Internet Hate

• When asking women out, consider if your attention is wanted, and if this is an appropriate venue.
  
• Women are often sexually harassed at conventions, and conventions should have reasonable policies to address this.
  
• People who are interested in Atheism, Skepticism and Social Justice should have a place where they can do all three together. Creating (or even discussing) that place does not mean that you, personally, have to take part.

Could someone please tell me what the hell is so contentious about any of those three statements that the originators needs to be trolled/harassed/threatened with rape or murder, sometimes for over a year? Don't you people have better things to do with your life?

FFS!

The reason, of course, is that the original writers were women. Allow me to repeat myself: For Fuck Sake!

A Family Picture I've Mentioned Before

This picture was taken in late 1934.

Clockwise from lower-left:

• My father, Gordon Cyr, born September 3rd, 1934.
  
• Grandma Marie Placide Cashawap, age 15-17 (1917-1980).
  
• Great-grandma, Marie Felicite Berard (1896-?).
  
• Great-great-grandma, Marie Vandal (1867-?).

My brother has the original, I scanned this at a Christmas gathering several years ago. Still haven't gotten around to printing it up.