The way liberals think isn’t intuitive to me at all. For example, a recent popular post at Daily Kos: How Donald Trump brought about the end of my marriage. It’s written by someone named Jennifer Merrill, who also wrote about her experiences with using sex selection methods to ensure her third child was a daughter,…
Slate came out with a sex advice column, and the very first question is about feminism and BDSM: I’m a single man in my early 30s in an industry that’s received strong scrutiny from the #MeToo movement. I avoid dating anyone who I may have potential influence over professionally in the near future, but recently,…
By now, even the mainstream media publishes articles fretting about how false balance, “presenting both sides”, etc. typically benefits bullshit, often rightwing causes: racism, creationism, global warming denial, tobacco industry misinformation, anti-vaccination. It’s not true, a priori, that there are two reasonable sides to every controversy. Less mainstream, but no less frequently repeated, is the…
When you belong to an oppressed group, talking shit about that group to normal people is a good way to get attention. Normal people like it, because they don’t have to feel guilty if the targets of their prejudice agree with that prejudice. Then it’s not prejudice anymore, it’s just common sense, the way things…
A press release from the University of Alabama describes this conference abstract: Social engineering is a well-established and well-studied threat especially against healthy computer users. Little studied, however, is the level of vulnerability to social engineering attacks against people with medical conditions. Social disorders in particular may make people more susceptible to such attacks. In…