A couple of weeks ago, Scott Lohman president of the Humanists of Minnesota, turned to me before we were about to go on the air for Atheists Talk. He said, “We want to do a show about the current status of women in the secular movement. Think you could do that?”
I said I thought I could. I also said that Kammy, who runs SkepchickCon, could do the same.
So we did, three days later. Some subjects don’t require a lot of preparation these days.
Enjoy.
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ashleybell
October 20, 2012 at 4:13 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Well done!…But whaddabout teh MENZ?
Stephanie Zvan
October 20, 2012 at 4:14 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Oh, I thought Scott made a lovely token.
Pteryxx
October 20, 2012 at 4:19 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
this’d be the direct video link?
Humanist Views: Women in Secularism
Stephanie Zvan
October 20, 2012 at 4:22 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Yep, that’s it.
Pteryxx
October 20, 2012 at 4:24 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
heh, the autocaptions are actually pretty good so far… except for your name, and apparently you write for “Three Five Blocks”. hee
Pteryxx
October 20, 2012 at 5:34 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
and just so y’all know, Scott Lohman (autocaptioned as Sad Moment) spoke for 10:42 of a 30-minute show, and Stephanie interrupted *him* at least twice. *thumbsup*
Thanks for mentioning the leadership training the SSA is doing.
MG Myers
October 20, 2012 at 7:57 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Great job to all involved in making this show happen!
Maureen Brian
October 21, 2012 at 5:25 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I’m sure Scott Lohman is a lovely guy but surely he’d experience less puzzlement if he could just ditch the notion that women just arrived at atheism, like some Road to Damascus thing.
I know you and Kammy both kept saying we’d always been here but it wasn’t working. Sad, really.
The way differential access to resources, including time, made it possible to generate* the illusion that, really, there were no women atheists until a week last Wednesday would make an interesting sociological study. As would the fact that outside the US we’ve been more visibly here all along, though not entirely untroubled by sexist assumptions.
I still enjoyed that very much. Thank you
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*Deliberately? I still don’t know.