Death and Violence

The Family Skeptical

Pops opens the show by surprising Moms with a discussion of our dear dying cat, and then Moms tells two stories from BAHACON, one about Atheist community. And we finish the show discussing how violence against women plays into the conversation about masculinity, ending on a story of who Reader and Go say they want to marry.

And so so many links:

• This is the group that runs BAHACON.

• Gretta Vosper is the BAHACON speaker that Moms referenced.

• The episode of Thank God I’m an Atheist that references Burning man is Episode 612 A Burning Sensation.

• The episode of Scathing Atheist that talks about how we shouldn’t form new Atheist groups is Episode 550 Dragon My Heart Around Edition.

• Mommastrong is the workout program that Moms does that features the “The Revolution Will Have Childcare” t-shirt.

• Seth Andrews is posted the whole speech he gave at BAHACON to his podcast.

• This is the article we discussed by Christine Emba, Men Are Lost.

• And finally (phew), the book Parenting: Getting It Right by Andy and Sandra Stanley.

The Family Skeptical: We’re a married atheist couple raising two wonderful, strange children. We ask big questions, dissect weird parenting moments, and examine how society ignores or misrepresents families like ours. If you’re any stripe of non-believer who’s involved in raising children, welcome! You are our people.

Our kids are Reader (9) and Go (7), and if you want to find out how we arrived at these peculiar pseudonyms, go back to Episode 1.

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