by Carl Howard | Jun 5, 2012 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Evolution and Biology, Feminism and LGBT, Language, Science and Skepticism
Ages ago, it occured to me that some words are just red flags for ridiculous arguments. Not exactly groundbreaking, I know. Yet it was surprising that there’s quite a lot of them. In my biased experience, when someone uses one of these words in an argument, this is...
by Carl Howard | Dec 16, 2011 | Atheism and Religion, Atrocities and Oppression, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible, Feminism and LGBT
A story has made it to the news cycle about a week ago about an Afghan woman who is marrying the man who raped her. Via MSNBC: Gulnaz, who uses one name, has been in an Afghan prison cell for about two years. She says she only has one choice if she wants to bring...
by Carl Howard | Jun 27, 2011 | Blog Topics, Feminism and LGBT, Language, Society
If you’ve been online in the last 3 months, you’ve probably seen the SlutWalk phenomenon. If not, a quick recap: Toronto Police Constable Michael Sanguinetti said “women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized”. The Toronto SlutWalk was...
by Carl Howard | Oct 26, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging Jewish Law, Feminism and LGBT, Sex
Now that I’ve done the pre-pre-intro, the pre-intro and the intro, time to actually start blogging some Jewish law! There are a number of cases of exceptionalism that run across different religions. One that I looked at a year ago is the idea that “my religion’s not a...
by Carl Howard | Sep 3, 2010 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Feminism and LGBT, Society
Via Amanda Marcotte a few weeks ago I came across a viral video meant to show that Republican women are superhot and Democrat women are monsters. Here’s the link but it keeps being taken down so I’ve pasted an image version below (from here) just so you can get a feel...
by Carl Howard | Sep 1, 2010 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Feminism and LGBT, Resources, Food and Environment
’m still busily thesising so posting will continue at a homeopathic rate over the next 2-3 weeks. In the meantime, here is another exercise, this time taking about half an hour. The first part is to watch this talk (which is interesting enough regardless of my post)...
