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Comment by Marianne on February 16, 2012 at 8:28pm

It definitely makes somebody wonder if someone is really atheist does mean that he has thought many things over especially the question where do we come from (and are we going). I would have thought that most atheists or agnostics or freethinkers have pondered many philosophical questions and also (obviously for me ?) social topics and issues and would have come with some intelligent anwers...maybe I'm totally in the cosmos here... ???? 

Comment by Adriana on February 16, 2012 at 7:37pm

Hey, Jo, nice to see you back here! And thanks for the compliment :-)

Comment by MJ on February 16, 2012 at 6:02pm

I couldn't have said it better! Nice job Adriana.

Comment by Adriana on February 11, 2012 at 5:54pm

Hey, I don't know in Australia, but in America, "cunt" is a very strong word, there are no two ways to dice it: it is misogynistic and used only as derogatory for women.  It reduces a woman to being just an anatomical part of interest to men, and calling a man a "cunt" is insulting only because it puts him in an "inferior" category. In America "prick" is totally benign as an insult, although it is mostly gendered. It does not reduce a guy to being exclusively a penis.

It's all about the balance of power: a man being called a prick by a woman is not being labeled "inferior",  is being labeled as obnoxious, mostly. While a woman being called a "cunt" by a guy is being put in her place." Penn Jillette really went overboard with his bile, go figure. Why would he be so irritated by someone that he simply did not find funny? It would be hard to find any other explanation than pretty basic misogyny. I've never been a fan of Penn Jillette anyway. I don't like his political views and he thinks too much of himself. He is obnoxious for the sake of being obnoxious. He is a prick.