WTF? I'm probably going to regret asking this, but is Richard Dawkins responsible for anything he says or does?

The comments in their coverage of the Anita Sarkeesian debacle made me want to drop a brick of ice-9 in the ocean and declare humankind a failure.

Could you and your imaginary straw man please keep it down, the grown ups are talking.

Yup. And since Grothe brought his sexual orientation (and Randi's) into it, I hope everyone with a grain of evidence-based sense would consider it very much "on mission" to say no to pseudo-science and faith-based mummery as a justification for homophobic public policy. And that an organization founded and bearing…

Gonne: No - there's no argument for that. M'kay? IMO and YMMV, of course. As for "righteous indignation", yeah I do get pretty majorly indignant about the idea that there's some divide between proper cosplay and "attention whores"/"booth babes" (ugh!) who need to stop provoking those feeble menz who have no…

Thanks for that, dudebro. That was just like someone who doesn't take harassment seriously because he thinks it's never going to happen to him (and is probably right) and the hysterical ladybrains just need to STFU.

Giving out some colourful cards looks childish, like real life emoticons or like saying "I don't really know how to deal with people". You're talking about what you can gain when confronted with a creep, all right, but I'm talking about what you can loose when there are no creeps around, just people talking sensitive…

I don't know about those cards. Can't you just _say_ aloud "I don't agree with you", "It's disrespectful what you say" or "Stop saying bullshit"?

*sigh* Thanks for that - could you please publicly post your location and contact details so I can stalk, harass and constantly make unwanted sexual advances to you both IRL and on-line. I mean, it's so "trivial" compared to FGM you surely won't mind!

Well, not telling the woman concerned to STFU and stop spreading "irresponsible disinformation" would have been a wizard start.

I'd also think someone as smart as Dawkins would see how intelectually dishonest (and pretty offensive) using female genital mutilation as a rhetorical club to tell an uppity feminist he disagrees with to STFU. Hey, Dawkins hasn't been fired from his academic post, beaten up or burned at the stake for being an…

"Solely supporting feminist"? Oh please... not being a passive-aggressive enabler of bullying and harassment is nothing of the kind. Oh, and it's really charming (and not at all surprising) listening to dudebros like Dawkins and Grothe telling feminist skeptics/atheists to STFU and stop "distracting" from "real…

Quite - and isn't it awesome seeing a straight white privileged Englishman concern trolling women of colour to put an uppity, hysterical little feminist in her place?

Perhaps ironically, he may have underestimated how much weight his own words would have.

It's sad but not at all surprising to see Dawkins going through the whole dudebro "STFU, stupid feminist bitch" bullshit bingo card. Watson was just being hysterical, over-sensitive and needs to focus on real issues for women (as defined by him, of course)!

As for Grothe, he sees the issue as a matter of priorities. He believes the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF), the nonprofit that runs TAM, should focus exclusively on its mission, which is debunking pseudoscience and promoting skeptical responses to the paranormal. Both Grothe and JREF's founder James Randi…

Since it's actually been filmed, and screened in cinemas as part of the National Theatre's NT Live program, some day it may happen.

The piece itself was excellent — just getting a workable shooting script is a titanic achievement in itself, but this film is almost insanely ambitious on every level. I don't know if Lana and Larry Wachowski can even imagine what the "easy way" is of doing anything. :)

I can't speak for Charlie Jane, but really any writer who is going to be an assbag towards someone who might have given them a bad review needs to grow a skin (even the best get pans) and get a life, preferably their own. And I review books not authors — perfectly decent, agreeable human beings have written…

Not sure if anyone's read the article the New Yorker wrote up about the Wachowskis working on this movie