Nah you guys misunderstood the name, it's freethought as in being free from thought not that you're free to have whatever thoughts you want. They should've made it clearer.
Gender separate bathrooms are silly. Sure women may have hard time using urinals, but I have hard time using squat toilet:) I believe in individual gender-less cubicles! Safety for everyone. And cleaning service, because some men (err people) cannot clean after themselves.
@@OutOfNamesToChoose It can take the same space, there might be less bathrooms overall but that will be compensated by the fact that there will not be gender specific peak usages.
@@tarstarkusz This isn't really atheism, it's more the left eating itself much like the right has been. It's not hard to see that both parties have drastically drifted towards the edges. Now instead of attacking the opposing side they are attacking the people closer to the center to themselves. You can see this on the left with SJWs throwing out anyone less than 100% siding with them and on the right where they try and shut down anything less than 100% from having a voice. Hell I'm pretty sure I remember Thunderf00t doing a video on the Shapiro interview where he basically called a right wing European an SJW for saying there should be any exceptions on abortion laws at all even if only in the case of death of the parent. This effect is the whole reason we got Trump in the first place. The left was shifting left, they voted Bernie, Hillary paid out the DMC from bankruptcy winning due to supper delegates, and Bernie supporters refused to vote for her letting Trump win. That's the whole reason the voter turn out for 2016 was so low. Trump is just the example of the right doing the same thing but by suppressing voices as to not spread. The left for some reason is instead trying to scream extremist concepts in the hopes of overshadowing the more central ideas. Considering the title for their page it's clear this is the case.
+Sky... You have to ask yourself why atheism attracts such a high percentage of far left loons in the first place. The answer to that is fundamentally atheism attracts people who do not (or cannot) follow the rules of religion and people who oppose Christianity on ideological grounds. That is fundamentally what this is all about. This is why they are always kvetching about the rules and standards of Christianity. The like to dress up atheism as "science" or "skepticism" or "free thought" and other nice sounding and self-congratulatory words, but what it all comes down to is that Christianity cramps their style. Shapiro is a liar and a fraud and so I really couldn't care less what anyone says about him. Abortion should be outlawed and abortionists thrown into prison. The reason we got Trump has nothing to do with the left. The reason we got Trump is because of the move to the left of the GOP at the party level and the talking heads and supposedly right wing journalists. They are indistinguishable on most issues from the average Democrat. The GOP base is way to the right of the party apparatchiks. A bunch of neocons and cucks. The second the base had a chance to vote on the issues, they chose Trump. But the swamp has kept Trump mired in one fake controversy after another.
@@tarstarkusz That's not at all why atheists are so far on the left. The reason they are is because atheist moral systems are built around humanism, a more left leaning concept. Because of this, many atheists claim to be a moral high ground or more moral than the people of the Bible and call out the evils in the Bible including what God supposedly does claiming what he is doing is evil based on humanistic mean. Because of this, it by default puts them with the left. Abortions for example is a part of that. I bet you didn't even realize the Bible directly says how to commit an abortion if you think your wife was unfaithful (Numbers 5:11). I tend to agree that abortions are abominable but they are necessary in this world (basically a necessary evil). How am I supposed to tell someone to die for their child and they don't get a choice in the matter, why should I force a family to pay to raise a child that likely won't live more than a week, why should we let rape victims suffer for being attacked, etc? You may say "the odds of any of those cases is less than 1%" but remember that there are over half a million abortions a year in the US. Less than 1% is still over 10,000 cases. No one should be forced to go through any of these by the law. I do agree that abortion with no excuses is a horrific thing, but it's not like it's always intended. Many states aren't required to teach kids about contraceptives, some even openly shame people at the store by having them in lock boxes and an alarm for it to be opened alerting everyone in the room. It's not like I have the right to tell every 18 year old who doesn't have a job "this is your fault, have fun being broke for the rest of your life". Or what about people who were in a decent relationship but after getting pregnant say the man becomes aggressive, bails, or gets arrested? It's not gonna be as easy for her to move on with a child. She likely will struggle more to afford and handle the child making it suffer with her. Now some argue these are non-issues as they can just put them up for adoption. But let's be serious here, that's not the answer. There are nearly 200,000 children put up for adoption a year and not all will be adopted. Saying that is the answer is laughable. More than 3 times as many are aborted a year and not all 200,000 are adopted a year now. That means we will be making a net positive of children who will never grow up with parents as there is no way they can all be adopted. Back to the atheists though, following morals of Christianity has nothing to do with it. Matt (the guy they just ousted from FTB) was a priest in training and an avid supporter of the church for most of his life until he started to question why he believed. He went to the Bible and prayer to find the answers but the more he looked for God the less he saw him. This is why they exist. Once the magic words "just believe" start to fade by you, you realize there is very little holding you to it and the more you realize the Bible says some cruel and audacious things. And like I said, Trump didn't win because it's what people wanted. We can see the statistics from 2016 today. Just slightly more than half of registered Democrats voted in 2016 and a low turn out in independents as well. Republicans was about the same as 2008. This is a mix of people saying that Hillary was guaranteed to win so they didn't vote and people pissed Bernie didn't win the primaries so they didn't vote making Trump win by default. We have the numbers today and we know what happened. There is a reason why the DNC had to vow to remove super delegates powers for 2020, people still held a grudge.
I always found it counterintuitive that Social Justice Warriors always seemed to create smaller and smaller circles of inclusivity. For a group looking to equalize relations between groups, they seem to keep creating rules that make it harder and harder to comply.
I just do not understand what they actually want. Do they want freedom for all, or do they want more power for minorities? And which minorities should be preferred more? It is so confusing!
@@NetAndyCz The only thing they want is to feel like they're a great person doing good things and fighting the power, or whatever. Everything else is just a means to that end.
It's just what happens once you completely reject Blackstone's ratio, why take any risk that you'll allow a wrongthinker in your organization? Better eject 10 good people from your group then allow even one bad person to remain and influence the rest, you can never be too safe.
The problem I have seen with SJW crusades is that it's similar to a balancing act controlled by someone prone to panic attacks and knee jerk reactions. They see the scales tip slightly toward the direction they don't like. A sane response to this would be moving the weight slightly toward the opposite side a little at a time until balance has been reached. These guys however grab all the weight and move it to the opposite side then threaten anyone that points out how stupid of a reaction that was.
He is president now. And it's funny on a recent livestream with John Iacoletti, one of the speakers insinuated that he staged a Coup de grâce to become president again.
@@robertleeluben Not everyone. Tracie Harris and Jen Peeples were the only ones of any real note to leave. But I think Tracie was ready to retire anyway and Jen has gone off the deep end lately with all the intersectional stuff.
@@deptusmechanikus7362 kind of... most religions also develop different sets of rules about how to live and practice, but I for my part am not an atheist for then accepting other peoples groupthink and wrongthink policies. Shall they go f* themselves in any hole they please
I don't get why are some people so unhappy with trans fellows in sports. Doesn't it brilliantly illustrate how different are men and women biologically? Just let it work itself out, the whole situation basically proves all of them points hands free.
The whole women sports is silly. Where is the category for weak nerds? Where is category for morbidly obese? If we are looking for the best of the best, they tend to be men who were not shy of using hormones during their training session and took some performance enhancing drugs. If we are not looking for the best of the best, we can add ton of limitation about drug use, sex, gender, height, weight, colour of eyes, but it is kind missing the point of finding the actually best. Why is it illegal to take drugs increasing red blood cells counts, but it is fine to train in low oxygen environment to get basically the same result in similar artificial manner? Is the sport about who can synthesize better formula that will get past the tests?
Yeah. Sexed toilets is weird to me. It seems like a cultural sex-taboo thing, but it's argued on the basis of safety from abuse, when I can't fathom it being more safe to have semi-private areas more sporadically inhabited. More people in a bathroom = more people who are watching and can react to any attempted abuse.
@Gynemancer They can already do that. So can women to women, women to men, or men to men. Be real, the only reason you're defending sexed bathrooms is it's your norm.
@Gynemancer unisex toilets already exists in bars and shops, have you heard any incidents like that or is it just fear mongering? It's like saying you'd never sit in a car because of a high risk of crashing.
I occasionally read/comment on FtB, but I've noticed a couple of things that bother me. First of all, if a celebrity/politician does something inappropriate, and apologizes, the apology is never good enough. It is taken apart line by line, and interpreted in whatever negative way possible. eg. Louis C.K. says something to the effect of "I'm sorry", and people complain that he's saying "Me, me, me,...". I remember reading one that I thought was a good apology, but no, PZ and others deemed it unsatisfactory. There was even one incident where PZ initially thought an apology was okay, but then changed his mind, probably after a few people commented. I commented on this recently, suggesting an experiment where the next time a celebrity apologizes, he should post the fictional apology that he would have written instead of the real one, and see if his apology is accepted by the other FtB, or if it is torn apart as unsatisfactory. Secondly, as you mentioned, questioning or disagreeing with the politically correct opinion, is not tolerated. If you question, "not punching down", how they deliberately distorted an apology, or cultural appropriation, and you'll be hit with a lot of emotion about why you are wrong, but very little in terms of reasoned debate.
@@TheRevolucas So much this. If SJWs are on your case, the best response is always "Up yours!" Sure they're gonna be nasty about it, but they'll be way nastier if you apologize.
I like Matt. And this issue has been extremely over reacted. Drama much? I've seen this before. All the theists have been pwn'd, and for some reason, atheists start turning on each other. I personally don't go after other rational thinkers unless they try to do me. If I disagree or even if they're wrong, I let it pass. Let someone else correct them. Not to say I don't voice an opinion, I just won't go after them in attack mode. I miss the crew that left, especially Jen and Tracy.
@@xXevilsmilesXx I'm aware of their existence. Not really interested though. Our goal needs to be marginalizing theists. If you have a relationship with an imaginary friend, and that friend influences your thinking, and you prioritize it over the country, then you are unfit for office.
Christians still hold the vast majority of sociopolitical power in much of both North and South America and there's about a quarter of a billion Muslims in the world who think imposing sharia on the rest of humanity is a good idea. Theists are far from pwned.
I have been following the issue a bit even going as far as trying to talk to one of the main pro trans people in the debate (essence of thought) and despite being trans I have been blocked by her and labeled transphobic. They refuse to listen to anything outside there own narrative, and I was even trying to agree with her on allot of points, but since I didnt agree with her on everything and told her she needed to stop alienating her audience with racist sexist remarks I'm the terrible one (she pretty much discounts white men's opinions on anything)
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If we had unisex toilets, women would be the first to complain. We have segregated toilets and bathrooms in order to make women more comfortable.
And the only reason women would complain is that they're used to sexed toilets. And I'd argue women are safer in unisex toilets than sexed ones. If I wanted to hurt a woman, I'd be happy to know half of the population has already been excluded from a potential location to do it.
@@seigeengine yea good to see you planning out your shit before you hurt them.
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@@seigeengine Preferences are subjective. What people prefer is what they prefer, it is not your place to say: "You should prefer this, rather than that, for your own good."
I don't want mixed toilets for 2 reasons which have nothing to do with transgender people; 1) Cheap companies would use it as an opportunity to halve the area used, increasing crowding 2) As a guy, I don't want to lose the short queues
It's all silly really The few Trans people I know do not like politics, they just want to work, study and live their lives. Basically they do Yoga, aerobics, read books and have their own partners which are interested in them as a nice person. Such Blogs should be about Atheism and Religion, as TF stated keeping to priorities.
@@seigeengine Maybe we are seeing to many people as groups, instead of individuals. Whatever someone's color gender or background, they may be a nice person. I personally don't know a single person who is the same 🙂
The science-tested answer to the concern over transwomen in sports is very straightforward. it's all about how long it's been since her nuts were removed and feminizing hormone treatments began. The transwoman who just had her nuts cut off a month ago and is now in the UFC ring beating the snot out of female athletes is still physically a man. The transwoman who lost her nuts 2 years ago and is on female hormones is a fair match. Although she's heavier, she's also now weaker.
The ACA's treatment of Rationality rules lost me as a supporter. During their podcasts, they would often state that the only core belief all Atheists share is they don't believe in a god. But when RR had a different opinion on something not related to Atheism, they called him transphobic and exiled him for having a different opinion. They would always take the opportunity to point out when a theist was being a hypocrite for not practicing what they preach, but couldn't see themselves doing the exact same thing. It was especially disgusting since what RR said wasn't even close to being transphobic or hateful. He was just (respectfully) pointing out an issue that needed to be discussed as the current system was creating an unfair playing field for biological women.
Regarding Bathrooms/toilets. No, keep them separate. Main reason being urinals. I don't have a problem with people seeing what I have, but I'm in a minority there. Women can't use urinals and that's what makes it so quick for men to use the bathroom. Additionally, women need the bathroom more often, periods being the main issue here. Realistically, women need more bathrooms than men, simply because. Not a feminist issue, just simply biology.
I don’t want everyone to use the same washrooms, and I never disagreed with the urinal point. I was simply pointing out that the information on woman you used to argue that a 1 washroom system was bad actually supports a 1 washroom system. I disagree with your logic not your position.
If you're female and use testosterone to improve your sports performance, your muscles will enlarge (along with other things) but you'll NEVER be strong enough or quick enough to compete against a man of equal ability and fitness who has been producing his own testosterone since puberty! Female bones, muscle tissue, heart and lungs are smaller and lighter than that of males and develop toward different goals, thanks to evolution. And evolution doesn't care whether you win a 100-yard dash or clear a high-jump. Evolution is not 'woke'. Evolution is focused on only one goal: reproduction. Gender is (for the most part) irrelevant in chess competitions and target-shooting, events that don't require raw strength and speed as much as attitude, self-knowledge and eye-hand coordination. Gender is everything in events such as weightlifting and track-and-field competitions. No matter how much a male resembles a female in appearance and external genitalia, the male will always have XY chromosomes that include heavier muscle mass, denser bones, a larger heart and bigger lungs than those with XX chromosomes. Acknowledging that difference may be an anathema to SJWs, but they need to take it up with our thousands of ancestors who lived to have children, thanks to the benefits of XX and XY.
@@freaki0734 Is that because women aren't as "smart" as men or because they haven't had the coaching and support required to get them to the world level?
@@krisaaron5771 well of course training and culture being more geared towards men playing chess is a reason But I'd also say that there is some gender difference I mean we know that male and female brains are different would't suprise me if that were one of the ways that that would show. I don't think that being good at chess means you are smarter necessarily btw ^^
@@freaki0734 Not picking an argument with this question, but I'm curious: What do you think the reason is that women aren't (at this time) as good at playing competitive chess on the international level as men are? In what way are female brains different than those of males (in relation to championship chess)? Education? Are top chess players encouraged from childhood, and if so is that something traditionally done for boys and not girls? Or are human thought patterns that different between the genders? I'm seriously interested in your thoughts on this, and please don't say whether you're male or female, as I don't want that to influence anyone else's comments.
This is amazing. I used to be a big fan of PZ Myers until he lost his mind and became a regressive social justice warrior. I hadn’t been to freethought blogs for years but for some reason I browsed it today, like TF did in this video, laughing at how few comments PZ gets on his own blog now. He’s really fallen lol. Then I saw this video in my feed. 😂
Have you seen a woman's bathroom? I've been to a few places, where I happen to see a few when the door is opened, and you'll often find things like a full blown Sofa in there.
As a transwomen I don't do sports because I get hives(urticaria) and would rather be playing minecraft or looking at hentai. However, if I did/could do sports I would do so in the male category purely for hormonal reasons. I can't help that during puberty my bones and muscles developed in a certain way. It would be unfair to me and cis women. Hypothetically there could be unisex weight and strength classes however, that is a lot of work measuring people. My two favorite sports would have to be Drag racing and Nascar, gender identity, age, and sex don't matter too much.
Also let me be clear, there are many women athletes that could easily kick my sorry arse. When I say unfair it is kinda like racing a Honda pilot versus a Chevy Traverse. They are both capable suvs but not an equal comparison.
You piqued my interest with minecraft and looking at hentai, and then you left me stranded with racing and weird vehicle comparisons I have no idea about. lol, best wishes.
I think they are. The only "problem" is that in for example League of Legends professional teams live in team-houses. Mixed teams could complicated things. There was Remilia who played Thresh for the Renegades and an all-women team tried their best, but all of them were lower ranked players and way out of their league. There simply is not a lot of women who play the game at such an extremely high level (in League, there was this female Starcaft 2 pro if I am not mistaken, who was the first western player to beat an asian player at a mayor tournament).
I was thinking about this before, and was trying to compile a list of sports that could potentially be made unisex. I was thinking maybe darts. Because that's a precision thing. You need enough strength to lob the dart and get it to stick into the board, but even children can do that - and it doesn't really help to throw harder, as the dart might actually bounce out if you throw with too much strength behind it. Then there's pool / snooker. Again, it's a precision thing. Again, too much strength is actually a potential negative - launching balls off the table - and everyone can reach the level of strength required to play the game. I mean, even with these, you could claim that men have generally better spatial awareness and that might provide a little "unfair advantage" in what we'll deem "precision sports" (ones that are about eye-to-hand coordination and nothing else - as has been noted, eSports is problematic because of reaction times - but this doesn't affect either darts or pool / snooker as they are turn-based games). Basically, conducting this little thought experiment, it seems that "pub games" are the best candidates for making unisex. And, to be honest, I have played darts and snooker / pool with women on a night out - although we were equally matched in those games, it's hard to judge because we were all shit players and slightly drunk. Don't know if that equal matching would hold at a professional level. Funnily, I was pondering over whether football (that is, the "soccer" version of football) could be made unisex. Because it's supposed to be a non-contact sport - so any violent physicality should earn you a red card and being sent off the pitch anyway - and though men can run faster, the thing is that it's not an outright sprint. I mean, you've got to bring the ball with you. Possibly not. But the more I considered that one, the more I realised that it's not actually as unlikely as I initially imagined (because, like most, I was thinking that you just had to strike all physical sports off the list). Basically, I'd like to put that one to the scientific test. They could perhaps have some charity "friendlies" between the women's world cup squads and some of the men's clubs in the Premier League or something. It's a bit like the F.A. Cup, I feel. Because, in that competition, they pit all the teams against each other, regardless of their league positions and, every once in a while, some minor team does sometimes slay Manchester United or Arsenal, against the odds. And what I'd be curious to see is whether "men vs. women" football would actually pan out a bit like F.A. Cup matches. Sure, the big professional men's teams mostly win - but that's more to do with being professional, raking in massive money and being able to afford the world's best players - but sometimes the small teams do get the upper hand (because the sport is more random, in practice, than some of its fans would like to admit - even despite the fact that they based a lottery "the football pools" on the basis of football results and they'd never do that if they wasn't an inherently degree of random unpredictableness about the sport, as bookies NEVER bet on odds that ain't rigged in their favour).
Who reads it? Well, you are. Perhaps a large part of their audience reads it to scoff at them, not to be part of their echo chamber. Also, how much of their traffic was only there for the blog they are about to kick out? Why are they "currently discussing it in their backchannel" rather than just flushing it, as is their normal practice? Perhaps because they _know_ that it is one of the few sections still keeping them afloat?
@MichaelKingsfordGray FTB sounds like it was, yeah. I'm more talking about all of the atheist/rationalist organizations that have been converted into affirmative action lobbies. Most of them seem to have started with the intent to give atheists and "free thinkers" a place to feel welcome but they couldn't see the downside of anti-traditionalism until it was too late
@@sciencoking It's not really that complicated. Atheism was a big point of discussion years ago... but the discussion was had. Society moved on. The leftovers of these communities are the nuttier more radical sorts, and if you leave them to stew, they only become more and more deranged as time goes on. Given that their natural opposition is religion, which in the context of Western civilization is generally super-traditional, regressive, anti-science, anti-equality, etc. it's understandable how they developed.
Hey thunderfoot, love your videos :) just FYI.. in the story of Moses they wonder through the desert for as long as they did more or less to wait for the last generation (including Moses) to die. It didn't have any thing to do with navigation.
"Thou Shalt Not Kill! - apart from when I say you should" - God. "I am all powerful, all knowing, all wise, but I'm just no good with money" - God. p.s. I know a transgender person. He looks a hell of allot better as a bloke than he ever did a girl, much happier now too. A difficult life for someone in such circumstances.
Trans people exist at the nexus of a lot of rough situations: Likely to get cut off by their parents, likely to have trouble finding good work, likely to have trouble making social connections. They absolutely are a priority. If you’re looking to do some good in the world, go be nice to some trans folks.
Yes, but would they like to provide incentives to men to falsely pretend to be trans to take gold medals, price money and world records away from women? Would they not look rather petty if they allow their identity to be used to fuck with the hopes and dreams of a subsection of half of the population, namely with women who want to get big in pro sports?
I listened to about half of the conversation the people who left the ACA had on Hangouts. They go through some of what led up to it from their perspective but most of it is just ranting about how everyone and everything is transphobic and how anyone having a contrary opinion about the trans issue is basically akin to the racists who wouldn't let black people ride on the front of the bus.
I wrote this really, really, long reply but it's so long that I don't think anyone would read it or care. I'll just summarize and say that I was in your boat but I actually listened to the whole hangout with Kevin Logan and they did change my mind somewhat so that now I'm more in the middle and I have gained insight into their viewpoint which I do respect and now am *somewhat* in agreement with on some level. Surprisingly so. I know...I'm typing this in shock, believe me.
let's go back to Roman times and get one room with a big bench with holes in it, if it's just a hole to flush stuff down ,and then let's all use the same sponge on a stick to wipe our asses.
I didn't realise that the channel following had dropped. I'd even go so far as saying the content has improved recently. Maybe you could try a new "why people laugh at" series. Flat Earthers are fun to kick about and the videos don't need much/any research. You just need to be able to demonstrate simple maths.
The things that you are saying about professional sports can also be said about academics in general. People with high IQs dominate basically any academic field just like tall people in general dominate basketball.
"People with high IQs dominate basically any academic field just like tall people in general dominate basketball." This is actually somewhat inaccurate. Most people who get a PhD or remain active within the academic field are *not* the people with the absolute highest IQs. That's like arguing the highest IQs will always result in the most successful careers, which is 100% false. When it comes to claiming low IQ people not being in academic positions at all, then what's really your point indeed?? Of course they're not. I would also say tall people dominating basketball is really only ever half true. Plenty of tall people VERY MUCH suck at playing that game (in the 6 ft 7 range and taller). And whilst there is an obvious advantage to being closer to 7ft tall than it would be only 5 ft 3 when it comes to dunking a shot, the average height of all basketball players is actually more around 6 ft 3 or so. This is because there are advantageous heights, weights, speeds and agility for every position a basketball player can play. Some of the most valuable players in that sports on a professional level are actually like 6.6 ft (2,03m). Yes, that's still tall compare to most national averages. But again, being simply the tallest is actually no guarantee for success.
Freethoughtblogs, the place were you are not alowed to freely express your thoughts. The irony is noticable with a name such as free-thought-blogs where the goal of the place is to allow people to freely express their thoughts, and not banning people for expressing their thoughts. Some kind of insanity must be going on over there.
Freethought is fast becoming an oxymoron. I'm wondering if rebranding might be in the works? But, somehow, free-hypocrisy just doesn't have the catchy ring to it. Interesting video. Thanks for sharing!
Unisex sport will kill women sport. Putting men and women in separate bathrooms is not even the same league as classrooms. If you can't see the difference in function of those rooms I think all hope of you learning anything is a lost cause. Atheist Experience has devolved to just virtue signaling and grandstands. They have lost all credibility in my opinion when they just don't let debates of differences in religions occur
That's not entirely true. There are some sports which I believe should be unisex. There are also some exceptions based on fundamental controls. I wouldn't have male/female boxing, but basketball unisex could work to some degree. Swimming no, but bocce ball yeah. Hockey Not really (well except for certain positions, like goalie), cricket however could be (I've seen co-ed teams that rocked). Depends on the sport I think.
This is almost a non-issue. I totally agree with TJ's take on it: if you're going to say that trans women can be women, you can't ban them from women's sports. I also personally dont have a problem with t-women in sports.
It seems the more inclusive and accepting we try to be, the more issues of conflict of opinion start to appear. I don't think it has much to do with religion per say, but more to do with just conflict of culture; how each of us chooses to live. We seem to be heading into an upswing of nationalism right now that is quite opposed to the politically correct culture from the previous decade. And it's not hard to see why when everyone (even free-thought blogs) is getting so overwhelmed with dissenting views that they start banning innocent people because they make reference to a sensitive issue. Here's a spatter of current event issues to illustrate what I'm talking about: -sphere vs flat earth -pedophiles want to be lumped in with the lgbt community -anyone even hinting at negativity towards lgbt or the middle-eastern cultures immediately getting banned from publicity And the internet is making things worse because misinformation is on the rise. When the internet first became popular I was among many that applauded it for the immediate increase in productivity and knowledge at our fingertips. But now we have to spend time just verifying what we read on the internet because free-speech allows any nut to say anything and post it anywhere irregardless of how much truth there is. And confidence is more praised than being correct. Welcome to 2019 A simple question to spur us in the direction of solving these issues: How can we know absolute truth?
This is depressing. I've listened to every atheist experience episode, and have never heard Matt being transphobic in and way. In fact, as soon as some crank on the phone would mention trans people not being real in any way, Matt would hang up on them, call them names and go on a tirade defending trans people. RR also apologized in person to the ACA team, and posted an apology video as soon as he was back in the UK, but apparently Matt had publicly defended him before that video was up, and everyone lost their shit. On their part, this is disengenuous AF.
Dillahunty walked out of Mythcon when Sargon started babbling nonsense, I heard. He is far from a "gamergater". They must have made the rules for their purity tests much, much stricter.
By the way, the reason why it took Moses 40 years to get to Israel from Egypt is because that was God's punishment for the sinful behavior of the Israelites. God can easily change the appearance of the sky, confuse the minds of the Israelites, and so on, in order to punish them to 40 years in the desert. It was not a matter of stupidity that they couldn't get out of it in 40 years.
I was there when it happened... no, just no. TF00t posted a comment about the moderation of the forum that was summarily turned into him being an evil woman hating mandemon... They brigaded TF00t, deleted his post, banned him and tried to pull his YT channel down. Matt refused to accept that they were acting irrationally and set what turned out to be a falsification test posting as an account not registered in his own name... And they deleted his post, banned him and blamed HIM because he'd "fraudulently used a fictional name" to register an anonymous account to test the moderators TF00t had criticized. Matt proved that the criticism was warranted, but then retreated like a coward to avoid having to speak against what was being done to TF00t. Yeah... that ship sailed with Matt's balls. I had followed several of my favorite TH-camrs over to FTB when it went up. My account was deleted before I got the chance to post... no idea why. I figure they did me a favor. I have no desire to associate with SJW rage queens. Matt is getting his just desserts. He picked his side, and his side has turned on him. No fucks given, here.
You should do an update on the hilarious collapse of Rebecca "elevatorgate / feminist ball of rage" Watson and her "Skepchick" site since she left the only source of oxygen for her entire career, the SGU podcast. It's totally hilarious. Skepchick now gets about 1 comment a week on its whole website and is apparently now trying to raise funds on patreon by selling a "Smash the patriarchy" painting that took Amy "ban fake jewelry!" Roth literally a decade to finish. Complete lulzfest.
This is a whole flaming pile of yikes. You start something with intent, and then you end up doing it for attention. Or worse... money. :v While I can say that this happens to every group every once and a while, you get the wrong people in charge, I don't think it should happen in quite a spectacularly terrible fashion... ACTually, I don't think it should happen at all, but that's another talk entirely... :/
There are website management utilities/services that schedule page views checking for changes. This can be used as part of a basic website hacking countermeasure as well as for moderation of visitor changeable areas... blogs, forums... This is actually a responsible practice and security services offer it as a check for page facing. Considering the paranoia level present on FTB attempting to squash wrong-think as quickly as possible before anyone might see it... Checking the site once every minute seems plausible. To check just one page would be about 40k page hits/month. It wouldn't take very many pages before you racked up 200k bot clicks/month without even trying to boost page clicks per se. Then there are web spiders and crawlers. If your site is hit twice a month by 100 spiders, that could contribute a couple of 10k/hits. Yeah... FTB is a late parrot.
I can't hear you, it's not loud enough to hear. Do you make the videos quiet or is TH-cam doing that to force people to turn up the volume for some reason?
Not being into sports or never having met a trans person, perhaps aren't the greatest argument to not care much lol. The most toxic element of trans people in sports is how it destroys what these sports used to represent. Fair games, actual real achievements. If trans people want to compete, make a trans people league or something. No one will be watching that, there won't be any money in it. But don't pretend a trans used-to-be-a-man competing in women's sports is a fair thing. It's not! On top of that, there are genuine issues where a biological sex is extremely relevant to how someone is treated in a hospital. When it comes to education, better look into how some groups of people try to encourage transitions for freaking kids. Unisex sports makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to me. In most sports you'd never see a single woman get into the top 500 of best men. Unisex bathrooms make way more sense and many countries used to have them. Some smaller places still have them, where a single toilet is used by everyone. I don't see much of a problem there. If you want to stop harassment type issues, just make the toilet area a bit more open to the public, except for the actual toilet itself that's still obviously behind a door. And educate or punish the people who don't know how to behave. Speaking of islam or at least immigrants, that right there is actually a bigger problem.
th-cam.com/video/pYTnldzk9nc/w-d-xo.html This segment from My Gimpy Life from 4:20 to 5:40 seems to illustrate being patronized pretty well. In this case being patronized for being paraplegic versus being black. I've never been paraplegic or black or trans but I suppose the sentiment would be similar.
Fast runner 100m, 10% diff between men and women: "this not something you can do by training" (paraphrasing) That's probably technically correct, but not necessarily linked to men, as the data suggests: World record 9.58 men in 2009 10.60 men 1920 So current women record is faster than men's record from 1920.
I agree with most of your sentiments, but I'd ask you to reflect on the statement "It really doesn't affect me, the number of trans people I've met in my life might be... zero?" Was that just a poor choice of words? I'm not trans but I'm about your age and I've met more trans people than I can count. I also hope your empathy can extend further than just to those who you have met. Also, I can't understand why a scientific person such as yourself would keep shining a spotlight on rather dull and unimaginative groups of grudge collectors such as these.
It's just the A+ stuff happening all over again. It will likely happen a few more times. I've given some thought to the unisex sports idea based on what the kids from the Freedom School in "Billy Jack" called "yoga sports", where everyone competes against themself; so lifters would excel based on lifting percentages of their own mass, runners by their time/length of stride or something, like that. What do you think? Lastly, I started watching (and then binge-watching) just a little while after the Laughing Witch et al stuff got started, and damn, you're good at fights, Prof. Mason. When's the next one. Sorry.
We do have unisex sport. You can’t find it mentioned in any rules in “male” sport that women are not allowed to participate they just never makes it above the redline and their by only men makes it on to the teams. So to be true we have sport and female sport, because only female sport discriminate based on gender - yeah they are soooo inclusive.
Religion is absolutely important and I think our societies are worse off the more it disappears but that doesn’t mean the government should be teaching religion in school, especially definitively unscientific things like creationism.
"Deserts are very difficult to get lost in" Strongly disagree! I'm sure this silly inaccuracy is beneath your attention, but if you are interested in it, please consider learning about it! Anyway, Moses was probably trying to set up his promised land at several places along the way, and got driven off by the displaced locals after a few years. If indeed anything like that really did happen.
I think he might have gotten there by taking one step forward and two steps back until he got there by backing around the entire planet, one step at a time for every third he takes. +1,-1,-1. +1,-1,-1... for 40 years. 😂
Uhm no, if you know what you're doing, it is basically impossible to get lost in a desert. Hiking through a desert requires proper preparation, enough water and proper knowledge. It wouldn't be any different from travelling the sea and in fact you'd probably have more reference points to go by in a desert.
The small issue there is that they were supposedly led by god directly. So how they would have meandered so long or tried various different places before finding the right one really puts that gods navigational abilities into question.
the toilet issue is more to prevent paedophiles, for example if you had a six year old daughter would you want her waiting in a toilet with strange fifty year old men
Do you think that only men are paedophiles? Sick women exist, and it's got *nothing* to do with being transgender. They've existed as long as male sickos. Trans people just want to be themselves, that's it. Are all of them wonderful human beings? Of course not. But neither are non-trans people. I know some trans people and I know that all they want is to be left alone to be who they feel they truly are, _without_ judgement of people who don't know anything about them. And yes, I'm a mum of both boys and girls (all adults now) and a gran of a nearly 6-yr-old girl and younger boy. Neither of them ever go into public toilets alone, and I never let my little ones go in alone, and it had little to do with being worried about other people's behaviour (and never even thought about trans people "lying in wait"). It was because they were young and needed guidance to learn a) how to use them and b) what normal behaviour is so that should they ever behave differently they could expect to have some sort of trouble arise, or have someone else behave differently, they'd know that something might be wrong. It's called education.
Scenario 1: Woman goes through sex-change surgery, to transit into man. Which bathroom should this man use? Men's bathroom, or women's? Scenario 2: Man goes through sex-change surgery, to transit into woman. Which bathroom should this woman use? Women's bathroom, or men's?
Ever heard of these people called Protestants? .. people who thought the Christian Church that originated it all (Catholics) "had drifted out of sync"..
Let's seek out smaller and smaller issues to disagree and drag each other through the mud. That seems to be the mantra of the atheist community these days. Acting like a established 'church ' instead of an community trying to disseminate its views in very unfavourable and unfriendly environment .
Atheist communities have always been terrible. Atheism is not a belief system. It does not contribute naturally to community, except as a temporary banding together to resist an outside force.
In the live chat of this video you can see the proposal of the ACA Ban by PZMyers et al. th-cam.com/video/__n1ziZeW5c/w-d-xo.html Some in there also suggested to go after AronRa because of association. Though EoT had some valid points and Matt didn't handle the fallout very well and tried to downplay what had been going on at the ACA: th-cam.com/video/Zj4svFcGpng/w-d-xo.html
Turns out Matt Dillahunty was in the closet the entire time and in fact prefers _men_ , he is dating Arden of Eden now who was in fact born with a penis (if you're born with a penis you are a _man_ ) Arden is also about 25 years Matt's junior as well. Congratulations Matt on coming out!
If competitions were between those who are equally skilled, instead of by gender, it would be pretty fair for transgenders to compete.no unfair advantage of any kind, if the contest is divided by skill. 😊
I don't know if I'm the only one but the audio for the last few videos has been really soft. Thankfully I have a headphone amplifier but I had to crank it way up to hear this video.
TIL: freethought blogs is still a thing. Seriously though, they have one of the most ironic names in the history of the internet. "Free thought, as long as it's exactly the same as ours."
Nothing screams "Freethought" like banning people for wrong think.
I'm surprised freethoughtblogs is still a thing after all these years.
was about to say the same thing XD
I mean how else is PZ Myers meant to pick up chicks?
PZ Myers is still writing there for his three readers.
Same LOL
@Jean-Louis Bourgeois
Yeah, it's actually getting scary.
Freethoughtblogs is a parody of actual free thoughts.
Nah you guys misunderstood the name, it's freethought as in being free from thought not that you're free to have whatever thoughts you want. They should've made it clearer.
Trans gender women should toughen up. They need to grow a pair.
They used to have a pair, they gave them up
Actually, a trans woman that made a video reply to the ACA disowning RationalityRules agrees.
@@TheDZHEX Oh, good. You found a single person who thinks something. What a monumental discovery.
@@seigeengine How constructive.
We have separate bathrooms so men don''t have to wait for the women to get ready.. duh
Gender separate bathrooms are silly. Sure women may have hard time using urinals, but I have hard time using squat toilet:) I believe in individual gender-less cubicles! Safety for everyone. And cleaning service, because some men (err people) cannot clean after themselves.
@@NetAndyCz That'd take up more space and more money. I wouldn't trust companies to do that.
@@OutOfNamesToChoose It can take the same space, there might be less bathrooms overall but that will be compensated by the fact that there will not be gender specific peak usages.
"Freethoughtblogs" = When the termites have nothing left to feast on but each other.
Freethoughtblogs is the natural outcome of atheism.
@@tarstarkusz This isn't really atheism, it's more the left eating itself much like the right has been. It's not hard to see that both parties have drastically drifted towards the edges. Now instead of attacking the opposing side they are attacking the people closer to the center to themselves. You can see this on the left with SJWs throwing out anyone less than 100% siding with them and on the right where they try and shut down anything less than 100% from having a voice. Hell I'm pretty sure I remember Thunderf00t doing a video on the Shapiro interview where he basically called a right wing European an SJW for saying there should be any exceptions on abortion laws at all even if only in the case of death of the parent.
This effect is the whole reason we got Trump in the first place. The left was shifting left, they voted Bernie, Hillary paid out the DMC from bankruptcy winning due to supper delegates, and Bernie supporters refused to vote for her letting Trump win. That's the whole reason the voter turn out for 2016 was so low. Trump is just the example of the right doing the same thing but by suppressing voices as to not spread. The left for some reason is instead trying to scream extremist concepts in the hopes of overshadowing the more central ideas. Considering the title for their page it's clear this is the case.
+Sky... You have to ask yourself why atheism attracts such a high percentage of far left loons in the first place. The answer to that is fundamentally atheism attracts people who do not (or cannot) follow the rules of religion and people who oppose Christianity on ideological grounds. That is fundamentally what this is all about. This is why they are always kvetching about the rules and standards of Christianity. The like to dress up atheism as "science" or "skepticism" or "free thought" and other nice sounding and self-congratulatory words, but what it all comes down to is that Christianity cramps their style.
Shapiro is a liar and a fraud and so I really couldn't care less what anyone says about him. Abortion should be outlawed and abortionists thrown into prison.
The reason we got Trump has nothing to do with the left. The reason we got Trump is because of the move to the left of the GOP at the party level and the talking heads and supposedly right wing journalists. They are indistinguishable on most issues from the average Democrat. The GOP base is way to the right of the party apparatchiks. A bunch of neocons and cucks. The second the base had a chance to vote on the issues, they chose Trump. But the swamp has kept Trump mired in one fake controversy after another.
@@tarstarkusz That's not at all why atheists are so far on the left. The reason they are is because atheist moral systems are built around humanism, a more left leaning concept. Because of this, many atheists claim to be a moral high ground or more moral than the people of the Bible and call out the evils in the Bible including what God supposedly does claiming what he is doing is evil based on humanistic mean. Because of this, it by default puts them with the left.
Abortions for example is a part of that. I bet you didn't even realize the Bible directly says how to commit an abortion if you think your wife was unfaithful (Numbers 5:11). I tend to agree that abortions are abominable but they are necessary in this world (basically a necessary evil). How am I supposed to tell someone to die for their child and they don't get a choice in the matter, why should I force a family to pay to raise a child that likely won't live more than a week, why should we let rape victims suffer for being attacked, etc? You may say "the odds of any of those cases is less than 1%" but remember that there are over half a million abortions a year in the US. Less than 1% is still over 10,000 cases. No one should be forced to go through any of these by the law.
I do agree that abortion with no excuses is a horrific thing, but it's not like it's always intended. Many states aren't required to teach kids about contraceptives, some even openly shame people at the store by having them in lock boxes and an alarm for it to be opened alerting everyone in the room. It's not like I have the right to tell every 18 year old who doesn't have a job "this is your fault, have fun being broke for the rest of your life". Or what about people who were in a decent relationship but after getting pregnant say the man becomes aggressive, bails, or gets arrested? It's not gonna be as easy for her to move on with a child. She likely will struggle more to afford and handle the child making it suffer with her.
Now some argue these are non-issues as they can just put them up for adoption. But let's be serious here, that's not the answer. There are nearly 200,000 children put up for adoption a year and not all will be adopted. Saying that is the answer is laughable. More than 3 times as many are aborted a year and not all 200,000 are adopted a year now. That means we will be making a net positive of children who will never grow up with parents as there is no way they can all be adopted.
Back to the atheists though, following morals of Christianity has nothing to do with it. Matt (the guy they just ousted from FTB) was a priest in training and an avid supporter of the church for most of his life until he started to question why he believed. He went to the Bible and prayer to find the answers but the more he looked for God the less he saw him. This is why they exist. Once the magic words "just believe" start to fade by you, you realize there is very little holding you to it and the more you realize the Bible says some cruel and audacious things.
And like I said, Trump didn't win because it's what people wanted. We can see the statistics from 2016 today. Just slightly more than half of registered Democrats voted in 2016 and a low turn out in independents as well. Republicans was about the same as 2008. This is a mix of people saying that Hillary was guaranteed to win so they didn't vote and people pissed Bernie didn't win the primaries so they didn't vote making Trump win by default. We have the numbers today and we know what happened. There is a reason why the DNC had to vow to remove super delegates powers for 2020, people still held a grudge.
KarbineKyle and that is the reason why I avoid ideologies.
I always found it counterintuitive that Social Justice Warriors always seemed to create smaller and smaller circles of inclusivity. For a group looking to equalize relations between groups, they seem to keep creating rules that make it harder and harder to comply.
because it's a cult that doesn't actually want to equalize anything but rather just give themselves more power.
I just do not understand what they actually want. Do they want freedom for all, or do they want more power for minorities? And which minorities should be preferred more? It is so confusing!
@@NetAndyCz The only thing they want is to feel like they're a great person doing good things and fighting the power, or whatever.
Everything else is just a means to that end.
It's just what happens once you completely reject Blackstone's ratio, why take any risk that you'll allow a wrongthinker in your organization? Better eject 10 good people from your group then allow even one bad person to remain and influence the rest, you can never be too safe.
The problem I have seen with SJW crusades is that it's similar to a balancing act controlled by someone prone to panic attacks and knee jerk reactions. They see the scales tip slightly toward the direction they don't like. A sane response to this would be moving the weight slightly toward the opposite side a little at a time until balance has been reached. These guys however grab all the weight and move it to the opposite side then threaten anyone that points out how stupid of a reaction that was.
if the ACA gets rid of Dillahunty, they will fade into irrelevance.
He is the director again now.
Other way around, everyone stormed out of the ACA to get away from him.
@@bronzedivision Once in a while you have to clean house... That being said, do you know this for a fact or is it just what you think happened?
He is president now. And it's funny on a recent livestream with John Iacoletti, one of the speakers insinuated that he staged a Coup de grâce to become president again.
@@robertleeluben Not everyone. Tracie Harris and Jen Peeples were the only ones of any real note to leave. But I think Tracie was ready to retire anyway and Jen has gone off the deep end lately with all the intersectional stuff.
FTB is a miserable joke...
If that topic devides 'the community' was it a community in the first place?
divides
it doesn't devide community, it's just wrongthink
Divide and conquer
@@JamesBiggar not a native speaker, thought only germans were grammar nazis though...
@@deptusmechanikus7362 kind of... most religions also develop different sets of rules about how to live and practice, but I for my part am not an atheist for then accepting other peoples groupthink and wrongthink policies. Shall they go f* themselves in any hole they please
I don't get why are some people so unhappy with trans fellows in sports. Doesn't it brilliantly illustrate how different are men and women biologically? Just let it work itself out, the whole situation basically proves all of them points hands free.
The whole women sports is silly. Where is the category for weak nerds? Where is category for morbidly obese? If we are looking for the best of the best, they tend to be men who were not shy of using hormones during their training session and took some performance enhancing drugs. If we are not looking for the best of the best, we can add ton of limitation about drug use, sex, gender, height, weight, colour of eyes, but it is kind missing the point of finding the actually best. Why is it illegal to take drugs increasing red blood cells counts, but it is fine to train in low oxygen environment to get basically the same result in similar artificial manner? Is the sport about who can synthesize better formula that will get past the tests?
NetAndyCz these drugs can have negative side affects
Yeah. Sexed toilets is weird to me. It seems like a cultural sex-taboo thing, but it's argued on the basis of safety from abuse, when I can't fathom it being more safe to have semi-private areas more sporadically inhabited.
More people in a bathroom = more people who are watching and can react to any attempted abuse.
The Romans didn't even have separate cubicles. The toilet seats were next to each other.
@@coweatsman Yep. They were also a social space afaik.
@Gynemancer They can already do that. So can women to women, women to men, or men to men.
Be real, the only reason you're defending sexed bathrooms is it's your norm.
Agree. I always thought unisex toilets would be more convenient. Everybody's going in for one reason LOL what's with the segregation.
@Gynemancer unisex toilets already exists in bars and shops, have you heard any incidents like that or is it just fear mongering? It's like saying you'd never sit in a car because of a high risk of crashing.
“Pimping Islam” is now one of my favorite quotes
I occasionally read/comment on FtB, but I've noticed a couple of things that bother me.
First of all, if a celebrity/politician does something inappropriate, and apologizes, the apology is never good enough. It is taken apart line by line, and interpreted in whatever negative way possible. eg. Louis C.K. says something to the effect of "I'm sorry", and people complain that he's saying "Me, me, me,...". I remember reading one that I thought was a good apology, but no, PZ and others deemed it unsatisfactory. There was even one incident where PZ initially thought an apology was okay, but then changed his mind, probably after a few people commented. I commented on this recently, suggesting an experiment where the next time a celebrity apologizes, he should post the fictional apology that he would have written instead of the real one, and see if his apology is accepted by the other FtB, or if it is torn apart as unsatisfactory.
Secondly, as you mentioned, questioning or disagreeing with the politically correct opinion, is not tolerated. If you question, "not punching down", how they deliberately distorted an apology, or cultural appropriation, and you'll be hit with a lot of emotion about why you are wrong, but very little in terms of reasoned debate.
rule one of social media is to never apologize to SJWs, because it makes it worse. You'll get 10x more death threats after an apology.
@@TheRevolucas So much this. If SJWs are on your case, the best response is always "Up yours!" Sure they're gonna be nasty about it, but they'll be way nastier if you apologize.
I like Matt. And this issue has been extremely over reacted. Drama much?
I've seen this before. All the theists have been pwn'd, and for some reason, atheists start turning on each other. I personally don't go after other rational thinkers unless they try to do me. If I disagree or even if they're wrong, I let it pass. Let someone else correct them. Not to say I don't voice an opinion, I just won't go after them in attack mode.
I miss the crew that left, especially Jen and Tracy.
search Atheism+
@@xXevilsmilesXx I'm aware of their existence. Not really interested though.
Our goal needs to be marginalizing theists. If you have a relationship with an imaginary friend, and that friend influences your thinking, and you prioritize it over the country, then you are unfit for office.
Respectfully pointing out if their ideas are damaging would not count as an attack.
*But these Woke people will attack, and ban people that disagree*
Youz a passive pussy
Christians still hold the vast majority of sociopolitical power in much of both North and South America and there's about a quarter of a billion Muslims in the world who think imposing sharia on the rest of humanity is a good idea. Theists are far from pwned.
I have been following the issue a bit even going as far as trying to talk to one of the main pro trans people in the debate (essence of thought) and despite being trans I have been blocked by her and labeled transphobic. They refuse to listen to anything outside there own narrative, and I was even trying to agree with her on allot of points, but since I didnt agree with her on everything and told her she needed to stop alienating her audience with racist sexist remarks I'm the terrible one (she pretty much discounts white men's opinions on anything)
If we had unisex toilets, women would be the first to complain. We have segregated toilets and bathrooms in order to make women more comfortable.
They have unisex bathrooms at Mejiers. I have had no issues :3
@@SnowBunneh You are not a representative sample.
And the only reason women would complain is that they're used to sexed toilets.
And I'd argue women are safer in unisex toilets than sexed ones.
If I wanted to hurt a woman, I'd be happy to know half of the population has already been excluded from a potential location to do it.
@@seigeengine yea good to see you planning out your shit before you hurt them.
@@seigeengine Preferences are subjective. What people prefer is what they prefer, it is not your place to say: "You should prefer this, rather than that, for your own good."
I don't want mixed toilets for 2 reasons which have nothing to do with transgender people;
1) Cheap companies would use it as an opportunity to halve the area used, increasing crowding
2) As a guy, I don't want to lose the short queues
My only question
How can you stand to use twitter in the light theme?
Thunderfoot @2:26 "Yeah, the professional sports never really appealed to me that much." Spoken like a true super-nerd.
Kinda curious if someone could invent a sport that would require or produce a swol neck and skinny everything else. Maybe he'd be interested in that.
Professional sports are a complete waste.
@@tach5884 a head butting competition maby lol
It's all silly really The few Trans people I know do not like politics, they just want to work, study and live their lives.
Basically they do Yoga, aerobics, read books and have their own partners which are interested in them as a nice person.
Such Blogs should be about Atheism and Religion, as TF stated keeping to priorities.
That's nice. Probably reflects more the people you associate with than transpersons as a group.
@@seigeengine Maybe we are seeing to many people as groups, instead of individuals. Whatever someone's color gender or background, they may be a nice person. I personally don't know a single person who is the same 🙂
FreeToughtBlogs, sounds similar to the Ministry of Truth.
Imagine their reaction when I asked them how many fingers I was holding up?
The science-tested answer to the concern over transwomen in sports is very straightforward. it's all about how long it's been since her nuts were removed and feminizing hormone treatments began. The transwoman who just had her nuts cut off a month ago and is now in the UFC ring beating the snot out of female athletes is still physically a man. The transwoman who lost her nuts 2 years ago and is on female hormones is a fair match. Although she's heavier, she's also now weaker.
The ACA's treatment of Rationality rules lost me as a supporter. During their podcasts, they would often state that the only core belief all Atheists share is they don't believe in a god. But when RR had a different opinion on something not related to Atheism, they called him transphobic and exiled him for having a different opinion. They would always take the opportunity to point out when a theist was being a hypocrite for not practicing what they preach, but couldn't see themselves doing the exact same thing. It was especially disgusting since what RR said wasn't even close to being transphobic or hateful. He was just (respectfully) pointing out an issue that needed to be discussed as the current system was creating an unfair playing field for biological women.
no one survives the purity test
Free Thought Blog doesnt allow free thinking... is that what people call irony?
40 is a symbolic number in Hebrew literature for what it’s worth. 40 days on the ark, Jesus fasted 40 days in the wilderness, etc.
He turned the water into a 40.
@@HooverVilleify my favorite part
Wait, they're called freethoughtblogs and they're banning people for wrongthink?
Almost like what the ACA is doing on all their forums. Anyone who even asks about the controversy is automatically banned.
@@kevincushing3165 ACA?
@@PistonAvatarGuy The Atheist Community of Austin.
I think it's referring to the fact that they don't charge the blogger to post there.
@@HooverVilleify I think it's just Orwellian doublespeak.
Free-of-thought Blogs is still around? Okay... cool...
You seem to be starting to very closely resembling the of the people you were railing against a year or so ago. :) I like this.
Regarding Bathrooms/toilets.
No, keep them separate. Main reason being urinals. I don't have a problem with people seeing what I have, but I'm in a minority there. Women can't use urinals and that's what makes it so quick for men to use the bathroom.
Additionally, women need the bathroom more often, periods being the main issue here.
Realistically, women need more bathrooms than men, simply because. Not a feminist issue, just simply biology.
If women need to use the bathroom a lot, having co-ed bathrooms would double the amount of bathrooms they could use.
@@tysonramsay3377 read what I said about urinals again. It will lead to women getting an eyeful, or removing them.
I don’t want everyone to use the same washrooms, and I never disagreed with the urinal point. I was simply pointing out that the information on woman you used to argue that a 1 washroom system was bad actually supports a 1 washroom system. I disagree with your logic not your position.
If you're female and use testosterone to improve your sports performance, your muscles will enlarge (along with other things) but you'll NEVER be strong enough or quick enough to compete against a man of equal ability and fitness who has been producing his own testosterone since puberty!
Female bones, muscle tissue, heart and lungs are smaller and lighter than that of males and develop toward different goals, thanks to evolution. And evolution doesn't care whether you win a 100-yard dash or clear a high-jump. Evolution is not 'woke'. Evolution is focused on only one goal: reproduction.
Gender is (for the most part) irrelevant in chess competitions and target-shooting, events that don't require raw strength and speed as much as attitude, self-knowledge and eye-hand coordination. Gender is everything in events such as weightlifting and track-and-field competitions. No matter how much a male resembles a female in appearance and external genitalia, the male will always have XY chromosomes that include heavier muscle mass, denser bones, a larger heart and bigger lungs than those with XX chromosomes.
Acknowledging that difference may be an anathema to SJWs, but they need to take it up with our thousands of ancestors who lived to have children, thanks to the benefits of XX and XY.
What, you mean the fanny lips get bigger?
I don't know if gender does not play any role in chess and I would doubt it because no woman was ever the worlds best player or even that close
@@freaki0734 Is that because women aren't as "smart" as men or because they haven't had the coaching and support required to get them to the world level?
@@krisaaron5771 well of course training and culture being more geared towards men playing chess is a reason But I'd also say that there is some gender difference I mean we know that male and female brains are different would't suprise me if that were one of the ways that that would show. I don't think that being good at chess means you are smarter necessarily btw ^^
@@freaki0734 Not picking an argument with this question, but I'm curious: What do you think the reason is that women aren't (at this time) as good at playing competitive chess on the international level as men are? In what way are female brains different than those of males (in relation to championship chess)?
Education? Are top chess players encouraged from childhood, and if so is that something traditionally done for boys and not girls? Or are human thought patterns that different between the genders?
I'm seriously interested in your thoughts on this, and please don't say whether you're male or female, as I don't want that to influence anyone else's comments.
I’m so sick of SJW woke bs being blamed on all atheists. It’s just as bad as blaming all homophobia on religious people.
RadicalxEdward what sjw woke shit?
Maksim Makso Pick anything
This is amazing. I used to be a big fan of PZ Myers until he lost his mind and became a regressive social justice warrior. I hadn’t been to freethought blogs for years but for some reason I browsed it today, like TF did in this video, laughing at how few comments PZ gets on his own blog now. He’s really fallen lol. Then I saw this video in my feed. 😂
Have you seen a woman's bathroom? I've been to a few places, where I happen to see a few when the door is opened, and you'll often find things like a full blown Sofa in there.
As a transwomen I don't do sports because I get hives(urticaria) and would rather be playing minecraft or looking at hentai. However, if I did/could do sports I would do so in the male category purely for hormonal reasons. I can't help that during puberty my bones and muscles developed in a certain way. It would be unfair to me and cis women. Hypothetically there could be unisex weight and strength classes however, that is a lot of work measuring people.
My two favorite sports would have to be Drag racing and Nascar, gender identity, age, and sex don't matter too much.
Also let me be clear, there are many women athletes that could easily kick my sorry arse. When I say unfair it is kinda like racing a Honda pilot versus a Chevy Traverse. They are both capable suvs but not an equal comparison.
You piqued my interest with minecraft and looking at hentai, and then you left me stranded with racing and weird vehicle comparisons I have no idea about.
lol, best wishes.
Drag racing. ISWYDT.
physical sports can't be combined. But how about chess or eSports?
Men have faster reaction time. So only chess.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4456887/
I think they are. The only "problem" is that in for example League of Legends professional teams live in team-houses. Mixed teams could complicated things. There was Remilia who played Thresh for the Renegades and an all-women team tried their best, but all of them were lower ranked players and way out of their league.
There simply is not a lot of women who play the game at such an extremely high level (in League, there was this female Starcaft 2 pro if I am not mistaken, who was the first western player to beat an asian player at a mayor tournament).
I was thinking about this before, and was trying to compile a list of sports that could potentially be made unisex.
I was thinking maybe darts. Because that's a precision thing. You need enough strength to lob the dart and get it to stick into the board, but even children can do that - and it doesn't really help to throw harder, as the dart might actually bounce out if you throw with too much strength behind it.
Then there's pool / snooker. Again, it's a precision thing. Again, too much strength is actually a potential negative - launching balls off the table - and everyone can reach the level of strength required to play the game.
I mean, even with these, you could claim that men have generally better spatial awareness and that might provide a little "unfair advantage" in what we'll deem "precision sports" (ones that are about eye-to-hand coordination and nothing else - as has been noted, eSports is problematic because of reaction times - but this doesn't affect either darts or pool / snooker as they are turn-based games).
Basically, conducting this little thought experiment, it seems that "pub games" are the best candidates for making unisex. And, to be honest, I have played darts and snooker / pool with women on a night out - although we were equally matched in those games, it's hard to judge because we were all shit players and slightly drunk. Don't know if that equal matching would hold at a professional level.
Funnily, I was pondering over whether football (that is, the "soccer" version of football) could be made unisex. Because it's supposed to be a non-contact sport - so any violent physicality should earn you a red card and being sent off the pitch anyway - and though men can run faster, the thing is that it's not an outright sprint. I mean, you've got to bring the ball with you.
Possibly not. But the more I considered that one, the more I realised that it's not actually as unlikely as I initially imagined (because, like most, I was thinking that you just had to strike all physical sports off the list).
Basically, I'd like to put that one to the scientific test. They could perhaps have some charity "friendlies" between the women's world cup squads and some of the men's clubs in the Premier League or something.
It's a bit like the F.A. Cup, I feel. Because, in that competition, they pit all the teams against each other, regardless of their league positions and, every once in a while, some minor team does sometimes slay Manchester United or Arsenal, against the odds.
And what I'd be curious to see is whether "men vs. women" football would actually pan out a bit like F.A. Cup matches. Sure, the big professional men's teams mostly win - but that's more to do with being professional, raking in massive money and being able to afford the world's best players - but sometimes the small teams do get the upper hand (because the sport is more random, in practice, than some of its fans would like to admit - even despite the fact that they based a lottery "the football pools" on the basis of football results and they'd never do that if they wasn't an inherently degree of random unpredictableness about the sport, as bookies NEVER bet on odds that ain't rigged in their favour).
@@antonf.9278 It could be argued that men are more willing to try risky strategies, which gives them an edge in Chess too.)
Who reads it? Well, you are. Perhaps a large part of their audience reads it to scoff at them, not to be part of their echo chamber. Also, how much of their traffic was only there for the blog they are about to kick out? Why are they "currently discussing it in their backchannel" rather than just flushing it, as is their normal practice? Perhaps because they _know_ that it is one of the few sections still keeping them afloat?
Kind of embarrassing to see that the "rational" community got duped by victim games so hard.
thats because people who do those games are also ateists
@MichaelKingsfordGray FTB sounds like it was, yeah. I'm more talking about all of the atheist/rationalist organizations that have been converted into affirmative action lobbies. Most of them seem to have started with the intent to give atheists and "free thinkers" a place to feel welcome but they couldn't see the downside of anti-traditionalism until it was too late
@@sciencoking It's not really that complicated. Atheism was a big point of discussion years ago... but the discussion was had. Society moved on. The leftovers of these communities are the nuttier more radical sorts, and if you leave them to stew, they only become more and more deranged as time goes on.
Given that their natural opposition is religion, which in the context of Western civilization is generally super-traditional, regressive, anti-science, anti-equality, etc. it's understandable how they developed.
Hey thunderfoot, love your videos :) just FYI.. in the story of Moses they wonder through the desert for as long as they did more or less to wait for the last generation (including Moses) to die. It didn't have any thing to do with navigation.
"Thou Shalt Not Kill! - apart from when I say you should" - God.
"I am all powerful, all knowing, all wise, but I'm just no good with money" - God.
p.s. I know a transgender person. He looks a hell of allot better as a bloke than he ever did a girl, much happier now too. A difficult life for someone in such circumstances.
Trans people exist at the nexus of a lot of rough situations: Likely to get cut off by their parents, likely to have trouble finding good work, likely to have trouble making social connections. They absolutely are a priority. If you’re looking to do some good in the world, go be nice to some trans folks.
Yes, but would they like to provide incentives to men to falsely pretend to be trans to take gold medals, price money and world records away from women? Would they not look rather petty if they allow their identity to be used to fuck with the hopes and dreams of a subsection of half of the population, namely with women who want to get big in pro sports?
PeeZus and his creepy clown cult is still around?
*sigh* If only Mykeru would come back and torment them some more for our entertainment.
I listened to about half of the conversation the people who left the ACA had on Hangouts. They go through some of what led up to it from their perspective but most of it is just ranting about how everyone and everything is transphobic and how anyone having a contrary opinion about the trans issue is basically akin to the racists who wouldn't let black people ride on the front of the bus.
I wrote this really, really, long reply but it's so long that I don't think anyone would read it or care. I'll just summarize and say that I was in your boat but I actually listened to the whole hangout with Kevin Logan and they did change my mind somewhat so that now I'm more in the middle and I have gained insight into their viewpoint which I do respect and now am *somewhat* in agreement with on some level. Surprisingly so. I know...I'm typing this in shock, believe me.
let's go back to Roman times and get one room with a big bench with holes in it, if it's just a hole to flush stuff down ,and then let's all use the same sponge on a stick to wipe our asses.
I didn't realise that the channel following had dropped. I'd even go so far as saying the content has improved recently.
Maybe you could try a new "why people laugh at" series. Flat Earthers are fun to kick about and the videos don't need much/any research. You just need to be able to demonstrate simple maths.
At my house we all use the same shutter so why are public bathrooms different?
This video felt like a time machine with FtB booting someone and then it changed to an archaeological dig with looking at their dead website.
The things that you are saying about professional sports can also be said about academics in general. People with high IQs dominate basically any academic field just like tall people in general dominate basketball.
Well yes of course thats how it is. What are you trying to say?
@@valterkaugust8511 My guess is he's getting at gender or racial based average IQ's. lol
"People with high IQs dominate basically any academic field just like tall people in general dominate basketball."
This is actually somewhat inaccurate. Most people who get a PhD or remain active within the academic field are *not* the people with the absolute highest IQs. That's like arguing the highest IQs will always result in the most successful careers, which is 100% false. When it comes to claiming low IQ people not being in academic positions at all, then what's really your point indeed?? Of course they're not.
I would also say tall people dominating basketball is really only ever half true. Plenty of tall people VERY MUCH suck at playing that game (in the 6 ft 7 range and taller). And whilst there is an obvious advantage to being closer to 7ft tall than it would be only 5 ft 3 when it comes to dunking a shot, the average height of all basketball players is actually more around 6 ft 3 or so. This is because there are advantageous heights, weights, speeds and agility for every position a basketball player can play. Some of the most valuable players in that sports on a professional level are actually like 6.6 ft (2,03m). Yes, that's still tall compare to most national averages. But again, being simply the tallest is actually no guarantee for success.
Yes. On the other hand, only one of those things contributes meaningfully to humanity.
@@bullroarer-took Well, your guess is wrong.
Freethoughtblogs, the place were you are not alowed to freely express your thoughts. The irony is noticable with a name such as free-thought-blogs where the goal of the place is to allow people to freely express their thoughts, and not banning people for expressing their thoughts.
Some kind of insanity must be going on over there.
Oh man I remember the old days when nu-atheism was about atheism... wew crazy times.
Freethought is fast becoming an oxymoron. I'm wondering if rebranding might be in the works? But, somehow, free-hypocrisy just doesn't have the catchy ring to it.
Interesting video.
Thanks for sharing!
Here at FtB we allow all free thought as long as it conforms to our thoughts. That's freedom for you.
Imagine thinking that the ACA is right-wing.
They are not ultra-far-left though.
Unisex sport will kill women sport. Putting men and women in separate bathrooms is not even the same league as classrooms. If you can't see the difference in function of those rooms I think all hope of you learning anything is a lost cause.
Atheist Experience has devolved to just virtue signaling and grandstands. They have lost all credibility in my opinion when they just don't let debates of differences in religions occur
Can you give an example of the Atheist Experience shutting down debates of differences in religion?
That's not entirely true. There are some sports which I believe should be unisex. There are also some exceptions based on fundamental controls. I wouldn't have male/female boxing, but basketball unisex could work to some degree. Swimming no, but bocce ball yeah. Hockey Not really (well except for certain positions, like goalie), cricket however could be (I've seen co-ed teams that rocked). Depends on the sport I think.
@@jeremymcadams7743 yeah, check out their videos on TH-cam. I don't remember the episode numbers, you just have to go through them like I did.
@@NinjaNezumi so yes... Or are you gonna say that the few sports that can be unisex trumps the majority of sports... Be honest
@@mikaeleriksson144 how about you just give us the direct name and seconds or dont call others out on thier shit
"Free" thought?
Hahahahaha
Conformity thought more like.
This is almost a non-issue. I totally agree with TJ's take on it: if you're going to say that trans women can be women, you can't ban them from women's sports. I also personally dont have a problem with t-women in sports.
That's not a sensible stance, sorry.
It seems the more inclusive and accepting we try to be, the more issues of conflict of opinion start to appear. I don't think it has much to do with religion per say, but more to do with just conflict of culture; how each of us chooses to live. We seem to be heading into an upswing of nationalism right now that is quite opposed to the politically correct culture from the previous decade. And it's not hard to see why when everyone (even free-thought blogs) is getting so overwhelmed with dissenting views that they start banning innocent people because they make reference to a sensitive issue.
Here's a spatter of current event issues to illustrate what I'm talking about:
-sphere vs flat earth
-pedophiles want to be lumped in with the lgbt community
-anyone even hinting at negativity towards lgbt or the middle-eastern cultures immediately getting banned from publicity
And the internet is making things worse because misinformation is on the rise. When the internet first became popular I was among many that applauded it for the immediate increase in productivity and knowledge at our fingertips. But now we have to spend time just verifying what we read on the internet because free-speech allows any nut to say anything and post it anywhere irregardless of how much truth there is. And confidence is more praised than being correct.
Welcome to 2019
A simple question to spur us in the direction of solving these issues: How can we know absolute truth?
I find it really funny that they are called free thought blog but the police thought, hahahaha
free thought blogs still exist?!
This is depressing. I've listened to every atheist experience episode, and have never heard Matt being transphobic in and way. In fact, as soon as some crank on the phone would mention trans people not being real in any way, Matt would hang up on them, call them names and go on a tirade defending trans people. RR also apologized in person to the ACA team, and posted an apology video as soon as he was back in the UK, but apparently Matt had publicly defended him before that video was up, and everyone lost their shit. On their part, this is disengenuous AF.
So Dillahunty's been cast into the Gamergate pit with the rest of us?
Karma can really suck
Dillahunty walked out of Mythcon when Sargon started babbling nonsense, I heard. He is far from a "gamergater". They must have made the rules for their purity tests much, much stricter.
By the way, the reason why it took Moses 40 years to get to Israel from Egypt is because that was God's punishment for the sinful behavior of the Israelites. God can easily change the appearance of the sky, confuse the minds of the Israelites, and so on, in order to punish them to 40 years in the desert. It was not a matter of stupidity that they couldn't get out of it in 40 years.
Have you considered mending a bridge with Dillahunty?
It could be worth it, it's not like he's completely unreasonable and illogical.
He's a regressive asshole, so who cares?
I was there when it happened... no, just no.
TF00t posted a comment about the moderation of the forum that was summarily turned into him being an evil woman hating mandemon...
They brigaded TF00t, deleted his post, banned him and tried to pull his YT channel down.
Matt refused to accept that they were acting irrationally and set what turned out to be a falsification test posting as an account not registered in his own name... And they deleted his post, banned him and blamed HIM because he'd "fraudulently used a fictional name" to register an anonymous account to test the moderators TF00t had criticized.
Matt proved that the criticism was warranted, but then retreated like a coward to avoid having to speak against what was being done to TF00t.
Yeah... that ship sailed with Matt's balls.
I had followed several of my favorite TH-camrs over to FTB when it went up.
My account was deleted before I got the chance to post... no idea why. I figure they did me a favor. I have no desire to associate with SJW rage queens.
Matt is getting his just desserts.
He picked his side, and his side has turned on him.
No fucks given, here.
It would make more sense for him to mend his bridge with Sargon of Akkad. They're clearly on the same side on things like this.
@@SaltpeterTaffy uhh no they aren't. And fuck you for saying so.
@@SaltpeterTaffy The only side Sargon of Akkad is on is the side that would benefit the world by chugging acetone.
You should do an update on the hilarious collapse of Rebecca "elevatorgate / feminist ball of rage" Watson and her "Skepchick" site since she left the only source of oxygen for her entire career, the SGU podcast. It's totally hilarious. Skepchick now gets about 1 comment a week on its whole website and is apparently now trying to raise funds on patreon by selling a "Smash the patriarchy" painting that took Amy "ban fake jewelry!" Roth literally a decade to finish. Complete lulzfest.
Um they said it took 40 years because Moses was raising an army. It usually takes 20 years to grow a kid from birth to fighting warrior.
-That 'toilets' thing is b/s: unless you're going to ditch the pissoirs, or put them in a different 'room'....
This is a whole flaming pile of yikes. You start something with intent, and then you end up doing it for attention. Or worse... money. :v
While I can say that this happens to every group every once and a while, you get the wrong people in charge, I don't think it should happen in quite a spectacularly terrible fashion... ACTually, I don't think it should happen at all, but that's another talk entirely... :/
Honestly I'm skeptical even the 200,000 visits a month figure is accurate. There's hardly any content to check out yearly let alone monthly.
There are website management utilities/services that schedule page views checking for changes.
This can be used as part of a basic website hacking countermeasure as well as for moderation of visitor changeable areas... blogs, forums...
This is actually a responsible practice and security services offer it as a check for page facing.
Considering the paranoia level present on FTB attempting to squash wrong-think as quickly as possible before anyone might see it... Checking the site once every minute seems plausible.
To check just one page would be about 40k page hits/month.
It wouldn't take very many pages before you racked up 200k bot clicks/month without even trying to boost page clicks per se.
Then there are web spiders and crawlers.
If your site is hit twice a month by 100 spiders, that could contribute a couple of 10k/hits.
Yeah... FTB is a late parrot.
I can't hear you, it's not loud enough to hear. Do you make the videos quiet or is TH-cam doing that to force people to turn up the volume for some reason?
Not being into sports or never having met a trans person, perhaps aren't the greatest argument to not care much lol. The most toxic element of trans people in sports is how it destroys what these sports used to represent. Fair games, actual real achievements. If trans people want to compete, make a trans people league or something. No one will be watching that, there won't be any money in it. But don't pretend a trans used-to-be-a-man competing in women's sports is a fair thing. It's not! On top of that, there are genuine issues where a biological sex is extremely relevant to how someone is treated in a hospital. When it comes to education, better look into how some groups of people try to encourage transitions for freaking kids. Unisex sports makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to me. In most sports you'd never see a single woman get into the top 500 of best men. Unisex bathrooms make way more sense and many countries used to have them. Some smaller places still have them, where a single toilet is used by everyone. I don't see much of a problem there. If you want to stop harassment type issues, just make the toilet area a bit more open to the public, except for the actual toilet itself that's still obviously behind a door. And educate or punish the people who don't know how to behave. Speaking of islam or at least immigrants, that right there is actually a bigger problem.
What if I were a woman, I transitioned into a man, then, after I got all swole, I de-transitioned into a woman? Can I compete in sports then?
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This segment from My Gimpy Life from 4:20 to 5:40 seems to illustrate being patronized pretty well. In this case being patronized for being paraplegic versus being black. I've never been paraplegic or black or trans but I suppose the sentiment would be similar.
Fast runner 100m, 10% diff between men and women: "this not something you can do by training" (paraphrasing)
That's probably technically correct, but not necessarily linked to men, as the data suggests:
World record
9.58 men in 2009
10.60 men 1920
So current women record is faster than men's record from 1920.
I remember there was an actual purity test written in excel in the late '90's... the goal definitely wasn't to be pure though :)
I agree with most of your sentiments, but I'd ask you to reflect on the statement "It really doesn't affect me, the number of trans people I've met in my life might be... zero?" Was that just a poor choice of words? I'm not trans but I'm about your age and I've met more trans people than I can count. I also hope your empathy can extend further than just to those who you have met. Also, I can't understand why a scientific person such as yourself would keep shining a spotlight on rather dull and unimaginative groups of grudge collectors such as these.
If your bush starts burning then I recommend anti-thrush cream :o)
It's just the A+ stuff happening all over again. It will likely happen a few more times.
I've given some thought to the unisex sports idea based on what the kids from the Freedom School in "Billy Jack" called "yoga sports", where everyone competes against themself; so lifters would excel based on lifting percentages of their own mass, runners by their time/length of stride or something, like that. What do you think?
Lastly, I started watching (and then binge-watching) just a little while after the Laughing Witch et al stuff got started, and damn, you're good at fights, Prof. Mason. When's the next one. Sorry.
We do have unisex sport. You can’t find it mentioned in any rules in “male” sport that women are not allowed to participate they just never makes it above the redline and their by only men makes it on to the teams.
So to be true we have sport and female sport, because only female sport discriminate based on gender - yeah they are soooo inclusive.
Blogging is out of fashion across the board. The current trend is Vlog and TH-cam.
Religion is absolutely important and I think our societies are worse off the more it disappears but that doesn’t mean the government should be teaching religion in school, especially definitively unscientific things like creationism.
Why do you think our socities are worse off without religion? So far religion has only given me crazy family and headaches.
Wrong think is worst think! Praise Jebus!
So, Tf, what are you doing in the Czech Republic?
Science, probably.
He lives in there.
"Deserts are very difficult to get lost in"
Strongly disagree! I'm sure this silly inaccuracy is beneath your attention, but if you are interested in it, please consider learning about it!
Anyway, Moses was probably trying to set up his promised land at several places along the way, and got driven off by the displaced locals after a few years. If indeed anything like that really did happen.
I think he might have gotten there by taking one step forward and two steps back until he got there by backing around the entire planet, one step at a time for every third he takes.
+1,-1,-1. +1,-1,-1... for 40 years. 😂
Uhm no, if you know what you're doing, it is basically impossible to get lost in a desert. Hiking through a desert requires proper preparation, enough water and proper knowledge. It wouldn't be any different from travelling the sea and in fact you'd probably have more reference points to go by in a desert.
It is just s story! There is no actual evidence of the Jews being enslaved in Egypt. Or wandering in the desert for 40 years.
Yeah. That whole story is pure fiction. Also you don't actually disagree with him in your comment, so maybe less crack so you'll be less whack.
The small issue there is that they were supposedly led by god directly. So how they would have meandered so long or tried various different places before finding the right one really puts that gods navigational abilities into question.
God, I feel like a dinosaur all of a sudden.
Remember the days when you only got banned for things like racial epithets, threats, and just spamming?
Phobia, by definition, aren't a choice... just like what they are phobic about. Quit silencing people, people.
I'm sad that you guys all broke apart over identity politics.
SJW stuff is all cancer.
the toilet issue is more to prevent paedophiles, for example if you had a six year old daughter would you want her waiting in a toilet with strange fifty year old men
Do you think that only men are paedophiles? Sick women exist, and it's got *nothing* to do with being transgender. They've existed as long as male sickos. Trans people just want to be themselves, that's it. Are all of them wonderful human beings? Of course not. But neither are non-trans people. I know some trans people and I know that all they want is to be left alone to be who they feel they truly are, _without_ judgement of people who don't know anything about them. And yes, I'm a mum of both boys and girls (all adults now) and a gran of a nearly 6-yr-old girl and younger boy. Neither of them ever go into public toilets alone, and I never let my little ones go in alone, and it had little to do with being worried about other people's behaviour (and never even thought about trans people "lying in wait"). It was because they were young and needed guidance to learn a) how to use them and b) what normal behaviour is so that should they ever behave differently they could expect to have some sort of trouble arise, or have someone else behave differently, they'd know that something might be wrong. It's called education.
That's why you go into the bathroom with your child. ...you know, be a responsible adult and parent.
Scenario 1: Woman goes through sex-change surgery, to transit into man. Which bathroom should this man use? Men's bathroom, or women's?
Scenario 2: Man goes through sex-change surgery, to transit into woman. Which bathroom should this woman use? Women's bathroom, or men's?
@@atlachanacha If there is no history of crime, why should they not use the bathroom of their ehh... final gender. They're happy, nobody loses.
@@atlachanacha if its choppped off and inverted then womens bathroom ,
Free thought blogs, policing what you think one topic at a time.
Ever heard of these people called Protestants?
.. people who thought the Christian Church that originated it all (Catholics) "had drifted out of sync"..
Hey! I read Free Thought Blogs. (for the PZ nudes mostly)
Let's seek out smaller and smaller issues to disagree and drag each other through the mud. That seems to be the mantra of the atheist community these days. Acting like a established 'church ' instead of an community trying to disseminate its views in very unfavourable and unfriendly environment .
Atheist communities have always been terrible.
Atheism is not a belief system. It does not contribute naturally to community, except as a temporary banding together to resist an outside force.
In the live chat of this video you can see the proposal of the ACA Ban by PZMyers et al.
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Some in there also suggested to go after AronRa because of association.
Though EoT had some valid points and Matt didn't handle the fallout very well and tried to downplay what had been going on at the ACA:
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Hey Carrie... How many fingers am I holding up?
Turns out Matt Dillahunty was in the closet the entire time and in fact prefers _men_ , he is dating Arden of Eden now who was in fact born with a penis (if you're born with a penis you are a _man_ ) Arden is also about 25 years Matt's junior as well.
Congratulations Matt on coming out!
If competitions were between those who are equally skilled, instead of by gender, it would be pretty fair for transgenders to compete.no unfair advantage of any kind, if the contest is divided by skill. 😊
I don't know if I'm the only one but the audio for the last few videos has been really soft. Thankfully I have a headphone amplifier but I had to crank it way up to hear this video.
TIL: freethought blogs is still a thing.
Seriously though, they have one of the most ironic names in the history of the internet. "Free thought, as long as it's exactly the same as ours."
Uni-sex boxing all the way! ;)