Watch him interrupt. Watch him tell a woman that he’s more of an expert than she is, because he’s a guy. Watch him tell all women how they’re supposed to respond to catcalling. And as the pièce de résistance, watch him yell that if women are afraid, they need to get a gun!
We’re thick in the election nonsense here in Minnesota (so are you other Americans, you betcha), and this is an ad that was running in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, against Democrat Mark Dayton.
He says he’s ready for Ebola.
HE ISN’T.
33 million travelers per year at our airport, yet no travel ban from infected areas.
Jordan Owen and Davis Aurini claim to be making a full length feature film, a documentary about the wickedness of Anita Sarkeesian called The Sarkeesian Effect. Dave Futrelle asks whether this isn’t all just an elaborate practical joke, because the two are hilariously incompetent at making simple videos. Their latest is a poorly lit, static video of the two of them justifying donations to their Patreon account, in which they used a directional microphone that only picked up Owen’s voice, so every time Aurini speaks, there is no sound, just his face flapping.
Tauriq does a marvelous job raking #gamergate over the coals on the issue of ethics — which they know nothing about. We already know it’s not about journalism, or they’d be targeting journalists and ‘zine publishers that have a cozy relationship with game publishers, and we can also see that the foaming-at-the-mouth GG advocates haven’t got even a passing acquaintance with the content of a first year philosophy of ethics course, so what can we conclude?
There has been a rather one-sided ‘conversation’ going on with Michael Nugent for the past month or so. It’s a little bit disturbing, and I provide here a chronology. If it’s too long for you, I’ll understand — I’ve found it hopelessly tedious — and the bottom line is that I won’t be talking to him again, and it ends here, as far as I’m concerned.
So Anita Sarkeesian appeared on Colbert. How do you think the #gamergaters reacted?
As everyone knows, the Discovery Institute accidentally leaked their grand plans for World Domination, in the form of the Wedge Document, in 1998. Among their goals was to publish 100 scientific articles within 5 years — unfortunately, they’d only reached 72 by 2012 (most of them were in crap journals and by obvious crackpots). What to do?
Invent your own journals.
Chris Kluwe posts on #gamergate. He’s not nice about it.
Dear #Gamergaters,
Do you know why you piss me the fuck off?
Because you’re lazy. You’re ignorant. You are a blithering collection of wannabe Wikipedia philosophers, drunk on your own buzzwords, incapable of forming an original thought. You display a lack of knowledge stunning in its scope, a fundamental disregard of history and human nature so pronounced that makes me wonder if lead paint is a key component of your diet. You think you’re making piercing arguments when, in actuality, you’re throwing a temper tantrum that would embarrass a three-year-old.
I was given another argument today, this time about how to properly be a feminist, in a comic.
I hadn’t wondered about this question at all — I just assumed feminist was synonymous with feminazi — but that just shows how much I know. I was very helpfully sent a cartoon to help me tell the difference.
