Atheists & Agnostics
In reply to the discussion: 9 Famous Women With the Perfect Response on Why They've Ditched Religion [View all]Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)and it's a bit like the "When did you stop beating your wife" question. Once it's out people will talk about it and then fit words to make it true.There are women in atheism, but they get ignored by the media so they can instead talk about how sexist atheists are. The atheist who got prayer out of the classroom, and who was murdered for it was a woman. The four horsemen have said some unfortunate things, but they could not be described as sexist (I dunno about hitchens) Dawkins has made accommodations for mothers at conventions, Harris (who they love to misquote and slander) has directly addressed this problem.
Atheism doesn't have a women/minority problem, the media says we do, so people believe it. A certain group of men, some of who identify as atheist, have made it their life's mission to ruin women of any type, and of course we get the blame for it, never mind that their misigony is rooted in millena of religious standards.
This whole thing is a distraction from the sexism that is enshrined in religion (almost all of which are patriarchys, like literally that's how they run) Imagine if every time there was an article of the pope they smeared him like they do Dawkins. Or any time they talked about religion in the papers they tossed in a smear at the pope. That's what we're talking about. The sexism problem in atheism is mostly because there is a disproportionate amount of talk about it. That's what we're standing up against.
This article doesn't help either, they should simply be promoting women in atheism without dragging down men. like "If you thought there were no women in atheism, you were wrong!" kind of thing, not repeat the meme about how sexist atheists are.
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