Continued: (Ed) Atheism Plus/Free Thought Blogs (FTB)

The Central Scrutinizer said:
I'd say she needs a new psychiatrist, because this one clearly isn't working.
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Reading Melody's tweets, it appears she shopped around for a shrink who had similar neuroses to hers. I've seen people do this. A little like finding an oncologist who has cancer and thinks cancer is good for you.
 
Mr. Scott said:
Reading Melody's tweets, it appears she shopped around for a shrink who had similar neuroses to hers. I've seen people do this. A little like finding an oncologist who has cancer and thinks cancer is good for you.
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Either that, or she found someone who really really wanted a new boat. "Of course your PTSD is worse than those soldiers, dear. It will be a long an expens-, err, difficult road to recovery, but we'll get through it together. Day after tomorrow at 3pm, like usual? Great." <reaches for a well-thumbed Sea Ray catalog>
 
It seems to me that while the normal attitude to mental illness including PTSD is that they are challenges to be overcome, the SJW approach is that they are badges of honour that one should embrace.

It makes absolute sense that this would be the case it seems. People on FTB and A+ seems to always be striving for legitimacy, and a self diagnosis of autism, or PTSD because someone was mean online seems like an easy yet invisible way of claiming authenticity of victimhood.
 
squealpiggy said:
It seems to me that while the normal attitude to mental illness including PTSD is that they are challenges to be overcome, the SJW approach is that they are badges of honour that one should embrace.

It makes absolute sense that this would be the case it seems. People on FTB and A+ seems to always be striving for legitimacy, and a self diagnosis of autism, or PTSD because someone was mean online seems like an easy yet invisible way of claiming authenticity of victimhood.
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A dominant characteristic of SJWs is the presentation of oversized compassion. Once they make the "poor me" posture they become immune to any challenge. It's a protective shield. Anyone who questions them is then automatically branded a heartless bully.

The "shut up, you monster, I'm hurting" defense is antithetical to skepticism and critical thinking.
 
SimplyAghast said:
I guess it wouldn't bother me so much, but her twitter feed does entwine CFI and her very loose grasp on sanity. (I very much hope she gets the help she needs.)

Her Twitter feed kinda looks like this...

  • Tweet about how trans people are harassing her for not liking drag queens or whatever.
  • Tweet about how veterans who claim their war-caused PTSD is worse are pieces of excrement
  • Invitation to donate for WISC3
  • Tweet about men in the skeptic community are all abuser/harassers.
  • Confirmation of reporting a serviceman who claims that seeing his war buddy get his leg blown off by an IED is worse than being on Twitter

She should make a completely different Twitter account that doesn't immediately trace back to her. She is making CFI look very bad.
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Mr. Scott said:
A dominant characteristic of SJWs is the presentation of oversized compassion. Once they make the "poor me" posture they become immune to any challenge. It's a protective shield. Anyone who questions them is then automatically branded a heartless bully.

The "shut up, you monster, I'm hurting" defense is antithetical to skepticism and critical thinking.
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Thunderf00t has gone in deep on this one and while a lot of his anti-feminist videos have ventured into silly territory this one is fairly on-point.



He makes a very salient point by saying that it's a risky move to start attempting to wreck peoples' military careers by "contacting their commanding officers" when you are so prominently connected to your position with the Centre for Inquiry. Is that really a can of worms she wants to open?
 
There's now a FtB blog entry on the Hensley/PTSD thing. Highlights include Zvan being critical of Tweeters talking about contacting her boss while failing to mention that Hensley had done exactly the same thing.

So is contacting someone's boss about their carryings on a good thing or a bad thing ?

I'm not a big fan of ratting people out but were I donor to CFI, I'd be asking them about what's going on with my sponsor dollars and wondering whether Hensley's opinions on "things" reflect the organization I'm supporting.

That "personal; account" statement on Hensley's Twitter header is pretty much meaningless considering she has her job position posted alongside it.

For extra lulz, after you've gotten sick of scrolling through the world's longest Storify, scroll down to comment 18 ( and 20 ) where A+ luminary GreatAmericanSatan totally looses it and gives us an intimate glimpse into the SJ mindset.
 
Stout said:
There's now a FtB blog entry on the Hensley/PTSD thing. Highlights include Zvan being critical of Tweeters talking about contacting her boss while failing to mention that Hensley had done exactly the same thing.

So is contacting someone's boss about their carryings on a good thing or a bad thing ?

I'm not a big fan of ratting people out but were I donor to CFI, I'd be asking them about what's going on with my sponsor dollars and wondering whether Hensley's opinions on "things" reflect the organization I'm supporting.

That "personal; account" statement on Hensley's Twitter header is pretty much meaningless considering she has her job position posted alongside it.

For extra lulz, after you've gotten sick of scrolling through the world's longest Storify, scroll down to comment 18 ( and 20 ) where A+ luminary GreatAmericanSatan totally looses it and gives us an intimate glimpse into the SJ mindset.
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One of my troll accounts made it on there!!! Yay for me!!!
 
It's pretty funny to watch Ftb'ers like those in the comments section railing against the "atheoskeptisphere" and it's injustices, completely failing to realise that most of the people bashing their latest champion have nothing to do with either atheism or skepticism.
Most of them appear to be either armed forces personnel or abuse/accident victims who only know of Melody Hensley because of her stance on PTSD.

ETA: Apart from Scrut, of course.
 
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squealpiggy said:
Thunderf00t has gone in deep on this one and while a lot of his anti-feminist videos have ventured into silly territory this one is fairly on-point.



He makes a very salient point by saying that it's a risky move to start attempting to wreck peoples' military careers by "contacting their commanding officers" when you are so prominently connected to your position with the Centre for Inquiry. Is that really a can of worms she wants to open?
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Too hyperbolic and sanctimonious for my taste. "Trying to get people fired" is not the only way to interpret "contacting people's commanding officers". But I agree she should not be doing it.
 
cornsail said:
Too hyperbolic and sanctimonious for my taste. "Trying to get people fired" is not the only way to interpret "contacting people's commanding officers". But I agree she should not be doing it.
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So what other way are you interpreting it?

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Rrose Selavy said:
So what other way are you interpreting it?

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Possible interpretations are:

-Trying to get someone fired
-Trying to get someone reprimanded
-Trying to get someone's superiors to make them stop engaging in a behavior you don't like

I don't claim to know which of these best describes her motivations in contacting people's COs.
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
One of my troll accounts made it on there!!! Yay for me!!!
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Well, I thought it was funny if the SJWs didn't appreciate it. (You're the black dude who wrote, "What has two chins and cries when it receives a Tweet?", right? Not that I approve of such jokes,... because patriarchy... and we shouldn't repeat them, because that would be bad. Yes, it would.
 
And as to the GreatAmericanSatan war on his atheist peeps? This is another of those "only tool in your box is a hammer; world looks like a nail" dealies. They've been battling imaginary atheist MRAs for so long that they don't even notice that with only a couple of exceptions those people all got those retweeted from someone. There's little to no indication that these are members of The Organized Atheist Skeptical Community. Does anyone recognize more than a name or two?
 
cornsail said:
Possible interpretations are:

-Trying to get someone fired
-Trying to get someone reprimanded
-Trying to get someone's superiors to make them stop engaging in a behavior you don't like

I don't claim to know which of these best describes her motivations in contacting people's COs.
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And which of those, knowing the history of the behavior in Freethoughtistan, do you think is more probable?
 
Foolmewunz said:
And which of those, knowing the history of the behavior in Freethoughtistan, do you think is more probable?
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Do you think considering something probable based on the history of "behavior in Freethoughtistan" is sufficient grounds for stating it as if it were fact?
 
Dissolution said:
...most of the people bashing their latest champion have nothing to do with either atheism or skepticism.

Most of them appear to be either armed forces personnel or abuse/accident victims who only know of Melody Hensley because of her stance on PTSD.
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I'd wager that 90% + of the "enemies of FTB/A +" are likely in it for the lulz, and have nothing to do with atheism, skepticism, the military, etc.
 
I also find it a bit suspect that Thunderfoot and others are calling it "PTSD from Twitter" as opposed to "PTSD from cyberstalking". I can't stand Melody, but I don't like spin and exaggeration when it comes from her critics either.
 
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