March 2011
6 posts
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GARLAND: I am so fucking tired of religious... →
garlandgrey:
If an atheist is trying to tell you something, shut the fuck up and listen. If you are talking to a nonreligious person who lives in a country primarily composed of adherents to your religion, they probably know a whole hell of a lot about it, even if you haven’t found the time to research their belief system. Whatever they are telling you doesn’t need to be qualified with a “but I...
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Assumptions of bad faith
sadydoyle:
So, in social justice circles online, we have this thing called the “tone argument.” The idea is as follows: You write a perfectly reasonable, thoughtful, more or less accurate (as far as you can see) critique of something or someone. And then the person you’re criticizing flips out, because they don’t like your “tone.” The “tone argument” is a way of delegitimizing anything and...
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Sady Doyle: DEEP THOUGHTS: On Feeling Besieged,... →
sadydoyle:
DEEP THOUGHTS: On Feeling Besieged, What You’d Do If You Really Loved Me, The Ethics of Internet Response, and A Whole Lot Else
The worst mental state I can get into — and I visit it, a lot! — is the one where I feel continuously, purposefully besieged. Like the one where the whole world is just OUT! TO! GET! ME! And is plotting behind my back, specifically for the purpose of...
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Sady Doyle: Molly Lambert Is Right About... →
sadydoyle:
The obsession among smart dudes with the idea that they’re not “manly” enough, because they’re smart, is a very weird one. Particularly when they have to get all sexist to prove that, see, they’re really not like girls! They don’t even like girls! Except when they’re totally doin’ it! With girls! Something something Norman Mailer something.
Because, like, there is also this...
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Sady Doyle: TIPS FOR COMMENTERS: In Which I Do... →
sadydoyle:
Okay. Ladies and gentlemen of the Internet, here is what I’m going to do. I’m all about good time management, here at Wasting Time On My Tumblr Headquarters. Therefore, I am now going to give you EVERY SINGLE COMMENT that ALWAYS SHOWS UP, on any post about (a) rape being bad, or (b) rape in entertainment being sometimes bad or (c) the existence of something called “misogyny,” or (d)...
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BEST take on Charlie Sheen that I have seen
I’m annoyed I can’t just hit reblog on this, but…
Sady Doyle: http://sadydoyle.tumblr.com/post/3622532000/i-know-its-not-fair-to-ask-any-blogger-to-be-the
NOT TALKING ABOUT CHARLIE SHEEN; YES, HE IS A HILARIOUS LADY-PUNCHING CLOWN; unfortunately, the topic of coked-out domestic abusers going on a lonely downward spiral is kind of personal, for me, so I can’t laugh and I...
