Sometimes during my childhood when Dawkins would randomly show up he was a real A Hole.
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As a kid I used to make model rockets with my dad. One of the few good memories of him, really. One day my dad and I were about to launch a new level 3 skill rocket, and I was super excited.
Up pulls Richard Dawkins who gets out of his Morris Minor, walks up to my dad and says, âyou know your worthless son is gonna fail at Kerbel Space Program regardless of how much love you withhold, right?â.
Dawkins then sucker punched my dadin the kidney, and sped away while smoking a Marlboro light.
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That actually makes it worse. Itâs a well-turned phrase, uniting the idea of bitches (from the baying of dogs) and of course witches, two insults often used against women. Talk about continuing to dig!
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Am I to assume that most witch hunts were masterminded by other women?
Mr. Adams, of course, based this character on Dawkins.
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I need a historian to corroborate or knock this down, but Iâve heard that the witch hunts were directed mainly at the poor and lower class. So the idea that high-flying women were throwing other high-flyers to the flames in order to eliminate the competition, is incorrect.
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How can you argue that mythmaking is incorrect? If an allegorical purpose is served, objective truth is beside the point,
Back when I was learning to code as a kid, I tried all sorts of things on my Commodore 64. Writing choose your own adventures, programming out of magazines, âhackingâ games (really just finding Save Game bugs). But one day, while I was figuring out how to write code for sprites, a dark and malevolent Richard Dawkins sprite appeared on the screen.
âBoy, look at me. LOOK! I know what you are doing, and it is so sad. Your programming skills are just so⌠BASICâ.
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Wait. I confuze. Do you mean the hero thing or the witch thing?
the witch thing. I think.
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When I was in grade school I had a crush on a red haired girl. Weâd play on the swings, chase each other, commiserate during fire drills, the usual things.
One day when walking home together, she asked me an odd question. âCan you multiply two 16x16 matrices for me?â. I stumbled, and squeaked, " I donât even know what that means!".
At that moment she morphed from a young girl to a tall, hot, sweaty Richard Dawkins. âYou know NOTHING, Japhroaig Snow!!â and ran off.
I trembled for a moment, not knowing the fuck just happened.
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He just gave me a quick âJava. seriously?â and deliberately accidentally kicked my PCs power cord. I hadnât saved anything for over an hour.
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âDeliberately accidentallyâ or âaccidentally on purposeâ are gems in terms of language.
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I hate arguing with you. Youâre always right. It pisses me off. I get everything all buttoned up and you come along with two words and shred my argument to nothing. It sucks.
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Not my field, but that sounds correct. Witchhunts were often used to punish neighbors in feuds, get rid of people considered undesirable, etc. So, yeah, it was often bottom-up, but it could be used a means of social control, too. Violence against outsider groups were often used as means of shoring up local identities and communal ties, which helps explain violence against Jews and Muslims in Europe in the middle ages, as well as violence against non-conforming women.
Wait⌠you need a historian and you didnât use the mindysan33 button?
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I couldnât FIND the damn button I created!!! I need more than an historian. I need a personal organizer and maybe a psychologist.
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Back on trackâŚ
In my case, Dawkins ruined my teacherâs childhood dreams. What he did to my childhood, thus, was derivative.
She never told us what it was, but she was on track toward Nobel prize winning work when he dashed her dreams after a short encounter late at night in a bar, when she was only trying to relax after a day of presenting her work. Ten years later, sheâs working as a first grade teacher in an inner-city school, and whenever I would outshine my male classmates, sheâd pull me aside and say, âyou know youâre smarter than the boys, and I know youâre smarter than the boys, but according to Dawkins thatâs not scientifically possible so you must stop proving him wrong.â And so I complied, because Dawkins is God to smart people, which I was once.
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Shit thatâs wonderful and horrid all at the same time. /#JustLikeDawkins
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You are aware this is a Games thread, right? 
Although, the being taken aside by my (female) 1st grade teacher and being told to hide my knowledge in the classroom so that the boys didnât cry is real. Yes, thatâs right, a couple of them would actually CRYâŚthis was the mid-60s when everyone knew that boys were smarter than girls, especially in math, and it really messed with the boysâ minds that in reality it wasnât true.
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