Periodic Table of Swearing

MichaelJ · #21841

ReneeHendricks wrote:GREAT response to RW's recent Slate "article": http://skepticink.com/skepticallyleft/2 ... ent-venue/

I think that this could and will blow back on RW. The more fame she gets the more interesting the other side of the story becomes to the media.

#21842

Naw, the girl has found something that sells. STUPIDITY and WHINING!

Skeptic conferences are still booking her, clearly, and you'd assume they - as SKEPTICS - would be a bit more picky about who they get on the telly.

#21843

Who they get on the telly? Oy. Who they get to speak. Compared to telly people.

#21844

Jan Steen wrote:Allow me to borrow your parrot.

http://i.imgur.com/yn40n.jpg

The parrot is for borrowing, I've made several -

http://i.imgur.com/BTATc.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/gGKCA.jpg

#21845

Heeeyyyy! lookie lookie :shock: the A+ forum has an evil twin brother(aaaawww shit how misogynistic of me) i mean bro-ster, http://atheismplus.4rumer.com/. As mentioned in this thread--->>http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2326 <--- its the no safe version. So if u have been banned from posting or you just wanna interact with the A+ crowd then put your male bashing hats on and have a go :)

#21846

haw haw -

http://venturephilosophy.blogspot.com.a ... signs.html

https://lh3.ggpht.com/-9R5u_zAP29A/UIo2 ... horse1.jpg

#21847

BarnOwl wrote:
Lsuoma wrote:
DownThunder wrote:
welch wrote:Again with the shit thing. That's all Ophelia calls anyone. I'm a vicious piece of shit, Justicar is some other kind of shit.

Umbridge has a serious feces obsession going.
Fecophelia Benson?
Fecophilia? Fecophagia?
Ugghhhh ... Old Brigadier Pudding!

Coprophelia?

#21848

re: skeptics on tv
When they attempted a tv show based around skeptics (called The Skeptologists), it was Dr Kiki chosen as the woman on the team.

http://www.twis.org/KirstenSanford.jpg

She's one of many that I'd rather see having a higher profile than Watson

#21849

Jan Steen wrote:
BarnOwl wrote:
Lsuoma wrote:
DownThunder wrote:
welch wrote:Again with the shit thing. That's all Ophelia calls anyone. I'm a vicious piece of shit, Justicar is some other kind of shit.

Umbridge has a serious feces obsession going.
Fecophelia Benson?
Fecophilia? Fecophagia?
Ugghhhh ... Old Brigadier Pudding!
Coprophelia?

That's the best one - double bonus 'cuz it sounds like "cop-a-feel-ia" also.

#21850

BarnOwl wrote:WRT the "face blindness" excuse for not recognizing Elevator Guy - I think it's important to reiterate that Watson claimed to have transient prosopagnosia. Several types of prosopagnosia (developmental, associative, etc.) have been described, but "transient" is not one of them. I suppose it's formally possible that alcohol intoxication could selectively affect the fusiform gyrus, yet leave the ability to remember the elevator conversation completely intact.

But I doubt it.

Transient Prosopagnosia exists and has been medically studied.

http://www.neurology.org/content/66/6/916.full
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14527501
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14975428
http://stroke.ahajournals.org/content/12/5/702.citation
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/face ... ssage/8854 <---Reliable source honest[/sarcasm]
http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/x ... 56789/9691
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar ... 500300194X

The most common cause is migraines apparantly.

#21851

SPACKlick wrote:Transient Prosopagnosia exists and has been medically studied.

It's also been exhaustively discussed here. Get thee to the archives. While there, look up Korsakoff's syndrome too.

#21852

Skep tickle wrote:
Coprophelia?

That's the best one - double bonus 'cuz it sounds like "cop-a-feel-ia" also.[/quote]

"Cop-Ophelia" !
I think that one works best. She does see herself as the enforcer of all the unwritten laws of the atheist community.

#21853

Dick Strawkins wrote: "Cop-Ophelia" !
I think that one works best. She does see herself as the enforcer of all the unwritten laws of the atheist community.

aka "Detective Benson"

#21854

Badger3k wrote:
Jan Steen wrote:
This one believes in fairy tales too:

http://i.imgur.com/GVYYU.jpg

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... ent-478544

Free thinking: you're doing it wrong.
Did I miss the screeching over Amanda Todd? I don't recall that. I may have been busy lately, but I think I wouldn't have missed that. Why do I feel that a search would just be a waste of time....but they wouldn't be baboons if they knew how to use a search engine properly, wouldn't they?

Hello? The 1950's called. They want their McCarthyism back.

#21855

SPACKlick wrote: Transient Prosopagnosia exists and has been medically studied.

http://www.neurology.org/content/66/6/916.full
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14527501
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14975428
http://stroke.ahajournals.org/content/12/5/702.citation
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/face ... ssage/8854 <---Reliable source honest[/sarcasm]
http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/x ... 56789/9691
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar ... 500300194X

The most common cause is migraines apparantly.

Interesting!

The peer-reviewed references you linked indicate that transient prosopagnosia can be associated with ischemic stroke, epilepsy surgery, diving embolism, and normal pressure hydrocephalus (aka "wet, wobbly, wacky") - none of which would apply to the elevator incident. (OK maybe alcoholic wet, wobbly, wacky). "Brad" attributes the phenomenon to migraines in the yahoo link, which might work for Watson, but she didn't mention that.

#21856

Badger3k wrote:
welch wrote:
Tigzy wrote::lol: :lol: :lol: Priceless work here from Mr Plum:

http://i.imgur.com/5mjRY.png

http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterflies ... ent-319113
Again with the shit thing. That's all Ophelia calls anyone. I'm a vicious piece of shit, Justicar is some other kind of shit.

Umbridge has a serious feces obsession going.
I think she does her thinking with her lower half. With her between that and her cunt-kick fetish, you have to wonder.

The dreaded Freud is amusing on this.

Obsession with shit (coprophilia - as distinct from the Pit which has coprolalia) implies obesssive attraction to it, associated with feelings of persecution and being threatened (such as a hypothetical pudenda punt), upto and including full blown paranoia.

Nothing to say about any particular person there, of course.

#21857

I just noticed that Dr. Harriet Hall and Surly Amy are both at CSICon.

Will there be another T-shirt incident?

Also, I believe that I won a bet that I had with a friend ....

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... 25/my-day/

#21858

AnonymousCowherd wrote:
Badger3k wrote:
welch wrote:
Tigzy wrote::lol: :lol: :lol: Priceless work here from Mr Plum:

http://i.imgur.com/5mjRY.png

http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterflies ... ent-319113
Again with the shit thing. That's all Ophelia calls anyone. I'm a vicious piece of shit, Justicar is some other kind of shit.

Umbridge has a serious feces obsession going.
I think she does her thinking with her lower half. With her between that and her cunt-kick fetish, you have to wonder.
The dreaded Freud is amusing on this.

Obsession with shit (coprophilia - as distinct from the Pit which has coprolalia) implies obesssive attraction to it, associated with feelings of persecution and being threatened (such as a hypothetical pudenda punt), upto and including full blown paranoia.

Nothing to say about any particular person there, of course.

Every morning after tea, Ophelia Benson retires to her Command Center and settles askew on the toilet like James T. Kirk and squeezes out a greasy little floater. She then sticks a square of paper on a toothpick in it as as sail, puts on her tricorner crazy Jack Sparrow hat and declares herself Cap'n Crotch, defender of lady bits.

That is all.

#21859

MichaelJ wrote:
ReneeHendricks wrote:GREAT response to RW's recent Slate "article": http://skepticink.com/skepticallyleft/2 ... ent-venue/
I think that this could and will blow back on RW. The more fame she gets the more interesting the other side of the story becomes to the media.

Doubt it. Event organisers want media coverage and they don't give a shit about what they have to say (or even, half the time, if they show up at all). I knew a guy (ex-journo) who set up a conference on road safety (fer shit's sake) and organised Noam Chomsky to talk at it.
But what does Chomsky know about road safety?
Sweet FA, but the media won't give two hoots about that and will try to get him to say something awful about the US.
But he's a linguist?
Yeah, like that matters.

Conference goes ahead, much publicity re Chomsky, but he never actually comes. Job done.

I think it was Bowie who said that everyone's on the internet now but it's still just about who can scream the loudest if you want attention. Becky may have some work to do on that front, but now that she's formed the Friends Of Becky (PZ Myers, Pres) she at least has a posse. Yo!

#21860

People, people, aren't we being a bit childish with all this caca talk?

/ducks and runs

#21861

I thought about posting this on the Atheism+ Forum, in the LGBT Feminism thread:

Dear Xadam.
I am a man, trapped in a woman's body.
(I got the lube mixed up with the superglue)

#21862

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:People, people, aren't we being a bit childish with all this caca talk?

/ducks and runs

No we are talking about poor benighted people who talk obsessively about caca, not caca per se. It's a public service.

countdown to inevitable bad entendre....

#21863

ReneeHendricks wrote:[
It isn't. Especially since before that she states:

Stephanie Zvan wrote:Yes, an unwanted pregnancy has many commonalities with rape.
Which isn't the same train of thought.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??! Stephanie Zvan- ARE YOU EVEN HUMAN? Go back to the fucking home planet we don't play like that here ya loon. Unless the pregnancy comes directly as a result of rape you are talking out of your ass AGAIN. Do yourself a favor and only speak while standing on your head at least then we will know from the beginning where your thoughts are coming from.

#21864

AnonymousCowherd wrote:
Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:People, people, aren't we being a bit childish with all this caca talk?

/ducks and runs
No we are talking about poor benighted people who talk obsessively about caca, not caca per se. It's a public service.

countdown to inevitable bad entendre....

To keep with the mood, you could have gone with the typo "pubic sevice". Aahhh, the missed opportunities...

MKG: tip of the hat.

#21865

Mykeru I want to talk to you -Check ur damn messages

#21866

Reap wrote:Do yourself a favor and only speak while standing on your head at least then we will know from the beginning where your thoughts are coming from.

What's a fake blond doing a handstand?

A brunette with bad breath.

Sorry, hungry, need to cook. FeuilletÃ©s de fromage de chÃ¨vre au miel. Because I can.

#21867

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:MKG: tip of the hat.

No, it was the tip of my helmet.

#21868

BarnOwl wrote:I just noticed that Dr. Harriet Hall and Surly Amy are both at CSICon.

Will there be another T-shirt incident?

Also, I believe that I won a bet that I had with a friend ....

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... 25/my-day/

Seriously, you get people to pay to hear a talk you knocked up from bits of old gibber while you were in the airport shitter (yes, Phil, SHITTER!) and you want me to applaud your ~~heroism/adroitness/massive command of the topic/intelligence~~ "I passed my exams and I didn't even study" undergrad pose? How little respect do you have for your listeners? Or the people who paid for your talk? How facile is the whole atheist/skeptic schmear that you can bog up a talk in x mins and have your listeners think it's vaguely profound?

Obviously no one but PZ ever had an academic job before either. Yutz.

#21869

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote: Sorry, hungry, need to cook. FeuilletÃ©s de fromage de chÃ¨vre au miel. Because I can.

Damn you French and your mad culinary skillz.

I'll be making and freezing dozens of servings of pesto this weekend. Because the basil has taken over one of my raised bed gardens.

#21870

BarnOwl wrote:
Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote: Sorry, hungry, need to cook. FeuilletÃ©s de fromage de chÃ¨vre au miel. Because I can.
Damn you French and your mad culinary skillz.

I'll be making and freezing dozens of servings of pesto this weekend. Because the basil has taken over one of my raised bed gardens.

I'm making tacos.....they sounded good...but now....sigh

#21871

AnonymousCowherd wrote:..."I passed my exams and I didn't even study" undergrad pose?

And how old is she now? (Rhetorical)

It was my understanding that one had (at least) to have retired for a decade before proudly parading childhood boasts.

#21872

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:
AnonymousCowherd wrote:
Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:People, people, aren't we being a bit childish with all this caca talk?

/ducks and runs
No we are talking about poor benighted people who talk obsessively about caca, not caca per se. It's a public service.

countdown to inevitable bad entendre....
To keep with the mood, you could have gone with the typo "pubic sevice". Aahhh, the missed opportunities...

You missed "pube lick" and " a seeing to with audience" or "I know it's a bad film but is Percy really caca? etc etc

#21873

AnonymousCowherd wrote:
Badger3k wrote:
Jan Steen wrote:
This one believes in fairy tales too:

http://i.imgur.com/GVYYU.jpg

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... ent-478544

Free thinking: you're doing it wrong.
Did I miss the screeching over Amanda Todd? I don't recall that. I may have been busy lately, but I think I wouldn't have missed that. Why do I feel that a search would just be a waste of time....but they wouldn't be baboons if they knew how to use a search engine properly, wouldn't they?
Hello? The 1950's called. They want their McCarthyism back.

We must be the worst bullies ever then, what with our not bullying anyone.

#21874

Michael K Gray wrote:
AnonymousCowherd wrote:..."I passed my exams and I didn't even study" undergrad pose?
And how old is she now? (Rhetorical)

It was my understanding that one had (at least) to have retired for a decade before proudly parading childhood boasts.

My disgust was at PZ's post that the Owl linked to. But yes, you should only boast when no-one else can remember whether you actually did it or not, and the real witnesses are preferably dead. (Quick! Beckii! Soomeone in Pyt sed ded - moost be threat, lass!)

BTW I was thinking that maybe we are mis-pronouncing PZ moniker. He'd likely be PeeZee in the YouEss but maybe he's PiSsy 'coz some folks aren't PeeCee. Does that make us (gulp!) Apple fanboys?

#21875

welch wrote: We must be the worst bullies ever then, what with our not bullying anyone.

I did do some bullying once. It was at the Feria de NÃ®mes. I tried because some bullshitter told me the bulls (mostly vachettes) were not killed afterward. Never gonna do that shit again.

#21876

BarnOwl wrote:I just noticed that Dr. Harriet Hall and Surly Amy are both at CSICon.

Will there be another T-shirt incident?

Also, I believe that I won a bet that I had with a friend ....

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... 25/my-day/

Are you fucking kidding me?!? What a whiny little cunt PeeZus is.

#21877

Has anyone followed the thread about Watson's slate article over on Butterflies and Wheels.
It's really sad to see Ophelia's behavior there, both the weird obsession with shit as others have mentioned, and the vindictive comments about Dawkins and Russell Blackford.
I'm afraid I don't see any way back for her at this stage. She used to be a respected writer on skeptical religious issues, at least that seemed to be the case in her books with Baggini and Stangroom. By now, I'm afraid, she's completely thrown in her lot with Myers and the mysogyny-is-everywhere gang.
I think that she had been given a lot of time to calm down and get over the initial elevatorgate nonsense but any minor flare-up and she's back in the thick of it, insulting, threatening and doxing with the best of them.
I'll take a wild guess and suggest that her backstabbing and insulting of colleagues has finally reached a point where she's getting cut off by the more influential members of the community. Now she's left with the likes of Myers, Watson, Svan and Laden - it's no wonder she went bonkers.

#21878

BarnOwl wrote:
Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote: Sorry, hungry, need to cook. FeuilletÃ©s de fromage de chÃ¨vre au miel. Because I can.
Damn you French and your mad culinary skillz.

I'll be making and freezing dozens of servings of pesto this weekend. Because the basil has taken over one of my raised bed gardens.

Goats' cheese I can live without, especially once it's been peed on.

The basil surfeit on the other hand, I should be so lucky! Oy gevalt, I have to pay retail!

#21879

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:
welch wrote: We must be the worst bullies ever then, what with our not bullying anyone.
I did do some bullying once. It was at the Feria de NÃ®mes. I tried because some bullshitter told me the bulls (mostly vachettes) were not killed afterward. Never gonna do that shit again.

Maybe not killed immediately afterwards, but afterwards, yup, brochettes de boeuf au raifort.

#21880

Basil is the one (edible) plant I can count on for a decent harvest, even in extremely hot and dry years (like 2011 and 2012). I freeze the pesto in ice cube trays, and then have it on hand for quick meals of pasta or soup or baked fish. A medical student and his partner who live in my neighborhood will be beneficiaries of the basil surfeit this year. Homemade pesto doesn't travel well, or I'd send you some.

I'll have to leave a few basil plants for the honeybees - they love the blossoms! I've got passionflower vine, sagebrush, and rosemary flowers for them too. There's a working ranch in the middle of my neighborhood, and they keep bees, as well as mammalian and avian livestock. I hope their bees have made it to my backyard for the tasty flowers.

#21881

BarnOwl wrote:Basil is the one (edible) plant I can count on for a decent harvest, even in extremely hot and dry years (like 2011 and 2012). I freeze the pesto in ice cube trays, and then have it on hand for quick meals of pasta or soup or baked fish. A medical student and his partner who live in my neighborhood will be beneficiaries of the basil surfeit this year. Homemade pesto doesn't travel well, or I'd send you some.

I'll have to leave a few basil plants for the honeybees - they love the blossoms! I've got passionflower vine, sagebrush, and rosemary flowers for them too. There's a working ranch in the middle of my neighborhood, and they keep bees, as well as mammalian and avian livestock. I hope their bees have made it to my backyard for the tasty flowers.

Very decent of you to suggest it, but you're right - pesto more than about 5 mins old starts to taste like bottled stuff. Bleurgh. I'm always impressed by anyone that can grow, um, bloody well anything really. I'm hopeless. And if one more person says "no, it's easy, you just..." I may resort to violence. Despite that we have a planting program this year to put in a mob of trees - mango, avocado, various nuts, and another attempt to try to improve the lemons (not quite the climate, but we get some). The herb garden is next. AKA Heartbreak Hill.

#21882

welch wrote:
AnonymousCowherd wrote:
Badger3k wrote:
Jan Steen wrote:
This one believes in fairy tales too:

http://i.imgur.com/GVYYU.jpg

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... ent-478544

Free thinking: you're doing it wrong.
Did I miss the screeching over Amanda Todd? I don't recall that. I may have been busy lately, but I think I wouldn't have missed that. Why do I feel that a search would just be a waste of time....but they wouldn't be baboons if they knew how to use a search engine properly, wouldn't they?
Hello? The 1950's called. They want their McCarthyism back.

We must be the worst bullies ever then, what with our not bullying anyone.

You have to remember that this accusation appears on a blog network where telling people to kill themselves or die in some horrible way is considered normal and praiseworthy behavior (yes Brownian, Josh Spokesgay and Wowbagger, we haven't forgotten)

debaser71 · #21883

Maybe some of you aren't aware but here in the US there's an election approaching. This means everyone is trying very hard to stick to the narrative. In the case of liberals and democrats (and Slate magazine) their narrative is the "war on women". RW and the the scary male atheists she has to deal with fits perfectly into this narrative. SO when the election is over and all the fear mongering about a "war on women" blows over, media interest in RW will also blow over. Also, even if they get some media attention the more media attention RW and people like her get, the more of a spotlight will be placed on them. This means they'll get even more criticism directed their way. And when they start whining about being criticized, people will see for themselves what idiots these RW radfem types are. Remember that also here in the US, while there might be a lot of people who are feminists in name only (FINO) or think of feminists as simply people advocating for equality for women, the next biggest group-think notion people have of feminists are that they are either whiny cunts or butchy dikes. I don't think RW is going to help feminists get past this stereotype, nor do I think RW fits in with what most everyday FINO styled feminists think.

I guess we'll wait and see.

#21884

Reap wrote:Mykeru I want to talk to you -Check ur damn messages

Hey, fuckstick, like the first thing I do when dropping myself into the den of iniquity that is the SlymePit is to check the teeny-tiny little message link next to the control panel.

No wonder no one knows who in fuck you are save for the people who still pay attention to flyers in the post office. Why don't you take a clue from our girl Becca and learn how to draw attention to yourself, you sniveling little whiny wallflower?

By the way, love the podcast, but I really have to question your choice of guests. I mean, the one with the guy who works at the Apple Store and is supposedly a genius or something could have been compelling, but he really couldn't carry an hour. Plus the wet squicking sounds of lubricated self-pleasure were really distracting.

Dude, you need better guests.

#21885

So, you wanted PeeZus Christ.

http://s12.postimage.org/ym6liy2ml/Pee_ ... Myers2.jpg

Full size here.

http://s12.postimage.org/ym6liy2ml/Pee_ ... Myers2.jpg

#21886

decius wrote:So, you wanted PeeZus Christ.

http://s12.postimage.org/ym6liy2ml/Pee_ ... Myers2.jpg

Full size here.

http://s12.postimage.org/ym6liy2ml/Pee_ ... Myers2.jpg

Ha, ha!

Great stuff

drolrev0 · #21887

"The Atheism+ program of taking it to the streets, striking a blow to the oppressed, and generally sticking it to The Man continues... as seen here."

lmao Mykeru, brilliant videos!

#21888

AnonymousCowherd wrote:
BarnOwl wrote:Basil is the one (edible) plant I can count on for a decent harvest, even in extremely hot and dry years (like 2011 and 2012). I freeze the pesto in ice cube trays, and then have it on hand for quick meals of pasta or soup or baked fish. A medical student and his partner who live in my neighborhood will be beneficiaries of the basil surfeit this year. Homemade pesto doesn't travel well, or I'd send you some.

I'll have to leave a few basil plants for the honeybees - they love the blossoms! I've got passionflower vine, sagebrush, and rosemary flowers for them too. There's a working ranch in the middle of my neighborhood, and they keep bees, as well as mammalian and avian livestock. I hope their bees have made it to my backyard for the tasty flowers.
Very decent of you to suggest it, but you're right - pesto more than about 5 mins old starts to taste like bottled stuff. Bleurgh. I'm always impressed by anyone that can grow, um, bloody well anything really. I'm hopeless. And if one more person says "no, it's easy, you just..." I may resort to violence. Despite that we have a planting program this year to put in a mob of trees - mango, avocado, various nuts, and another attempt to try to improve the lemons (not quite the climate, but we get some). The herb garden is next. AKA Heartbreak Hill.

Heartbreak Hill is a suitable name for my 0.1 acre suburban spread as well. There is only about a centimeter of alkaline soil, before you hit rock, and so any vegetable/herb gardening has to be done in raised beds. I had good harvests of Asian cucumbers, Chinese long beans, purple dove beans, okra, kale, chard, spinach, and lettuce this year, but it's taken some experimenting with seed varieties. The fig tree and persimmon tree are doing OK, but it will be another year or two before they produce fruit.

If I had to depend on my gardening skills and backyard harvest for even a quarter of my food, I'd be screwed.

#21889

Munkhaus wrote: Oops, must be careful using the spanish language privilege or Lsoma will banish us to a 3rd world thread.
One more Millos song though:
"Soy de Millos porque el mundo me hizo asi...no puedo cambiaaaaarrrr!"

{no me digas que eres hincha de Equidad!}

Heh, I'm not that much into football (soccer for the americans here who think ramming into each other is a sport :whistle: ).
I hadn't thought about the spanish language privilege, I was hoping I could use "Because I'm not a native english speaker, I had to learn it as a second language" to earn me some victim points.

If you ever sort your debts and come back, I'll be glad to buy you a beer!

#21890

http://s10.postimage.org/s6a1boogp/Pee_ ... small2.jpg

Sorry, I mixed them up.

#21891

Ophelia put up a post today regarding an Aussie dictionary that redefines misogyny. This dictionary replaced the word 'hatred' with 'entrenched prejudice against women.'

She states there is no difference between 'hatred' and 'entrenched prejudice.' Example:

http://www.alstefanelli.com/benson3.jpg

Then, she goes on to say that 'some people' are trying to redefine misogyny as not being this way toward all women. Example:

http://www.alstefanelli.com/benson4.jpg

Ophelia gets the 'Misogyny is contempt, dismissal, hostility, disregard' part right, but neglects to include 'toward all women or girls.'

She states her comments are 'as far as she remembers,' but the dictionary still defines it as 'women,' which would stick with the other definitions that state it is a hatred (or entrenched prejudice) against women, in general. This would connote all women. All the dictionaries, do. So does Wikipedia. So do psychology journals. Example:

http://www.alstefanelli.com/miso4.jpg

Even the first commenter on the blog she linked to states that all misogynists are sexist, but not all sexists are misogynists. This is not a pass for sexists, but just a statement that misogyny is a very specific definition for a very specific character trait toward women.

While I know several people who are sexist, or who hate (have an entrenched prejudice) against some women, or a particular woman, this does not make them misogynists.

I just have issues when people use the wrong words. I would have no problem if she called out individuals for bad behavior, acting sexist, etc. Or even pointing out an actual misogynist, if she can find one. But for the love of the Kracken,

[youtube]G2y8Sx4B2Sk[/youtube]

#21892

Dick Strawkins wrote:Has anyone followed the thread about Watson's slate article over on Butterflies and Wheels.
It's really sad to see Ophelia's behavior there, both the weird obsession with shit as others have mentioned, and the vindictive comments about Dawkins and Russell Blackford.
I'm afraid I don't see any way back for her at this stage. She used to be a respected writer on skeptical religious issues, at least that seemed to be the case in her books with Baggini and Stangroom. By now, I'm afraid, she's completely thrown in her lot with Myers and the mysogyny-is-everywhere gang.
I think that she had been given a lot of time to calm down and get over the initial elevatorgate nonsense but any minor flare-up and she's back in the thick of it, insulting, threatening and doxing with the best of them.
I'll take a wild guess and suggest that her backstabbing and insulting of colleagues has finally reached a point where she's getting cut off by the more influential members of the community. Now she's left with the likes of Myers, Watson, Svan and Laden - it's no wonder she went bonkers.

Oh stop. You'll make me feel sorry for her.

Which I can almost do until she starts the Crazy Ol' Lady routine again. Dammit woman, have some respect for yourself even if you can't respect anyone else. The dwindling friend supply is probably all going into confirmation bias - boo hoo, I thought X was an arsehole and now s/h/it has shat on me I know it for sure! Let's face it, none of these folks were ever going to make The Big Time, no matter how much PZ was dreaming of it when the "horsemen vacancy" came up. But there is probably enough money slopping round the US to support a D-list conference circuit, and appearing there must be so much easier when you don't ever have to come up with anything difficult, or new. Just cobble some shite together while waiting for the bar to open, the punters will lap it up whatever. (Don't even) rinse, and repeat.

#21893

debaser71 wrote:Maybe some of you aren't aware but here in the US there's an election approaching. This means everyone is trying very hard to stick to the narrative. In the case of liberals and democrats (and Slate magazine) their narrative is the "war on women". RW and the the scary male atheists she has to deal with fits perfectly into this narrative. SO when the election is over and all the fear mongering about a "war on women" blows over, media interest in RW will also blow over. Also, even if they get some media attention the more media attention RW and people like her get, the more of a spotlight will be placed on them. This means they'll get even more criticism directed their way. And when they start whining about being criticized, people will see for themselves what idiots these RW radfem types are. Remember that also here in the US, while there might be a lot of people who are feminists in name only (FINO) or think of feminists as simply people advocating for equality for women, the next biggest group-think notion people have of feminists are that they are either whiny cunts or butchy dikes. I don't think RW is going to help feminists get past this stereotype, nor do I think RW fits in with what most everyday FINO styled feminists think.

I guess we'll wait and see.

I think this is a valid point, especially in light of all the truly offensive, misogynistic statements some of the far right ultra-conservative Republicans have made recently. There's also a very strong undercurrent of anti-intellectualism in the Republican Party.

The LDS (Mormon) community is not known for promoting post-secondary education or career advancement of its womenfolk. Rather they are expected to be brood mares and homemakers, and to support hubby's education and career. If Romney wins the election, I think I will have to seriously consider leaving the US.

#21894

BarnOwl wrote: @ Altair - Is your avatar a Maned Wolf?

No, it's one of the hyenas from the lion king. I just googled "maned wolf" and they look really cool, I didn't know we had those guys in South America, they look like a mix between a wolf and a fox.

#21895

AKAHorace wrote: Colombiano ? yo vivia en Cali, mi novia es paisa. Estaba alla en Bogota el ano passado, vi los manifestationes estudantiles. Conoces San Antonio ?

Lamento la demora, tuve un par de dias muy ocupados. Si conozco San Antonio, de hecho mi mamÃ¡ es de Cali e ibamos mucho allÃ¡ cuando yo era niÃ±o. Ella viviÃ³ sobre la quinta, cerca a La Loma.
Planeas regresar a BogotÃ¡ pronto? serÃa muy interesante reunirnos y tomarnos algo, algo asi como la gente del hoyo (no estoy seguro que traduce slime).

#21896

Mykeru wrote:
Reap wrote:Mykeru I want to talk to you -Check ur damn messages
Hey, fuckstick, like the first thing I do when dropping myself into the den of iniquity that is the SlymePit is to check the teeny-tiny little message link next to the control panel.

No wonder no one knows who in fuck you are save for the people who still pay attention to flyers in the post office. Why don't you take a clue from our girl Becca and learn how to draw attention to yourself, you sniveling little whiny wallflower?

By the way, love the podcast, but I really have to question your choice of guests. I mean, the one with the guy who works at the Apple Store and is supposedly a genius or something could have been compelling, but he really couldn't carry an hour. Plus the wet squicking sounds of lubricated self-pleasure were really distracting.

Dude, you need better guests.

I cover the spectrum...so, talk being cheap and all that...I can't remember the last time someone called me fuckstick, lets talk about that for an hour

#21897

Reap wrote:
Mykeru wrote:
Reap wrote:Mykeru I want to talk to you -Check ur damn messages
Hey, fuckstick, like the first thing I do when dropping myself into the den of iniquity that is the SlymePit is to check the teeny-tiny little message link next to the control panel.

No wonder no one knows who in fuck you are save for the people who still pay attention to flyers in the post office. Why don't you take a clue from our girl Becca and learn how to draw attention to yourself, you sniveling little whiny wallflower?

By the way, love the podcast, but I really have to question your choice of guests. I mean, the one with the guy who works at the Apple Store and is supposedly a genius or something could have been compelling, but he really couldn't carry an hour. Plus the wet squicking sounds of lubricated self-pleasure were really distracting.

Dude, you need better guests.
Thanks FSM my taking-the-piss-O-meter was on today.

I cover the spectrum...so, talk being cheap and all that...I can't remember the last time someone called me fuckstick, lets talk about that for an hour

#21898

Botched that. Mine was "Thanks FSM my taking-the-piss-O-meter was on today."

#21899

Me thinks we need a Sanct Beccy mock-up.

#21900

Greta Christina's number one groupie -

http://i.imgur.com/GGE6G.png

One of the hated now? It's soooo complicated.