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[LMNO]

I'm sad to admit that I've seen this behavior in myself during meetings.  I have since attempted to SHUT UP when women are speaking.


I'm even sadder to report that I've found this difficult.




The struggle continues.  Sorry.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm sad to admit that I've seen this behavior in myself during meetings.  I have since attempted to SHUT UP when women are speaking.


I'm even sadder to report that I've found this difficult.




The struggle continues.  Sorry.

Knowing is half the battle, yanno?

[The Wizard Joseph]

Seems finding pieces of our old space junk with our new and still operational space junk could be a thing here.

We have just come so far really!

http://www.cnet.com/news/has-nasa-found-the-missing-beagle-on-mars/#ftag=YHF65cbda0

[Cainad (dec.)]

I'm sad to admit that I've seen this behavior in myself during meetings.  I have since attempted to SHUT UP when women are speaking.


I'm even sadder to report that I've found this difficult.




The struggle continues.  Sorry.

Same here. I don't exactly find myself in many meetings, but I've noticed in group conversations that HOLY COW men do not shut up, ever. Including me, more often than if like.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm sad to admit that I've seen this behavior in myself during meetings.  I have since attempted to SHUT UP when women are speaking.


I'm even sadder to report that I've found this difficult.




The struggle continues.  Sorry.

Same here. I don't exactly find myself in many meetings, but I've noticed in group conversations that HOLY COW men do not shut up, ever. Including me, more often than if like.

In my TA position, I have noticed that while men make up less than a quarter of the class, when I tally up all the participation (ie.  talking) it's more than twice as much male participation as female.

[Cain]

So...

You know how some of Charlie Hebdo's output has, in the wake of the assassination of its journalists, been criticised for its offensiveness towards Islam, its racism and its general lack of good taste?

Well...funny thing about that.  I can read and speak French.  Not a lot, but some.  Enough to read a French newspaper without great trouble.  And I've been looking at some of those pictures, and the context behind them.  And people criticising Charlie Hebdo, if not outright stating they were "asking for it" are doing the magazine a great disservice.

The infamous cartoon about Boko Haram's sex slaves demanding welfare?  It was a parody of the FN's general output on immigration and welfare (the FN, for those who don't know, is Marine Le Pen's vile, neofascist political party, which is unfortunately the third largest party in France right now).  The "Mohammed was a Paedo" cartoon?  Again, it was parody of right wing dipshits who peddle in that sort of vile discourse.  The "transsexual mocking"?  Making fun of French conservative reactions to the proposal to teach Gender Theory in French state schools.

And the paper didn't exactly pull its punches when it came to Christianity and the "piss Christ" debacle either.

Maybe Charlie Hebdo was a hotbed of anti-Islamic, puerile and racist output.  But based on what I've seen so far, that really is not the case.

[Demolition Squid]

That's good to know- even mainstream coverage has had a 'it was terrible... but' subtext to it in much of the left-leaning press. I can't read french at all so I'd never have known different.

Thanks Cain.

[Cain]

No problem.

And yeah.  Richard Seymour in particular has gone way down in my estimation due to his output on this.  Even after people have pointed out to him he's wrong, he's doubled down, producing no less than 11 articles on the subject while refusing to budge an inch.

Actually, I found this website, which is fairly helpful.  Give it a go:  http://www.understandingcharliehebdo.com/

[P3nT4gR4m]

It's refreshing to know this but, at the same time it merely invalidates the "...but" clause. For me the "...but" clause was never valid anyway. I'm a kind of nazi when it comes to free speech and causing offence. Especially when causing offence to people who deserve more than anyone to be offended. If a belief system is so threadbare and weak that it must be protected by violence from any criticism or satire then it deserves to be criticized and satirized to death.

Shit ideas should not be respected and venerated. If they are, we end up in the situation we're in. Mindless drones blowing the piss out of journalists because their choice of irrational fiction says so.

[Doktor Howl]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/15/maine-drug-test_n_6478102.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013

Somewhere, RWHN is fapping until nothing comes out except blood and foam.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/15/maine-drug-test_n_6478102.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013

Somewhere, RWHN is fapping until nothing comes out except blood and foam.

Yeah, 'cause fuck the cost/benefit ratio, and fuck the children of drug addicts, and fuck addicts too, and especially fuck the evidence that so few recipients use drugs that it's a ridiculous expense to add to the program on the taxpayers' dime. What's important is humiliating and punishing poor people and drug users.

I hate that guy and all of his ilk.

[Cain]

Is it coincidence that the "advocacy group" RWHN is the Maine director of started heavily pushing the "medical marijuana is fraud" and "pot caused accidents are clogging up Maine ERs" mere days before this policy?

Of course, there is another reason than just permamently embedding his tongue up LePage's arse as to why RWHN hates the idea of medical pot...

[Cain]

In fact, RWHN has been a very busy bee since his enforced departure from the forums.  Most cringeworthy is his weekly self-indulgence of his minimal impact on Twitter

[Doktor Howl]

In fact, RWHN has been a very busy bee since his enforced departure from the forums.  Most cringeworthy is his weekly self-indulgence of his minimal impact on Twitter

I need to make a Twitter account now.

[Cain]

In fact, RWHN has been a very busy bee since his enforced departure from the forums.  Most cringeworthy is his weekly self-indulgence of his minimal impact on Twitter

I need to make a Twitter account now.

When you do, be sure to quote this section from that Nation article I linked above:

Buses were scheduled to ferry the participants to Congress for meetings, and Thau coached the assembled activists to emphasize the potential risks for young people, something that "everybody on Capitol Hill can agree on." In addition to lobbying against marijuana-law reform, she encouraged everyone to preserve key federal funding streams, to "make sure all the programs that fund our field, every one of them," are protected in the appropriations process for the coming fiscal year.