The Lesser Known Skepchick War: Watson v. Krauss

[charlou]

No worries ... I can understand how reading my initial comment in this thread in isolation might give the impression you got ... It wasn't the most thoughtful or explanatory way I could have expressed my overall view of Rebecca Watson's behaviour.

[Coito ergo sum]

There is nothing "wrong" with preferring that someone not exercise their right to free speech. I don't like Nazis, and I would prefer it if they STFU and GTFO. However, I also acknowledge their right to free speech. On the issue of Watson, I kind of hope she keeps yapping, because the Dawkins and Krauss wars are fascinating and quite enjoyable. I agree with charlou that Watson is a self-important gob who surrounds herself with yappy sycophants. I also think Watson is a conceited, know-nothing who passes herself off as an authority on scientific issues when she really has very little background or qualifications that would qualify her very well for that position. She comes across as arrogant and very often snarky and snotty.

[Gallstones]

OMFG, let it fucking go already.

Take your own advice. I discuss topics I am interested in. There are hundreds of topics on rationalia that may interest you, many of them won't. Feel free to drop snide, insipid little troll comments on all the threads that don't interest you, though.

I will post what I please if I please.
My comment was on topic--the topic.
Yours was predictably personal and completely unimpressive---ooooh, oooh you can say mean things about people.
Try addressing the topic if you please-----hint, it ain't me.

On topic: this entire faux issue is insipid. That is what I think about it---where to post that thought
Oh yeah, in the fucking thread on the topic. Fucking duh.

Don't like my opinion---get over it.

[Coito ergo sum]

OMFG, let it fucking go already.

Take your own advice. I discuss topics I am interested in. There are hundreds of topics on rationalia that may interest you, many of them won't. Feel free to drop snide, insipid little troll comments on all the threads that don't interest you, though.

I will post what I please if I please.

As will I. You're the one who told me not to. You want to post what you please if you please, but obviously you don't extend to me that same courtesy.

My comment was on topic--the topic.
Yours was predictably personal and completely unimpressive---ooooh, oooh you can say mean things about people.
Try addressing the topic if you please-----hint, it ain't me.

The topic was not me, Gallstones. You told me to "let it go", remember? That's another way of telling me to shut up. You now say I'm off topic for responding to your post? Give me a break.

On topic: this entire faux issue is insipid. That is what I think about it---where to post that thought

Good. Your opinion is noted.

Oh yeah, in the fucking thread on the topic. Fucking duh.

Don't like my opinion---get over it.

I would love to talk about your opinions on the topic. When you show up here with a drive-by post basically telling me to stop talking about the topic, then I'll feel free to respond. I don't give a flying fuck that your opinion is that I should "let it go." Oh, wait - "let it FUCKING go..."

[Gallstones]

I haven't told you anything. No one's name appears in my post and I quoted no one.
You chose to assume it had to be about you.

I make no claims to extraordinary authority or powers.

I expressed exasperation over an incident that has been inflated and micro-scrutinized all out of proportion; given import and an airing it would never have had if the authors critics hadn't snatched up that baton of outrage and run with it. And run and run and run and run and run............

[charlou]

I haven't told you anything. No one's name appears in my post and I quoted no one.
You chose to assume it had to be about you.

I make no claims to extraordinary authority or powers.

I expressed exasperation over an incident that has been inflated and micro-scrutinized all out of proportion; given import and an airing it would never have had if the authors critics hadn't snatched up that baton of outrage and run with it. And run and run and run and run and run............

So who were you asking to "let it fucking go already" ... in this thread, started by coito and posted in by coito, surreptitious57 and I?

I'm just curious about that, being otherwise happy with my "you're free to" response to your suggestion.


All that said, the thing seems to have petered out for the time being. Fuck, it was an intriguing debate while it lasted though.

[Coito ergo sum]

I haven't told you anything. No one's name appears in my post and I quoted no one.
You chose to assume it had to be about you.

So, does that mean you weren't talking about me?

Please be clear about that. Was I not the one you were telling to "let it go?"

I make no claims to extraordinary authority or powers.

Nor should you.

I expressed exasperation over an incident that has been inflated and micro-scrutinized all out of proportion;

The Krauss incident? You think the Krauss incident has been micro-scrutinized all out of proportion?

given import and an airing it would never have had if the authors critics hadn't snatched up that baton of outrage and run with it. And run and run and run and run and run............

It might have something to do with the person who started it all off in the first place, and how that person handled it, and the allegations that person made.

[surreptitious57]

My comment was on topic--the topic

Actually Gall it was not. It was advice given to others
not to post any more on the topic. You did not actually address
it yourself specifically. It does seem odd that here on a rational site
where opinions are freely expressed on a myriad of issues that you object
to a particular issue being discussed. I defend your right to hold that view and
express yourself as you so wish. Nevertheless it is rather a strange stance to take. But
to reiterate : you did not post a comment on the topic itself but wanted others to stop doing so

[apophenia]

OMFG, let it fucking go already.

[Tero]

OMFG, let it fucking go already.

I was wondering what to do with this thread. It had too many words.

[Coito ergo sum]