There Are Four Lights

By the way, I meant arguing when I said discussing. Discussion is good. Argument is not.

Why? Because it’s a business model.

Rebecca Watson is, to me, indistinguishable from a schoolyard bully. She has her personal little clique, and she has a strict criterion by which people gain admission to it. See, the thing is, she’s not important. She doesn’t matter. She has not in any significant way contributed to the skeptical movement, or to improve the lives of women.

She has so far managed to blog and tweet and talk about topics she does not understand (her casual dismissal of a scientific field she didn’t even bother to become familiarized with). She is a communications major with no credentials whatever in science or even formal logic.

She’s a woman, though. In certain regions of the Internet, that means something.

Note, however, that she and the other electric Feminists mainly communicate in forums where they have no power. You would never see them talking at length in a place where they had no position of privilege to moderate censor and edit someone else’s thoughts.

The electric Feminists are an insular community of yes-women and their eunuchs. They demonstrate the kind of behavior that is contemptible in religion but completely unacceptable in people daring to call themselves skeptics. They are pushing a very, very radical Feminist agenda which has nothing to do with equality and everything to do with compensatory “justice”. They have not yet demonstrated a real dedication to improving anyone’s lives but their own–by way of ad revenue.

They’re kicking the hornet’s nest strictly to collect the stings. There’s profit to be made persuading people they’ve been done an injustice. The well-worn victim card gets you sympathy–and when you have that, you get what you want much faster. Personally? I strongly feel that antics such as those demonstrated by Watson and the Skepchicks make it more difficult for real victims than any kind of “victim-blaming” they might want to address.

She’s “snarky”. Sarcastic for the sake of being sarcastic, not for the sake of making a point. This is the Internet, and she’s got an audience. They reinforce her behavior by giving her empty accolades. She is no different in her behavior than religious fundamentalists and for her, and all who think like her, I have very little hope indeed.

Sara, you went to a blog post that Rebecca did about people that inspire her and you insulted and shit on one of those people.

Whether you feel hurt by that person is irrelevant. Whether that hurt is justified is irrelevant. Do you understand that it was simply impolite and very bad form to do what you did?

What kind of response did you expect?

Sounds to me like EllenBeth is victim-blaming.

What an overprivileged matriarchal sister-shamer.

Sorry to hear you have got on the wrong side of the FTB/Skepchick clique. This clique has a history of going after women who disagree with them like a pack of high school cheerleader bullies.

I do chuckle at the accusations from folk like EllenBeth who are oversensitive to criticism towards their clique, but then turn a completely blind eye when the clique turn on others. Ophelia Benson is the worst culprit. She’s always searching other people’s blogs, FB pages, Tweets, etc. and blogging, shaming, hectoring people using out-of-context quotes, strawmen, misrepresentations, etc., but when somebody calls her out, it suddenly becomes “harassment” or “cyberstalking”.

In recent months, things have turned even more sour from the FfTB/Skepchick axis. They have resorted to mass blockings on Twitter, reporting accounts as spam, and generally attempting to silence people. This is so they can talk shit about people and be safe from having to deal with any legitimate questions about what they have said. I believe that deliberate attempts to get Twitter accounts closed IS harassment and cyberstalking.

To see Melody Hensley promoting this anti-Liberal, pro-censorship line with the “block Saturday” campaign is shocking given her role with the CFI. The fact that she seems content to smear and bully people who she has power over (via her role with CFI) makes her position with that group unttenable.

Stay strong, Sara. Despite their best efforts, your views and actions are in line with the majority of the atheist/skeptic movements.