One very special Mormon snowflake
Some Mormom dude explains how he managed to overcome his handicap and managed to live a loving, fulfilling life with his wife and children despite being gay: I guess the premise of this post is to...
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You know who worried about women wearing makeup?
Amanda Marcotte talks about the latest trend of sincere, pouty men telling women not to wear so much makeup: Apparently, this is just the most famous of a trend of young men writing signs extolling...
View ArticleMinimise, Doubt, Excuse,Shift Blame
I’m sure somebody else will have written about this in a much more clever way, but when has that ever stopped me before? There has been an uptick in stories about harassment, sexual, racist, or just...
View ArticleTrouble in atheist paradise
What, a social movement inspired by the excesses of Anglo-American Protestantism and promoted by middle-aged blowhards is not terribly inclusive, caring, or supportive itself? I came by my atheism the...
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Be disappointed in Heinlein all over again
If there really was one taboo subject in the old Usenet days of discussing science fiction, it was doubting the genius of Robert Heinlein. there were always acolytes and fanboys aplenty to explain...
View ArticleDutch rightwing politician thinks rape won’t make you pregnant
In a bid to show that Dutch (rightwing) politicians can be just as thick as their American counterparts, the leader of the SGP (the explicitly rightwing Christian party) argued that rape won’t make...
View ArticleRather than give wingnuts the benefit of the doubt, try these
John Scalzi gets it wrong with the Hugos: Please also keep in mind that even if you believe that the list is a cynical exercise, there are people and work on that list who may be well worth...
View ArticleIf you don’t want to be judged by your words, shut up
Current SFWA president Steve Gould smack down its rightwing critics: Just as SFWA doesn’t control what members and non-members say in non-SFWA spaces, it also doesn’t control what members and...
View ArticleSo much for the inevitable truth of the market
Vox Day has been talking smack about John Scalzi and his sales again, you know the schtick: “nobody really likes him the real proof of a good writer is how well he sells all a conspiracy he’s on the...
View Article#MetalGate: you’re joking, right?
I saw some brief references to #MetalGate on Twitter before the weekend and assumed it was GamersGate loons trying to stir shit. I was right: Similar to how “#Gamergate” was coined by Adam Baldwin...
View ArticleGamerGate will get somebody killed someday soon
This is horrifying: Game developer Brianna Wu has been stalked, tormented, and harassed by GamerGate—the amorphous reactionary movement centered around video game journalism—for months now. But it’s...
View ArticleWTF, have you even seen it?
One William Lehman wrote something stupid about Star Trek: Say what you will about the SJW Glittery hoo ha crowd, they get this. I speculate that they get it because while we (the guys that grew up...
View ArticleAsking SF readers to try something new is asking for trouble
K. Tempest Bradford has a modest proposal for (science fiction) readers ot broaden our reading horizons: The “Reading Only X Writers For A Year” a challenge is one every person who loves to read (and...
View ArticleIt’s never pleasant when puppies project
This really is a disgusting accusation from Brad Torgersen: Mr. Sandifer, if you truly believe that a book like ANCILLARY JUSTICE or a story like “The Water That Falls On You From Nowhere” did not...
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Two faced Tor
As you know Bob, I’ve been saying for a long time that the whole Sad/Rabid Puppies operation is just another extention of the American rightwing’s Culture Wars, the blueprint established in the...
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Intersectionality is just another word for solidarity
I’m always leery of arguments like this, that want to dismiss the different axises of oppression various groups of people struggle with in favour of some vulgar marxist idea of the working class and...
View ArticleAbout that Star Wars boycott
Chuck Wendig misses the point when he talks about the efficiency of the too few white people in this movie Star Wars boycott: Okay, first, let’s talk about the efficacy of such a hashtag, which is to...
View ArticleShe-Ra is a magical girl
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power is a maho shoujo show. Discuss. http://cloggie.org/wissewords2/wp-content/uploads/She-ra-and-the-Princesses-of-Power-Transformation-Sequence.mp4 And no, it’s of...
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