Faith is not a Mental Illness
I’ve been seeing a disturbing tendency among atheists to compare religious belief to mental illness. Sometimes this comparison is made explicit, as in this article. Other times, however, the comparison...
View ArticlePlease Sign My Petition to Remove the “No Respect For Suicidal Teens”...
[Content note: suicide] Yup, I’m using my blog to promote something. But it’s a very important something. In my blog post earlier today I mentioned this atrocious Facebook page, which cruelly mocks...
View ArticleA Handy List of Everything Wrong with Creating a Database of People with...
It’s not like anyone expected the NRA to say anything intelligent during its long-awaited press conference on Friday, so I’m not exactly disappointed by what they said. I am, however, completely...
View ArticleThe Law is Not on Our Side
[Content note: sexual harassment and assault] Many brave writers have described what happened to them when they reported gender-based threats and violence to the police. Occasionally the outcome is...
View ArticleReligion vs. Mental Illness, A Bit More Concisely This Time
Chris Stedman, author of Faitheist and blogger at the Religion News Service, asked me to comment on why atheists should stop calling religion a mental illness for a piece he published today. I ended up...
View ArticleYour Uninformed and Incorrect Opinions About Psychology
[Content note: PTSD, online harassment & bullying] This is going to be a little different from most of my posts because I’m angry about a number of things, most of which boil down in one way or...
View ArticlePromoting Mental Health in the Workplace
[Content note: mental illness, including eating disorders] This post was requested by Kate [not FtB!Kate], who donated to my conference fundraiser. She wanted to hear my opinion on mental health in the...
View ArticleBefore You Speculate About Amanda Bynes’ Mental State
[Content note: mental illness, ableism] I wrote a piece for the Daily Dot about the gleeful speculations about Amanda Bynes’ supposed mental illness. Former child star Amanda Bynes hasn’t been having a...
View Article[guest post] Experiencing Ableism as a Person Who is Blind
One of my readers, Tyler Ensor, wrote this post about the subtle ways in which ableism manifests itself in his life. When I was three years old, I was sick with flu-like symptoms for a week. Following...
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