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Poe’s Law: when you can’t tell if it’s cognitive dissonance or trolling

Posted on January 19, 2013 by

Well, that’s not actually Poe’s Law, which is about distinguishing satire from the real thing, but I am sadly uninformed as to whether a similar trolling-or-just-incoherent Law of internet arguments exists.  Answers on the back of a red sportscar. Point … Continue reading →

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How to know you’re winning

Posted on December 4, 2012 by

I wasn’t going to post about this because it is just so not done to blow one’s own trumpet, but Bomber in a post at Tumeke has granted me the title of Chaotic Good Blogger of 2012. Which is kinda … Continue reading →

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Brian Edwards follow-up

Posted on November 29, 2012 by

So, I’ve ventured forth once more into the comments at Brian Edwards’ post, where much amusement may be had at Pete George wanking on about his perma-ban at The Standard. Brian, in response to many comments along the same lines … Continue reading →

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The easy way to spot misogynists and feel good about your feminism

Posted on November 24, 2012 by

Over the past few days a couple of commenters at The Standard have taken a few swings at me. They’ve pretended to be “surprised” that I’m commenting on a Saturday afternoon – Thought you would be playing Saturday soccer or … Continue reading →

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Pseudonymity

Posted on August 27, 2012 by

A lot of people who have the privilege of writing under their real/legal/given names perennially attack bloggers for posting under pseudonyms.  It’s happened to me, but the biggest target in the NZ blogosphere is probably the various pseudonymous posters at … Continue reading →

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Achievement unlocked!

Posted on March 19, 2012 by

My last post was #400 for Ideologically Impure.  Post #1 was made on April 26, 2008, which seems like a lifetime ago, and I expressed the wistful hope that people might one day read it. Well, even accounting for the … Continue reading →

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Self-indulgence corner: here we go again

Posted on June 14, 2011 by

Here we are again at that same old place where I’ve stood up for a principle and dared to be angry about it and it is revealed once more than even strident feminist bloggers are more than happy to dip … Continue reading →

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Academic white dude fights the [trans* Maori feminist] power

Posted on June 12, 2011 by

Paul at The Fundy Post seems to have a wee bit of an issue with me, off the back of a wonderfully juvenile Twitter argument over that whole “Maori weren’t actually innately abusive parents who were only saved from self-genocide … Continue reading →

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Dibs being Trevor Mallard’s sockpuppet!

Posted on March 3, 2011 by

Lesson for the day, kiddies: Saying you’d consider docking a tax credit to [in-work] families to pay for earthquake recovery is just a completely political-context-free statement. Criticising that statement for unnecessarily politicizing the earthquake aftermath is policitizing the earthquake aftermath. … Continue reading →

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Two posts on webcomics and rape culture

Posted on February 5, 2011 by

… which you should read: On dealing with dudebros at Two Whole Cakes Your resistance was not surprising. It always seems as though these issues will go away if you stop looking at them, which is a function of being … Continue reading →

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