David Futrelle missed an opportunity! He posted about this awesomely stupid Reddit thread that asserts the biologically inferior nature of women, and then he admits to reading only a few of the comments in the resulting mess.
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There’s a new museum in London, and it promised to “retell the story of the East End through the eyes, voices, experiences and actions” of women and show their contribution to British history. Sounds promising!
Former Google diversity chief Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe, who is behind the scheme, promised “the first women’s museum in the UK” in plans given the green light by Tower Hamlets council last year.
But when the covers were removed from the site on Cable Street in Whitechapel last week, residents were shocked to find its subject matter had changed to the brutal unsolved murders of prostitutes between 1888 and 1891.
The Jack The Ripper Museum, which has as its logo a sinister silhouette of a man in Victorian dress above the museum name written in blood red, has outraged residents, who claim it is now about misogyny rather than women’s achievements.
I felt the same way. What kind of numbskull believes that clinic workers are making Big Money in the baby parts racket? The same ones who’d gullibly take a worker’s statement that she’s saving up for a Lamborghini seriously.
Some users on 4chan went to all the trouble of creating a fake feminist conference, FemCon 2015, with a date and a hotel and fake enthusiastic twitter attendees, in order to collect registration fees from those stupid SJWs at $50 a pop. They even admitted that this was a fraudulent scheme to make money.
She makes much more sense than Ross Douthat, that’s for sure.
The study she cites is clear: most women have no regrets over their abortion.
It’s too much to hope that the NY Times will ever get rid of their awful opinion columnists. At least it gives us something to gripe about every week.
The latest bit of irrational conservative nonsense comes from Ross Douthat, who doesn’t like abortion. He is saddened and appalled by those absurd anti-Planned Parenthood videos that have been released. He dismisses the idea that these are trumped-up and phony.
Jonathan Merritt, who has these amazing qualifications,
Senior Columnist, Religion News Service @RNS; Contributing Editor, @TheWeek; Author of Jesus is Better Than You Imagined (2014)
has announced that Planned Parenthood should be defunded. He was asked by a woman what she should do for her “medically necessary birth control, pap smears, and tests”, which was like an open invitation to mansplain to a lady where she can take her lady parts. It would be hilarious if it weren’t so painful. Would you believe he sent her a list of alternatives to Planned Parenthood that included a bunch of CPCs? Bless his little Christian heart.
Paul Nurse, friend to Tim Hunt and co-recipient of the Nobel prize, had a few things to say.
Sir Tim Hunt deserved to lose his job over his infamous “trouble with girls” speech, the President of the Royal Society has said.
Sir Paul Nurse, a joint-Nobel Prize winner and friend of Sir Tim, told the Telegraph the embattled professor’s “chauvinist” comments had “damaged science”.
Of course, he didn’t really lose a job — he lost an honorary position, as I’ve been saying repeatedly. I have learned that he lost the accompanying photocopying privileges at UCL, which is the biggest cost to him I’ve heard yet.
I thought it was clear. The case is closed. UCL released their official statement.
But strangely, I’m being bombarded with claims that the statement was ambiguous
, that it didn’t say what it seems to say, that I’ve misquoted it. Really? What’s ambiguous about:
Council unanimously supports the decision taken by UCL’s executive to accept the resignation.
and
Council acknowledges that all parties agree that reinstatement would be inappropriate.
