by snarly | Mar 31, 2013 | Media Apologies, Personal Apologies, Political Apologies, Religious Apologies
We have three (3) apologies of note to parse! Let’s get started! 1. “Minnesota for Marriage,” a conservative group, apologized on Friday for equating the idea of a genetic basis for being gay with Nazi eugenics theory. Wait, what? You see, one of...
by snarly | Mar 21, 2013 | Artistic apologies, Media Apologies, Other Apologies, Scientific apologies
When news broke that primatologist Jane Goodall’s new book, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants, contained plagiarized material, Susan and I both felt sick. We’ve both worked as “co-writers” on well-known people’s...
by snarly | Feb 25, 2013 | Corporate Apologies, Media Apologies
Last night during the Oscars, the Onion tweeted something putrid. “Everyone else seems afraid to say it, but that Quvenzhané Wallis is kind of a cunt, right?” Number of words: 17 Level of horridness on scale of 1-10: 9 (sadly, I have a vivid imagination...
by snarly | Feb 21, 2013 | Media Apologies, Political Apologies
Liberals and conservatives alike are cranky at Colorado State Representative Joe Salazar, who reportedly said that women are more emotional and can’t be trusted with guns and keep thinking they’re going to be raped and shooting innocent people. Liberals...
by snarly | Feb 18, 2013 | Corporate Apologies, Media Apologies
Noodging someone to apologize often fails. The noodgee can feel defensive and resentful; the noodger finds she can’t get no satisfaction. But here is a case where public shaming quickly made the offender do the right thing, and everyone lived happily ever after...
by snarly | Feb 8, 2013 | Media Apologies, Religious Apologies, Scientific apologies
I have a real fondness for the sci-fi-and-fantasy site io9, even though I am only sometimes interested in fantasy and almost never interested in sci-fi. The topics io9 covers are so broad and quirky and interesting, and it is generally so attuned to sexism (not...
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