What are you doing, pro-choice allies?!
*update* This post is not a direct criticism of the Bristol demo at which the photo I’ve used was taken. This is a criticism of behaviour demonstrated in the photo shown. You can see a very similar photo here.
SPUC OFF!
Earlier this week I discovered the ‘Society for the Protection of Unborn Children’ (SPUC) were holding anti-abortion protests across the UK on the 44th anniversary of the Abortion Act. One of these was to be held in the city of Bath and as I am local and pro-choice I decided to organise a pro-choice counter demo to show that not everyone agrees with SPUC’s views on abortion (not the mention their views on gay marriage, contraception and more).
It’s ok, I know I’m horrid
*update* This blog post is being linked to around the web by people trying to misinterpret what it is I have written. A while ago I wrote my thoughts about how people hold people who identify as ‘skeptics’ accountable for their behaviour and how it might not be fair due to unfair expectations. As I wrote critically about another blogger, she and her friends objected to what I had said and largely made their objections personal. As a result I wrote a post called ’young, female and vocal‘, but since then I have had it explained to me that people abuse me because I’m a horrible person – and not because I’m young, female and vocal despite the fact that ageist and gendered language was being used against me by those concerned.
QED tips, & something I didn’t expect to see
Recently I tweeted asking people what advice they would offer to people attending QEDcon for the first time next week. A hashtag somehow developed and some really interesting pieces of advice has been posted, so I thought I’d round some up here.
I support…
