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May 15, 2013

Fucking Andrea Dworkin (1994)

Posted by franc hoggle under censorship, cranks, cults, culture, gender, history, internet, media, misandry, moral panic, nonsense, politics, propaganda, puritanism, shrieking hysteria, yellow journalism | Tags: amanda marcotte, Andrea Dworkin, Catharine Mackinnon, Christina Hoff Sommers, date rape, fear, gender feminism, Jeffrey Dahmer, Katie Roiphe, loathing, Lorena Bobbitt, Porn Wars |
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There are no good pics… [image from Sydney Morning Herald]

[From the "the more things change, the more they stay the same" files.]

The time was 1994 and, downunder at least, it was when the last great wave of gender feminist lunacy was peaking before sanity once more prevailed and it disappeared back up its own asshole to hibernate for a decade or so.

Reclaim the Night rallies were still drawing enough numbers to embolden some to splash porn stores with red paint and the great fear-n-loathing du jour was date rape…

The mood of the time, and the surreal deformation of conventional reality that accompanied it, was captured quite creepily in this passage from Christina Hoff Sommers in Who Stole Feminism? – (more…)

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May 3, 2013

Kabul Dreams

Posted by franc hoggle under art, culture, islam, middle east, music | Tags: Afghanistan, taqwacore |
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terrorists

I have previously written of Taqwacore in a blog post that has vapourised. I also briefly mention it here. Primarily Pakistan based, but it has spread elsewhere, as have the various bastard strains of metal. Music is a revolutionary force – you can have all the military interventions you want, but they will never seed social change like angry young folks with guitars. Deny it all you want, but the Sex Pistols did change the world.

Afghanistan has a little known rock subculture too. While not Taqwacore per se, Kabul Dreams echo the sentiments. Three Afghani kids from three separate tribes that spend most of their time butchering each other. There is hope. They have released an album.

Last.fm. Tardbook. WasteOfSpace.

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There are worse things to throw a few bucks at.

May 3, 2013

Franc Speaks With Robert Darby On Dumbed Down Atheist (Again)

Posted by franc hoggle under atheism, Australia, censorship, copyright, culture, ethics, file sharing, free culture, government, internet, MafIAA, music, piracy, politics, use it or lose it
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Click. Duh.

80 minutes of typhos -

The abortion that is Australian politics; Julia Gillard and homos; piracy, privacy, surveillance states and why Hollywood must be destroyed; islam, Geert Wilders and why Sam Harris needs to read more; and a shitload more.

April 5, 2013

The Baboon Political Compass

Posted by franc hoggle under cults, Jacobins, media, misandry, new new atheism, populism, pseudo-skepticism, yellow journalism | Tags: all the usual morons |
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Just a little mind map I knocked up to visualise the motivations of the various players in the baboon kingdom. To be periodically updated. Inspired by The Political Compass.

March 29, 2013

Too Much Gibberish Online

Posted by franc hoggle under censorship, cults, disinformation, hyperreality, Jacobins, misandry, moral panic, new new atheism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, toilet slaves, yellow journalism | Tags: clarity, Cynics, falsehood, frauds, Sloterdijk |
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“How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false.” — Peter Sloterdijk

March 22, 2013

Donglegate

Posted by franc hoggle under disinformation, gender, hyperreality, information technology, internet, Jacobins, misandry, moral panic, populism, propaganda, shrieking hysteria, social sites, stupidity, yellow journalism | Tags: adria richards, I'mBlackFemaleAndEntitled, lynch mobs, McCarthyism, PyCon, Rebecca Watson, SendGrid, skepchick |
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Adria, could you please explain what the t-shirt means?

Not a lot I can say about this that hasn’t been said elsewhere, and frankly, it’s not my horse race anyway. Yet another example of gender fem-bot Jacobinism rearing it’s ugly head – the godless and the gamers are far from the only ones under siege. I’ll leave the concise summary to ArsTechnica -

“Donglegate” is classic overreaction—and everyone pays

Adria Richard’s (her site looks like it’s currently being DDoS’ed) version -

Forking and Dongle Jokes Don’t Belong At Tech Conferences

I would have let this idiocy slide and left it to the propeller heads but for one item in the commentary on Richard’s piece – (more…)

March 14, 2013

The Threat Narrative

Posted by franc hoggle under gender, media, misandry, populism, propaganda | Tags: amanda marcotte, beached whales, Blaghag, cfi, Ellenbeth Wachs, freethoughtblogs, genderratic, Jen mccreight, Melody Hensley, ophelia benson, professional victims, prunes, PZ Myers, Rebecca Watson, skepchick, Stephanie Zvan, SurlyAmy, typhon blue |
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I always feel humbled by great examples of atyphia – where precision clarity is expressed in it’s most concise and simple form. Typhon Blue (also) explains in just over three and a half minutes what I have squandered untold thousands of words on.

March 13, 2013

Ophelia Benson – It’s Not Link Whoring When I Do It

Posted by franc hoggle under disinformation, hyperreality, misandry, new new atheism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, puritanism, yellow journalism | Tags: airheads, Butterflies and Wheels, charlatans, crazy cunt lady, deadbeats, despair, frauds, freethoughtblogs, human tapeworms, human vacuums, Lawrence Krauss, link whoring, ophelia benson, parasites, please love me, prunes, Richard Dawkins, riding on the work of others, vanity spam, worthlessness |
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Has Ophie ever done *anything* of value *anywhere*?

link whoring – (Internet, idiomatic) The practice of going out of one’s way to place links to one’s website on someone else’s webpage.

21 Ways to legally steal traffic to your blog from the big boys –

#3. Rant Aloud: Ranting to steal traffic legally is a great way you should go if you desperately need traffic to your blog site. Here, you go to where the sites you need are. All you need to do here is to rant…

Let’s face it – blatant link whoring is a vile practice, probably as old as spam itself (and it is, in effect, little more than spam). Many of us, at one time or another, have experienced spikes in blood pressure from repeat infringements by its more shameless abusers. (more…)

February 26, 2013