@dmitrir - The tech lesson learned today is that Flickr slideshows don't work in some browsers if the photos are set to any security higher than just "public." Good to know! Anyway, I scrapped the slideshow idea and just uploaded some photos into the post regularly. They should work now.
On one hand: I absolutely 100% agree with everything that these people are saying. Hell yes.
On the other hand: Such events remind me of overzealous (and often ineffective) college-era radicalism. They seem to be more about galvanizing the already-solid left rather than persuading the squishy, tractable center. Turning flip-floppy centrists into reliable, voting progressives is where the real work is. That's true of cultural, economic, and, yes, sexual issues as well. I don't know if events like this are truly effective at doing that.
Graham, did you present two red herrings and then, in the same post, link to articles refuting them? Who brought up the 1-in-4 statistic or the Super Bowl? Is this a form of disassociative disorder or just desperate trolling?
http://www.iwf.org/news/show/19076.html
http://www.snopes.com/crime/statistics/sup…
Also, Sarah: Can you please just stop using the slideshow thing? It never works right.
On the other hand: Such events remind me of overzealous (and often ineffective) college-era radicalism. They seem to be more about galvanizing the already-solid left rather than persuading the squishy, tractable center. Turning flip-floppy centrists into reliable, voting progressives is where the real work is. That's true of cultural, economic, and, yes, sexual issues as well. I don't know if events like this are truly effective at doing that.
On the third hand: This looked like lots of fun.