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.
Stephanie Zvan is one of the hosts for the Minnesota Atheists' radio show and podcast, Atheists Talk. She serves on the board of Secular Woman. She speaks on science and skepticism in a number of venues, including science fiction and fantasy conventions.
Stephanie has been called a science blogger and a sex blogger, but if it means she has to choose just one thing to be or blog about, she's decided she's never going to grow up. In addition to science and sex and the science of sex, you'll find quite a bit of politics here, some economics, a regular short fiction feature, and the occasional bit of concentrated weird.
Oh, and arguments. She sometimes indulges in those as well. But I'm sure everything will be just fine. Nothing to worry about. Nothing at all.
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.
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.
Well done!…But whaddabout teh MENZ?
Oh, I thought Scott made a lovely token.
this’d be the direct video link?
Humanist Views: Women in Secularism
Yep, that’s it.
heh, the autocaptions are actually pretty good so far… except for your name, and apparently you write for “Three Five Blocks”. hee
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.
Great job to all involved in making this show happen!
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.