[meta] On Tone, the Policing Thereof, and What It Is I Do Here
So my “Why You Shouldn’t Tell That Random Girl On The Street That She’s Hot” post went a little bit viral and I’m still responding to comments on it. One thing that has come up a lot are guys telling...
View Article“But I’m a man and I don’t feel like I have any privilege.”
Another one inspired by the comment thread of doom. The hardest thing about explaining privilege to members of dominant groups is that, usually, the fact that you’re advantaged in certain ways doesn’t...
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[#wiscfi liveblog] Why the Lost History of Secular Women Matters Today
Susan Jacoby is up! She is a journalist and author who’s written a bunch of awesome books, including The Age of American Unreason, which I recently read. 1:50: Susan Jacoby opens with a poem published...
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[#wiscfi liveblog] Secularism: A Right and Demand of Women Worldwide
Next up is Maryam Namazie, a blogger and activist who’s been involved with tons of secular organizations: Equal Rights Now, the One Law for All Campaign against Sharia Law in Britain, the Council of...
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“It’s not about gender.”
Loggerhead sea turtle. Credit: Upendra Kanda Sea turtles (superfamily Chelonioidea) are found in all of the world’s oceans except the Arctic. They spend the majority of their lives in the sea, but...
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Yes, Activists Have Doubts Too, And Also Criticism Is A Process (A Rant About...
I was avoiding my statistics homework today and found this comic on Tumblr, by an art student named Alyssa Korea: This really resonated with me, for various reasons. First of all, it really captures...
View ArticleOpen Letter to the CFI Board of Directors
This was sent to the CFI Board of Directors today as they prepare to meet this week to discuss the controversy surrounding Dr. Ron Lindsay’s opening remarks at the Women in Secularism conference. It...
View ArticleHarassment Is Not An Isolated Incident
The reason it’s so hard to get people to take harassment seriously is because it looks so different from the outside than from the inside. Here’s an example many of us are probably viscerally familiar...
View Article“I’m the REAL Skeptic”: On Begging the Question
Things you need to stop doing in debates: framing your position as “rational/skeptical” and the opposing position as not “rational/skeptical.” What I’m talking about specifically are rhetorical moves...
View Article[in brief] CFI Board’s Statement on the #Wiscfi Controversy
The CFI Board of Directors has released their statement on the controversy surrounding Dr. Ron Lindsay’s opening remarks at the Women in Secularism conference. Here is the full text of their statement:...
View ArticleOn Being A Bit Of A Stereotype
It’s not exactly a secret that social work is an extremely gendered profession. About 86% of MSW students are women, and the percentage of licensed social workers who are women varies by age from 100%...
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Tell Kickstarter Not To Fund This Gross Book About How To Get Laid By...
[Content note: sexual assault] There’s a project that’s just gotten funded through Kickstarter. It’s a book called Above the Game: A Guide to Getting Awesome With Women and it’s being written by a...
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Internet Activism Matters: An Update On Kickstarter and Ken Hoinsky
Remember that awful rapey Kickstarter project? So, not only did Kickstarter release an amazing apology for allowing the project to get funded, but the authors of the petition to get it pulled have...
View ArticleTouching People Without Their Consent: Still A Problem Even If It’s Not Sexual
Since I’m always blathering on about consent, including consent in non-sexual situations, I’ve noticed a common belief that a lot of people have. It can basically be summed up like so: If you’re...
View Article“Women Just Want Men To Take Control.”
[Content note: sex/BDSM] One trope I often hear about women’s sexuality is that “women just want men to take control.”1 I encounter this everywhere–in pickup artist how-to’s, in pop psychology...
View ArticleHelp Stop Ohio’s Terrible New Anti-Abortion Bill
[Content note: abortion] Note: If you already know all about Ohio’s terrible new anti-abortion bill, scroll all the way to the end to find out how to try to stop it. If not, read on. Last Tuesday...
View ArticleIs All Pickup Advice Sexist?
I was reading an article that started out with the question, “Is all pickup advice sexist?” So of course I immediately started thinking about that. (I proceeded to write the following without having...
View ArticleConfession: I Basically Never Ask People Out
Every progressive has a traditional streak in them. It might be little, it might be huge, it might be a secret, it might be totally obvious. Mine is this: I do not take initiative when it comes to sex...
View Article“I regret my abortion.”
[Content note: abortion, partner abuse] The use of “I regret my abortion” as an argument against legalized abortion is nothing new, but I’ve been seeing it a lot lately in pro-life protests, such as...
View Article[guest post] A Thought Experiment In The Style of Schrödinger
I’m traveling to Columbus, Ohio for the Secular Student Alliance conference, and CaitieCat has written a guest post so that you’re not too bored in my absence! I was thinking about Schrödinger’s...
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