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@TheFloripastral Yeah, Cenk Uygur and the whole crew over at TYT are pretty invested in male privilege, sometimes to the point of blatant overt sexism. I had to stop watching TYT with any regularity as they consistently, if subtly, reinforce rape culture stereotypes. Also, Matt Damon is awesome.

@chywawii64 What, you've never read a book you didn't think was a true story? :-P

@skepticalsinner Define "2nd safest form of contraception"; its typical use statistics for both pregnancy and STI prevention are abysmal (the perfect use rates are 100% for each, but since most people who practice abstinence as their sole form of safer sex don't do it all the time, every time, ty...

@QUICKDRAW0 So mean, and so funny!

Yeah, they censored the "clean" version even further? WTF? For example: "with half an ounce" (Purple Pills) -> "doing mass amounts" (Purple Hills) -> "doing mass ______" (this), or "Bizarre, your mom is crashing now" (Purple Hills) -> "Bizarre, your mom is ____________" (this). The whole song's a...

No, what Watson said was that because she felt uncomfortable in that situation (used as an example of her larger point), men should not hit-on women at all at atheist conferences (they should "wait for them [women] to make the first move"). Yes, the elevator thing was over the line, but to say th...

@MrFisch3r Hmm, it might be that this song is from Erik Petersen's acoustic solo work and not Mischief Brew, strictly speaking.

@AtheistTower Denying that there are biological differences between people is silly, and some are categorized as biological gender. That said, biological gender is influenced by environmental factors (e.g. foods, chemical exposure, types/amounts of physical labor, etc.) that are determined by soc...

@MrRoryDennis You mean RAP and rock collaborations, right? Hip-hop as a 'genre' is already heavily characterized by crossover, thanks to the sampling/dub most hip-hop uses. I actually find it surprising that anyone still thinks there are clear lines between genres in music. Also, the Black Keys a...

Direct post not working, so I'll Reply. Autumn, it sounds like your school is not doing a good job of informing its students about human sexuality. Granted, it's hard to cover such a complex topic in 1 hour a day for 8 days, but even so, they should be doing better. I suggest you check out Scarle...

@georgeblinga It's satire; the prayer statement, at the very least, should make that obvious.

I have a lot of Jewish friends, none of whom believe that Yahweh is a literal entity and all of whom went to nominally-religious Hebrew School for primary school. The culturally-Jewish caller is worrying unnecessarily, I think.

I was raised to not believe specifically in any religion. In respons...

@acti4ll ...allowed more of her offspring to survive and pass the mutated gene along. At some point later, there was another mutation in the descended species that allowed the production of even more nutritious sweat-gland secretions. And another, and another, and over millions of years, the mamm...

@thetito626 The problem with passive atheism is that the misanthropic beliefs of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic religions have harmful material consequences for everyone. I know many religious people reject many of the worst parts of their various religions' dogmas, but far too many people still thi...

@salesrep1983 Hmm, might have been "whore", "bitches", "where the hell", "gay boys", or all of them occurring in a 2:30 trailer that caused the objections. As much as I couldn't care less about toning language down for teens or children (though the way "whore" and "bitches" were used were somewha...

Yes! I was waiting for something like this. :-)

@vambo13257 How is NPR a "fraud"; in what way does it use deceit or trickery to gain an unfair advantage? How, precisely, is NPR a "joke"? I agree that someone who thinks sie is 'educated' (which I take to mean well- or comprehensively-educated) simply by virtue of listening to one radio station ...

@WhiteDiamond3690 The song is a parody of every R&B/Hip-Hop song involving men proclaiming their sexual prowess. It completely dismantles the common idioms/euphemisms in favor of making the (less-self-aggrandizing) claim to recent sexual activity, in order to highlight the fact that the sexual ex...

Hahahahahaha! Dan Savage posted a similar satire on The Stranger's blog recently about how we should ban obese marriage, as a counter to the claim that gay marriage should be banned because gay people tend to not live as long as straight people (stuntmen, of course, should never be allowed to mar...

This might be the cutest thing ever! :-)

@allsmileseatlle You're missing the point: IGBP is an effort to let gay or gender-variant teens know that things get better so they don't kill themselves. It is a limited-intent project, and was conceived in an effort to stop suicides, not bullying. That said, Dan and a lot of others involved in ...

@BlackRepublican2010 No one "freely" chooses anything; we're all subject to social/cultural pressures and restrictions that are beyond our control. It's especially absurd to say that someone would "freely" choose suicide (on par with saying people "choose" poverty, which you might). And it's not ...

Ah, Kate Bornstein is great. I strongly recommend her book "Gender Outlaw": it's both informative and fun.

@ryanquinnrockssss: She primarily identifies/presents as a woman, if pressed on the issue, although her general attitude toward gender is that she wants to queer it up as much as possible, ...