The Ada Initiative fundraiser was a phenomenal success, and one of the cool results is that we’ll be having an Ally Skills workshop at Skepticon. That’s good, and I think they’re doing it right, with an expert to tell the men what to do and what not to do.
These things can go so wrong, though.
Anita Sarkeesian is going to speak at Utah State, and they’ve been sent a death threat.
Sam Harris does it again, opening his yap and exposing his biases.
Liberals have really failed on the topic of theocracy. They’ll criticize white theocracy, they’ll criticize Christians. They’ll still get agitated over the abortion clinic bombing that happened in 1984. But when you want to talk about the treatment of women and homosexuals and free thinkers and public intellectuals in the Muslim world, I would argue that liberals have failed us.
Hell yes, I’m still agitated over any abortion clinic bombing. Shouldn’t we all be? I’m also agitated over female genital mutilation and shooting girls who want an education in Pakistan. I can be frustrated by all the onslaughts against modernity everywhere; I don’t treat it as a failure of liberalism that American women are fighting for their rights at home as a priority; I’m sure that almost all of them feel a sense of solidarity with women around the world, but in most cases they are far more limited in what they can do about Somalia than they are about taking action in their own back yard.
Libby Anne really rips into him for that stupid remark.
Yes, they are. And some of the active ranters are treating the publicizing of death threats to be a triumph. See, gang, the media are taking us seriously, they crow.
So take a look at how Business Insider sees the story.
At the request of the woman targeted by this stalker, this post has been removed.
Then you need Scroguard. For those of you who can’t afford the whole gimp suit.
While tut-tutting about those wicked couples who are living together, the Polish Catholic church also offers some parenting advice.
I have been told that the divisions over sexism racking the atheist movement are a purely American problem — this simply isn’t an issue in Europe. There’s also the implication that it’s a phony concern, ginned up by bloggin’ malcontents.
So I guess the University of Nottingham is located somewhere in Iowa, then?
And she should be. She speaks out about the photo hacking and the culture that encourages it.
