Sunday Morning Shares - 05-26-2013

Here's the links & tweets to share from the last week.  It's a day later than normal, but I suspect that didn't traumatize anyone.  Most were also shared on this Facebook page or retweeted.  Please add any fun or informative stories I missed in the comments.

Random Stuff:

(via @mashable)

(via No Hope For the Human Race)

(via I Must Geek Out)

Has Photoshop Gone Too Far? (via Zach)

10 Life Lessons from Calvin & Hobbes (via Sarah & Ivy)

(via Ivy & The Dangers of Baby Training)

(via @mashable)

(via @mashable)

Religion Stuff:

‘I’m Actually An Atheist’ Shirts Being Sold to Help Out Atheist Who Spoke to Wolf Blitzer (via @hemantmehta)

The abusive theology of “deserved” tragedy… (via New York City Atheists)

(via Atheist Mingle)

Gay Stuff:

Kids in the Hall Alum Scott Thompson on Hannibal and Why Being Gay Is Now Boring (via Kids in the Hall)

Political Stuff:

Maddow: Real Benghazi scandal is how media got played by GOP ‘sources’ (via Ken)

Pope blames tyranny of capitalism for making people miserable

(via @GoAngelo)

Ron Lindsay & Women in Secularism 2:

An Open Letter to Ron Lindsay

An Open Letter to the Center for Inquiry

The Silencing of Men

Tone Policing Only Goes One Way (via Vyckie)

Statement of Objection to Center for Inquiry CEO Ron Lindsay's Actions Regarding Feminism

Secular Coalition of America's Weekly Update:

National Secular Movement Update Call (05/23/2013)

Asshole Of The Week:

I'm not worried about my son becoming gay. I'm worried about him living in a society that doesn't recognize it as a sin.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) May 23, 2013

Reddit Porn:

(via /r/MilitaryPorn)

Reasons I'm Glad I'm Atheist, She-Ra Edition

Despite the best efforts of my childhood dog, who would only eat my He-Man toys while ignoring all my other toys, I loved He-Man.  So when She-Ra began, I watched that too.  I may have even liked it better.  Although, I cannot be sure since I was six years old when it started.

Either way, my point is that I never had a concept that show was supposedly "for girls".  I just knew that I liked it.  I never had religion telling me that I couldn't watch it because I was boy.  I never had shame imposed on me for not fitting into narrow minded expectations of gender roles.  My parents didn't freak out thinking that watching it might make gay.

I watched what I liked.  Thundercats, GI Joe, Transformers, Silverhawks, M.A.S.K., Duck Tales, Shirt-Tales, Snorks, He-Man, She-Ra.  I didn't watch what I didn't like.  Jonny Quest, Jem.  Gender was irrelevant.

When people ask, what we "get" out of atheism, as if everything must have a tangible reward to be worthwhile, this is a small example.  We get the freedom to like whatever the hell we feel like, without being hindered by religion and its stupid, stupid ideas on gender roles.

Credit:  @drzach