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• That Reddit rapist thread

  By tigtog on 2012-07-30 • ( 7 )

  

  [Content note: rape culture, sexual violence] Liss put up a counter-thread at Shakesville for rape-survivors and allies to talk about their reactions in a safe-space.

  Take-home message: beware micro-manipulations as part of a flirt routine – if warning bells are ringing, trust the jangling of our spidey-senses.

• Obligatory London2012 Thread

  By tigtog on 2012-07-28 • ( 28 )

  

  Two words: stunt-queen.

• Acronyms of the Day

  By tigtog on 2012-07-27 • ( 4 )

  

  RWA & SDO – two personality traits that prop up the kyriarchy

• Gamers Against Bigotry

  By tigtog on 2012-07-27 • ( 14 )

  

  Game design consultant Ernest W. Adams at Butterflies and Wheels: It’s time for us to force the permanent nine-year-olds to grow up or get out of our games and forums.

• Well done rationalia forum, you’re my final Skeptic straw

  By tigtog on 2012-07-26 • ( 39 )

  

  A page on this blog is now titled “Critical Thinking” instead of its previous title “Skepticism”, because that name has become tarnished by the long-lasting and widespread ‘Skepchicks should STFU’ campaign being waged by so-called “skeptics” and “rationalists” who reject the utility of applying critical thinking to social structures, at least if that critical thinking is being done by feminists.

• TV Thread: so what are you watching?

  By tigtog on 2012-07-24 • ( 30 )

  

  The shows we love, the shows we love to hate, the shows we want to love but just don’t do it for us, guilty pleasures and comfort viewing: what floats your televisual boat and why?

• Verify, check and challenge. Or perish.

  By tigtog on 2012-07-23 • ( 3 )

  

  Mr Denmore gives examples of how the writers who are supposedly paid for their knowledgeable insight are shown over and over again to have feet of clay and invisible robes whenever someone cares to look at their published works with a mildly jaundiced eye:

• Paying the price for popularity and success?

  By tigtog on 2012-07-23 • ( 5 )

  

  How the cost of effective comments moderation led a mainstream publisher to hamstring one of their most effective click-generators: without the usual hundreds of comments piling up at a rate of knots, how many people will keep on clicking through repeatedly to Bolt’s posts?

• Unleashed Guns: One More Massacre

  By tigtog on 2012-07-21 • ( 33 )

  Those who fight for the right of [anyone] to have as many people-killing weapons as they want share moral responsibility for what happened last night—as they will when it happens again. And it will happen again.

• Media Circus: sigh/meh/whatever

  By tigtog on 2012-07-18 • ( 9 )

  

  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.