Just a reminder to all you crazy role-players out there (vore, rape, anything else all weird and illegal): If you're going to roleplay, put some disclaimer near the top in case the FBI drops in. K thx

The way this has fractured makes me nuts. I was actually introduced to feminism through Rebecca's blog, which I'd gotten into solely for the skepticism thing. And it shouldn't be that remarkable, but for a guy who'd absorbed some serious woman issues from his dad, being in this place where most of the writers &…

I, and a lot of other skeptics, are now putting him in the "old dodder" category. You take what's good and you throw out the rest. Ultimately he's a fantastic educator who at one time was very forward-thinking, but now he's on the wrong side of history and is too privileged to understand why. Doesn't devalue his books.

I think it's worth noting that a lot of really, really prominent members of the community have publicly supported Rebecca, and have made a point to draw attention to the fact that the Skeptical movement needs to be inclusive of women. Hemant Mehta, PZ Myers, and Phil Plait (VERY prominent voices in the community) are…

I had a flatmate who didn't like any of his sex sessions to go over a certain time limit, so he also fucked to radiohead. This way (he reasoned), if she was taking too long, Randy Newman would come on, the mood would be ruined, and they'd have to reschedule.

No one in the arts is rich? You're joking, right? There's certainly a wide spectrum and most people AREN'T rich, but there are some people who've bought & furnished entire estates from one large piece.

There's a stereotype that Jewish women love sex and then stop immediately after marriage. The jokes along the lines of this stereotype usually involve oral sex.

This article was aimed primarily at men, and was designed to address the issues with harassment and sexism in the atheist/skepticism communities. Don't blame the reblog.

It's clearly aimed at men, though, who perpetrate about 9/10 rapes. But yes, it is a pretty good guide for anybody of any gender.

The Stephen Sondheim musical Passion, and the film and book upon which it's based, is all about a beautiful young soldier who ends up stationed in the middle of nowhere, where he's stalked, harassed, and eventually seduced by a grotesque, obsessive, desperately ill young woman.

The point of that list is to re-iterate to men just how much of their supposedly "boys-will-be-boys" behavior is actually rape, and to put the onus of responsibility for reducing rape on men. Perhaps the people doing the presentation didn't make enough of a point of it, but that line of education is actually…

Why didn't he die instead of say that awful thing? Yeesh.

Yeah, but the good ones are a pain to get. And you don't get to go to the afterparty and meet people.

I've been keeping this to myself, but my best friend was dating a sibling of a new cast member and had essentially a huge supply of free tickets to SNL, and they broke up just before the season started and I am SO UPSET.

They just called the situation is Syria "very syri-us." Priceless.

BUT IT'S NOT FAIR I WANT TO GO TO CURVES WHERE'S MY SAFE SPACE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Also, it's HILARIOUS. She goes from outright asking Joss's wife what it's like to get raped every day, to saying in the comments "I never said that Joss is a rapist."

Thankfully I have the delightful privilege of a man's experience of OkCupid. So while there are a few creeps, mostly what I've had to deal with is carbon-copy boring people. (I once visited what seemed like hundreds of profiles in a row that all said "I am the real-life Liz Lemon".) I used to also get a lot of…

Don't go down that rabbithole, it is INSANE. http://users.livejournal.com/_allecto_/34718.html is some classic radical feminism right there. Pretty much calls Joss Whedon a rapist. My favorite: