The Blood is The Life 17-02-2012

[miss_s_b]

• UK Now Seizing Music Blogs (With American Domains) Over Copyright Claims | Techdirt
  More on the RnBXclusive thing
  (tags: censorship )
  
  
• The curse of Grace Hopper
  This is fabulous. If you're even slightly geeky you should take the 30 seconds out of your day to read it.
  (tags: Feminism comics )
  
  
• Cooking for Geeks - O'Reilly Media
  Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaant
  (tags: food )
  
  
• The Girls' Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse
  3
  (tags: zombies Feminism )
  
  
• David Cameron knows the drug laws aren't working; his failure to change them is simple cowardice
  WARNING: contains Torygraph
  (tags: politics )
  
  
• More attempts by the music and film industries to rage against the dying of the light...
  (tags: censorship )
  
• There. are. Batgirl. Converse. Sneakers.
  ... and it'd cost me ab out a squillion pounds to obtain them with Journeys' ridiculous international postage policies
  (tags: )
  
  
• Comments on Unilad from some of their readers.
  Profoundly depressing and very triggery.
  (tags: epicfail )
  
  
• Just A Quick Note to Atheists (From an Atheist)
  "If you’re offended, Get over it. Realize that being offended is much better than being oppressed." - good advice for life, there.
  (tags: isms )
  
  
• The 2012 Oscars and The Bechdel Test
  This ten minute video has the best explanation of the Bechdel Test I have seen in a long time; it also has assessments of this year's best picture nominees. Also featuring BONUS GEORGE TAKEI!
  (tags: Feminism )
  
  

Comments

[karohemd]

That Geek cookbook looks fun.

Mentioning Batgirl...

[drunkwriter]

I read the whole thing, and was frankly a bit perplexed. Is there some weird form of atheism that I'm not aware of which singles out Black Christians and Islam? Elsewhere it advocates making fun of Mormonism on the grounds of its power, when Catholicism is not only the craziest thing ever invented, but is so powerful it has its own country within a country that it already dominates completely. Different strokes for different folks there, I suppose, and we all have our favourite nutty cult, but Mormons have endured a fair amount of persecution in comparatively recent history in their quest for religious freedom. Their religion might be utterly barking, but... yeah, that made me a bit queasy, actually.

Criticising majority non-white religions is not racist as long as it really is the religion that is being criticised rather than the culture (a distinction partially acknowledged later on with the mention of the hijab as a cultural rather than religious thing). That's as nonsensical as claiming, for example, that it's racist to write a negative review of an Iranian film.

"Realize that being offended is much better than being oppressed" - good advice in isolation, but in the context of an article that regularly makes offence and oppression synonymous, it's almost meaningless.

The whole thing must have been written to air some very personal frustrations, so I'm left with a sense that while I don't agree with much of it, it's probably for the best that I don't really 'do' atheism online.

[chess]

Mormons are a hot target in the US right now because of Mitt Romney, one of the various interchangable GOP bastards hoping to run for president...

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I felt the same way about it. Boggled, and massively in disagreement over chunks of it.

[miss_s_b]

good advice in isolation, but in the context of an article that regularly makes offence and oppression synonymous, it's almost meaningless.

I agree. That was a "this is where I got it from" link, not an "I agree with this article" link. Probably I should make the distinction clearer somehow in future...

[telegramsam]

I've seen some of the criticized items brought up on the internet by individuals purporting to argue from an Atheist stance. They tend to be the rather stupid sort though, and not necessarily representative of a majority. I get the feeling the article came out of some specific interactions as well, actually, probably on tumblr where it was posted, or some forum somewhere...

[staceyuk]

I love Feminist Frequency!

[bagfish]

Ugh, that Unilad thing is utterly revolting. The misogyny was palpable. I just can't understand why those men think of women in such a violent and objectifying way?