#Rebecca Watson

[svd126]

Just when I thought I couldn’t love this cast anymore my favorite fictional AFC Richmond captain posted this

#ted lasso #ted lasso season 3 #isaac mcadoo #rebecca watson #trent crimm #nathan shelley #colin hughes #sag strike #wga strike #stand with the wga #pay the writers #pay the actors

[hero-israel]

...skepchick out there making videos about feminism v. israel. another leftist i used to respect gone, it seems. though I do wonder how she, and all the other everything-israel-says-is-a-lie people will deal with the un report - it seems to be this report is the first genuinely supported claim for sexual misconduct by the idf towards palestinians. I mean. I guess THAT bit will be considered true and fully evidenced, but that hamas terrorists raped people and used sexual violence as a systemic part of their violent dreams of restoring the caliphate is just made up. but still.

I defended her during "elevatorgate." I had online arguments about that for months and I took her side. And I never demanded she prove the incident had happened.

Not sure what's more disgusting:

-Leftists who build their entire moral framework around Jewish history and suffering and learn nothing from it

-Culturally Christian atheists who don't have to be embarrassed by believing in talking snakes and immaculate conceptions but who keep all the suspicions and contempt for Jews that their families and societies gave them

#Leftist antisemitism #atheist antisemitism #rape culture #rape apology #rape denial #denialism #culturally Christian atheists #skepchick #Rebecca Watson

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Happy Pride! 🌈 Pat Robertson 💀 has died!

In case you don't know, he's the Pundit Zero who made it his mission to turn the American Republican Party into the party of Christofascism, and played an outsized role in getting Reagan elected, back in 1980.

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Summary: Rebecca Watson presents a litany of all the immoral things Pat Robertson has done during his life, including supporting warlords, and working to overturn the separation of Church and State in the U.S. Constitution.

#pat robertson #good riddance #pride month 2023 #rebecca watson #youtube (auto generated captions) #eye conact #swear words #Youtube

[zenosanalytic]

This is a good video for those wondering who Mike Johnson is. Also: a nice little preview of the bonkers Christian Panopticon Republicans want to force us all into.

Also Rebecca Watson's been queer-friendly feminist and atheist for, like, 20 years now. If you're looking for short(this one's 9 1/2 minutes), empirical video-essays on science, politics, and current events, you could definitely do worse than giving her channel a sub.

#Rebecca Watson #Skepchick #Video #Mike Johnson #Covenant Eyes #Republicans #Christian Nationalists #White Nationalists #Conservative Christians #US Politics #No Nut November #Video Essays #Youtube #informative reblogs #appreciative reblogs

[harrytheehottie]

that’s my mother and my father

#ted lasso #jason sudeikis #hannah waddingham #rebecca watson #tedbecca

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Thomas Sheedy

Published: Jun 3, 2021

You are a proud atheist in the emerging New Atheist movement attending one of the most impactful and energized conferences in your community. In June of 2011, you are in Dublin, Ireland, attending the World Atheist Convention, an event celebrating atheism, science advocacy, and secularism with some of the most famous freethinkers of the time. You enjoy the attendees and speakers so much that you stay up in conversation at the hotel bar until four in the morning. You see an attractive speaker retiring for the night, and you follow them to an elevator to ask them if they would like to join you for a cup of coffee. The speaker declines. You then go to your hotel room, alone. Afterward, the speaker that you were attracted to goes online to decry what you did. The speaker, and other extremists, denounce the New Atheist movement, a healthy and growing movement, as sexist. What you did becomes a catalyst for extremists to infiltrate and destroy the New Atheist movement.  

This is not a hypothetical scenario; this happened. Starting in the early 2010s, extremist infiltrators painted the New Atheist movement as sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, and “islamophobic.” Much of the success of these infiltrators was fueled by feminist Rebecca Watson declining a polite request for “coffee” in an elevator. Now, ten years after “Elevatorgate,” the New Atheist movement has lost influence and has become a ghost of its former self. 

A few weeks after the incident, Watson uploaded a video on YouTube describing what happened, stating:

 “… All of you except for the one man who didn’t grasp, I think, what I was saying on the panel, because, at the bar later that night — actually at four in the morning, we were at the hotel bar, four a.m. I said, I’ve had enough guys, I’m exhausted, going to bed, so I walked to the elevator, and a man got on the elevator with me and said, “Don’t take this the wrong way, but I find you very interesting, and I would like to talk more, would you like to come to my hotel room for coffee?” Um, just a word to the wise here, guys, don’t do that. I don’t really know how else to explain that this makes me incredibly uncomfortable, but I’ll lay it out that I was a single woman, you know, in a foreign country, at four a.m., in a hotel elevator with you, just you. I, don’t invite me back to your hotel room right after I’ve finished talking about how it creeps me out and makes me uncomfortable when men sexualize me in that manner.”

The idea that the New Atheist movement was systemically sexist is a blatant lie. No one denies that individual acts of sexual harassment occurred in the atheist community. Regarding Elevatorgate, it is wrong for someone to continue to express sexual interest in you after you have made it clear that you are not sexually interested in them. However, the person interested in Watson immediately accepted her denial, did not continue to express interest in her, and proceeded to his hotel room alone. Sexism was not at fault; instead, at most, maybe he misunderstood what she said. Claims like the ones these infiltrators have made over the years only hinder our community, a community that so many of us fought to develop. If anything, these infiltrators downplayed the problems of real systemic sexism that still exists in other parts of the world, as explained by Richard Dawkins in a sarcastic response to Watson, in what became known as the “Dear Muslima letter:.’’

Dear Muslima Stop whining, will you? Yes, yes, I know you had your genitals mutilated with a razor blade, and . . . yawn . . . don’t tell me yet again, I know you aren’t allowed to drive a car, and you can’t leave the house without a male relative. Your husband is allowed to beat you, and you’ll be stoned to death if you commit adultery. But stop whining, will you. Think of the suffering your poor American sisters have to put up with. Only this week I heard of one; she calls herself Skep” chick,” and do you know what happened to her? A man in a hotel elevator invited her back to his room for coffee. I am not exaggerating. He really did. He invited her back to his room for coffee. Of course, she said no, and of course, he didn’t lay a finger on her, but even so . . . And you, Muslima, think you have misogyny to complain about! For goodness sake, grow up, or at least grow a thicker skin. Richard

To Richard���s point, he’s right! To add to his remarks, atheist circles downplayed the injustices of the Islamic world. Many of the extremist infiltrators have silenced or critiqued criticism of Islam by non-woke atheists. Those extremist infiltrators, those who called themselves atheists and secularists, defended religion in the name of their new religion: Critical Social Justice. I know this because I have seen it myself. The topic of Islam was not the only topic affected by the extremist infiltrators. After their success in taking over the movement five years later, several groups of atheists, the majority of the movement’s supporters, men and women alike, were seen as pariahs at atheist conferences.

Bill Maher type Liberals

Secular Libertarians and Conservatives

Ex Muslims

Those accused of harassment without evidence

Anyone who questioned the Atheism+ narrative (criticism was constantly conflated with harassment and ‘cyberstalking’)

Women who disagreed with radical feminists (they were charged with ‘parroting misogynistic thought’ and ‘internalized misogyny’)

In a short span of five years, from 2011 to 2016, movement employees, executives, and board members allowed extremists into their organizations to guide them to see the “sexism” that they did not know existed in their organizations. In 2012, extremist infiltrators pressured several atheist movement leaders to condemn the many ordinary atheists who didn’t believe in the false narrative of systemic sexism in the movement, disguised as “Hate Directed at Women.” People like Watson and other infiltrators wore special goggles to see alleged hatred that normal people could not notice. The atheist movement paid the price in 2016 at the second Reason Rally, where instead of 30,000 atheists in the rain like the first Rally four years prior, we likely had only between five hundred to almost a few thousand, all because of weakness; wokeness in the atheist movement that began with Elevatorgate. 

Unlike other organizations who tolerated such infiltration and subversion of the movement, Atheists for Liberty will not make the same mistake. It is because of the weakening of the movement that Atheists for Liberty exist in the first place! 

Over the past eight years, I have seen:

Millions of dollars once belonging to world-renowned atheist organizations were lost.

Conferences, some once having numbers in the hundreds, if not thousands, dead.

Some of the most horrific and superstitious belief systems defended in the name of wokeness

Organizers of events facing real harassment because they dared to have “politically incorrect” speakers, speakers who were seen as ordinary, non-sexist, New Atheist types just a few years prior

The movement’s professionalism fade away in the name of this infiltration

Ex Muslims disregarded by movement organizers in the United States

A friend’s life, once respected as a bold, national figure in the movement, is destroyed by false allegations lobbed against him. He nearly committed suicide.

And as of 2021, I am only 23…

Ten years ago, we allowed an ideology to consume a movement that could have changed the world.

Elevatorgate was one of the Borg-like origin points of modern wokeness. It is only together that we can rebuild what was lost and ensure that silly events like this one never hinder atheist activism again. This is what I am going to dedicate my life to.

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Sheedy is being exceedingly generous here where I will not. Let's be completely clear: we have literally no reason to think that Rebecca Watson's purported incident even actually happened. None. She provided no evidence, someone attempted to determine if elevator CCTV footage existed or could be accessed to corroborate the story but was bullied for not unquestioningly believing the claim. Watson herself lamely and conveniently claimed to be suffering prosopagnosia (face blindness), and both her and her acolytes called anyone who was, ahem, skeptical, about the claim in the absence of any evidence every istaphobe name under the sun. Eerily the same as bible-thumping preachers commanding you to believe or be condemned to eternal hellfire.

Which is suspicious for people purporting to be skeptics, particularly Watson who styled herself as the "Skepchick." Jussie Smollett's case had fewer holes.

It's the irreligious equivalent of First Corinthians:

1 Corinthians 15:6

After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.

This was the day Rebecca Watson, single-handedly lead the intersectional collapse of New Atheism and ushered in the first woke ideological takeover. Whether it was deliberate and calculated or accidental through her own stupidity and hubris is, by this point, irrelevant.

There were, of course, far more to come.

#Thomas Sheedy #New Atheism #ElevatorGate #hoax #hoaxes #intersectional feminism #ideological corruption #ideological capture #atheism #woke #wokeness #wokeness as religion #cult of woke #wokeism #Rebecca Watson #pathological liars #religion is a mental illness

[agapi-kalyptei]

A gentle reminder that while covid infection rate is still low, it _is_ growing, and will grow more with wetter weather, more people indoors, schools restarting, vacations ending, etc. I'm not going to tell you what to do, but, yk, don't sneeze on strangers, don't go to work when you're coughing. If you need a reminder why.

data source: Estonian official koroonakaart

#estonia #covid #long covid sucks trust me #rebecca watson

[thesickpanda]

Republicans Want to Control Your Body with a National Abortion Ban

"They are going to bury democracy, put a cross on the grave and then make you pray to it." - Rebecca Watson

To all my American sisters, please vote these midterm elections. It counts more than ever. Much of the Western world follows the USA’s example, so this affects us too.

#youtube #abortion ban #"abortion #abortion #rebecca watson #reproductive freedom #reproductive health #women's rights #usa #midterms

[wakewithgiggli]

Rebecca Watson showing us how to deal with people like this.

#rebecca watson #pat robertson #Youtube

[iamanathemadevice]

Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Screws up on Trans Kids’ Care

do I think Hossenfelder is a TERF or just a plain old transphobe? Look, labels can be useful but people can be complicated. So I’ll just say that whether she meant to or not, she repeatedly used a misleading rhetorical device to elevate transphobic talking points to the same level as scientific evidence, and she did so for a very large audience. That would be bad enough for any topic, but in this case she did it with a topic that is related to politicians drastically ruining people’s lives here in the US: banning kids from even learning about trans people, banning books that mention trans people, requiring children’s genitals to be inspected before they can play school sports, stopping people from being able to change their identification to be more accurate, rolling back nondiscrimination laws so employers, businesses, and even hospitals can turn away trans people, censoring drag performances, blocking insurance from covering trans-related healthcare, forcing teachers to out trans students to their families, and much, much more. I’m sure that Hossenfelder would say she finds most if not all of those things abhorrent, but her video misrepresents the data in the same way many of the proponents of those bills do, and her lack of nuance convinces the average viewer to think that that “side” of the debate is worth listening to.

Transcript with links to Rebecca Watson's references

It's intensely disappointing to see this as Hossenfelder seemed to be so solid on data and science. Now I wonder what other bullshit she was spouting that I didn't realise because physics is so not my thing. But as Watson says, "the stereotype of an older physicist turning into a giant crank about topics outside their field isn’t entirely without merit."

#Sabine Hossenfelder #rebecca watson #skepchick #terfs #transphobia #junk science #Youtube

[bookcoversonly]

Title: little scratch | Author: Rebecca Watson | Publisher: Faber & Faber (2022)

#books #little scratch #Rebecca Watson

[on-the-wings-of-tomorrow]

This is a year old but it touches upon the issues of technology under capitalism and so remains relevant.

#Rebecca Watson #Neuralink #Elon Musk #tranhumanism

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Content warnings for discussion the recent racially motivated mass shooting in Buffalo, NY, and of eugenics in American history, and also for sustained eye contact.

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(It’s not just a belief among the “uneducated;” “uwu, they just don’t know any better” is not a valid defense to anyone spreading these ideas)

#Rebecca Watson #American history #Eugenics #racism #1920-2022 #Hitler #YouTube video (auto-generated captions)

[qupritsuvwix]

#comstock act #rebecca watson #pz meyers #pharyngula