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UPDATE: Shifting Gender Identities in the Face of War, Globalization, and Natural Disaster (grad) (2/22/06; MIT, 3/30/06-3/31/06
Update: Deadline Extended to February 22
1st Annual Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies Conference:
Shifting Gender Identities in the Face of War, Globalization, and
Natural Disaster
March 30-31, 2006
Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, MA
Call for Proposals
The 2006 GCWS conference is an event organized by graduate students for
graduate students working in the field of Women's and Gender Studies. It
is a 2-day event where students and faculty will gather to present and
discuss cutting-edge student work, workshop ideas, and network to share
skills and resources and build community. We are currently
inviting proposals
for three presentation formats: Individual Paper, Pre-Formed Panel, and
Poster Session.
Conference Abstract
Do we live in desperate times? As the rhetoric of an equal and free
society is used to justify the Iraq war, massive hurricanes in the
American south have exposed deep domestic disparities around class and
race. Natural disasters in Southeast Asia and Pakistan have revealed
just how deep the divide is between wealth and poverty on the global
scale. Human exploitation, envi-
ronmental degradation, and conflicts around racial, ethnic, and national
identities continue around the world. What does this mean for anyone
who stands outside or astride the boundaries of conventional
gender/sexual norms? Are we, as scholars and/or activists, prepared for
our advancing future?
Possible topics could include, but are not limited to:
- All forms of labor and work, including traditionally unrecognized
forms such
as care work and sex work
- Social, economic, and political upheavals stemming from manmade
and natural
disasters, military conflict, and other forms of violence
- Human impact on the environment and vice versa
- Emerging and/or changing forms of identity in a global future
- The future of identity politics in a globalized world
- Re-imagining the theory/practice divide; where and how do scholars
and activists
fit into today's global cultural 'flows' moving people, goods,
information, and ideas?
- Original research paradigms and methods
- How do past frameworks for understanding gender, sexuality, and
global movement
help or impede our efforts to describe current shifts?
- The changing nature of war/conflict, and implications for the future
- The function and dysfunction of various borders and borderlands
around nationality,
ethnicity, sexuality, etc.
Submission Deadline: February 22, 2006
Submission guidelines can be found online at: http://web.mit.edu/gcws.
Proposals will be subject to an anonymous peer-review process.
Notification of
proposal status will occur no later than Monday, March 6, 2006.
We invite proposals for three presentation formats: Individual Paper,
Pre-Formed Panel, and Poster Session.
Individual paper presentation sessions provide an opportunity for three
authors to present an abbreviated version of a paper they
wrote or are in the process of writing. Papers will be grouped into
90-minute panels around common themes and will include a follow-
up discussion. Each presenter will be given 20 minutes.
A pre-formed panel presentation of 90 minutes will provide the
opportunity for a group of people (3-4) to present papers on a specific
from a variety of perspectives. Panel participants may present
alternative or complementary interpretations or points of view on a topic.
Participating panelists are expected to select a point person who will
submit the proposal. The person will also be responsible for communicating
with the GCWS proposal review committee and for informing
his/her co-presenters about the progress of their proposal. Panelists
are encouraged
to assign a discussant who will prepare a commentary integrating or
summarizing the various positions addressed.
Poster sessions combine graphic display of materials with the
opportunity for individualized informal discussions on the work
throughout the session.
Presenters are encouraged to have copies or summaries of papers they
have written available for distribution. The posters will be displayed
on the
second day of the conference.
Selection Process
Proposals will be subject to an anonymous peer-review process.
Notification of proposal status will occur no later than Monday, March
6, 2006.
Proposals will be reviewed by a committee of students and faculty using
the following criteria:
- Overall Quality of proposal
- Grounded in research
- Clearly and coherently presented
- Development of ideas
- Relevance to gender studies and the overarching conference theme.
Please submit a 250-word abstract with title for proposals for
individual paper presentations and poster sessions to gcws_at_mit.edu
Proposals for pre-formed panels of three to four presenters should
include short (no more than 100 words) abstracts of each paper
along with the panel proposal. Also include a short paragraph detailing
AV needs. Lastly, include a short biographical statement with
your institutional affiliation and current research interests.
In addition to the above, include the following information in your
Paper/Panel Title
Name (primary contact for presentation)
Panel Moderator
Additional Panelists
Current Degree Program
Projected Date of Graduation
Home Phone
Cell Phone
Mailing Address
Permanent Address
Proposals can also be submitted online at http://web.mit.edu/gcws or
emailed to gcws_at_mit.edu. Proposal guidelines are posted online at
For more information, contact:
The Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies
Building 16 Room 287, MIT
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: (617) 324-2085
Fax: (617) 324-2090
Email: gcws_at_mit.edu <mailto:gcws_at_mit.edu>
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Society has always been impacted by technology. Each invention has affected how people relate to one another and how cultures have expanded or ended. Technology impacts how cities grow, where people live, and who owns what. Technologies are the reason a few people are very rich, that people are more social, and that teaching and learning is changing. We are at a crucial time in history where educators can make a difference in how our students interact with one another and make a place for themselves in society.
Historical Perspective
People developed a language so they could communicate and learn from elders through their stories. They invented tools for agriculture, to build homes, and to create weapons for hunting and protection. Civilizations have been impacted by natural disasters, encroachment from other civilizations, and from problems within their own community. Technology not only increased humans' life span but how we live, how long we live, and how many there are of us.
[Human population growth over time]
The population doubled from 2.5 billion to 5 billion in only 40 years after 1950. The world population passed 6 billion just before the end of the 20th century. It is estimated that the population will reach 8-12 billion before the end of the 21st century. More people means more technology.
People migrated to find a better life. For most of history, only the wealthy had access to literature and a good education. The printing press allowed the masses to receive news, read books, and attend school. Inventions changed the way we worked like the cotton gin where slaves were stolen from Africa to be used as free labor with no rights, and the railroads that were built with Chinese labor who had little or no rights, no property, or a fair wage. Communities developed within large cities to protect and sustain the different cultures.
After World War II, freeway systems led to the suburbs. Public transportation changed when the automobile became part of every family. Television shows replaced dinner conversations. We saw man walk on the moon and the horrors of war in our living rooms.
So Where are We Now?
The Internet and mobile technology are changing the way people interact, work, and learn. Everyone can report the news or share a picture from their cell phone. You can produce your own music, publish your own book, blog your thoughts that you usually keep to yourself, create a website with even personal information, Twitter what you are doing right now, and talk on your cell whenever and wherever you want. We are using technology for our own use yet it infringes on others. Does this technology allow us to respect each other and value each others' time and work or do just the opposite?
Consider these questions about today's technology:
- Do you answer your cell phone when you are at a party, in line for coffee, dining with friends, etc.?
- Would your children rather text message instead of talking to your friends face-to-face?
- Do you post to your blog your thoughts and link to others without researching if the information is valid?
- Do your children have a FaceBook profile with links to friends they don't know?
- Would you rather visit a museum in SecondLife than visit a real museum?
- Do you believe that all music, art, and literature should be free?
Our connections seem personal, but are they? Many young people value the number of friends they have more than the quality of those friendships. The appeal of technology is real. Do you have an iPhone or a Droid? What about an iPad? Today, the arts, artists, and culture do not seem as valued as in the past. Who owns the work? How would the Beatles promote their music today? They probably would create a FaceBook site and give away samples of their work. With a Creative Commons license, they would probably allow others to use but not modify their work. How do artists make money? How does the viewer find this artist if the artist is not tech savvy? How do you know if the artist is the original artist? With the proliferation of social networking tools where everyone can share and publish on the web, artists will have to be innovative and entrepreneurial to be successful.
Web 2.0 allows us to be self-absorbed yet more connected than ever.
"The consequences of Web 2.0 are inherently dangerous for the vitality of culture and the arts. Its empowering promises play upon that legacy of the '60s–the creeping narcissism … with its obsessive focus on the realization of the self." . [Andrew Keen's reference to Web 2.0]
Every day there are new Web 2.0 tools that let you create, publish, and share. This is a time in history we will look back and say either "I wish I had created my own Web 2.0 or mobile app", "I lost everything because I gave it away" or "what is Web 2.0?"
Okay – so I twitter [twitter.com], blog [barbara.bray.net], and have my own learning community [my-ecoach.com]. I'm not alone. People are leaving landline phones, books, and television by the millions. They use Internet-based services like YouTube or Hulu to watch their favorite shows and Skype to virtually connect — for free. It is a generational shift with even older generations jumping on board. Companies are marketing to a new kind of multinational and navigating the digital Silk Road. The growth of technology in China and India already affects how we use technology just because of the numbers of people involved. Video games have professional leagues with international online contests and self-made celebrities [Major League Gaming: http://www.mlgpro.com/]. Digital fads that are global may work in one country and not in another. Student tutors mentor students in another country. The old hierarchical system is falling away. Textbooks are starting to become open source such as Curriki.com and MIT OpenCourseware. Even marketing is changing. Viral marketing launches companies like Threadless T-shirts where the consumers design what they want. Will our students design what they need to learn? Will teachers learn how to be the digital guide?
Value Arts and Culture
With more people and crowded conditions, new technologies will be necessary to support and sustain us. Let's also make sure we use these tools to tell and protect our stories. Video, audio, images, and interactive features open doors to worlds and cultures that children could never learn in a book. We need to allow for private spaces for confidential discussions and provide guides for tentative and eager participants. It is our duty as educators to guide students and other educators as they become innovative producers, teach them to become cautious consumers, and learn how they can use these tools to reach their fullest potential. We need to support the arts and artists and value each others culture. Let's take these next few years to design digital ways to connect us not only to each other but to promote our values, to respect each other, and to encourage innovation as we develop a place for ourselves in the 21st century!
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Central Florida Tourism Oversight District Announces Search for New Fire Chief
Administrator Glenton Gilzean, Jr. thanks Chief Richard LePere Jr. for a decade to the district as he retires
The Central Florida Tourism Oversight District Administrator Glenton Gilzean Jr., today, announced a search for the next fire chief for the District. The search was announced two weeks after Chief LePere announced his retirement which will take effect in August.
About Reedy Creek
Reedy Creek Improvement District (the "District") is a local government entity, created in 1967 by a special Act of the Florida Legislature, the purpose of which is to support and administer certain aspects of the economic development and tourism within District boundaries. With an administration office located on Hotel Plaza Boulevard in Lake Buena Vista, the District encompasses approximately 25,000 acres in both Orange and Osceola counties, servicing 24 landowners, including Walt Disney Co. and its wholly-owned affiliates. The District operates in accordance with its Charter and Chapter 189, Florida Statutes, The Uniform Special Districts Accountability Act.
Click here to view the District Charter.
The District is responsible to oversee land use and environmental protections within the District, and provide essential public services (e.g. fire protection, emergency medical services, potable water production, treatment, storage, pumping & distribution, reclaimed water distribution, chilled water systems, wastewater services, drainage and flood control, electric power generation & distribution, and solid waste and recyclables collection & disposal); regulate the EPCOT Building Code; and operate and maintain all public roadways & bridges. The District operates on a fiscal year, beginning on October 1st and ending on September 30th; and funds its operations, services, and capital improvements by assessing taxes and fees to the landowners and lessees, within the District, and by issuing ad valorem and utility revenue bonds.
One of the busiest places in America, the District's boundaries include: 4 theme parks, 2 water parks, 1 sports complex, 179 lane miles of roadway, 67 miles of waterway, the cities of Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, an environmental science laboratory where the continuity of water quality is monitored, an electric power-generating & distribution facility, a natural gas distribution system, a chilled water distribution system, water and wastewater collection & treatment facilities, a solid waste and recyclables collection & transfer system, plus over 40,000 hotel rooms and 100's of restaurants and retail stores.
A five-member Board of Supervisors, elected by landowners, governs the District. The goal of the Board, together with the District's staff, is to support the economic viability of all venues and businesses within the District, while never sacrificing Central Florida's remarkable wildlife and ecological environment. Through the creation and effective operation of the District, Walt Disney was able to turn 38.5 square miles of remote and largely uninhabited pasture and swamp land into a world-class tourist destination that welcomes millions of visitors every year.


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Microaggressions and More at the Olympic College's Diversity Conference
Olympic College Diversity Conference – Great Job!
Olympic College's first Diversity Conference was very well done, with so much good thought provoking information I am still processing it all.
What I enjoyed most about the conference were the two keynote speakers: Dr. Joy DeGruy and Yoshiko Harden.
The first keynote speaker was Dr. Joy DeGruy
From her website: "Dr. Joy DeGruy is a nationally and internationally renowned researcher, educator, author and presenter."
The topic of her presentation was Post Traumatic Slave
From the Olympic College Diversity Conference Program "The theory of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome suggest that centuries of slavery followed by systemic racism and oppression have resulted in mutigenerational adaptive behaviors – some of which have been positive and reflective of resilience, and others that are detrimental and destructive."
I was enlightened by her presentation and have bought her book on the subject, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing.
The second keynote was given by Yoshiko Harden, Vice President for Diversity at Bellevue College
Her speech title was "Good Intentions Aren't Enough; The Damaging Effects of Microaggressions"
Microaggression was a new concept to me, and some of you may not be familiar with it either.
From Wikipedia – "Microaggression is a theory that hypothesizes that specific interactions between those of different races, cultures, genders or sexual orientation can be interpreted as small acts of mostly non-physical aggression; the term was coined by Chester M. Pierce[1] in 1970."
From the Olympic College Diversity Conference Program: "Often it
is well intended, "nice" people who tend to perpetuate
According to the speech description "Participants will learn to identify both individual and institutional forms of microagressions, and learn practical and useful strategies to address, interrupt,a nd dismantle them." Yoshiko Harden's Keynote speech did all of that for me.
The topic of microaggressions found its way into a couple of the sessions, and I attended two of those.
One of the things I like about the idea of microagressions is it helps make sense of something I have seen and felt, but couldn't find a way to describe. One thing that comes to mind for me is how I feel when someone says to me "Wow, you are an engineer?! Good for you!" (Usually interpreted as 'you are smart for a woman') I also like that the concept helps break down our overwhelming anti-inclusion systems into bits we can makes sense of, and find ways to each make a real difference.
There were two videos presented at the conference that showed, in a humorous way, some examples of microagression.
What Kind of Asian Are You? (this video was posted just over a hear ago and has over 7 millions hits)
Top 100 – Things White People Say to Black People
There were so many good sessions, and I was impressed by the presenters.
I look forward to attending the Olympic College Diversity Conference next year!
~ Marcie


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This excerpt from "Two Sailors: Sea Shanties and Canal Boat Ballads" contains commentary by John A. Lomax as well as portions of a 1937 field interview between Lomax and Pearl R. Nye that took place in Akron, Ohio. "Two Sailors: Sea Shanties and Canal Boat Ballads" is one of 10 radio programs making up "The Ballad Hunter" radio series.
In 1941, the Rockefeller Foundation provided a grant to establish the Radio Research Project in the Library of the Congress. Archibald MacLeish, then Librarian of Congress, defined the Radio Research Project as a means "to find through experiments and research radio forms by which pertinent parts of the American culture maintained in the Library of Congress may be made available to the American people." Among the special radio programs prepared under the supervision of Philip H. Cohen, the Project's chief, in collaboration with Alan Lomax, was John Lomax's "The Ballad Hunter." The broadcasts were distributed on transcription discs to radio stations for several years.
All 10 of "The Ballad Hunter" programs are available in the American Folklife Center, Archive of Folk Culture. The "Related Resources" section of this Web site contains links to more detailed information about each program.


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BASSEM MROUE and ZEINA KARAM
Thursday, 26 March 2020 02:37 AM EDT
BEIRUT (AP) — Through 15 years of civil war and various bouts of violence since, Lebanon's Barbar eatery never closed its doors, serving up sandwiches to customers even if it meant doing so from behind sandbags.
The coronavirus pandemic, however, has managed to do what various wars could not: Close bars, restaurants and entertainment spots across the tiny Mediterranean country. It's an economic gut punch at a time when Lebanon is already mired in the worst financial crisis in its history.
While residents of many other countries are counting on a government bailout, that's not an option in the country teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.
"We have never gone through something like this — ever," said Barbar owner Ali Ghaziri, standing outside his shop on Beirut's normally busy Hamra street, now completely deserted.
Earlier this month, heeding orders from the government amid the spread of the new coronavirus, Ghaziri closed the iconic chain's two branches in Beirut, leaving only its delivery service operating.
Nearby, in Beirut's Gemayzeh neighborhood, pubs and restaurants usually spilling onto the street with noisy, beer-toting youngsters are shuttered. Even Lebanon's famous corniche, usually dotted with coffee vans, corn-on-the-cob vendors and people doing their morning exercise, is now empty.
Lebanon has suffered in recent years from a lack of economic growth, high unemployment and a drop in hard currency inflows from abroad. But the financial crisis erupted after nationwide protests over widespread corruption and decades of mismanagement by the ruling political class engulfed the country in October.
That in turn has led to bank closures and crippling capital controls on cash withdrawals and transfers, raising fears about depositors' savings in U.S. dollars. The local currency has already lost up to 60% of its value on the dollar on the black market.
Earlier this month, as the crisis deepened, the government announced it would no longer pay its foreign loans, marking the country's first-ever default amid ongoing popular unrest.
Among the sectors hardest hit by the crisis has been the food and beverage sector, a mainstay of Lebanon's economy.
Between September and December 2019, more than 800 food and beverage institutions closed and around 25,000 people — or 17% of those who work in the sector — lost their jobs, according to various estimates. In January, a further 200 institutions closed.
The Lebanese government ordered the lockdown in mid-March, closing its only international airport as well as ports and land border crossings until March 29. Restaurants and night clubs were also ordered closed in a severe blow to one of the most vital sectors in Lebanon, known for its cuisine and bustling night life.
"We reached a point where we were hit by one catastrophe after the other, and when we reached the coronavirus crisis we had no more reserves at all," said Maya Bekhazi Noun, general secretary of the syndicate for restaurant owners.
"We were at the bottom, bottom, bottom, taking the last breath," she said. "This now was a mortal blow to the sector."
Unlike in other countries under lockdowns, where banks remained open, the banking association in Lebanon decided to defy government orders and close for two weeks, in an apparent effort to preserve liquidity.
"It's going to be devastating on the economy in the short-term and the long-term," said economist Kamel Wazni, speaking about businesses that have closed. "There's going to be a lot of pain among many sectors of the economy."
He said the government will also be affected since it will not be able to collect taxes, further increasing the budget deficit.
Lebanon's prime minister has acknowledged that the state is struggling to tackle the coronavirus fallout amid the crippling crisis. In a report this week, Human Rights Watch said Lebanon's financial crisis and dollar shortage has resulted in a scarcity of medical supplies necessary to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak
While governments abroad scramble to approve stimulus packages to compensate for lost businesses, experts here warn of extremely dire times ahead with no potential for bailouts. Government officials have said they are not seeking an IMF bailout for now, fearing it would come with conditions that would be too painful.
Ghaziri, the owner of Barbar, said he is worried about his staff, 75% of whom he had to send home after sales dropped 75%.
His father founded the Barbar chain — a household name in Lebanon — in 1979, four years after the country's 15-year civil war erupted. The eatery continued to serve up kebabs, shawarma and other treats throughout the conflict and various other wars. They closed for a few hours only when Ghaziri's grandfather passed away and in 2005 for the funeral of the late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri after he was assassinated.
"During the civil war, there were street battles. So, you could talk yourself out of problems. Now you cannot do anything," Ghaziri said of the coronavirus.
Some 220,000 people have lost their jobs in Lebanon since October, according to a survey released last month by information provider InfoPro.
InfoPro said the number of companies that have closed increased by 20% between November and January. One third of all companies have reduced their work force by 60%.
The World Bank had projected 0.2% negative growth in 2020 before the protests began in October but more recent estimates suggest the contraction in the country's economy could be more than 1% of GDP.
Prime Minister Hassan Diab, whose government is negotiating debt restructuring, said Lebanon's debt reached $90 billion or 170% of GDP, making it one of the highest in the world.
According to government estimates, about half of Lebanon's population could end up living below poverty levels.
Ali Badran lost his job at the restaurant where he worked for 11 years in October as a result of the crisis. He was left jobless just as he was preparing to marry his longtime fiance in a few months.
With no income, the 36-year-old stopped renovation work in the apartment he bought and started looking for a new job as of late October. That was days after massive nationwide protests broke out against the country's political elite.
On March 1, he started a new job at another restaurant in Beirut but now he is worried the lockdown means he could be laid off again.
"I am worried that if things stay as they are I might lose my new job," he said.
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Views on atheists
Concerning various views on atheists, sociological research indicates that atheists are widely distrusted in both religious cultures and nonreligious cultures.[3][4][5][6] According to a study published in the International Journal for The Psychology of Religion: "anti-atheist prejudice is not confined either to dominantly religious countries or to religious individuals, but rather appears to be a robust judgment about atheists."[5] The study found that many atheists do not trust other atheists as well.[5]
Dr. Sam Harris is one of the founders of the New Atheism movement. Sam Harris is quite aware of the stigma surrounding atheism and has even advocated that atheists no longer call themselves atheists.[2][1] In fact, Harris has said concerning the label of atheist, "It's right next to child molester as a designation."[2][1] See also: Atheism and social outcasts and Closet atheist
Furthermore, atheism is often associated with immorality (see: Atheism and morality). In addition, historically atheists have frequently behaved in immoral manner (See: Atheist population and immorality).
Due to the stigma of the label of atheist, it is common for atheists to choose to call themselves skeptics, nonbelievers, humanists and freethinkers[7] Individuals of Jewish descent often call themselves secular Jews or simply Jews rather than call themselves atheists.[7] See also: Closet atheist
Various atheists have attempted to change the public's perception of atheism and atheists, but their efforts were largely unsuccessful (see: Attempts to positively rebrand atheism).
- 1 2017 Pew Research report on how Americans felt about atheists
- 2 UK study finds atheists widely distrusted - even among themselves
- 3 University of Minnesota study on American views towards atheists
- 4 2011 poll: Americans and Canadians distrust atheists as much as rapists
- 5 Atheism is significantly less appealing to women
- 6 American racial minority views of atheism
- 7 Religious groups in America and their views on atheists
- 8 Hate crimes in the United States against atheists/agnostics are very low in number
- 9 Atheism and public relations efforts
- 10 Atheophobia
- 11 Study shows that thinking about atheism increases Americans thoughts about death
- 12 Nordic Psychology journal article on public's perception of atheists
- 13 Militant atheists and the War on Christmas
- 14 Christian patience, forgiveness and long-suffering towards atheists
- 15 Quote
- 16 See also
- 17 External links
- 18 Notes
2017 Pew Research report on how Americans felt about atheists
In 2017, Pew Research reported, "While Americans still feel coolest toward Muslims and atheists, mean ratings for these two groups increased from a somewhat chilly 40 and 41 degrees, respectively, to more neutral ratings of 48 and 50."[8]
UK study finds atheists widely distrusted - even among themselves
See also: Distrust of atheists and Atheist factions and Atheism and morality
In 2015, the Christian Post reported in a story entitled Atheists Widely Distrusted, Even Among Themselves, UK Study Finds:
| Distrust of atheists is "deeply and culturally ingrained" among people, and even many atheists are not able to trust each other, according to a new study carried out by the psychology department at Nottingham Trent University in England.
Published in the International Journal for The Psychology of Religion, the study, "The Robustness of Anti-Atheist Prejudice as Measured by Way of Cognitive Errors," was conducted with 100 participants from the U.K. ....
The study shows that "anti-atheist prejudice is not confined either to dominantly religious countries or to religious individuals, but rather appears to be a robust judgment about atheists."[4]
The Independent reports about the participants of the study:
| Professor Leah Giddings and Thomas Dunn led the study with 100 online participants from the United Kingdom, 70 of whom were women and whose average age was 21.
A total of 43 per cent of the contributors were atheist, 33 per cent were Christian and the remainder belonged to other faiths.[5]
Theodore Beale says about atheists not trusting other atheists: "The reason most atheists trust fellow atheists less than anyone else is because they recognize their own lack of integrity and morality."[9]
University of Minnesota study on American views towards atheists
See also: American atheism
A 2006 University of Minnesota about American views of atheists reported:
|Some people view atheists as problematic because they associate them with illegality, such as drug use and prostitution--that is, with immoral people who threaten respectable community from the lower end of the status hierarchy. Others saw atheists as rampant materialists and cultural elitists that threaten common values from above--the ostentatiously wealthy who make a lifestyle out of consumption or the cultural elites who think they know better than everyone else. Both of these themes rest on a view of atheists as self-interested individualists who are not concerned with the common good.[11][12][13]
The Barna Group found that atheists and agnostics in America were more likely, than theists in America, to look upon the following behaviors as morally acceptable: illegal drug use; excessive drinking; sexual relationships outside of marriage; abortion; cohabitating with someone of opposite sex outside of marriage; obscene language; gambling; pornography and obscene sexual behavior; and engaging in homosexuality/bisexuality.[14]
For more information, please see:
American views on atheists: Results of University of Minnesota study
Study: Atheists As "Other": Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership in American Society, Penny Edgell, Joseph Gerteis, Douglas Hartmann, University of Minnesota, 2006
A table of the results of the study is found below.
| This group does not at all agree with
my vision of American society:
| I would disapprove if my child wanted
to marry a member of this group:
|Conservative Christian
|Recent Immigrant
|Not Asked
|Asian American
|African American
|White American
University of Minnesota indicates that American dislike of atheists grew
A 2016 press release of a University of Minnesota study on atheists reported:
| Survey data collected in 2014 shows that, compared to data collected in 2003, Americans have sharpened their negative views of atheists...
The findings of this most recent survey support the argument that atheists are persistent cultural outsiders in the United States because they are perceived to have rejected cultural values and practices understood as essential to private morality, civic virtue, and national identity. Moreover, any refusal to embrace a religious identity of any type is troubling for a large portion of Americans.[15]
The atheist Dan Arel reported:
| In 2014, Pew Research found that atheists ranked down at the bottom of the list, only 1 point above Muslims as the least trusted religious demographic in the United States...
Now, according to a new study released by University of Minnesota sociologists shows that today, atheists are the most disliked.
The study compared a previous 2003 study with the new study, originally conducted in 2014, and found that Americans have only sharpened their dislike for atheists and religious nones.[16]
According the American atheist author Kevin Davis, atheism has an "unshakeable stigma".[17]
Sociology of "atheism is un-American" view
See also: Sociology of "atheism is un-American" view
The 2013 Freedom of Thought report published the International Humanist and Ethical Union indicates: "...the U.S. has long been home to a social and political atmosphere in which atheists and the non-religious are made to feel like lesser Americans or non-Americans."[18]
The sociologist Phil Zuckerman, who is an atheist, wrote in his Psychology Today article Why Americans Hate Atheists:
| 1. Americans equate a lack of religiosity in general – or atheism specifically – with immorality.
2. Americans equate a lack of religiosity in general – or atheism specifically – with being un-American and/or unpatriotic.
3. There is no stigma concerning the expressed dislike of the non-religious. While there is a stigma (to varying degrees, depending on one's social milieu) attached to being racist, or anti-Semitic, or Islamophobic... – there has never existed a social or cultural backlash against people who openly express disdain for secular folks. So people simply feel much more comfortable expressing their dislike for atheists than, say, Latinas/os or women.[19]
2011 poll: Americans and Canadians distrust atheists as much as rapists
See also: Distrust of atheists and Atheism and rape and Atheism and social outcasts
On December 10, 2011, USA Today reported in a story entitled Study: Atheists distrusted as much as rapists:
| The study, conducted among 350 Americans adults and 420 Canadian college students, asked participants to decide if a fictional driver damaged a parked car and left the scene, then found a wallet and took the money, was the driver more likely to be a teacher, an atheist teacher, or a rapist teacher?
The participants, who were from religious and nonreligious backgrounds, most often chose the atheist teacher.
The study is part of an attempt to understand what needs religion fulfills in people. Among the conclusions is a sense of trust in others.
"People find atheists very suspect," Shariff said. "They don't fear God so we should distrust them; they do not have the same moral obligations of others. This is a common refrain against atheists. People fear them as a group."[3]
See also:
2015 poll: Canadians' view of atheists
See also: Distrust of atheists
A 2015 poll of 3,041 Canadians conducted by Angus Reid Institute and Dr. Reginald Bibby of the University of Lethbridge found that 27% of Canadians had an unfavorable view of atheists while 27% of Canadians had an favorable view of atheists (the remainder were neutral).[21]
Atheism is significantly less appealing to women
See also: Atheism and women and Atheism and marriageability
Survey data and website tracking data of prominent atheists' websites indicate that in the Western World, atheism is significantly less appealing to women.[22][23][24]
American racial minority views of atheism
See also: Western atheism and race
In 2015, BloombergView reported concerning the United States:
| According to a much-discussed 2012 report from the Pew Research Center on Religion and Public Life, only 3 percent of U.S. atheists and agnostics are black, 6 percent are Hispanic, and 4 percent are Asian. Some 82 percent are white. (The relevant figures for the population at large at the time of the survey were 66 percent white, 11 percent black, 15 percent Hispanic, 5 percent Asian.)
...Craig Keener, in his huge review of claims of miracles in a wide variety of cultures, concludes that routine rejection of the possibility of the supernatural represents an impulse that is deeply Eurocentric.[25]
In the United States, blacks have the highest rate of religiosity.[26] Among Hispanics, religion has traditionally played a significant role in daily activity.[27]
Religious groups in America and their views on atheists
Pew Forum reported about various religious groups in America and their views on atheists:
|We asked Americans to rate eight religious groups on a "feeling thermometer" from 0 to 100, with higher numbers indicating warmer, more positive feelings and lower numbers indicating colder, more negative feelings. On average, Catholics give atheists a rating of 38, and Protestants give them a frosty 32 – lower than either group's ratings for Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, Mormons or Muslims. White evangelical Protestants express particularly cold feelings toward atheists, with an average thermometer reading of 25.[28]
Hate crimes in the United States against atheists/agnostics are very low in number
See also: Persecution of atheists
According to a 2007 Pew Forum survey, about 4% of Americans are atheists/agnostics.[29] A 2008 Gallup poll showed that 6% of the U.S. population believed that no god or universal spirit exists.[30]
According to 2013 FBI statistics, 6/10 of a percent of hate crimes were against atheists/agnostics.[31][32]
Atheism and public relations efforts
See also: Atheism and public relations
The biggest challenge facing atheist public relations efforts is that most theists do not think about atheism and would prefer not to as they it is an unreasonable, arrogant and unattractive worldview. As a result, many atheist campaigns, particularly one's by militant atheists, are designed to be provocative which has the effect of further lowering the public's view of atheism/atheists (see: Atheism and public relations).
In areas of the Western World where theists are in the majority, atheists on the left end of the political spectrum, using the strategy of identity politics, have made various attempts to portray atheists as an oppressed minority, but this has not much lessoned the low opinion and/or antipathy many theists hold towards atheists for multiple reasons.[34]
For example, the atheist population in the United States is skewed towards white, atheist men in both adherents and positions of influence within the atheist community (see: Western atheism and race and Atheism and women). So it is difficult for atheists to portray themselves as an oppressed minority.
Secondly, historically atheists have often used oppressive governmental actions to promote their ideology/worldview (see: Militant atheism and Suppression of alternatives to evolution and Atheism and mass murder). And atheists are not known for the empathy and charitableness (see: Atheism and uncharitableness). And in many cases atheists organizations have acted in a manner that displays an emotional tone deafness for the consequences it will have on public opinion (lawsuit to remove a grieving mother's roadside cross erected in memory of her late son who died in an accident, attempted removal of the World Trade Center cross, lawsuits to remove beloved community Christmas manger scenes, etc.).[35][36]
Furthermore, atheists have earned a reputation for arrogance and quarrelsomeness (see: Atheism and arrogance and Atheism and social intelligence and Atheist factions).
In addition, atheism is seen as symptom of moral decay and atheists have often promoted and engaged in immorality (see: Atheism and morality and Atheist population and immorality).
Another problem the atheist community faces in terms of its public perception is its intellectual cowardice that first became noticeable within the Western World since the 1980s and has continued to the present (see: Atheism and cowardice).
Liberal media - apostles of atheism
The Media Research Center released a study in 2008 reporting pro-atheism bias by major press outlets in the United States.[37] The study is not surprising given the liberal bias that commonly exists in the major media outlets.
Atheophobia is a fear and/or hatred of atheism/atheists.[38][39] For a number of moral/practical reasons, fear of atheism/atheists is unwarranted. For more information, please see: Atheophobia.
Study shows that thinking about atheism increases Americans thoughts about death
See also: Atheism and death
A study by done at the College of Staten Island by Corey Cook involving 236 participants found that when people thought about atheism it increased their thoughts about death (this was also true for the atheists in the study as well).[41] Furthermore, When study participants thought about atheism, it activated concern about death to the same degree as actually thinking about death.[41]
Dislike of atheists and atheism inspiring thoughts about death
In the United States, studies show that atheists are frequently held in low regard (See: Views on atheists). The prominent New Atheist Sam Harris said concerning the label of atheist, "It's right next to child molester as a designation."[1]
Discover magazine wrote about Cook's study:
|These death thoughts help trigger a subconscious dislike of atheists, said study leader Corey Cook, a social psychologist at the University of Washington, Tacoma. Not only do thoughts of death put people in a negative frame of mind, Cook told Live Science, but they also prompt people to hold more tightly onto their own values.[42]
Nordic Psychology journal article on public's perception of atheists
The abstract for the 2016 journal article entitled Atheism and how it is perceived: Manipulation of, bias against and ways to reduce the bias which was published in the journal Nordic Psychology indicates: "...atheists are distrusted, elicit disgust and are viewed as immoral both explicitly and implicitly".[43]
Militant atheists and the War on Christmas
See also: Atheism and Christmas
Militant atheists often deepen the unfavorable view of atheists that many have due to the War on Christmas controversies.
Robert Small wrote in his American Thinker article entitled Self-Righteous Atheists Are Misguided Killjoys:
| It's that time of year again. 'T'is the season to be jolly -- or, if you're an atheist activist, to throw a wet blanket over the holidays.
In California, long the birthplace of national trends, they succeeded in getting a federal judge to ban not only Nativity scenes, but also secular displays from Santa Monica's Palisades Park. Un-decking the public halls and squares is becoming our new national tradition, because equal-opportunity speech isn't good enough for self-righteous atheists. They won't rest until all remnants of our Judeo-Christian heritage are wiped clean from civic life in their quest for secular purity.[44]
Christian patience, forgiveness and long-suffering towards atheists
See also: Christian patience, forgiveness and long-suffering towards atheists
Although it is not reported in the press often, due the press preferring to focus on controversy and conflict, as it garners more viewership/readers, many Christians quietly pray for atheists/agnostics - even those of the militant variety such as Richard Dawkins.[45] The late atheist Christopher Hitchens had many Christians praying for him before he passed away and they were saddened when he died.[46]
Richard Wurmbrand, who endured years of torture by an atheistic communist government and wrote the wrote the book Tortured for Christ, indicated that he had a compassion even for those who tortured him by "looking at men .. not as they are, but as they will be ... I could also see in our persecutors ... a future Apostle Paul ... (and) the jailer in Philippi who became a convert."[47]
Jesus Christ said pray for those who persecute you and love your enemies (Matthew 5:44).
See also: Atheism quotes and Atheism and arrogance
"These days, barely a week passes without the emergence of yet more evidence that atheists are the most irritating people on Earth." - the atheist Brendan O'Neill, The Telegraph, "How Atheists Became the Most Colossally Smug and Annoying People on the Planet", August 14, 2013 [48]
See also
- Atheists and unreasonableness
- Stigma of atheism
- Atheist stereotypes
- Atheism statistics
- Atheist Population
- We Are Atheism
- Desecularization and social conformity
External links
- Americans still have negative opinions of atheists
- How Americans Feel About Religious Groups, Pew Forum
- Atheists and Other Cultural Outsiders: Moral Boundaries and the Non-Religious in the United States
- How distrust of unbelievers runs deep in American history
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Roberts, Jessica, et al. (June 19, 2007). "Interview with an atheist". News21. Retrieved on July 30, 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 NEWSWEEK Poll: 90% Believe in God, Newsweek 2007
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Study: Atheists distrusted as much as rapists
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Atheists Widely Distrusted, Even Among Themselves, UK Study Finds, Christian Post, 2015
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Anti-atheist distrust 'deeply and culturally ingrained', study finds, The Independent, 2015
- ↑ Edgell, Gerteis & Hartmann 2006
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Atheist, Humanist, Secular: Why Fight Over Labels? by Roy Speckhardt. HuffPost Religion
- ↑ Americans Express Increasingly Warm Feelings Toward Religious Groups, Pew Research, 2017
- ↑ Fun with atheists by Vox Day (Theodore Beale)
- ↑ Reflections on the skeptic and atheist movements By Massimo Pigliucci Scientia Salon, Posted: May 13, 2015
- ↑ Atheism and Secularity edited by Phil Zuckerman, page 84
- ↑ Atheists As "Other": Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership in American Society, Penny Edgell, Joseph Gerteis, Douglas Hartmann, University of Minnesota, 2006
- ↑ Atheists As "Other": Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership in American Society, Penny Edgell, Joseph Gerteis, Douglas Hartmann, University of Minnesota, 2006
- ↑ http://www.barna.org/barna-update/article/5-barna-update/58-practical-outcomes-replace-biblical-principles-as-the-moral-standard
- ↑ Atheists Remain Most Disliked Religious Minority in the US
- ↑ Study: Atheists remain the most disliked religious minority in the U.S.
- ↑ An Atheist Walks into a Christian Meeting about Atheism by Kevin Davis
- ↑ 2013 Freedom of Thought by International Humanist and Ethical Union
- ↑ Why Americans Hate Atheists by Phil Zuckerman
- ↑ Multiple references:
- Kosmin, Barry A., et al. (2008). "American nones: Profile of the no religion population". American Religion Survey website [Trinity College, Hartford, CT]. Retrieved from Internet Archive.
- Britt, Robert Roy (February 28, 2009). "Women more religious than men". Live Science website.
- ↑ A God? That's complicated. Canadians hanging on to personal faith as organized religion declines: poll , National Post, 2015
- ↑ http://www.americanreligionsurvey-aris.org/reports/NONES_08.pdf
- ↑ http://www.livescience.com/culture/090227-religion-men-women.html
- ↑ http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism_appears_to_be_significantly_less_appealing_to_women
- ↑ The Atheism Gap By Stephen L. Carter, BloombergView, Mar 27, 2015 4:26 PM EDT
- ↑ Gallup: Blacks Most Religious Group in U.S.
- ↑ Understanding Hispanic culture
- ↑ U.S. evangelical Christians are chilly toward atheists – and the feeling is mutual
- ↑ Pew Forum Religious Landscape Survey - Key findings
- ↑ Belief in God Far Lower in Western U.S. Gallup.com. Retrieved on 2012-02-05.
- ↑ 2013 FBI hate crime statistics
- ↑ Atheism: The Next Civil Rights movement, Vlad Chituc, The Daily Beast, 4-6-2015
- ↑
- Richard Dawkins: Atheism's asset or liability? by Kimberly Winston, Washington Post, source: Religion News Service, August 7, 2014
- The Closed Mind of Richard Dawkins, New Republic by John Gray
- Jennifer McCreight on the Twitter about the Elevatorgate scandal
- Down's Syndrome girl passes six GCSEs as dad calls Richard Dawkins 'an ignorant idiot', Mirror by By Grace Macaskill, Aug 23, 2014 15:41
- The 12-Stage 'Evolution' Of A Richard Dawkins Twitter Scandal by Paul Vale, The Huffington Post UK, Posted: 22/08/2014 02:06 BST
- ↑ Disliked, not oppressed By Paul Thornton, LA Times, April 7, 2007
- ↑ Atheists Demand Grieving Mom Take Down Cross Remembering Her Son by David French, Christian Post, March 13, 2014
- ↑ http://articles.cnn.com/2011-07-26/us/new.york.wtc.cross_1_atheist-group-american-atheists-cross?_s=PM:US
- ↑ "Smoking gun proof that there is an atheist media bias" (July 17, 2008). YouTube video, 2:56, posted by Atheism Sucks! Retrieved on July 25, 2014.
- ↑ Atheophobia
- ↑ Definition of atheophobia at Allwords.com
- ↑ Fear of death: worst if you're a little religious?, World of Science]
- J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2005, Jul;60(4):P207-14. Does religiousness buffer against the fear of death and dying in late adulthood? Findings from a longitudinal study. Wink P1, Scott J.
- ↑ 41.0 41.1 Atheism Terrifies People Because It Makes Us Think About Death by Simon Davis, Vice News, May 11, 2015
- ↑ Atheists Inspire Thoughts of Death in Many Americans by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience, Discover magazine, May 23, 2015 09:25 AM ET
- ↑ Atheism and how it is perceived: Manipulation of, bias against and ways to reduce the bias by Gerhard Andersson, Nordic Psychology 68(3):1-10 · January 2016, DOI: 10.1080/19012276.2015.1125304
- ↑ Self-Righteous Atheists Are Misguided Killjoys by Robert Small, Amnerican Thinker
- ↑ Richard Dawkins upset that public doesn't like him by Warren Nunn, Published by Creation Ministries International 13 May 2014 (GMT+10)
- ↑ Christians Grieve Death of Christopher Hitchens; Share Hopes for Deathbed Conversion by Eryn Sun, Christian Post Reporter, December 16, 2011
- ↑ dc Talk and The Voice of the Martyrs. Jesus Freaks: Stories of those who stood for Jesus: the ultimate Jesus Freaks. Bethany House Publishers, 1999, p. 67
- ↑ O'Neill, Brendan (August 14, 2013). "How atheists became the most colossally smug and annoying people on the planet". The Telegraph website/Brendan O'Neill [blog]. Retrieved on October 3, 2014. [atheist author]


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[EDITOR'S NOTE: Nerdist News' Brian Walton and Dan Casey are at the DICE 2013 conference in Las Vegas to report on the event. Here's Brian's coverage of the J.J. Abrams-Gabe Newell event from earlier today]
DICE 2013 kicked off this morning with a conversation between two titans of storytelling. J.J. Abrams, director of blockbusters Star Trek, Super 8 and the forthcoming Star Wars Episode VII, sat down with Gabe Newell, the visionary mind behind Half-Life, Steam and the recently confirmed Half-Life 3 (kidding, breathe), to discuss how the audience benefits when their respective mediums collaborate and connect. What we didn't know was an announcement would be made almost as an afterthought.
The conversation started with J.J. giving a pretty detailed presentation on storytelling. This didn't last long, as Gabe interrupted to say that games put that agency back in the the hand of the audience. As an example of a movie locking characters into decisions no one would make in a game Gabe asked that a clip of Cloverfield be played. Abrams responded to the clip, âThat was pretty good,â but Gaben wasn't sold. âPut the camera down and fucking run. You wonât let me do that."
J.J. countered Gabe's assertions with a clip from Half-Life 2. Abrams said, âPlayers are often dragging the scene in the wrong direction.â The clip he used from Half-Life conveyed this by controlling the character in a way that when Gordon Freeman should have been paying attention to what's been happening in the world, the player was distracted by throwing books and teleporting plants. Gaben responded that at least the players were "being the architects of their own amusement." The point/counterpoint was getting to be pretty damned fun.
Throughout the rest of the panel, J.J. used clips from movies like Jaws (for foreshadowing), Die Hard (character development), and Star Trek (easter eggs) to make his points while Gabe showed clips of Portal 2's Wheatley (foreshadowing the potato) and Dog's intro in Half-Life 2 (Character development). As he was trying to illustrate game replayability vs. film rewatchability, J.J. shifted to talking about some of the Easter eggs he likes to include in scenes and showed a clip from Star Trek that featured the Enterprise coming out of warp in a battle. After watching the clip, he had it rewound and showed it again while zooming in to focus on a little astromech droid from another franchise with which J.J. is now strongly associated. If you weren't already aware, R2D2 is hidden amongst the wreckage in Star Trek. âNow I have to go back through your movies looking through debris to figure out what youâre going to direct next?,â complained Newell.
After about 30 minutes of discussing what movies and video games borrow from each other, Abrams and Newell made an announcement that no one saw coming. As Nerdist News' Dan Casey first reported this morning, Bad Robot and Valve are partnering to pursue Portal and Half-Life films as well as games based on Bad Robot ideas. Gaben delivered the news at the end of the conversation in a pretty low-key way that made it seem like less of a big deal than it really is. We're going to see GLADoS and Chell on the big screen. Gordon Freeman will battle through Black Mesa in cinemas. J.J. Abrams is not leaving any of the things we're passionate about to other directors.
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Mt Wittenberg - Point Reyes' highest point - rises unassumingly from the Inverness Ridge, a topographical demarcation between coastal and inland facing-slopes that influences local weather patterns and ecological compositions. Visitors will enjoy commanding views of Drakes Bay, Olema Valley and miles of coastal headlands from its open, rounded summit. The shortest (albeit steepest) route begins at the Bear Valley Visitor Center and ventures off on a challenging push up the Mt Wittenberg Trail.
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|Mt Wittenberg via the Mt Wittenberg Trail
Mt Wittenberg via the Meadow Trail
A pair of black tailed deer feed near the Bear Valley Trailhead in Point Reyes National Seashore
The Mt Wittenberg Trail winds through lush, dense forest complemented by a fern dominated understory
Views from the trail are few and far between - some of the best occur at the summit trail junction
The Mt Wittenberg Trail ascends aggressively through healthy pine forests
Black Tailed Deer are one of two natural species in CA - the Fallow Deer was brought here by Europeans
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CLEVELAND, May 13 (UPI) -- Justin Masterson pitched a complete-game four-hitter Monday in the Cleveland Indians' 1-0 win over the New York Yankees in the first game of a doubleheader.
The Yankees made a one-day stop Monday in Cleveland to make up two games postponed because of poor weather in April. The win in the first game marked the Indians 13th win in 15 games and broke the Yankees' five-game winning streak.
Masterson (6-2) allowed four singles and three walks while striking out nine, including getting Vernon Well swinging to end the game. It was his third career shutout.
He retired the first five batters he faced but the Yankees used two base hits and a walk to load the bases. Masterson responded with a six-pitch strikeout of Alberto Gonzalez.
New York managed just two hits, one of which came with two outs in the ninth, the rest of the way.
Cleveland had only five hits but the first one produced the game's only run as Jason Kipnis connected in the first inning for a high, long drive into the right-field seats for his fifth home run.
That put the loss on David Phelps (1-2), who allowed four hits and five walks over 6 1/3 innings. He also struck out seven.


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The month of July has been hot, contentious, and sweaty, filled with stubborn disputes and clashing opinions. (Shopping for a wedding dress really sucks!) And yet week after week, the vows must go on. And you can be sure when they do that the New York Times will be there to judge.
Using the proprietary and highly scientific NUPTIALS algorithm, I sifted through the past month's weddings to determine which couples best exemplify the lofty ideals of the Paper of Record's social strata. Which unions of souls are the most blessed? Here, the top 10 scorers this month:
Note: The numbers represent point totals in each of the components — Names, Universities, Parents, Tropes, Identifiers, Avocations, Locales, Special Situations — of the NUPTIALS score. The total score is shown in (bold).
10. Julia Levy & Ari Edelson
(-1)-11-10-0-1-1-4-2 (28)
Best sentence: "Her favorite [cookie], chocolate-chip walnut, had a 'yes' sign in all capital letters, and her least favorite, oatmeal raisin, intentionally overdone and smaller than the rest, read 'no.'"
9. Irene Janis & Christopher Skowronek
2-18-4-0-0-5-0-0 (29)
Best sentence: "Irene Belle Janis and Christopher Casimir Skowronek were married Saturday afternoon at the Chequessett Yacht and Country Club in Wellfleet, Mass."
8. Nicole Oncina & Jeffrey Bernstein
(-1)-13-5-1-2-3-1-5 (29)
Best sentence: "Over the next two hours they talked about her thesis on Italian futurism and how it overlapped with music and engineering, particularly 'machinery, speed and power,' he said."
7. Pooja Sinha & Nils Skogstad
1-14-6-0-1-4-2-2 (30)
Best sentence: "'He took me sailing in the Oslo fjord and hiking in Patagonia,' she said. 'I took him to see Delacroix at the Prado and to explore the palatial ruins of Split. I also taught him how to play tennis, though I beat him every time!'"
6. Alice Goldman & Benjamin Reiter
0-15-11-0-0-2-3-0 (31)
Best sentence: "The bride, 28, and the bridegroom, 30, met at Yale, from which they both graduated, he cum laude."
5. Daphne Butler & Laurence Birdsey
8-8-4-0-3-4-1-3 (31)
Best sentence: "Daphne Pauline Butler, a daughter of Marie-Claude Gervais Butler and Frederick Joseph Cox Butler of New York, was married Saturday to Laurence Hart Birdsey, a son of Brenda Hicks Birdsey and the Rev. Robert Bruce Birdsey of Richmond, Va. "
4. Rebecca Bergman & Whitney Bull
4-4-11-0-0-3-10-0 (32)
Best sentence: "The bridegroom's maternal grandfather is the furniture designer and manufacturer Jens Risom, who lives in New Canaan."
3. Christina Angelides & Zachary Kanin
1-11-12-0-1-4-2-1 (32)
Best sentence: "[The bride's father] was, until February, the chairman of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. Until 2006, he was the state treasurer of California."
2. Rebecca Krauss & Benjamin Taibleson
0-16-3-3-4-3-2-5 (36)
Best sentence: "They parted ways, but that summer they were reunited in Dubrovnik, Croatia, for a backpacking tour through 15 countries, and after attending their respective law schools for a year, Ms. Krauss decided to join Mr. Taibleson at Yale."
1. Charlene Wittstock & Prince Albert II
13-2-5-0-0-7-3-10 (40)
Best sentence: "The ceremony, held in the throne room of the palace in Monte Carlo, was the first for a ruling prince since 1956, when the bridegroom's father, Prince Rainier III, married Grace Kelly."
A few observations, beginning at the top with the true gem of the genre: the royal wedding. We've been spoiled as a globe over the past year or so with the uptick in monarchical matrimony — Waity Katie, the Swedes — but Monaco outdoes them all. I tried to put a check mark next to the best sentence of every announcement, but by the time I got to the end of this one I had a check mark next to ALL of the sentences. There's the obligatory Grace Kelly cameo, the rare description of the bride's dress (Chanel), the detail that the pair met "at an international swimming meet in Monaco over which the prince presided," — and this delicious bit of intrigue:
"The Grimaldi family has held the throne in Monaco since 1297; the couple's children would be in the line of succession. The prince, not previously married, has a son, Alexandre, and a daughter, Jazmin Grace, with other women, but neither child is in the line of succession."
Yikes, poor Alexandre! Anyway, did you know that the collective for Monaco is "Monégasque?" 'Cause now you do.
This month's leaderboard teaches us that if you can't be part of the royal Monégasque family, you should make sure to go to Yale. Half of the top-six couples have New Haven connections — although unlike some of the other Yalies, no. 2 Rebecca Krauss and Benjamin Taibleson did not meet each other on campus: "The couple met in April 2007 in Katmandu, Nepal, at the start of a trek to the base camp of Mount Everest." (Their dads met in the immigration line and decided to set them up; the story that ensues involves toilet paper and is borderline Gift of the Magi.) Still, it all comes back to Yale: She went there for both undergrad and law school, and he was twice the editor of the Yale Law Journal.
But, as in life, you can't escape Harvard. This 27-year-old couple first began dating there (meeting as undergrads is a big way to boost points; it shows a seriousness of purpose and mature foresight), perhaps upon realizing that they had something important in common: parents with jobs in government financing oversight. Anyway, I liked that they had an officiant named "Pippi Kessler." Oh, and "staff cartoonist at The New Yorker?" Christ, what an asshole.
Scanning the rest of the elite list: You kind of have to admire the Norwegian-word-for-moxie — mjokjee? — of Nils Skogstad, who upon meeting Pooja Sinha at a dinner party told her: "I'm sure I've visited India more times than you have." But on the other side of the spectrum: Poor Jeffrey Bernstein, forever immortalized thusly, in the pages of the world's most widely read newspaper:
"'Jeff walked in with three girls,' said Ms. Oncina, who could not help noticing that his collar was preppily popped. 'It was very cinematic; he was flanked by these women.'"
Thanks, wife.
Of the top 10, no. 6 couple Daphne Butler and Laurence Birdsey are by far the most well-rounded, earning points in every category but one and making a particularly strong showing on the "Identifiers" front, what with an "Episcopal priest," a "by-the-sea," and a "Maine." Also, I don't know why, but something about this sentence killed me: "The bride's father is a managing director and an investment banker at Bentley Associates, a New York investment bank." (Speaking of vague-sounding job descriptions, the best of the month goes to groom Gordon Holmes: "Mr. Holmes, 42, is a managing director, finding and managing investments in various industries.")
The Butler-Birdsey wedding had one of the highest point totals on the name front, but names alone weren't enough to catapult a couple into the top 10. Some worthy of particular mention: Evan Ballam Abanor Woolley sounds like either a church hymn or the names of four crime-fighting owls. (The plot thickens when we get to his parents: Susan Ballam Woolley Abanor and Harold Spring Abanor Woolley. I don't ? Are they ? Maybe I'll ask around at the Pilgrim Hopkins Heritage Society.) I'm not too mature to point out that this bride's name will soon become Alicia King Salmon. I can't decide what I like more here: the name "Walter Ivey Delph III" or the terrifying but accurate description of his employer, News Corp., as "the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch." And this kid might be only 24 years old, but he's already got himself a Harvard diploma, a classmate bride, and a descriptor like this:
"Mr. Foushee is known as Hampton."
Seriously, I'm that's amazing.
There are so many beyond-beyond weddings that didn't make the cut that I don't even know where to begin, but here are a few scattered thoughts:
• I love that Amy Sohn wrote this featured story about a gourmet-food-store cashier and a down-on-his-luck BusinessWeek writer, because it reads exactly like something out of her novel Prospect Park West.
• I want to form a groom supergroup that includes John Rabb, a professional drummer with his band, BioDiesel, and a maker of "hickory drumsticks," and Micah Ball, "a member of Sizemo, a jazz fusion band" who "plays the ztar, an electronic instrument."
• I can't do this featured "Vows" column justice, you really have to just read it. Here's a small sampling: "Although she often discusses serious topics — banning nuclear weapons, the conditions at prison camps — she has a way of treading across them very lightly, like a deer."
• Corrections in the weddings section are always a hoot — you can just imagine some furious mother-in-law writing in, half-suspecting that that little gold-digging tramp of a daughter-in-law purposely spelled it Wiener instead of Weiner — and this one delivers, beginning like this: The Field Notes column on June 26, about men taking the place of flower girls at some weddings, misstated part of the name of the organization " How great is that? I don't even want to know what the error is, nor do I want to read the article. It's just so much more fun to imagine.
• When shady job descriptions strike: "His mother is a consultant in Princeton that caters to companies and individuals seeking to better organize their affairs and belongings." Couldn't you essentially say that about, like, a cleaning lady?
• I want to know these ladies' hair secrets, and I want to know NOW.
• Is there any sentence more badass than "In 2006, she became the first woman recognized by the Pro Football Hall of Fame?" Rock on, Lesley Visser.
• Well, this is certainly one way to ensure that, in keeping with the Times' policy for photographs, your eyebrows will be aligned.
July's crop of weddings was so crowded that even a marriage officiated by the Mayor of New York City himself got culled from the top 10. This month Mike Bloomberg presided over only his third wedding (the other two were for his daughter and for Rudy Giuliani), the occasion being the passage of gay marriage in New York. With Bloomberg leading, two of his top aides tied the knot at Gracie Mansion with their two young daughters in attendance. I dare you to read this and not sniffle at least once. I threw them 10 Special Situation points just because.
Katie Baker is a staff writer for Grantland.
Previously from Katie Baker:
Matrimonial Moneyball: Scoring the New York Times wedding section
Leaving New York sports
No Place Like Home?


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|Milk: The Harvey Milk Story casting poster
(photo: Steve Rhodes)
Update: Now that the much-awaited film Milk has premiered, many politically astute observers have noted the parallels between the recent marriage equality demonstrations and the Gay Rights movement of the 1970s that Harvey Milk had come to represent. I will be seeing Milk at the Castro Theatre this weekend, but having participated in both the making of the movie and many of the recent anti-Proposition 8 demonstrations, I feel as though I've already seen it. What follows is my story of being one of many extras during the riotous crowd scenes.
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The Castro District in San Francisco, just down the hill from where I live, is abuzz. It's the most exciting time for the neighborhood since the annual Halloween street party (before it was recently banned) or LGBT Pride weekend, when tourists from all over the world make a pilgrimage to the famous "Gay Mecca." It's as if the 1970s — when the Castro emerged as the world's epicenter of the gay liberation movement — is coming alive again. And, in a sense, it is.
Filmmaker Gus Van Sant is in the middle of realizing his long-time dream of directing a biopic of Harvey Milk, a political activist instrumental in creating the gay community and culture of the Castro, as well as the first openly gay man to serve in a substantial political office as San Francisco city supervisor.
- Uncle Donald's Castro Street: Harvey Milk
- Uncle Donald's Castro Street: Gay Parades of the Seventies
- The Times of Harvey Milk, a documentary by Rob Epstein (IMDb info)
- TIME 100: Harvey Milk
- Images of America: San Francisco's Castro, by Strange De Jim
- White Night Riots (Wikipedia info, original footage)
- Dianne Feinstein interview
Van Sant had been wanting to make a movie about Harvey Milk for a long time. He rejected the original Oliver Stone version from the early '90s (which was to star Robin Williams, who has since aged out of the role). And there was another reason he couldn't make the film he'd wanted to: Warner Brothers, the studio he was negotiating with, balked at showing realistic depictions of gay relationships during the sexually liberated '70s. When I met Van Sant in the late '90s during a book tour for his debut novel Pink, he said that in making a movie about Harvey Milk, it was important to depict sex between men realistically, so he couldn't abide by the studio's prudishness. "They wanted to limit Milk's sex life to something like just two little kisses, and I couldn't do that," he explained, "so I walked away." Half-jokingly, he likened working with big Hollywood studios to being in a masochistic relationship.
The events of just the single decade that followed, however, made a difference in the potential for accurately telling gay stories. Ellen DeGeneres came out of the closet, Will & Grace became a mainstream hit, and Queer As Folk and The L Word routinely depicted same-sex love scenes and a variety of intimate relationships. In the end, it may have been the success of Brokeback Mountain that convinced nervous studio execs to back a realistic film about Harvey Milk. In fact, all of a sudden — thirty years after Milk's assassination — the story of the "Mayor of Castro Street" is in demand. Due to the writers' strike, Van Sant's version happened to make it into production before a competing version by filmmaker Bryan Singer and writer Randy Shilts.
Over the past couple of months, the production crew transformed the modern trendy neighborhood of the Castro into its 1970s incarnation — which, back then, had more resembled a small town.
- production crew begins work to change storefronts, re-create interior of Milk's camera shop
- San Francisco Chronicle: "Harvey's Castro" slide show
- CBS5: "On the Set of 'Milk'" video
- Shae's video tour
- NBC11: "Harvey Milk Film Sets in San Francisco" slide show, "Castro District Goes Hollywood with Sean Penn Movie," "Castro Merchants Are Sour Over Harvey Milk Movie:
Business Owners Say They Are Losing Money"
- Bay Area Reporter: "Castro Set for Movie Makeover, " "Film Crew Descends on Castro," "Harvey County, USA," "How He Got Milk: Castro Couch-Surfing with 'Milk' Screenwriter Dustin Lance," "Castro Merchants Bank on Movie Magic"
- Bay Times: "Milk Film Rules the Castro"
- Flickr group photo pool: "Castro vintage makeover"
- Steve Rhodes's Castro set photos
- Boing Boing: Castro Street transformed for Harvey Milk movie
- Castro Shopper: "A Film on Your Milk," "Increased Milk Production," "Linkin' Blogs," "This Little Movie Goes to Market" (all Harvey Milk-tagged articles)
- Bay Area Video Coalition: "Harvey Milk (the movie) Returns to the Castro"
- PBS P.O.V. blog: "San Francisco Happening: Remembering Harvey Milk"
- Screenwriting for Hollywood: "MORAL MILK for Gus Van Sant and Sean Penn"
- Castro Courier: "Movie about Harvey Milk to be Shot in Castro"
- SFist tags: Gus Van Sant, Harvey Milk, Milk
- Retro the Castro
- /Film: closeups of Aquarius Records storefront
- bulletin boards, storefronts
- vintage window flyers and cars
- Milk movie vintage car photo collection
- re-creating Toad Hall (the gay hippie hangout) and Castro Camera
- 1970s trash can
The building at Market and 16th Streets (now empty after the liquidation of Tower Records and Video) became Extras Holding, where young actors (and some middle-aged ones) are transformed into their 1970s counterparts. Rack after rack of '70s plaid shirts, coats and jackets, jeans, suits, polyester dresses, large-knit sweaters are meticulously categorized and numbered, as are dozens of storage bins containing wool caps, wide neckties, scarves, large eyeglasses frames, bandannas, hoop earrings, and other period accessories.
Extras sit in front of high-end lighted mirrors at makeshift makeup tables to get their hair styled into long shags and severe side parts (for men) and, for women, face-framing barrel curls, afros (for black women), and plain long, straight locks. Those extras with hair too short or modern had to endure wearing cheap wigs. Rumor has it that the makeup department ordered thousands of fake mustaches and pairs of sideburns in assorted colors to apply to men who hadn't been growing their own. Wardrobe and makeup is often open twenty-four hours a day to accommodate the aggressive film schedule.
San Francisco doesn't host nearly as much filming as does Southern California, so the extras, happy to engage in a rare professional film acting opportunity (especially since it's not easy to be cast even as a "background artist"), have an unusual sense of camaraderie. As fascinating as the quotidian details of making a film are to passersby, the extras themselves compare notes, even on the craft service food. The entire first floor of Extras Holding was converted into a dining hall with folding tables and a whiteboard displaying menu of selections that change daily. Morning extras and crew are treated to custom-made omelets from professional chefs; the dinner menu rivals that of an upscale restaurant:
- grilled flatiron steak
- grilled trout with lemon butter
- chicken cordon bleu
- bow-tie pasta
- bien cali rice [(I've never heard of it either)]
- gnocchi with tomato cream sauce
- mixed veggies
- baked brie
- prosciutto-wrapped asparagus
- stuffed artichokes
- dessert: "Cake Batter" ice cream
Casual observers in the Castro had the good fortune to watch the principle actors at work, including Sean Penn as Harvey Milk. I'll admit that I was at first skeptical of the casting of Penn in the title role. Snapshots of Penn, however, in full wardrobe, makeup (including colored contact lenses and a nose prosthetic), and the long ponytail and scruffy beard he'd grown to depict Milk's hippie look during the early '70s, convinced me — not to mention how seriously he and co-star James Franco took the roles. Steve Carell, slated to star in the Singer/Shilts version of the Milk story, would have been an interesting choice in one of his first comedy-to-drama crossover rolls, especially since he played a sensitive gay character in Little Miss Sunshine so poignantly and delightfully. Adrian Brody might have fit the part, too — certainly physically — but he may have been too young to play the forty-something Milk.
- Harvey Milk and Sean Penn: a side-by-side photographic comparison
- /Film: "First Look: Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Gus Van Sant's Milk"
- Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, early '70s
- Penn/Milk, early '70s: multiple snapshots, more
- Penn/Milk with James Franco (as Milk's lover Scott Smith), early '70s Castro
- Penn/Milk with Emile Hirsch (as young activist Cleve Jones), early '70s Castro
- Eric Nielson's entire Flickr photo set
- Penn with Gus Van Sant on the set
- other principle actors
- Josh Brolin (as the notorious assassin Dan White) video interview (starts at 1 minute, 5 seconds)
- supporting cast
- IMDb: full cast and crew
- About.com: interviews and info
- Tom Ammiano plays himself (Will no one notice that he's thirty years older?)
- speculation as to who will play Dianne Feinstein
- actors at work video 1, 2, 3
- Day One of production (scene at Station 43, San Francisco Fire Department) video
As exciting as it was to observe an active film crew and famous actors using the Castro as a living movie set, I had the privilege of participating even more, as an extra in Gus Van Sant's Milk.
[next: being an extra in the crowd scenes]
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