazlani military base.
John Walker points out in a post on #GamerGate that there’s no escape from being political. Claiming to be not political is political; there is no not-political ground to stand on. (Unless you have always lived alone on a desert island, but then how did you get there?)
There’s a new game out, called Koala Fighters XVII. It’s a game about an elite squadron of fighter pilots, who are taking on the menace of the invading koala hordes. In it, throughout, are cutscenes showing bare-breasted women being kidnapped by the evil koalas, threatened with torture and death, to be rescued by the amazing gang of pilot men. [Read more…]
Update to add: Ex-Muslims of North America started this hashtage to highlight the often-neglected experiences of ex-muslims.
If you’re an ex-Muslim, contribute. If you’re not, read (and contribute: nons are tweeting their reactions, urging others to read, etc).
It’s powerful, some of it desperately sad, some of it joyous.
A few (without handles):
When the brothers of women you know from prayer tell you in the streets that you deserve to be sold into prostitution #AnApostatesExperience [Read more…]
You’ve probably already seen that dopy crude article by Michael Luciano explaining that atheism don’t need no stinkin liberalism. PZ has a post about it.
My favorite part, by which I mean the part that makes me cringe with loathing the most, is the way it’s illustrated – right at the top, under the title, before there are any words.
It’s like a giant “eat shit, bitches, it’s men who run this show and if you don’t like it you can fuck off.” [Read more…]
Update: I’m told that Noel Plum says he didn’t make money directly from this video.
Hahahahahaha – I Googled to find that piece where Sam Harris explained about the politically correct feminists, and in doing so look what I found – Noel Plum’s Patreon for the video he did about my take on Harris. He got $65.50 for it! That’s a lot more than I made for the post, I can tell you*. But we’re supposed to be the ones who “do it for the clicks,” remember? How come nobody ever says that about people like Noel Plum?
Sixty five dollars and fifty cents! I could buy a lot of Talenti gelato with that.
*Like, about 60 times more. Blogging really doesn’t pay unless you get many tens of thousands of hits per day, which I don’t.