Comments on: What if “Boob Quake” had been … https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/03/what-if-boob-quake-had-been/ Tue, 04 May 2010 15:09:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Ophelia Benson https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/03/what-if-boob-quake-had-been/#comment-518184 Tue, 04 May 2010 15:09:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/03/what-if-boob-quake-had-been/#comment-518184 “But, as I said in my earlier post, there weren’t any other protests; The skeptic, feminist, and atheist communities, who should have been rather offended by the initial contention that risqué female dress causes earthquakes, did not respond loud and clear with a well designed protest.”

Well I did post it as a News item with a mocking headline and teaser. That’s not a full-bore protest, to be sure, but hey, this kind of stuff rolls in every day, and I can’t always keep up!

]]> By: JG https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/03/what-if-boob-quake-had-been/#comment-518183 Tue, 04 May 2010 08:37:20 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/03/what-if-boob-quake-had-been/#comment-518183 various subsets of the SFA community spent a lot more energy reacting to the event than to the initial idiotic and offensive statement made by the Iranian cleric

Precisely. Thank you.

]]> By: Tony Sidaway https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/03/what-if-boob-quake-had-been/#comment-518182 Tue, 04 May 2010 05:00:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/03/what-if-boob-quake-had-been/#comment-518182 Didn’t encounter the negative side of boobquake, no intention of doing so now. These islamic clerics tell women to cover up because if they don’t men will lose control and licentiousness will lead to earthquakes. Insulting patriarchal twaddle. Taking the piss out of that and showing a bit of cleavage and measuring the response on the seismograph is a bit of a laugh. But nobody should feel bad about not joining in.

]]> By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/03/what-if-boob-quake-had-been/#comment-518181 Tue, 04 May 2010 04:24:23 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/03/what-if-boob-quake-had-been/#comment-518181 How could it be when everyone knows only women cause disasters like earthquakes? Dickshake would be weird even in Bizarro world.

]]> By: badrescher https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/03/what-if-boob-quake-had-been/#comment-518180 Mon, 03 May 2010 22:58:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/03/what-if-boob-quake-had-been/#comment-518180 Okay, looking past all of the boobquake stuff (let’s just toss that aside, shall we?), it seems that what you are proposing is an organized effort to conduct large-scale tests and demonstrations (e.g., 10/23, only better).

I’m down with that.

It’s not too far off from something I’ve been tossing around for education purposes.

]]> By: Siamang https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/03/what-if-boob-quake-had-been/#comment-518179 Mon, 03 May 2010 18:38:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/03/what-if-boob-quake-had-been/#comment-518179 I volunteer to be led astray.

]]> By: Paul https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/03/what-if-boob-quake-had-been/#comment-518178 Mon, 03 May 2010 17:49:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/03/what-if-boob-quake-had-been/#comment-518178

Wow. So we totally did it wrong. So now we have to do it again but with young men being led astray and all.

We can hold a Forni-quake-tion next week?

Incidentally, not everyone missed the nuance Sarah mentioned. Part of the reason women were sharing their boobquake pictures was to fulfill the “provoking men’s lust” portion of the equation.

]]> By: Cuttlefish https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/03/what-if-boob-quake-had-been/#comment-518177 Mon, 03 May 2010 17:34:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/03/what-if-boob-quake-had-been/#comment-518177 Skeptic Cat @#2–was that separate from the Farmington protest last month? http://digitalcuttlefish.blogspot.com/2010/05/topless-maine.html

Re: the Token Skeptic podcast, this was my take-home from it:
http://digitalcuttlefish.blogspot.com/2010/05/placebo-protests.html

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/03/what-if-boob-quake-had-been/#comment-518176 Mon, 03 May 2010 15:01:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/03/what-if-boob-quake-had-been/#comment-518176 Sarah: He blamed the earthquake on the fact that scantily dressed women caused young MEN to be led astray sexually.

Wow. So we totally did it wrong. So now we have to do it again but with young men being led astray and all.

]]> By: cdrealist https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/05/03/what-if-boob-quake-had-been/#comment-518175 Mon, 03 May 2010 14:12:55 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/05/03/what-if-boob-quake-had-been/#comment-518175 It was amusing, and that’s enough. It ridiculed a religious weirdo, and that’s enough. It got pictures of cleavage on TV, and that’s enough.

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