[of course this is not a jibe at genuine feminists, embarrassed by the label, like Based Mom, Mercedes Carrera, Ayaan Hirsi Ali et al. They know what I mean]
May 22, 2015
The Heirarchy Of Sciences
Posted by franc under conspiracists, cults, gender feminism, identity politics, misandry, pseudo-history, stupidity, yellow journalism | Tags: amanda marcotte, Andrea Dworkin, balloons full of cottage cheese, Catharine Mackinnon, PZ Myers, Rebecca Watson, sabrina erdely, The Beached Whale, The Prune, The short fat prick |Leave a Comment
May 15, 2013
Fucking Andrea Dworkin (1994)
Posted by franc 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 |[14] Comments
There are no good pics… [image from Sydney Morning Herald]
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…)
March 14, 2013
The Threat Narrative
Posted by franc 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 |[4] Comments
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.
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February 21, 2013
Melody Hensley – Executive Director CFI-DC
Posted by franc under disinformation, gender, hyperreality, Jacobins, misandry, new new atheism, populism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, yellow journalism | Tags: amanda marcotte, cfi, csi, hypocrisy, McCarthyism, Melody Hensley, Ronald A. Lindsay, slander |[29] Comments
The censor never sleeps –
I was genuinely shocked. Not that Marcotte blocked me, but that I wasn’t already blocked preemptively according to the distributed wisdom of CFI Director Melody Hensley in her efforts to sanitise the internet and create a rape-free safe space where people from all walks of life can furiously nod in agreement with each other. I had never interacted with Marcotte prior to this, and the reply box being visible and active proved too much of a temptation. (more…)
August 23, 2012
This Week In FTB’s Year Zero – AtheismPlus
Posted by franc under disinformation, fascism, hyperreality, misandry, moral panic, new new atheism, nihilism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, puritanism, shrieking hysteria, stupidity, toilet slaves, yellow journalism | Tags: amanda marcotte, atheismplus, baboons, blg hag, Dawkins, freethoughtblogs, Jen mccreight, Richard Carrier |[24] Comments
Paraphrasing Orwell in the light of Freethoughtblogs
“Criticism is ‘silencing’, you know. Banning, though, is just maintaining ‘safe space’.”
“It is churchy. It’s the kind of behaviour that made me give up religion in the first place.” — ‘tardbook friends comments. To FfTB’s horror, they’re female, and worse, don’t think I’m a monster.
“Where do you find these fanatics that most atheists don’t give a damn about?”
“Just saw this article at The Crisis Factory. You called it over a year ago. New, New Atheism.” — and the obligatory males have to stick stick their dicks in.
Though many will deny it, there is no such thing as a person that does not get a smug satisfaction rush out of the simple act of saying “I told you so…”
Yes, I called new, new atheism, but it was well over a year ago. At my best estimate, I was sounding the warning bells as far back as 20081. It was only here, over the last year, that I have started pushing the point that the rabble that now hogs the public spaces of the godless have little, if nothing, in common with the in-your-face, out-of-the-closet new atheism pioneered by what has come to be known as the Four Horsemen – Dawkins, Dennet, Harris and the late, dearly missed Hitchens. (more…)
August 11, 2011
CFI/CSI/Skepchick – Grand Unified Theory Of Courtiers
Posted by franc under fascism, gender, misandry, moral panic, new new atheism, nihilism, nonsense, politics, skepticism | Tags: amanda marcotte, Center for Inquiry, cfi, csi, Paul Kurtz, phil plait, PZ Myers, Randi.org, Rebecca Watson, skepchick, socially redeeming hatred, white niggers |[47] Comments
Skepchick issue notice to Richard Dawkins
There has been an appalling amount of nonsense spewing out of the Center for Inquiry (CFI)/ Committee For Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) since some inner turmoil saw the less than amicable departure of founder Paul Kurtz.
The full story will probably never be public knowledge, but the popular reasoning seems to focus on Kurtz’s known attitudes of accommodationism as regards to religion clashing with those of successor Ronald A. Lindsay1 – who, allegedly, has definite anti-theistic attitudes and fondness for superficial irrelevancies such as the Blasphemy Challenge2.
The problem with this “official” version is that it doesn’t really have any reflection in reality. Ever since this changing of the guard, CFI / CSI have been churning out a pretty steady stream of accommodationist nonsense, far in excess of anything that preceded it. Perhaps the pinnacle of this idiocy was from CSI fellow Gollum and his now incurably pathogenic don’t be a dick sermon-on-the-mount3, but it is far from the only example. Other notable outbursts include one from Michael De Dora on the CFI site itself – (more…)
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