The Coffee Loving Skeptics

Sad to hear but understandable. I’ve been enjoying reading your updates on FB and reading through the blog. Good luck on the break.

Thanks the posting……….I have enjoyed the site
All the best,
The Doubter

I’d wish they shut up about their own personal agenda, making more of a problem than there really is, and actually try to promote some of the more important international work, such as that being done by Maryam Namazie and Ayaan Hirsi Ali etc

You include me in that “they” so I have to ask – have you read my blog at all, or the articles on my website? I’ve done a lot of promoting of both Maryam Namazie and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

The “Skeptic Movement” ceases to be focused on skepticism when it promotes any conclusion. Ideology, any ideology, is a conclusion as to how things ought to be. Skepticism is about facts and reality. Not being sold on some idea of Utopia, that can never be. For a group that claims to be promoting critical-thinking, they reach some dubious conclusions, asserted without evidence. Asking for evidence is a crime against Feminism. We have lots of evidence for what happens to those who analyze the Gnu Feminism. Especially if you’re female. ERV has been excommunicated as pandering to MRA’s. Stef was publicly excoriated for acknowledging that she welcomed invitations to converse with men over coffee. Even if it leads to intimacy.
If RW met the risen Christ in that elevator, would PZ Myers be spreading the Gospel? Of course! To question her testimony is blasphemy (misogyny). Proof that you’re the spawn of Satan (privileged)
Her latest screed depends on re-writing history. The Tweet never mentioned an elevator. She didn’t mildly rebuke EG. She launched a public crusade at the CFI event, her “Privilege Delusion” post declaring her personal boycott of Dawkins and encouraging others to do the same, her follow-up hateful video when the story changed to her getting “cornered” and smiting men to find other ways to get their rocks off.
Do the terrorized victims of sexual assault voluntarily carouse unfamiliar locations until dawn if a chance interaction with a polite stranger induces panic attacks? If you DO want to be hit on, where are your best chances? Spending the hours between midnight and 4am where there are 20 drunk men for every drunk woman is a sure-fire bet! Saying you need to get some sleep when it is obviously not on your priority list is silly. Even people who don’t care about sleeping have turned in hours ago.
If the elevator situation is showcased to the public as a serious transgression, why did the more egregious examples now emerging fail to be mentioned until a year later? An anonymous survey specifically soliciting feedback about the personal perceptions of the event while it’s fresh on your mind is pretty much ideal.
Now I want to go to TAM! Interesting that people did mention Rebecca’s attention-seeking drama known as “Elevatorgate” DID make note of it. Yes, Rebecca has ruined TAM for a lot more skeptics that womanizing men could possibly hope to. I’m a female who won’t suffer through listening to Rebecca just to get to whatever good content might be generated by the SGU podcast. Yay! I’ll listen to the “Live from TAM” this year. Maybe I’ll enjoy the show for once.

I sincerely hope you enjoy your break and come back refreshed. I’ve only recently discovered your blog (ironically through researching the whole Watson fiasco!) and have enjoyed reading through your past posts. The abuse you and others have suffered for daring to question the motives of Rebecca Watson and her camp is symptomatic of a division that they themselves have created. Supporters have noted that she only took a “Guys, don’t do that” approach on her original elevator YouTube post, and that this was suddenly twisted into an anti-man rant. To a certain extent this was true. However, she fully endorsed, encouraged and enjoyed the subsequent controversy as she marshalled her forces for what she clearly saw as an opportunity to promote her own militant agenda.

Her previous history of ban(s) from the JREF forums and behaviour upon them demonstrates the type of person she really is – an immature attention seeker with an overblown sense of self worth. Her behaviour at conferences equally damns her. People have paid to attend these and to realise that your hard earned cash results in a poorly rehearsed, stilted and quite probably still drunk presentation from her is appalling. I have yet to read anything of value published by her and am at a loss as to what she has actually brought to skepticism.

I apologise for the rant, but I hate to think that this fool has been responsible for any ill-feeling you may have towards the “movement” (I despise that term…), and hope you realise you have my and others’ support and best wishes for the future.

coffeelovingskeptic.com is a one of the more impressive blogs I’ve seen. Thanks so much for keeping the internet classy for a change. Youve got style, class, bravado. I mean it. Please keep it up because without the internet is definitely lacking in intelligence.