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The orientation...Transgendered folks did nothing. <br /><br />The orientation of being transgender was dragged in by me. I made a point that if being a female of color who is also running for president can’t make the treatment of Tulsi Gabbard of any importance to our blogboard feminists, perhaps being transgendered as well would have made her a blip on their radar. <br /><br />On second thought, nahhh. Ceceliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15162272807640653299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-68575378410364843312020-03-15T20:15:54.723-04:002020-03-15T20:15:54.723-04:00Yes, Somerby probably plotted with the NYT and the...Yes, Somerby probably plotted with the NYT and the WP as to their timing of Coe pieces. <br /><br />Bob’s next nefarious trick was to sabotage Prof Corby’s anonymity. Ceceliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15162272807640653299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-28024367944171720432020-03-15T20:05:27.731-04:002020-03-15T20:05:27.731-04:00Corby, Maher, as a man, can be more than a bit cre...Corby, Maher, as a man, can be more than a bit creepy. <br /><br />He’s also very smart and quite often deadly accurate. Ceceliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15162272807640653299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-65121556809512623962020-03-15T19:25:29.244-04:002020-03-15T19:25:29.244-04:00I can say that there were therefore no female writ...<i>I can say that there were therefore no female writers there, nor any production assistants or other female staff members.</i><br /><br />You can reasonably say that because Maher says everyone present is male. What you can’t conclude is that Maher’s writing staff is all male. And, in fact, it hasn’t been as lately as the end of last year.<br /><br />Note that this is <i>not</i> the same as claiming that Maher now employs women and they happened to have stepped out of the studio. I’m not making this claim, since I don’t know whether Maher employs women writers currently. You’re making the opposite claim, and thus you bear the burdens of production and proof.<br /><br />This isn’t nitpicking, and that you claim it is illustrates the problems you have with argumentation.<br /><br />Now, it’s a nice deflection to say I might “have participated in exploring” the paucity of female comedy writers or the problematic sex ratio of Maher’s guest list. But the topic of discussion was Maher’s supposed visual approach to selecting his female guests. deadrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02828198094140822987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-18049928739409129442020-03-15T19:09:49.810-04:002020-03-15T19:09:49.810-04:00None of those people were panelists. They were fea...<i>None of those people were panelists. They were featured guests.</i><br /><br />Now you’re just trolling me. The list is of Maher’s “guests,” which includes the panel members, which the “featured” guest often joins. What difference does it make where anyone sits? Fran Lebowitz, for example, is usually on the panel.<br /><br /><i>Alexandra Pelosi is young and attractive, in my opinion.</i><br /><br />And flirty and Faux Newsy looking? Your accusation is that Maher chooses women for his program for their high rating on the male eye-candy scale. This is an absurd position to take no matter how hard you try to play musical chairs.deadrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02828198094140822987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-19053913763840199562020-03-15T18:09:12.132-04:002020-03-15T18:09:12.132-04:00For some reason known only to you, you cannot perm...<i>For some reason known only to you, you cannot permit others to disagree with you.</i><br /><br />This is a theme with you. That somehow I withhold permission for people to gainsay me. Isn’t it obvious that I have no such power?<br /><br /><i>You consider yourself right and others wrong.</i><br /><br />The human condition, wouldn’t you agree?<br /><br /><i>Then you make ad hominem disparaging remarks about whoever you consider wrong.</i><br /><br />I make disparaging remarks about people’s arguments. Those are not ad hominem. An ad hominem argument attacks a person for who she is instead of the argument she makes. If I said, “Corby is fat, stupid, and a woman, therefore we can disregard her positions,” <i>that</i> would be an ad hominem (or ad feminem, if you prefer). The reason this is fallacious should be obvious: the quality of an argument is unconnected to the weight, IQ, or chromosomal makeup of the person presenting the argument.<br /><br /><i>It is your personal problem and you should work on it.</i><br /><br />I suppose I should take that seriously since you’re a psychology professor and all.<br /><br /><i>You want to mock me because I am a professor. It is a job title. But apparently, the idea that someone might have spent an extra 10+ years studying some area of knowledge bothers you.</i><br /><br />Let me be clear. “Professor” is more than a job title. It should be an indication that a person has spent time and effort in the pursuit of learning and the careful evaluation of evidence and logic as applied to some corner of intellectual endeavor. I mock you because you assume the designation while giving little evidence that you have mastered the requisite skills. <br /><br />If you spent 10+ years studying, your comments here show you’ve wasted more than a decade.<br /><br /><i>You are right -- I didn't volunteer that info. Somerby's webpage no longer permits me to post as anonymous, so I have used my Google login, Corby, with its associated profile, which you looked up and chose to mock here. In a comment that had nothing to do with it.</i><br /><br />I mock the travesty you make of your supposed title. On which, I’m entirely agnostic. Not only do you not have a good way to prove your claim to the title, your claim is irrelevant to your arguments, which stand or fall on the evidence you marshal and the logic you employ.<br /><br /><i>I earned my degree, I earned my job, I earned my tenure and I earned my promotions at that job. I am proud of them and your sarcasm means nothing to me.</i><br /><br />A tad defensive aren’t you, professor?<br /><br /><i>But it does show a commonality with Somerby, who also cannot bear to allow anyone, especially women, to have accomplishments that suggest they know something about anything (even esoteric things about physics or George Washington).</i><br /><br />I have no power to allow or disallow anyone his or her accomplishments. And, as I’ve said, I’m entirely agnostic about yours. I neither believe nor disbelieve your claims. I can’t verify them, and they make no difference to your arguments here.<br /><br /><i>While you self-quarantine, you might consider what it is about other people's accomplishments that bothers you.</i><br /><br />In your case, I have no reason to believe you’re accomplished in any way. I also have no reason to disbelieve that. Fortunately, the question is simply irrelevant here. I have long reconciled myself to the fact that the name of those more accomplished than me is Legion.deadrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02828198094140822987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-17669422578262655872020-03-15T18:06:32.641-04:002020-03-15T18:06:32.641-04:00"Maher said there were no women in the audien..."Maher said there were no women in the audience. You jumped to the conclusion that meant Maher's writing team was exclusively male. "<br /><br />Maher had no regular studio audience because of the virus -- groups have been forbidden in CA. He still wanted some live reaction to his monologue so he had his staff, including his writers, perform as an audience. For maximum effectiveness, it is safe to assume he rounded up as many people as he could. Then he, himself, noted that there were no women in the audience. I can say that there were therefore no female writers there, nor any production assistants or other female staff members. <br /><br />It is possible he may have a woman on his writing staff, who just happened to have stepped out of the room or who was absent that day (even though the live show is the whole focus of the staff), but when you must assume that several women were all absent on that day, then the odds of him having women on his writing staff get shorter. If he had anything like a normal male-female balance (based on population), he would have had several women possible because his writing staff is not small. You can hear that from the amount of noise made by his impromptu audience. But there is ultimately no reason to assume that all of the women stayed home for the weekly show, so the conclusion must be that he doesn't have them on his staff.<br /><br />This kind of nit-picking may be entertaining to you, but please don't confuse it with discussion. You might, for example, have participated in exploring why women don't get jobs writing for comedians, or suggested that maybe women don 't like Maher and don't apply to be on his staff, or perhaps talked about whether women are under-represented behind the scenes in politics, since the usual ratio on Maher's panel is two men and one woman. Lots of interesting things to discuss about his show, that reflect back on women's participation in politics and the larger issue of sexism against candidates.Not a rodenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216459357112547141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-3702465819600296422020-03-15T17:56:20.775-04:002020-03-15T17:56:20.775-04:00"There’s a message there; it’s just the one I..."There’s a message there; it’s just the one I’ve been posting. Your claim isn’t remotely true. And you know how I know that? Because I checked his guest list. Young, pretty, flirty? You mean like author Fran Lebowitz (six-time guest), Speaker Nancy Pelosi (four times), documentary film maker Alexandra Pelosi (six times), anthropologist Jane Goodall, ex-CEO and current public grotesque Carly Fiorina (three times), Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, TV anchor Andrea Mitchell (twice)?"<br /><br />None of those people were panelists. They were featured guests. You can tell who is who because the featured guests are interviewed remotely or sit face to face in chairs before he goes over to the table, or they are introduced separately and sit to the right of Maher (on his left). The panelists are the three people who he calls "his panel" who all sit opposite him at the table. <br /><br />Alexandra Pelosi is young and attractive, in my opinion. Not a rodenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216459357112547141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-66047619442593824352020-03-15T17:35:54.814-04:002020-03-15T17:35:54.814-04:00Somerby has done something that prevents me from p...<i>Somerby has done something that prevents me from posting as anonymous any more.</i><br /><br />Ah, you mean something mechanical from blogspot. I find that unlikely, as I’m able to post Anonymously. See my comment @5:30P.<br /><br />I was going to tell you a couple of ways to fix the problem, but I much prefer being able to follow you by nym.<br />deadrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02828198094140822987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-69831369551406423622020-03-15T17:30:45.370-04:002020-03-15T17:30:45.370-04:00Is Anonymity still possible; if so, is it desirabl...Is Anonymity still possible; if so, is it desirable?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-66716860096411391552020-03-15T17:28:14.822-04:002020-03-15T17:28:14.822-04:00Deadrat, I referred to his staff, but his writing ...<i>Deadrat, I referred to his staff, but his writing team was in that audience and none of them were female. Maybe that was just this week, but what I said was true about that audience.</i><br /><br />Why doesn’t your head just explode? We don’t know for sure who was in the audience, but it’s reasonable to assume from Maher’s comments that some of the writing staff was there and that no women were. You have then made the leap to Maher’s entire writing staff<br /><br /><i>Maher frequently complains about PC culture and the stifling of comedians. It happened to him after 9/11. It doesn't take much to extrapolate to how he would react to a female writer who suggested he tone it down.</i><br /><br />Of course it doesn’t take much. You’re the best evidence for that. But that’s also the problem.<br /><br /><i>The best predictor of future behavior is the past. If you watch the show, you've heard what he has said, just as I have.</i><br /><br />I’ve heard him talk about PC culture, but I’ve never seen him react to a female writer who suggested that he tone it down. If I’d have heard him talk derisively about female writers who suggest that he tone things down, I’d have that best predictor.<br /><br /><i>So that makes this kind of argument a waste of time. Next you'll be arguing that Maher doesn't dislike religion and that I shouldn't speculate that he won't convert any time soon.</i><br /><br />Except, of course, that he actually says that he hates religion. So much so that he made a movie ridiculing religion. So why would you think I’d argue that he doesn’t dislike religion?<br /><br /><i>I am sure that Maher could find a female writer who wouldn't say anything about his offensive jokes. Ann Coulter, for example.</i><br /><br />First you just said woman writers. Secondly, Ann Coulter isn’t a comedy writer. I’m not entirely sure that she’s a woman.<br /><br /><i>Or Cecelia.</i><br /><br />Now you’re just being mean.<br /><br /><i>But now you are saying that when someone calls an animal a "cat" we shouldn't picture a typical cat but should imagine a hairless cat, because after all, they do exist, even if they are rare.</i><br /><br />Let me set that straw man on fire for you.<br /><br /><i>That just isn't how people think.</i><br /><br />I think that’s true.<br /><br /><i>You can argue yourself blue in the face and you won't convince people to reason the way you argue here.</i><br /><br />I think that’s true. And you’re a prime example.<br /><br /><i>It isn't natural and it isn't even functional</i><br /><br />I think that’s true, as well. I’d guess it’s an evolutionary adaptation. It’s functional to leap to conclusions about potential danger. To use a hoary example, our ancestors were likely the ones who always assumed that the rustling in the grass was a lion. Their relatives who assumed that it was probably the wind were more often right but didn’t live long enough to pass on their genes.<br /><br /><i>, since the odds are that the typical cat most people imagine is the one most likely to occur in life.</i><br /><br />And … the straw fire just went out.<br /><br /><i>If you want to argue that Maher would never hire a feminist writer, I might buy that. Have you noticed that the women he invites as panelists on his show would nearly all pass Trump's standard for assault or the FOX criteria for on-screen talent? Young, pretty, made-up and dressed to attract men, flirty. There is a message there too.</i><br /><br />There’s a message there; it’s just the one I’ve been posting. Your claim isn’t remotely true. And you know how I know that? Because I checked his guest list. Young, pretty, flirty? You mean like author Fran Lebowitz (six-time guest), Speaker Nancy Pelosi (four times), documentary film maker Alexandra Pelosi (six times), anthropologist Jane Goodall, ex-CEO and current public grotesque Carly Fiorina (three times), Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, TV anchor Andrea Mitchell (twice)?<br /><br />Go ahead and check the list for yourself if you think I’m cherry picking. All of Maher’s guests, women and men, are involved in public arenas, mostly the political and intellectual, some from popular entertainment.<br /><br />deadrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02828198094140822987noreply@blogger.com