Greta Christina

[ciphergoth]

There's a handful of bloggers whose links I propagate more rarely than I might, just because I would not be far off re-linking to everything they write, and so if you're interested in the sorts of things I'm interested in, you would be crazy not to read their blogs yourself. One of them is Greta Christina, who writes mainly about atheism, skepticism, politics, and sex. I'm finally moved to blog this after reading her insightful take on the crazy declaration from a Republican Oklahoma senator's chief of staff that "straight porn turns boys gay". But I don't think that's even a particularly stand-out article. Here's a bunch of mostly relatively recent ones:

• her devastating takedown of this extract from Karen Armstrong's "The Case for God"
• this column about initiating sex: "You don’t have to start out in the mood; you just have to be in the mood to be in the mood"
• Sexual Optimism And A Changing World
• My Vision for a Sexual World is the definitive article to refer someone to on why sex should be treated like music
• Her open letter to the fat-positive movement
• In praise of routine
• Pride, Stonewall, and the importance of confrontation
• Why do atheists talk about atheism? which I must resist the temptation to quote entirely
• Reactionaries on today's Republican Party

There's more, but my laptop froze up and I lost where I was up to, so I'll stop there.

greta_christina

Comments

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I don't think I ever thanked you for the pointer before. So thanks....

[lilitufire.livejournal.com]

Thank you - she looks really interesting! Have added to my feeds :)

Beware the happy death spiral with her

[djm4]

As I've said before, the 'open letter to the fat positive movement' is a crock of shit, in which she basically chides the fat-positive movement for backing science against what she happens to believe, because she (like many people) has bought into the vast marketing machine that is the diet industry, and didn't like people using actual facts in an argument against her.

Some of the other links aren't too bad.

Re: Beware the happy death spiral with her

[wildeabandon.livejournal.com]

That's not true. She chides the fat-postive movement for cherry-picking the science, which is an entirely different kettle of fish.

Re: Beware the happy death spiral with her

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

I'm going to freeze this thread and make a top-level post about this I think - it's worth its own thread.

Updated: done