Every now and then a social justice warrior comes along that is, well, special. Someone so utterly bonkers that they do our job for us. They do us all a favor by setting an example of what sort of human being you should never aspire to be.
Recently, we had the marvelous Geordie Tait show up on the #GamerGate scene, and he is a level far beyond #FullMcIntosh.…
Tempest in a t-shirt
In one corner of the internets, we have Matt Taylor, a lead European Space Agency scientist on the Rosetta project, who just the other day successfully landed a space probe on a comet travelling tens of thousands of kph, millions of kilometres from Earth.…
Honey Badger Radio: #notyourshield
As the battle of #GamerGate rages on, the Social Justice Warriors have finally found their kryptonite. Not in bigotry or hatred, but in passionate women and minorities who are tired of being exploited.
#notyourshield
On October 15, 2014, two months after it began, #GamerGate had its fairest piece of mainstream media coverage.…
Badger Cave: Ask the Badger
This program is brought to you by Honey Badger Radio. In the Badger Cave, we’ll be interviewing noted authors among the Honey Badger crew: some whom you may know from their blogs, numerous interviews, speaking events, and articles; others whom you may not be familiar with.…
MGTOW—A boycotting of women
I was arguing with a guy today about MGTOW.
He made the assertion that I’m a misogynist who spouts anti-woman rhetoric. So I challenged him to find anything I’d ever said that was anti-woman. My aunt has as of late been worried about me as well; she’s a little flighty but her heart’s in the right place.…
Femininities—Toxic femininity
The dose makes the poison.
One of the very useful memes that has come out of the gender discourse in the last few years is a discussion of “toxic masculinity,” or the traditional masculinity that teaches little boys to make themselves disposable for the sake of women (I know what the inventors of the term meant, and even though they didn’t mean that, that’s what they meant .…
Badger Pod Nerd Cast 14 : Straight to Hell
Gay Niggers from Outer Space
Created in 1992 by Danish filmmaker Morten Lindberg with the intention of satirizing blaxploitation and sci-fi films, the mix in this film creates the most offensive, hilarious movie I’ve seen yet. It’s so over the top it can’t even be offensive.…
Badger Cave: Jian Ghomeshi
The Curious Case of Jian Ghomeshi
Jian Ghomeshi, a former broadcaster and host of the Canadian radio show Q, is now in the middle of a messy sex scandal. Eleven women in all and one man have brought forth allegations of sexual misconduct.
The thing that makes this notable is that Ghomeshi doesn’t fit the usual narrative.…
6 six things you might not think are harassment but actually are–NOW WITH ACTUAL EVIDENCE
I never cease to be astounded by the way that some people react to stories of harassment in the street. Just yesterday, we shared a story about a man who taped himself walking around New York for 3 hours and the unsolicited harassment he was subjected to as he strolled around, minding his own business.…
Badger Cave: Murdergasm
Tonight’s show: “Murdergasm,” written by our own Hannah Wallen. We discuss Anita Sarkeesian’s MURDERGASM. We’ll also be delving into the bait-and-switch tactics of feminist theories on “toxic masculinity.”…
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