Yeah. It’s a slow start for the new year. But this is kinda like Caligula wanting to make his horse a consul –
http://freethoughtblogs.com/blaghag/2012/01/the-most-influential-female-atheist-of-2011/
Seriously. It’s like a south American junta pinning medals on each other. Nauseating. And they believe it. 233 votes ::cough::
ManPersondate for all of godlessness.
What a sorry fucking state we’re in.
grey lining 
January 19, 2012 at 11:52 pm
According to my dictionary’s definition of ‘influential’ (nowhere does it say that influence has to be beneficial or positive or whatever), I’d say she probably deserves it. Heh, you contributed in no small part to her fame yourself.
January 20, 2012 at 12:05 am
Haunt
January 20, 2012 at 12:33 pm
This was clearly a vote of solidarity. I mean, anyone who genuinely claims Rebecca Watson was more influential in 2011 than, say, Maryam Namazie is simply taking the piss.
January 22, 2012 at 11:11 am
Taking the piss, or: — so woefully & willfully under-informed as to border on retarded, or insane.
January 20, 2012 at 3:35 pm
and they admit it’s american-centric…. bad form all round.
January 20, 2012 at 9:09 pm
“Most influential Female…” Hey! They misspelled “Narcissist”!
January 21, 2012 at 1:24 am
Well of course!
After all, she is “internet famous.”
Thanks to Tw*ts*n, I’m found out I’m not alone in my disgust. This woman has been irritating the crap out of me way before Elevatorgate.
Even more important, The Baboon Board’s idiocy was exposed as the cesspool masquerading as a “scienceblog” that it truly is. Moving to FFTB was a public service. All that ideological crap is safely in one place on the web. Religion now looks somewhat sane in comparison. Think of all the potential new atheists stumbling upon that appalling mental asylum! The Humanists are rightfully distancing themselves from this bile.
I have to admit, they have provided great entertainment. FFTB is to atheists, what the WBC is to Christians. No true Scotsman Fallacy be damned!
January 21, 2012 at 8:53 am
Religion now looks somewhat sane in comparison.
Indeed. What they have achieved is giving me a new found respect for the humble christian. Sure, they may believe in nonsense, but their nonsense makes them fundamentally better people. They are more human, and by extension humanist. The odds of them, as opposed to the baboons, knifing you in the back are infinitely lower. Hello Chrys.
January 21, 2012 at 12:09 pm
I like the new name, I’m pronouncing it Italian, or Spanish, or some other version depending on my mood at the time.
January 21, 2012 at 1:27 am
“I’ve found out”.
Really, English my primary language!!!
LOL
January 24, 2012 at 7:13 am
Jessica Ahlquist: Stands up for separation of church and state, taking legal action against her school for an unconstitutional prayer banner. Faces much personal hardship, including bullying and threats. 45 votes *
Rebecca Watson: Got asked to some guys room for coffee. Said “no”. 233 votes.
Good to see where their priorities lay.
* 22 votes if you exclude those who also nominated Watson.
February 3, 2012 at 11:12 am
Maybe the Baboon Board Horde “pharyngulated” the vote tally?
(You know, in much the same clever way that they storm and manipulate online polls the better to give the illusion that their views are the correct, ‘majority’ view–btw, anybody else ever get a laugh from contemplating the lovely irony inherent in the fact that a group of self-described freethinkers place so very much stressful importance on being ‘the majority’ alla time?)
OT, but funny all the same if you can stomach it:
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/02/02/its-part-of-their-culture/
The Fearless Knights of The Order of The Squid yet again fearlessly defending freethought atheism by mounting a lame defense of Islamic violence and intimidation. Of course, true to form, the only reason the poor Moozlims are being driven to it is because of dat ole debbil “Western Privilege”
(Because we all know how influential Wetern Privilege was on the formation of codes of behavior as set forth in Teh Holy Koran).
Of course Watson won–with their balls so firmly planted between her teeth, what more could you expect?
February 3, 2012 at 11:18 am
Maybe the Baboon Board Horde “pharyngulated” the vote tally?
Indeed. 233 votes is about all the might of “pharyngulation” can muster nowadays. They can’t even put a ding in shitty little Australian religious polls that have several thousand votes total.
March 13, 2012 at 11:56 pm
Defended Franc against Osama Greg Laden since he’s MIA from the bloggosphere lately. My comment on Radford’s recent post on how Rush’s stunt is embraced by the community, but never gets called out:
“Laden: “If I was PZ, I’d probably kick your ass non-politely for putting him in the same category as Penn.”
Hoggle: “If I was a girl, I’d kick her in the cunt. Cunt”
Then he goes on to silence others by calling them a “Poe.” THAT is exactly the same tactic Rush used. I don’t see it so much as silencing. It’s using an insult designed to dismiss and discredit without addressing the substance of what was said. This is a logical fallacy that anyone familiar with Skepticism 101 would instinctively avoid.
You ought to listen to the Skeptoid Podcast. Search for the many episodes on logical fallacies, Greg.
Or are you trolling cause you know better?
see what I did there?”
June 26, 2012 at 9:03 pm
Hey GL. Thunderfoot has joined Freethough Blogs and has declared open season on feminists in elevators. Things just got a whole lot more interesting.
July 15, 2012 at 3:15 am
And now he’s been banned by the Baboon King.
Come on franc, where are you? So much entertaining shit happening lately. Good blog material.
July 24, 2012 at 4:08 am
It just got even better! Read this.
http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2012/07/in-your-face/
Please don’t have anything in your mouth when you view this, because you’re going to erupt with spitting laughter, and I don’t want to be indirectly responsible for food particles embedded in your keyboard and on our about your monitor and other objects you may have on your desk top.