The Civil War Within Skepticism

[Jason]

I'm not keen on sexual banter. It prevents the real sincerity and deceit of human nature shining through.

Really, it does.

I demand you change your name back forthwith! Such deceit.. how are we to know who's posting?

[Jason]

A little additional reading for those whose face hasn't fallen off with boredom about this subject yet:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/love- ... ual-banter

Also

[JimC]

Have they reached their equivalent of the Wilderness yet?

[Jaygray]

Have they reached their equivalent of the Wilderness yet?

I suspect some of the readers of the increasingly silly blogs are. From what I have seen everybody is 'moving on' whilst doing the exact opposite.

Still, it passes an hour or two at work...

[JimC]

Have they reached their equivalent of the Wilderness yet?

I suspect some of the readers of the increasingly silly blogs are. From what I have seen everybody is 'moving on' whilst doing the exact opposite.

Still, it passes an hour or two at work...

They need the equivalent of Sherman marching to the sea...

[Jaygray]

Hold on to your hats, away we go again:

T-Shirtgate /nazis / stasis/ istas / whatever:

http://thunderf00tdotorg.wordpress.com/ ... y-t-shirt/

'Atheist community' - my arse.

[hadespussercats]

I don't understand at all what is wrong with that T-shirt.

And I'm saying this as a woman who understands some of the beef with Marty Klein and the swingers card.

It's offensive to insist that being a woman doesn't mean you automatically identify with a certain woman's group? What?! This is harrassment???

[Animavore]

Lol so hard.

[Jaygray]

I don't understand at all what is wrong with that T-shirt.

And I'm saying this as a woman who understands some of the beef with Marty Klein and the swingers card.

It's offensive to insist that being a woman doesn't mean you automatically identify with a certain woman's group? What?! This is harrassment???

It would appear so:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterflies ... ls/?p=3843

[hadespussercats]

Seriously, imagine if half the energy used to make angry shirts and fake websites were dedicated to helping me send women to science events or to do any sort of good in this movement. We could change the world.

Isn't it a shame when passion, energy, and material resources are wasted on raging against a minor offense?

[Jaygray]

Isn't it a shame when passion, energy, and material resources are wasted on raging against a minor offense?

I suppose it’s reassuring in a way to observe that Atheists / Skeptics / Humanists are as prone to the same temptations of faction and egomania as happens to everyone else in the world. What other value all this has I don’t know.

For my part I think it would be easier to nail jelly to a wall than to presume to speak for a community of Atheists / Skeptics / Humanists. Those who try run the risk of looking like charlatans or worse.

[Audley Strange]

Isn't it a shame when passion, energy, and material resources are wasted on raging against a minor offense?

I suppose it’s reassuring in a way to observe that Atheists / Skeptics / Humanists are as prone to the same temptations of faction and egomania as happens to everyone else in the world. What other value all this has I don’t know.

For my part I think it would be easier to nail jelly to a wall than to presume to speak for a community of Atheists / Skeptics / Humanists. Those who try run the risk of looking like charlatans or worse.

It has value to me from the point of view of watching how noise affects an information system and yet another case of the emotive and unreasonable demands of "Feminists" determining the conditions of discussion.

Perhaps their motto should be "I am woman, hear me whine!"

[Coito ergo sum]

So, am I right that the hullabaloo is about a woman who wore a t-shirt that said she isn't a skepchick, or a woman skeptic, she's a skeptic? Did someone really make a big deal of this? I didn't see any of the articles, except what T-foot wrote through the link above.

Did one of the Skepchicks really have to cancel her appearance or cut it short because of that t-shirt?

[Animavore]

So, am I right that the hullabaloo is about a woman who wore a t-shirt that said she isn't a skepchick, or a woman skeptic, she's a skeptic? Did someone really make a big deal of this? I didn't see any of the articles, except what T-foot wrote through the link above.

Did one of the Skepchicks really have to cancel her appearance or cut it short because of that t-shirt?

The second link, earlier, brought you straight to her article. What happened?

[Jaygray]

So, am I right that the hullabaloo is about a woman who wore a t-shirt that said she isn't a skepchick, or a woman skeptic, she's a skeptic? Did someone really make a big deal of this? I didn't see any of the articles, except what T-foot wrote through the link above.

Did one of the Skepchicks really have to cancel her appearance or cut it short because of that t-shirt?

The second link, earlier, brought you straight to her article. What happened?

Dunno. I may have indvertantly changed it in an edit.

Here it is again: http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterflies ... ent-223155

Apologies.