Skeptiles: Episode 75 – Emery Emery
Skeptiles for Wednesday, February 26th, 2014 and we are joined by filmmaker, comedian and co-host of The Ardent Atheist and Skeptically Yours podcasts, Emery Emery plus Joe brings us fresh Arrested Developments.
Find us on iTunes and Stitcher by searching for Skeptiles. Listen then rate our shows on either service.
Related Links:
Emery Emery – Website | Facebook
Emery Emery Podcasts: The Ardent Atheist | Skeptically Yours
The Aristocrats (movie)
Arrested Developments Stories:
Oakdale youth minister arrested on child porn charges
Police Youth Pastor, Children’s Museum Employee Had Sex with 15 Year Old
Faith-Healing Pennsylvania Couple Sentenced To Prison After Second Child Dies
3 Replies to “Skeptiles: Episode 75 – Emery Emery”
Great episode!
Emery was awesome! I have seen the Aristocrats and loved the movie. Emery himself before.
Regarding gay/bi as a choice; I think I personally would go the full mile and say that I do think that everyone has the potential to be any/all types of sexuality (gender identity too I guess), but I’m not sure that I would couch it as a ‘choice’ as such. The way I think of it is like preference for smells or foods – there are some foods we just don’t like, and we didn’t ‘choose’ not to like them. However, it is totally possible to work at it and gain an appreciation, even fondness, for flavours. So, while I’m sure people have a genetic tendancy towards certain preferances, people are quite ‘plastic’ in their tastes and can develop new ones. I have known a vegan lesbian go on to become a meat-eating (straight) married mother! I’m sure other people have known gay people to switch. What alot of people then say is ‘oh, they were probably bi or not really gay’, but I don’t buy this. My partner used to be gay, then straight, then gay, then straight. Bi you say? Maybe, but if you talk to her what she actually says is at the time she was gay/straight she wasn’t actually sexually interested in the converse gender. I think something that probably camoflagues this is the social pressure; there is ALOT of pressure not to be gay, so there are probably many more people switching from gay to straight/bi rather than vica versa…
Anyhow, I do agree that the LGBT movement should make less of a song and dance about being ‘born’ that way. It shouldn’t matter if it is a choice. And if it’s found out one day that it is possible to change from one to another it would still be right to give everyone equal rights, regardless.
Okay but what in actual fact you’re truly saying is that black hat offline methods do not work,
which is frequent knowledge for anyone practising WEBSITE POSITIONING when Penguin hit
in 2012 – 3+ years ago!