by Carl Howard | Jun 9, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Feminism and LGBT, Language, Sex, Society
I’ve got some breaking news: the internet is here to stay. Discounting major catastrophes, it’s going to become a larger and larger part of the lives of everyone on earth. So it’s time to stop treating it as some novel, completely separate part of human experience....
by Carl Howard | Mar 19, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, Language, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Race, Sex
Because the internet NEEDS another opinion on trigger warnings/content notes! Act 1 A long time ago in a parallel universe, writing was AuthenticTM. A host of manly men created great literature and disseminated them to the public. Everything was great and everyone got...
by Carl Howard | Jan 12, 2015 | Charity and Philanthropy, Feminism and LGBT, Medicine, Resources, Food and Environment
2014 was not a great year for the world by any means. If you haven’t seen this great cartoon from The Nib summarising just some of the shitty things that happened, you should. So naturally, what did 2015 do so far? Promise to be a much much shittier year, if these...
by Carl Howard | Dec 2, 2014 | Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, Philosophy, Sex
NOTE: This post is an analogy between different kinds of discrimination. While I normally avoid these, I thought it was necessary here as I’ll explain below. Still, take it for what it is, a limited and necessarily-flawed analogy. A man and a woman hook up. The next...
by Carl Howard | Nov 18, 2014 | Feminism and LGBT, History, Race, Travel
Many kids have movies they love to watch over and over again. One of mine was Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. I’ve just seen it again for the first time in 15+ years. I suspected that it’d probably be quite racist but it exceeded my racism+sexism expectations by...
by Carl Howard | Nov 11, 2014 | Atheism and Religion, Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Feminism and LGBT, Science and Skepticism
There have been Deep Rifts™ within the atheist and skeptical communities [in English-speaking countries]. These have now been covered enough in the wider media that you might have heard of them even if you don’t identify with any of those groups. Just in the last 2...
