How the Hell did that happen???

I did not like that article???

I thought the article was complete unresearched rubbish.

Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)

It's minimal research, he's probably some born again christian.

We also need to emphasise that having facial hair is not required.

Stick to the gender neutral "Dude", but don't be up tight and brow beat people over it.

We need to allow space for feminine Dudeism to grow, but actively trying to coerce ladies to join us over here probably would lead to some unDudely behaviour.

And maybe you are looking at this from the wrong direction, maybe gents are the ones who are actually the ones society is trying to keep away from Dudeism. Society tends to glorify aggression in men, and a lot of pressure is put on men to be anti-Dude, achieve, compete and gather the most toys. In some respects I see that pressure as part of Dudeisms creation, societies sexism against men.

Much of western culture places expectations on men, saying they  should be all Big Lebowskis, when some of us just want to be a Dude. It's the rest of societies phallocentrism that created the space for Dudeism's genesis.

I am fairly sure no lady Dude would come in here and say, "what a bunch of sexist pigs!". But I also don't see a lot of lady Dudes saying, "oh yeah, this mancave is for me". Some day we will see the rise of the Lady Dudes, but it's not really up to us to force it to happen.

I also kinda think most Lady Dudes are off doing Yoga and Zen, they look at us and say, "okay Dudes, we sit on rugs too, welcome to the party".

But hey, that's all just like my opinion man.

I am with you two on that. Think that is basically what I wanted to get at in the Sarah Silverman thread. Was just a bit more "convoluted" in my thoughts. Must check my drug regimen.

ha ha. that's marvelous. love the dudeist sun. makes me feel all warm inside.

There is a thread on the Facebook that is dealing with the accusation that Dudeism is just another phallocentric religion. Here's the link:
Will come back and comment on this soon.

I think that Dudeism is strongly vaginal.

Quaker Dude, you have some decent investigative skills man. There are a lot of ins an outs, PZ seems to have missed all the new shit that has come to light.

And dudes, it has been proven....I mean according to statistics...within the forum limits....there are actually more  vagina dudes then there are johnson dudes!

I was going to say that we should publish those stats, but thinking about it that would take the whole purpose of "Dude" not being gender specific away. The point (for me) is that it shouldn't matter.