this tweet makes me genuinely uncomfortable.

Okay, 2 things:

Shaggy has covered this tactic already.

how so? i mean, in an arena where even feminists can end up slut-shaming other women without even thinking about what they are doing? at least someone is owning this and putting it into any sort of spotlight.

why?

As stupid as this app is, I don’t condone harassment or death threats to the founder. However, it’s kind of terrifying that even AFTER receiving that level of “negativity” directed at her, she still doesn’t seem to understand, in any way, why her app is terrible. This woman’s cluelessness is just off the charts.

So they don’t think that the internet is an endless torrent of anonymous hate streaming from behind a billion computer screens, even while they are bombarded by anonymous hate sent from a billion computer screens.

God, it must really be awful for those creators to have a bunch of people on the internet making assumptions about their intentions and criticizing them publicly. Good thing it’s only on twitter though, imagine if there was a whole app, just for that!

This terrifies me. Its already difficult to leave the house on account of my gigantic anxiety disorder. I already think everyone is judging me every time I walk down the street, but THIS? Oh Jeez. It makes me shaky even thinking about it!

I just assumed that Peeple was viral marketing for season 3 of Silicon Valley.

I only read your response just now, but in short, I totally agree with Swanlog. I think s/he summed it up conveniently well. I apologize for swearing at you- I felt like you were veering off point with the MRA comparison and probably didn’t read very objectively after that.

Hey thanks for the 3rd party point of view, sincerely. I really like Squarr but I thought they were off-base re: humanism and backtracking. I concede that I was prickly, and then I had to take off for work before they had a chance to respond. This is right on the money;

And really, would you want to be the one to tell her no? To her face?

Would it be easier to have Emily work out for a year to get in shape, or would it be easier to have Ronda learn to act? Tough call there.

Thank you. :)

Com’on, we already have Chris Hemsworth as Thor and he is probably over after next Avengers movie. So we’ll be needing another blonde with bad acting skills on the silver screen ;)

No. But she can do this:

I think it was an excellent way for some of the more hardline conservative Catholics to undermine a pope who’s making a lot of noise about things they don’t agree with.

“Broader umbrella” is a good way to put it. Secular humanism is inclusive to many other isms by definition and so broad as to serve as a context for dialectic between isms, but in reality humanism and feminism are ideological orientations which overlap. They’re certainly not alternatives to each other, identical, or…

I’ve always called myself a secular humanist and a feminist. I was not aware we were supposed to pick sides. Or that there were sides.