To Sound Smart, Go Negative
A relevant and disappointing article surfaced in WIRED recently - "A Sad Fact of Life: It’s Actually Smart to Be Mean Online"Some excerpts: She took a group of 55 students, roughly half men, half...
View ArticleDoes Sexual Assault Matter?
Recently an alarming study was published that concluded that twenty-one percent of high school girls have been physically or sexually assaulted by someone they dated. Ten percent of boys reported a...
View ArticleHow to hate men
Many words are spilled in the effort to convince people that feminists do, or do not, hate men.In some view, it is a useful discourse. In all subjects, prejudice matters. Bias matters. Motives matter....
View ArticleJackie's Awful Mother
One must be aware already that the UVA story told by one "Jackie" has imploded in a spectacular manner, as outlined in this CJR report. One detail about her mother stood out:Yet Jackie could also be...
View ArticleConsent Catastrophes
Trying to compile the following mess into some sort of meaningful point is probably a fool's errand. Read it for yourself and make up your own mind.Here are the stories -The Three-Year Long Campus...
View ArticleThe Bisexual Rapist German at Columbia
Generally when there are a lot of allegations of sexual assault against a single person, the chance that person is a criminal tends to go up. For example, most everyone suspects Bill Cosby and Jian...
View ArticleDick Is Too Forward
In June 2011, Rebecca Watson told a story to the world that would lead to a drama known as elevatorgate. Its creation was a description made of a man that asked her if she wanted "coffee" in his room...
View ArticleThe Futility of Title IX
Activists and laws like Title IX require colleges and universities to take "immediate and effective steps to end sexual harassment and sexual violence."Let's look at a specific example of these steps,...
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The Future Hates Women
The recent murder of Alison Parker and Adam Ward is an event that created a lot of subjects to consider. Some pundits, like Sally Kohn and the usual suspects on Twitter, arrived at questionable...
View ArticleShow me where TSA touched you
Every September 11 is a strange day on social media. Twitter is already a mirror of vanity and asinine problems every day of the year, but something about September 11 makes for particularly nauseating...
View ArticleSorry, Men Are Not Technology Wizards
As long as there was an ability to do anything, there has been a debate about which gender is better at it. Humans love nothing better than a simple explanation, and nothing is much simpler than an age...
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Grape Can Be Funny
Murder. One would hope that such an event would be one researched, investigated and reported on by knowledgeable and diligent people that invest a great amount of time bringing relevant and timely...
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When Good Feminists Do Nothing
Rape is a crime that is continually in the headlines. The story usually follows a familiar pattern - the victim has been awfully mistreated and disbelieved. The rapist is said to have a history of...
View ArticleFriendly Fire: The Demise of the Social Justice Warrior
Every so often, we are asked to contemplate the "culture war" - what it is, what defines each 'side', and who might be winning.One such piece was recently rebroadcast by BoingBoing, an article by...
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Stop Giving Work Visas To Men
Imagine devising a scheme that was to intentionally keep women in their "place". This "place" can be assumed to be the home, the kitchen, or some sort of volunteer caregiving role. What could this...
View ArticlePenguins of Color Badges (The Skepticon Disaster)
Skepticon, a conference for "skeptics" in Springfield, Missouri that boasts being "the largest FREE skeptic conference in the nation". It is a conference that has also long boasted for being on the...
View Article21 Things Less Offensive Than Wearing A Hijab
Recently we've seen a "progressive", "interfaith" wave that has seen various people saying it is a good idea for progressive non-muslims to don the hijab as a show of solidarity. It is an idea so tacky...
View ArticleIslam is Tinder for Terrorists
Recently a young married couple decided it was a good idea to abandon their child and commit their lives to doing murdering public health employees attending a holiday party in San Bernardino,...
View ArticleThe Islamophobes Under The Bed
After the Islamist attacks in San Bernadino& Paris, there has been some understandable worry of revenge and "Islamophobic" behavior.Always proving to be a venue for all kinds of concern, VICE...
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False Equivalence, Bad Math, Silly Conclusions: The Idiocy of Dean Obeidallah...
On Twitter, it is often said that "retweets are not endorsements". But we can say that this next tweet is not a retweet, and is most likely an endorsement.Lawrence Krauss, a rather popular academic, is...
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