tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385392963347857134.post6593299964366405336..comments2023-10-23T09:51:37.441-05:00Comments on Blog of Pro-Porn Activism: How To Smack Down A Troll (Antiporn Pseudofeminist Division)Renegade Evolutionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17905949172886730262noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385392963347857134.post-20381483462369077282010-03-20T18:27:32.721-05:002010-03-20T18:27:32.721-05:00Anthony:
Thank you for the reassurance! But I thi...Anthony:<br /><br />Thank you for the reassurance! But I think what I find so troubling about people whether they are Matilda or a "researcher" who has a Ph.D. (but not in the field or on the issue they're conducting their research on) and they are taken more seriously than those who actually know better. Even worse, when people like the aforementioned get to change public perception or heaven forbid a law...that's the problem. And it's happening too much.<br /><br />Like right now, I'm reading a review about a book claiming to tell "what Darwin got wrong about evolution" using misinterpreted data from other sources and the two authors of the book are not biologists or any similar scientist at all. Yet here they are with a published book that will be taken seriously by everyone ranging from anti-evolution religious types (if they cherry-pick and religious types have made an art of that) to status quo maintainers to rape-apologist MRA types. And all those groups are very loud and far too influential.La Libertinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14051871564467162258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385392963347857134.post-44301098551127034222010-03-20T14:36:15.215-05:002010-03-20T14:36:15.215-05:00I wouldn't want anyone to make anyone else STF...I wouldn't want anyone to make anyone else STFU, but that doesn't mean I don't wish they would.<br /><br />This applies particularly to self-appointed experts on sex work who have never done any, don't know anyone who has and have never attempted to be of any help in any way to anyone who is.<br /><br />At the very least, they should go to the back of the line.Ernest Greenenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385392963347857134.post-24349798642991627362010-03-17T23:13:38.150-05:002010-03-17T23:13:38.150-05:00Aspasia:
Well... I tend to be the one who says th...Aspasia:<br /><br />Well... I tend to be the one who says that the solution to stupid speech is better speech that calls bullshit on said stupid speech, and I'd much rather live in a society where even whacknuts like Mathilda can freely speak their minds (and folks like me and Avedon Carol and IACB can speak our minds dissecting her lunacy) than a society that allows whatever entity is in power to take away that right.<br /><br />Having said that, it is a fact that one down side of having the Internet around is that any person off the street can assume through anonymity and keystroking the arrogance of expertise...and more often than not, the "all sides are equally important" meme will enable some of the worst illogic ever.<br /><br />Better for some people to just ignore the noise and not feed the trolls....but sometimes it is important to at least answer to the stupidity and show the world that bullshit is still bullshit, not foie gras.<br /><br />Actually nothing conservative (or liberal) about it at all, my dear...entitlement to one's opinon is still not the same as entitlement to twist the facts to meet your ideology. Freedom of speech is not a license to lie, and never will be.<br /><br /><br />AnthonyAnthony Kennersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00103420620416144653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385392963347857134.post-19164064390374617882010-03-17T20:03:06.077-05:002010-03-17T20:03:06.077-05:00I'm going to say something that could be contr...I'm going to say something that could be controversial and certainly goes against my usual liberal leanings but... people like Matilda are what happens when we let everyone have an "equal" voice. Yes, this is rather conservative of me but I'm sorry, not everyone's voice is equal and some people should simply be ignored on certain issues because they don't know what they're talking about. Unfortunately the more I read comment threads, the more I feel this way.<br /><br />The downside of the freedom of speech results in a lot of pompous arrogance from the ignoramii of the global peanut gallery.La Libertinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14051871564467162258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385392963347857134.post-15547234320579646082010-03-16T19:42:51.248-05:002010-03-16T19:42:51.248-05:00Wow – that made me waste a half-hour of my time re...Wow – that made me waste a half-hour of my time responding to a few of Matilda's obvious errors.<br /><br />I usually don't post here about my blog comment debates, but I'll post a <a href="http://mitsein.org/2010/02/14/feminism-makes-me-so-mad/" rel="nofollow">link here</a> from about a month ago, since I think I made some good points and it made me think more deeply about my arguments, even if the other party was basically too dense to follow a basic line of argument.iacbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08267608319896053702noreply@blogger.com