Hedonism is wrong. Wrong wrong wrongity wrong.… Read the rest
Afternoon
Jan 2nd, 2013 4:03 pm | By Ophelia BensonI took Cooper to Carmel beach this afternoon. When we got there I realized we had the Chuckit but no ball, because I took him to a crappy place for Chuckit yesterday and the ball went missing on the first chuck. Oh well, it’s a very doggy beach, I’ll probably find one, I told him, so we went down the stairs with the empty Chuckit.
As soon as we got to the water a guy in a family group said, “Lost the ball?” and I allowed as how we had, and did the rueful laugh thing, while Cooper danced around frantically as he always does. We went ahead north and I heard the guy’s daughter (I assume) telling him “We … Read the rest
(This is a syndicated post. Read the original at FreeThoughtBlogs.)
Bullied or cajoled
Jan 2nd, 2013 10:51 am | By Ophelia BensonMore anti-feminist rage, more pro-feminist pushback. No doubt you’re aware of Thunderfoot’s video, which (for my sins) I watched. That’s the rage. The pushback is…
Michael Nugent for instance.
… Read the restThunderf00t has published a video in which he includes me on a list of people who he claims have been “bullied or cajoled” into what he calls “a bullshit PC appeasement position” regarding feminism.
In my case he is referring to an article I wrote last August for Skepchick, without being either bullied or cajoled, as part of a series on speaking out against hate directed at women.
I’m republishing that article here, because it is still important to speak out against hate directed at women, regardless of your opinions about
(This is a syndicated post. Read the original at FreeThoughtBlogs.)
Kill all the teachers
Jan 2nd, 2013 9:00 am | By Ophelia BensonAnd in Pakistan, seven Pakistani teachers and health workers, six of them women, were shot to death in the Swabi district of the northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
India needs rape jokes in the form of cocktails, and Pakistan needs fewer teachers and health workers and women. That’s the way to make a better world.
… Read the restThe attack on Tuesday, near the village of Sher Afzal Banda, was conducted by two men on a motorcycle who followed a van taking the workers home and then opened fire on it with assault rifles, the police said. The victims worked for the private Pakistani aid group Support With Working Solution, which works in the health and education sectors.
…
The aid group was founded
(This is a syndicated post. Read the original at FreeThoughtBlogs.)
Next up: a cookie called “the torturer”
Jan 2nd, 2013 8:42 am | By Ophelia BensonGood thinking, Bonobo bar in Bombay: selling a cocktail called “the rapist” is a brilliant idea. It’s so convivial and amusing, so jolly and sociable. Rape is such a funny joke, and it’s so hilarious to encourage people to find rape and rapists a source of humor.
Rape culture? What rape culture? Don’t be silly.
(This is a syndicated post. Read the original at FreeThoughtBlogs.)
Where do hate crimes come from?
Jan 1st, 2013 11:47 am | By Ophelia BensonTaslima has been writing about the Delhi rape since it happened.
She wrote about the patriarchal mindset.
About India, the land of eroticism, sexism and rapism.
She wrote about saying a woman who was brutally gangraped, tortured, mutilated and killed has “died peacefully.”
And she wrote about the fact that this kind of thing doesn’t just burst out of nowhere.
… Read the restFor the very first time, folks were angry. Or did it wake them up? Does wakefulness appear so easily? It is true that for the first time, thousands of men and women of all ages took to the streets demanding from their government the safety and security for the womenfolk. It has also been demanded that the
(This is a syndicated post. Read the original at FreeThoughtBlogs.)
Reading Jonathan Haidt
Jan 1st, 2013 11:03 am | By Ophelia BensonI’m reading Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind. So far I’m finding it less annoying than other stuff of his I’ve read. I think I’m seeing a flaw, though, but maybe he gets to what I think is missing later on.
Groups are useful, so cohesion is useful. Religions foster cohesion, and are an efficient way to discourage cheaters and free riders. People behave better when they think someone is watching.
Groups can do things that individuals can’t do.
Haidt thinks modern intellectual types – people like him, people like me – overvalue individuals and undervalue groups.
I suppose that’s true of me, at least up to a point. But but but
Well for one thing, modern intellectual types do … Read the rest
(This is a syndicated post. Read the original at FreeThoughtBlogs.)
