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squealpiggy said:
Would you believe:

"Because I am woman I can't go out without strange men wanting to spend time with me and potentially sexually assault me"

The last part i a bit of a non-sequitur really. But the first part: Really? Men want to spend time with you? Poor lamb.

Same person also put:

"Because I am woman I have to wear buttons on a side that makes it easier for men to undress me"

Umm...

This is another reason that people are reticent to throw their weight behind A+. The danger of finding yourself in a group with joyless weirdos who expend more effort looking for reasons to take offense than they do in actually empowering themselves.
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IIRC, the button thing dates from the Victorian era when women who could afford clothing with lots of buttons to be done up would have had a maid to help them dress - button's on women's clothing were put on the left to make that easier.
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
I'm guessing that around June of next year, most of them will be updating their blogs on why they are boycotting TAM.
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Well, I am happy to announce that they will have they opportunity to boycott TAM much earlier next year.

JREF tweeted that

@jref: SAVE THE DATE: The Amaz!ng Meeting 2013 is July 11-14, 2013. See you there!
 
Sciwoman said:
IIRC, the button thing dates from the Victorian era when women who could afford clothing with lots of buttons to be done up would have had a maid to help them dress - button's on women's clothing were put on the left to make that easier.
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No, it was to help the patriarchy undress women faster. I read it on the Atheism + forum.
 
I think the most frequent A+ fallacy is labeling. If they can label you, they get to dismiss what you say without having to show how your argument is faulty. Let's start a list:

misogynist
tone troll
privileged
Jaquing off
rape apologist
chill girl
queen bee...
 
bpesta22 said:
I think the most frequent A+ fallacy is labeling. If they can label you, they get to dismiss what you say without having to show how your argument is faulty. Let's start a list:

misogynist
tone troll
privileged
Jaquing off
rape apologist
chill girl
queen bee...
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So you're going to just label them as labelers?!?!?






Just kidding...


One of the reasons I've never really been a 'joiner', the tendency is to just attack the group or label and not just the argument. Sure most of my inclinations fall into some or other grouping or classification, but I don’t always debate or argue from my own position. Attacking the former (me or some perception of me) misses the latter (just what I have said).
 
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I don't believe it's any easier to unbutton a button on the left than a button on the right, but I see several people repeating it as though it's peer-reviewed. Are you all just having a laugh, or am I missing something?
 
zeggman said:
I don't believe it's any easier to unbutton a button on the left than a button on the right, but I see several people repeating it as though it's peer-reviewed. Are you all just having a laugh, or am I missing something?
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It's just what I recall. I can't say which button orientation is easier to use.
 
They don't seem able to distinguish between what is a result of discrimination, and what is simply a legitimate consequence of certain attributes.
 
chillzero said:
They don't seem able to distinguish between what is a result of discrimination, and what is simply a legitimate consequence of certain attributes.
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in a subculture where you get mote respect for winning at victim status top trumps and where it is the worst social transgression to question another person's self identified victim status (unless they belong to a pre-identified oppressor class) this is the obvious and natural result.
 
Verklagekasper said:
Looks like brainstorming on things to complain about, which then turned into a bragging contest about who is most ******-up.
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Trigger warning sarcasm:

Sorry, but the fact that you can use such a pejorative word as "brainstorming" when you know that there may be people with epilepsy reading demonstrates the lack of consideration you've given to your post. There's clearly no point in conversing with such a douchebag.
 
Ocelot said:
Trigger warning sarcasm:

Sorry, but the fact that you can use such a pejorative word as "brainstorming" when you know that there may be people with epilepsy reading demonstrates the lack of consideration you've given to your post. There's clearly no point in conversing with such a douchebag.
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An oppressed person found out that skepticism is a mental illness. Hence I'm oppressed too and cannot possibly be held responsible for anything I do. Bazinga!
 
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Piscivore said:
It's the opposite of empowerment; they are victimizing themselves before anyone else can. I guess for them that's better somehow.
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Why should a new cult of victimhood be surprising to anyone here? They are almost starting to sound christian.
 
chillzero said:
They don't seem able to distinguish between what is a result of discrimination, and what is simply a legitimate consequence of certain attributes.
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As well as the simple consequence of being human.

Christ, some of those posters would be gold to a psychic (as in cold) reader.
 
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