This may be redundant — you all cruise every blog on the site already, right?
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Ed is asking for donations, and exploring ideas to get an ad-free site. Give him your input!
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The Digital Cuttlefish thinks God is a misogynist. I think he’s right.
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Greta has a guest post — it seems that being a member of atheist and gay groups is grounds for suspicion.
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Stephanie can recognize a reasonable dialogue when she sees it.
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Jen is unimpressed with the paleo diet fad.
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Ian’s reputation as a stud is forever demolished.
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Maryam discovers that the Muslim Brotherhood is opposed to a UN resolution against violence against women. She doesn’t seem surprised.
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Taslima is optimistic about the future for Muslims — that they’ll grow out of Islam.
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Brianne talks about rape.
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Ashley talks about rapists.
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Miri talks about rape and justice.
Steubenville seems to have stirred up a theme.
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Avicenna deconstructs a bad Thunderf00t video. It seems he thinks a short clip of a girl video game character punching a guy in the crotch invalidates everything Anita Sarkeesian says.
Yeah… not sure how to react to the whole “respecting consent = not a stud” thing, even as a joke. Generally speaking, I’m not terribly on board with that characterization of the piece.
Crommunist
I don’t think it’s a joke so much as a satirical take supposed to mock the sort of toxic masculinity which sees turning down sex or failing to get it, for whatever reason, as “unmanly”. So some patriarch-infused, rape-culture-enabling PUA would read Ian’s piece and their immediate reaction would be “What a pussy”. PZ is mocking that. At least, that’s my take on it.
Ugh, Ian’s piece = your piece, obv. Brain-blank for a second there; apologies.