This is so nice. Having everyone together for my birthday. Of course, you could smash in all my toes with a hammer and it will still be the bestest Buffy Birthday Bash in a big long while.

Buffy ,'Potential'


Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


JZ - Jul 15, 2011 5:53:40 am PDT #16762 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Everyone who has posted about it gets flooded with MRAs who are butthurt that women can vote.

The lack of clue has been kind of staggering. One reader on Ta-Nehisi Coates's blog summarized it all with something like, "But if I can't ask out absolutely any woman I ever like the second I see her, even at 4 AM in a hotel elevator when she's exhausted after a long day of lecturing about how women don't like being sexualized by their colleagues at professional gatherings, then I will never be able to meet the mother of my atheist children and the terrorists have won. WHY DO YOU HATE MEN SO MUCH?"


megan walker - Jul 15, 2011 5:56:17 am PDT #16763 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Speaking of anger, remember big boss in NY who wouldn't promote me? (And who still hasn't congratulated me on my new job, when everyone else in my group has, including her boss and her 22-year-old assistant.)

Well, her last act was to disinvite me from the big launch dinner next week, when I had already deleted it from my calendar and, in fact, will have already left the office! Seriously, she went out of her way to send me and another guy who moved to sales cancelled invitations via Outlook.

I am very glad today is my last day.


JZ - Jul 15, 2011 6:04:34 am PDT #16764 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Blargh, megan. What a petty little asshat weasel-fucker she is.


Nora Deirdre - Jul 15, 2011 6:05:03 am PDT #16765 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

"But if I can't ask out absolutely any woman I ever like the second I see her, even at 4 AM in a hotel elevator when she's exhausted after a long day of lecturing about how women don't like being sexualized by their colleagues at professional gatherings, then I will never be able to meet the mother of my atheist children and the terrorists have won. WHY DO YOU HATE MEN SO MUCH?"

I love T-NC.

Yeah, atheism is white dude central as much as any other western belief power structure, which is like OH GOD THE HYPOCRACY, and I read about this Dawkins gender fail last week, and was like, that's going to make for an interesting conference.

Give 'em hell, Allyson!


Zenkitty - Jul 15, 2011 6:06:00 am PDT #16766 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

It's really disturbing that there's such an anti-feminism, anti-women undertow in the skeptic movement.

Is it a "movement"? I'm not sure how one defines a "movement". Maybe it's a cult.


Toddson - Jul 15, 2011 6:07:48 am PDT #16767 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Or a seething mass of the outraged over-privileged, who feel they aren't sufficiently appreciated.


hippocampus - Jul 15, 2011 6:11:20 am PDT #16768 of 30001
not your mom's socks.

I am very glad today is my last day.

See, you're a much better person than I am, because I'd be tempted to send angry big boss cancelled invitations to The Rest of My Life.


§ ita § - Jul 15, 2011 6:12:34 am PDT #16769 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You're well rid of her, megan.


Jesse - Jul 15, 2011 6:16:32 am PDT #16770 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Seriously.


Jessica - Jul 15, 2011 6:17:52 am PDT #16771 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Or a seething mass of the outraged over-privileged, who feel they aren't sufficiently appreciated.

I hope I'm misreading this - if this was meant as a dig towards the skeptical community, it's terribly unfair and inaccurate.

ElevatorGuyGate is just an example of the skeptical community being very similar to the rest of the internet.

"But if I can't ask out absolutely any woman I ever like the second I see her, even at 4 AM in a hotel elevator when she's exhausted after a long day of lecturing about how women don't like being sexualized by their colleagues at professional gatherings, then I will never be able to meet the mother of my atheist children and the terrorists have won. WHY DO YOU HATE MEN SO MUCH?"

BUT ELEVATOR GUY WAS PROBABLY REALLY SHY OR NERDY OR SOMETHING OMG WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE NERDS?!?!!!