Yet Julian Simons won the bet.
You might want to read down a little further in the article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon-Ehrlich_wager#The_proposed_second_wager
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon-Ehrlich_wager#Other_wagers (especially the last sentence of this section)
Simon got lucky once. His track record overall isn't so hot.
Oh no, you're supposed to grow old gracefully, and accept the infirmity of age as the price of wisdom. Or some crap like that.
Yeah, sorry about that.
Okay, so there's this quote that never seems to die. It's often attributed to Morgan Freeman, although I believe it actually comes from Henry Rollins; in any case, it doesn't much matter who said it. It just gets posted and reposted as a bit of snarky wisdom. Snarky it certainly is, but wise it's not.
First, the quote: "I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole." There it is. Read it, enjoy it, revel in the snark.
I'm hoping this is sarcasm.
Yes, it is. I suppose I was getting dangerously close to Poe's Law territory, wasn't I?
Also, as I read it the original insult wasn't about her sex, it was about her decision to go for cheap low hanging fruit, and "whore" as an epithet has been applied to loads of people - it can almost be considered gender neutral.
Maaaaybe. I'm inclined to go with AC: the editor might still have been insulting in dealing with a man, but probably would have used a different insult. And there are gender-neutral uses of "whore," but I don't think this is one of them.
If it was about her sex, then smack them down. If it wasn't, smack them down.
Indeed. It's startlingly unprofessional either way.
Yep. I remember one kid who kept asking, "Will it hurt? Will it hurt?" and his mother kept saying, "No, not a bit, honey" and the like, and the kid clearly wasn't buying it. So I looked him in the eye and said, "This is going to hurt worse than anything you've ever felt in your life. It's going to hurt worse than anything you've ever imagined in your life. It's terrible. You'll be screaming. It will feel like your arm is getting chewed off by a wolf
Since the topic of her blog is women in science, this actually seems to be right on topic. Do you think the editor would have used a comparable term for a male blogger?
Of course! Everyone knows there's no such thing as sexism any more (except for sexism directed against men, of course, thanks to the feminazis). This is just yet another example of a woman whining because she's being treated like one of the guys, and if she can't take the heat she should stay out of the kitchen! Or, er, get back into the kitchen. Whatever.
So I've learned by reading the Slashdot comments every time a "women in ___" story comes up, anyway.
You may very well be right, in which case I weep for my country.
Apologies for the weird formatting characters, which didn't show up in the preview. Slashdot, Slashdot
Opposition to Obama has nothing to do with race. Nope, nothing at all.
</sarcasm>
It is impossible for anything posted to a Twitter feed to be spam, since seeing it requires you to follow that feed.
By that logic, it is impossible for anything posted in a newsgroup to be spam, since seeing it requires you to read that newsgroup. Which is a pretty silly interpretation, given the history involved.
You're not the only person here who "was on the Internet when the term was invented," you know.
Yes, I just burned Karma.
Currently modded to +5.
Censorship is bad! NSA is evil! Facebook is for sheeple! Microsoft sucks! Apple sucks! Google sucks! Go Edward Snowden! Ooooh, I'm a rebel! Dancing on the edge!
We've had so many wacko right-wing conspiracy trolls on
I make a pretty good funny, and your retort is this? I'm disappointed.
Long week at work.
Thanks, that helps clear things up.
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