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Re: How do we attract Skepchicks to sign up here?

Post by hadespussercats » Sun Jul 29, 2012 2:58 am

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hadespussercats wrote: Maybe you could stick around. Ayaan's right-- we don't ban people for their opinions here. I won't say there aren't downsides to that policy, but I think it's a worthwhile ideal.
I'm not easily run off. :{D

But if the Ratz in general want to work on moving forward there has to be some honest speaking, & I'd have to call some folks "WATBs".
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Re: How do we attract Skepchicks to sign up here?

Post by Graculus » Sun Jul 29, 2012 3:01 am

PordFrefect wrote::tut: Je me souviens de rien! :cheers:
ostie de calisse de pourris :td:

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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Jul 29, 2012 1:37 pm

This whole thing has the air of an After Eden cartoon.
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Re: How do we attract Skepchicks to sign up here?

Post by MiM » Sun Jul 29, 2012 4:25 pm

Graculus wrote:
hadespussercats wrote: Maybe you could stick around. Ayaan's right-- we don't ban people for their opinions here. I won't say there aren't downsides to that policy, but I think it's a worthwhile ideal.
I'm not easily run off. :{D

But if the Ratz in general want to work on moving forward there has to be some honest speaking, & I'd have to call some folks "WATBs".
Please start speaking honest then, instead of META, so that we can dicuss the real issues.

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Post by laklak » Sun Jul 29, 2012 4:52 pm

Titties! Yeah, I fucking LOVE titties!
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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Re: How do we attract Skepchicks to sign up here?

Post by Robert_S » Sun Jul 29, 2012 4:56 pm

MiM wrote:
Graculus wrote:
hadespussercats wrote: Maybe you could stick around. Ayaan's right-- we don't ban people for their opinions here. I won't say there aren't downsides to that policy, but I think it's a worthwhile ideal.
I'm not easily run off. :{D

But if the Ratz in general want to work on moving forward there has to be some honest speaking, & I'd have to call some folks "WATBs".
Please start speaking honest then, instead of META, so that we can dicuss the real issues.

"Whiney Ass Titty Baby" :think: Yes I kind of like that. Everyone needs to whine, once in a while.
You'd be whiney too if you had ass on your titties and were a baby. Who the cock is thinking up acronyms these days? :ask:
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Post by colubridae » Sun Jul 29, 2012 5:01 pm

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PordFrefect wrote:Hi, my name is Jason and I like long fucks on the beach with a completely submissive woman who gives in to my every advance whether she likes it or not. The sexiest thing I can think of is to have a Skepchick as my 'bitch sex slave'. Her only purpose in life would be to satisfy me sexually and clean the house.
You wouldn't even let the poor girl make you a sandwich? You monster
On the beach with a skepchick and you use the word sand-witch? :hehe:
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Mon Jul 30, 2012 2:45 pm

laklak wrote:Titties! Yeah, I fucking LOVE titties!
I especially agree with you if you're dyslexic. :{D

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Post by Coito ergo sum » Mon Jul 30, 2012 2:50 pm

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Robert_S wrote: The snark wouldn't stop, but there would actually be someone who could provide a good opposing viewpoint to CES's threads.
Do you really think the parties in question are willing to listen to opposing viewpoints? I'm not getting that vibe.

I got rolleyed for asking for evidence for an unsupported assertion. Apparently the dominant narrative is not to be questioned.
The ones most like to not listen to opposing viewpoints are Skepchicks. If they joined here, you'd find their viewpoints freely expressed, but they would accuse this forum of being misogynistic for allowing people to "gaslight" them by telling them that they're wrong and explaining why...

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Post by Coito ergo sum » Mon Jul 30, 2012 3:02 pm

maiforpeace wrote:By not having a Wilder Web forum dominated by hateful and derogatory thread titles maybe?

How unfair for people to assume that we are hateful and nasty. :bored:
Some folks here are hateful and nasty sometimes. Most people have gotten a little nasty now and again, and most people have screwed up and said some impertinent things. It's the rare person who never makes such mistakes. To suggest than an entire forum is hateful and nasty simply because it allows individuals to post what some consider to be hateful and nasty topics or opinions doesn't make very much rational sense.

I mean, we have freedom of speech and the press generally, but the fact that the Nazis have as much right to march down main street carrying signs as the Occupy movement doesn't make the country a "hateful and nasty" country. It just means that some people are hateful and nasty, which is the reality whether or not they're allowed to march down mainstreet or not. The same goes for a relatively open forum. People post here. Some of those posts are going to be by persons we don't like. Some folks here have not only expressed, say, racist viewpoints, but at least one person says "damn right I'm a racist." The forum is better for such tolerance. Such folks can post, but their posts are answered with vigor.

And, I take issue with your description of the Wilder Web as dominated by hateful and derogatory thread titles. I just checked that forum and read through the entire first page of threads. None are "hateful" and only two could be considered derogatory, I think. Two "parody" threads about PZ Myers, one calling him a racist and the other calling him a "kitten murder advocate." Clearly, those are attempts at humor.

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Post by lordpasternack » Thu Aug 09, 2012 3:29 pm

Incidentally, I retrieved this info from Alexa, which might fascinate PZ:

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Re: How do we attract Skepchicks to sign up here?

Post by Tero » Thu Aug 09, 2012 4:00 pm

And just how do we know about sex and Ratz?

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Re: How do we attract Skepchicks to sign up here?

Post by Robert_S » Sun Aug 12, 2012 9:18 pm

lordpasternack wrote:Incidentally, I retrieved this info from Alexa, which might fascinate PZ:

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Well, that is interesting.

Is an overprotective environment actually less attractive to a lot of women than one where possibly sexist attitudes are out in the open to be argued for and against with some civility?
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Re: How do we attract Skepchicks to sign up here?

Post by klr » Sun Aug 12, 2012 9:21 pm

Curious indeed, but as we're not a big forum, the statistics are accordingly not that reliable. :prof:

They might still be right though.
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Post by Robert_S » Sun Aug 12, 2012 10:30 pm

The US Ratz meets have had either an equal male to female ratio or females outnumbering males. I know that isn't a scientifically sound sample but still... :levi:
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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