The world needs a social justice version of John Baez’ classic simple method for rating potentially revolutionary contributions to physics AKA The Crackpot Index, to rate our never-ending “feedback” from troglodytes of assorted stripes who are convinced that not only are we Doin It Rong but that we deserve to be threatened into silence for daring to have an opinion in the first place.
culture wars
Broadly, conservatism vs progressives / social liberties vs authoritarianism / social justice vs elitist marginalisation.
Quote Of The Day: Consider A Birdcage
If you look very closely at just one wire in the cage, you cannot see the other wires. If your conception of what is before you is determined by this myopic focus, you could look at that one wire, up and down the length of it, and be unable to see why a bird would not just fly around the wire any time it wanted to go somewhere.
Kevin thread
Interesting timing.
Spurious Quotation of the Day: Big Government
Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.
Links Post
Link round up.
WTF, Australia?
Fiona Katauskas nails it.
Queuejumping rhetoric a new low in fight against reproductive rights
the Member for Dawson said priority should be given to other drugs, particularly those that helped cancer patients and extended the lives of people who were sick.
“I simply don’t understand why this particular drug would find its way to the head of the queue before those drugs,” Mr Christensen told the Daily Mercury.
Eyeroll du jour: Dawkins Dawkins Dawkins
Don’t have time to delve deep on uber-atheist Richard Dawkins tweeting on the ethics of abortion with no reference at all to the person in whose womb the pregnancy would be happening, thought I’d let you at it.
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We waste enough energy already explaining to trolls
… that it’s possible to care about more than one thing at the same time, without having to explain it to other feminists, too.
Quick Link – Tropes vs. Women in Video Games by Anita Sarkeesian (recovered)
In time for International Women’s Day in Australia the first of Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes vs. Women in Video Games has been released. This one is the Damsel in Distress trope.