Feminism
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Guest Post: Ain’t I a Skeptic?
The following post by Raina Rhoades originally appeared on her blog, Rhoades To Reality. We liked it so much we asked if we could share it with the Skepchick audience, and Raina agreed. Not too long ago, Dr. Annalise Fonza, a former minister now an atheist, wrote about her experience in a facebook Freedom From Religion Foundation “fan” group that…
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Your Laugh o’ the Day: #INeedMasculismBecause
I don’t know if this started as a serious rebuttal to the hashtag #INeedFeminismBecause or if this has just been pure irony from the start, but the #INeedMasculismBecause hashtag is positively flooded with feminists making jokes, and it’s wonderful. Here are a few favorites: #INeedMasculismBecause maybe one day there will be a male president. — Jamie Kilstein (@jamiekilstein) February 8,…
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Proving and Quantifying Sexism
In many areas of life, especially in cases where a person must apply to enter an organization, field or job, there are large gender gaps. Whenever feminists call for equal representation by women in a particular endeavor, detractors often claim that adding more women means better-qualified men will get bumped down. They claim that in order to get an equal…
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Reminder: I am an Object
I’m editing this post, which was originally just a link to an awesome TED talk I enjoyed by Caroline Heldman about sexual objectification. I wrote the post this morning, and shortly after I scheduled it I happened to receive this message via the Skepchick contact form: Name: John Smith Email: [email protected] Comment: Hi Rebecca http://is.gd/[URL REMOVED] Subject: News Item or…
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The Five Best Excerpts from r/MensRights Subreddit of the Day Announcement
This is, without a doubt, the best thing that has ever been written about Men’s Rights Advocates by a 12-year old. Below are the five excerpts that made me laugh the hardest, each followed by a representative sample from r/mensrights taken from the past month of posts on Manboobz: 5. “/r/MensRights. Never in our society could the uninitiated imagine such…
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Cross Post: In Defence of Statutory “Rape”
This post was originally published on Teen Skepchick on 1-29-2013 by Lux. Obvious trigger warning is obvious The geek blogospheres blew up a little this past week when Glee basically ripped off Jonathan Coulton’s cover of Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back”. This has a host of its own problems, which have been covered extensively elsewhere. (Seriously, did they just expect…
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Glee: Baby Got Back. And then got Raped.
Last night, a bunch of never before seen extras on Fox’s show Glee performed an unaccredited cover of Jonathan Coulton’s cover of Sir Mix A Lot’s Baby Got Back. When confronted with the outrage of a million angry geeks on Twitter, Glee was all “yeah, but it’s a cover of a cover. BFD. Besides, EXPOSURE AND SHIT, YO. Coulton should…
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On Optimism
The other day, an asshole named Jerry Conlon said this to Ophelia Benson: Maybe a vial of acid would do you some good. You already look like you were set on fire and put out with a wet rake. This upset PZ a great deal as it pushed him to recognize the fact that if the entire world were atheist,…
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