{"id":679,"date":"2012-12-02T02:02:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T08:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=679"},"modified":"2012-12-01T08:20:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T14:20:26","slug":"skepticism-and-feminism-a-very-brief-parable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2012\/12\/02\/skepticism-and-feminism-a-very-brief-parable\/","title":{"rendered":"Skepticism and Feminism – A Very Brief Parable"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Awhile back I tried to draw this up as a cartoon, but I’m a horrible cartoonist and always have been<\/a>. So, stuff it, here is the idea in the form of cheap and easy words. You’ll have to do all the heavy lifting of visualization on your own.<\/p>\n

Imagine, if you will, an\u00a0attractive\u00a0young man talking to a bright young woman in front of an ordinary tent. \u00a0The tent is labeled “SKEPTICISM” and promises all kinds of mind-expanding experiences for those who enter.<\/p>\n

He says to her, “It’s really nice inside, and covers so much ground.”<\/p>\n

She answers, “Yes, it certainly seems nice, but would you mind moving it just a few yards to the left?”<\/p>\n

Panning out, you can see that both characters have been standing in front of the cavernous\u00a0entrance\u00a0of a much larger tent, labeled “FEMINISM,” which would completely subsume the smaller tent if only it could moved a bit further to the left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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