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To that last example in the real life section, I want to note that the two reasons are probably interconnected.

* A lot of men understand that women are most likely doing this to bypass the long lines, but men that do this often have... [[AllMenArePerverts more malicious intentions.]]
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To that last example in the real life section, I want to note that the two reasons are probably interconnected. A lot of men understand that women are most likely doing this to bypass the long lines, but men that do this often have... [[AllMenArePerverts more malicious intentions.]]
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* A lot of men understand that women are most likely doing this to bypass the long lines, but other men have... [[AllMenArePerverts more malicious intentions.]]
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* A lot of men understand that women are most likely doing this to bypass the long lines, but men that do this often have... [[AllMenArePerverts more malicious intentions.]]
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A fundie tried to delete the Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed entry, given how few edits he\'s made to this site I doubt he\'ll try again, but just in case I\'m putting a copy here where he can\'t get to it.
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A fundie tried to delete the Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed example, given how few edits he\\\'s made to this site I doubt he\\\'ll try again, but just in case I\\\'m putting a copy here where he can\\\'t get to it.
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* Ben Stein\'s \'\'[[Film/{{Expelled}} Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed]]\'\', a creationist... sorry, \
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* Ben Stein\\\'s \\\'\\\'[[Film/{{Expelled}} Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed]]\\\'\\\', a creationist... sorry, \\\"[[InsistentTerminology intelligent design]]\\\" propaganda piece that utterly ignores the readily available facts about the cases highlighted, all wrapped in an \\\"[[HitlerAteSugar evolution leads to Nazism]]\\\" bun. The scientists interviewed have since claimed that [[TwistingTheWords the interviews were]] {{quote mine}}d, and that they were interviewed under false pretenses.
** What\\\'s especially {{egregious}} is a lengthy quote from CharlesDarwin that seemingly supports the central premise to the documentary... the problem being that [[QuoteMine they omitted a passage]] wherein Darwin is thankful that humans are above natural inclinations, and actually care about each other as human beings, regardless of defect. This passage occurs in the middle of the quote given, so it is not as if they DanBrowned. \\\'\\\'They deliberately left out contradictory evidence.\\\'\\\'
** The central idea that the film pushes is that a \\\"pro-evolutionary conspiracy\\\" among scientists is suppressing the theory of intelligent design, with several interviewees claiming that they had been \\\"blacklisted\\\" for daring to support it. A simple Google search turned up articles that these people had authored for major publications, such as \\\'\\\'The Wall Street Journal\\\'\\\', published years after their supposed \\\"blacklistings\\\".
*** They also lied about what the pro-ID scientists had actually done, as well. For a thorough debunking of the movie, see [[http://www.expelledexposed.com/ here]].
** While the QuoteMine of Charles Darwin was bad, at least the film makers had the intelligence to leave out the part that revealed the dishonest tactic. However, when Ben Stein interviewed RichardDawkins, Stein twists and quote mines Dawkins on several occassions, without even altering the footage to leave out the proper context. In TheGodDelusion, Dawkins mentions the scene ending example, wherein Stein asks Dawkins for a plausible scenario about how intelligent design could be true. Dawkins mentions aliens, stating in The God Delusion that he thought he was offering an \\\"olive branch\\\". However, Stein then takes Dawkins hypothetical and plays it like Dawkins gave serious credulity to the idea.
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