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time for everyone's favorite show: Unpopular Opinions with Auntie Zeropoint
okay, so first, let me say i already dislike jacklyn glenn. not personally, and not even because of anything she's said. not being a heterosexual man, i have no reason to watch her videos, so i've never heard a word of it. it's nothing personal. i hate her in that "i hate mondays" kind of way, and it's because of her business model and the way it paves.
glenn is one of a handful of visible female atheists who turn their trade by banking on the public's impression that people who don't believe in god are more sexually available than people who do. this isn't true, but it's what everyone seems to believe.
as of late, it's been getting really popular among a subset of men to physically threaten women for not having sex with them when they think we should. if those kind of men decide that being an atheist means a woman should be "loose", and then come into my environment and encounter the fact that i'm an atheist, i'm concerned that those kind of men are going to mistake my personal chastity for their public failure to close the deal with town bicycle (because hey, jacklin glenn made porno, right? so "atheist" mean she want the d, amiritebraw?)... and then suddenly me and maybe seven or eight of my classmates are on the news getting carried out of stats class under sheets, and all the redpillers will moon in voiceover about what a beautiful day it would have been if i'd have just put that crazy guy's penis in my mouth... just once.
after all, if there's no god, what am i saving it for?
the reason you don't think there are more female atheists in the world is because a lot of men have a kind of threatening reaction to female atheism, and i see this woman right here as being part of the problem. i really don't want "atheist" to become the next thing on the list after "short skirt," "dark alley," and "intoxicated".
i wasn't going to say anything because i wasn't raised by that kind of christian*, but if she's proud of her choices, i'll gladly have an opinion about it.
*my parents are agnostic einsteinian deists ["a human being's relative ability to observe increasingly complex levels of order is too limited to be relied upon for obtaining scientific truth about any propositional composer or its personal will, and in the absence of that information, we are left to extrapolate what we are intended to do only from what we are able to learn about how order's resulting creation works."), they just don't realize it because they got "roman catholic" in the "who is your daddy and what does he do?" lottery.
Friday, June 26, 2015
Thursday, June 11, 2015
#firstworldproblems
okay, so this is firstworldy, but i'm wondering if i should just get a new phone. right now, i'm buying minutes ten bucks at a time on a phone the government gave me and it's okay. it does what i want it to.
i also already have a smartphone, but it's the dumbest one they sell. i "innovated" to the prestigious samsung admire... about two years after the release of the first galaxy... about six years ago.
y'know, thinking about it, most of my electronics purchases are "obsolete in box" like that. the guy who sold me my laptop knocked fifteen bucks off the price and gave me a bunch of extra norton's because he felt sorry for the poor shmuckette who didn't know the company was going to stop supporting the model within a month (srsly - lenovo announced the obsolescence of my laptop [G560] the week after i bought it, so the salesguy knew. but he also knew i couldn't go up in price at all... and that he was gonna need the empty shelf soon. better to sell the pos while you still can, right?).
the problem is that my smartphone will only connect to my own router. everywhere that offers "free wifi" offers it through some method that my smartphone is just too stupid to handle. i can't use the wifi on campus, i can't use the wifi at the bus terminal, i can't even use the wifi at the friggin burger king. my phone can see their routers and connect, but it can't transfer data.
it would be very nice if i could have access to the campus wifi while on campus, considering that everyone else on that campus has access, and they're set up to communicate that way. i'm the one who's kept permanently out of the loop over not being able to generate a condition for myself that's "good enough" for their system.
and this is, like i said, kind of perpetual for me. the reason i'm even having to think about whether or not to update my technology (considering that that's what the government gave me the pell grant for) is because no matter what i buy, no matter how much i spend, no matter how carefully i research, the second i put my money down, not only will my tech be obsolete, but every last network and system that prompted me to purchase the upgrade will immediately upgrade to whatever new thing that i will subsequently be unable to use. i'll just have a more expensive collection of bricks tethered to my couch. what's the point of having mobile tech if it doesn't work anywhere but my living room? if it's just going to be a waste of money anyway, i have other things i'd rather waste money on.
eventually, i'm going to need something with which i can write an article on the fly and then access a network and email it to an editor, but i figure once it gets to that point, the editor will be the one providing me with the tech. then, it'll be his problem that the world appears to have summarily decided that anything i touch must necessarily be obsolete.
or maybe i'll just buy the most advanced smartphone on the market, and anyone who wants to stay ahead of me is going to have to invent a new motherfuckin' phone. then i might actually be able to use mine for a couple of months.
i also already have a smartphone, but it's the dumbest one they sell. i "innovated" to the prestigious samsung admire... about two years after the release of the first galaxy... about six years ago.
y'know, thinking about it, most of my electronics purchases are "obsolete in box" like that. the guy who sold me my laptop knocked fifteen bucks off the price and gave me a bunch of extra norton's because he felt sorry for the poor shmuckette who didn't know the company was going to stop supporting the model within a month (srsly - lenovo announced the obsolescence of my laptop [G560] the week after i bought it, so the salesguy knew. but he also knew i couldn't go up in price at all... and that he was gonna need the empty shelf soon. better to sell the pos while you still can, right?).
the problem is that my smartphone will only connect to my own router. everywhere that offers "free wifi" offers it through some method that my smartphone is just too stupid to handle. i can't use the wifi on campus, i can't use the wifi at the bus terminal, i can't even use the wifi at the friggin burger king. my phone can see their routers and connect, but it can't transfer data.
it would be very nice if i could have access to the campus wifi while on campus, considering that everyone else on that campus has access, and they're set up to communicate that way. i'm the one who's kept permanently out of the loop over not being able to generate a condition for myself that's "good enough" for their system.
and this is, like i said, kind of perpetual for me. the reason i'm even having to think about whether or not to update my technology (considering that that's what the government gave me the pell grant for) is because no matter what i buy, no matter how much i spend, no matter how carefully i research, the second i put my money down, not only will my tech be obsolete, but every last network and system that prompted me to purchase the upgrade will immediately upgrade to whatever new thing that i will subsequently be unable to use. i'll just have a more expensive collection of bricks tethered to my couch. what's the point of having mobile tech if it doesn't work anywhere but my living room? if it's just going to be a waste of money anyway, i have other things i'd rather waste money on.
eventually, i'm going to need something with which i can write an article on the fly and then access a network and email it to an editor, but i figure once it gets to that point, the editor will be the one providing me with the tech. then, it'll be his problem that the world appears to have summarily decided that anything i touch must necessarily be obsolete.
or maybe i'll just buy the most advanced smartphone on the market, and anyone who wants to stay ahead of me is going to have to invent a new motherfuckin' phone. then i might actually be able to use mine for a couple of months.
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