Comments on: Monopod Man and other matters. An Update https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/06/17/monopod-man-and-other-matters-an-update/ Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: a reader https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/06/17/monopod-man-and-other-matters-an-update/#comment-16714 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:33:00 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=4580#comment-16714 Do I have something caught in the filter?

]]> By: Azkyroth, Former Growing Toaster Oven https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/06/17/monopod-man-and-other-matters-an-update/#comment-16713 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 07:41:01 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=4580#comment-16713

It isn’t so much of talking points, but a groupthink attitude that places justification for a discussion of policy on the same level as what would be needed for finding a person guilty in a court of law.

No, it’s a groupUnthink attitude that places justification for attempting to satisfy women and gender minorities’ concerns about their safety on a level of Beyond an Unreasonable Doubt.

Don’t think for a minute that they’d apply anything like this level of “skepticism” to policies intended to benefit cis men.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/06/17/monopod-man-and-other-matters-an-update/#comment-16712 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 01:44:06 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=4580#comment-16712 Skeptical Abyss … that’s that web site that was set up by persons unknown specifically to post things denigrating those concerned with harassment or to make claims that there is not problem with harassment at conferences.

]]> By: Robert B https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/06/17/monopod-man-and-other-matters-an-update/#comment-16711 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:07:20 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=4580#comment-16711 Sent the screencap.

MM is saying he has a lawyer and people are starting to threaten and harass Lee DeLay for coming forward.
http://www.skepticalabyss.com/?p=31

]]> By: Robert B https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/06/17/monopod-man-and-other-matters-an-update/#comment-16710 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:35:13 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=4580#comment-16710 It isn’t so much of talking points, but a groupthink attitude that places justification for a discussion of policy on the same level as what would be needed for finding a person guilty in a court of law.

]]> By: Ophelia Benson https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/06/17/monopod-man-and-other-matters-an-update/#comment-16709 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:13:35 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=4580#comment-16709 I used to expect more from these people. I don’t any more.

]]> By: Robert B https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/06/17/monopod-man-and-other-matters-an-update/#comment-16708 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:01:38 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=4580#comment-16708 I’ll send you a screencap… Pics or it didn’t happen, you know…

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/06/17/monopod-man-and-other-matters-an-update/#comment-16707 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:56:10 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=4580#comment-16707 Robert, please elaborate, if you can (not asking for names, just more context). Are we talking “talking points” here or what?

]]> By: Robert B https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/06/17/monopod-man-and-other-matters-an-update/#comment-16706 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:50:24 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=4580#comment-16706 Sheesh. How many of the big name skeptics (just finished an extended FB conversation with one) won’t discuss this further without photographic proof!?

Why am I even trying to talk to somebody that won’t even consider that an admitted voyeur might be invading people’s privacy?

I expect more from these people.

]]> By: dogeared, spotted and foxed https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/06/17/monopod-man-and-other-matters-an-update/#comment-16705 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:14:47 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=4580#comment-16705 plutosdad, I’ve met the Monopod man, as every woman who has ever gone to TAM has. He is not mentally ill, just a supremely entitled twit.

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