Comments | kateorman: They Just Don't Get It

kateorman

They Just Don't Get It

Oct 13, 2009 14:38

Here's an entry from my proto-blog, "Kate Almanac", dated 9 July 2000.In June this year, I visited relatives in Washington DC. I packed my passport, my swimsuit - and a list of references to look up at the Library of Congress. Despite plundering university and local libraries around the world, there were still a handful of citations I hadn't been ( Read more... )

domestic violence, book-mucking, debunking, feh muh nist

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antiwesley October 13 2009, 04:23:23 UTC

I would agree that the husband did indeed start the mental abuse, but unless those 'tantrums' included violence, then the wife started the physical aspect with the glass-throwing incident ( ... )

kateorman October 13 2009, 05:35:57 UTC

I was pleased, looking at some DV Web sites recently for a discussion over on GB, that at least some organisations are now expressly catering for battered boyfriends and husbands as well as girlfriends and wives ( ... )

barrington October 13 2009, 05:16:01 UTC

it takes so little effort to distort the truth, and so much effort to find itAmen, as they say. I hardly like to cast any debate as "us vs them" - that's where so many of the problems we try to fight start, after all - but it does seem that the enemies of humanism, feminism and science have a clear advantage: they don't respect the rules. Quoting out of context or without fact-checking is more or less standard practice for Creationists, climate change "debunkers" and extreme "conservatives ( ... )

kateorman October 13 2009, 05:48:36 UTC

Feminists have made some prize fuckups with statistics and things over the years - actually, there was a whole other "Kate Almanac" entry about that! But I always like to think when progressives cock things up, it's the result of incompetence, not malice. :)

I reckon the chances of finding useful information in a Wiki are too low to bother with. I'll usually just scroll straight down to the references and links and go see for myself.

Ta for the link!

murasaki_1966 October 13 2009, 11:22:31 UTC

Good to see some one using good research practice? Did you buy the book?

kateorman November 3 2009, 01:25:33 UTC

I did - I think it's going to a new home now at the Women's Library. :)

murasaki_1966 October 13 2009, 11:21:51 UTC

I'm glad to hear the librarians were helpful. It's nice to hear.