If you don’t want to be shamed in public, don’t create a hostile work environment in public. #ISupportAdria
A nugget of awesome from SKM on the Shakesville post Adria Richards Does Belong at Tech Conferences.
Atheist women’s numbers matter. Be counted in the Atheist Census Online.
Hey, are you a woman? Are you also an Atheist, Freethinker, Humanist, Rationalist, Secularist, Agnostic, Non-religious and/or Otherwise-identifying non-believer?
If so, have you already added your relevant details (just a few simple demographic datapoints) to the Atheist Census Online? Because if you haven’t, I’m about to attempt to persuade you to do so, even though it is just another unscientific internet poll.
Pushback Awesome: another community having the anti-harassment policy debate
This time it’s the science fiction writing community undergoing Deep Rifts over a disputed implementation of an existing anti-harassment policy at Readercon following a verified harassment incident, complete with yet another round of but-we-don’t-need-no-stinkin-policy-anyway backlash. [nb: updates 1 & 2]
Media Circus: sigh/meh/whatever
Forgive me readers, it has been a while since my last media spin tactics thread. As usual for media circus threads, please share your bouquets and brickbats for particular items in the mass media, or highlight cogent analysis elsewhere, on any current sociopolitical issue.
The “Skeptics Don’t Need No Stinking Anti-Harassment Policies” Saga continues
Rebecca Watson won’t be going to TAM this year, and I think she’s absolutely right to take this stand after DJ Grothe’s statements.
Skeptical speakers behaving badly, anti-harassment policies and yammering yahoos
Last week a casual anecdote in a conference speech by Jen McCreight started a whole lot of balls rolling.
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