You know I have a moral imperative to pharyngulate this poll, The Most Influential Female Atheist of 2011. I absolutely forbid you to vote for me, though — that was kind of embarrassing last time it happened.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
I’m guessing the winner will be the most influential female atheist on FTB. In that, if many women choose not to discuss their spiritual beliefs, or lack thereof, in public, then we are hard-pressed to say whether, say, Sonia Sotomayor or Nancy Pelosi maintain a private philosophical atheism, which they find inconvenient to express outwardly in the current political climate.
In this same vein, Dilma Roussef is clearly an atheist, and was once a publicly acknowledged one, but was forced to renounce it in order to win the presidency of the largest Catholic country in the hemisphere.
Still, she’s my pick.
Oh crap, You said forbid us to vote for you? Damn. Well, Rebecca seems to be getting most of the votes over there. No worries.
What makes you think you can order us around like that?
*checks PZ’s profile picture*
You don’t look very feminine to me. I’ll have my Trophy Wife™ check with your Trophy Wife™.
Aliaa Elmahdy
Who else has enraged and entire country?
Who else has raised awareness so globally?
Who else now lives with very real death threats?
All the others like Rebecca Watson are notable (and deserving) however are known mostly to the Atheist community and those new comers who dare to expand their minds. However, in terms of shear courage Aliaa Elmahdy wins hands down.
nobody influenced me much this y’ar
I’m with chigau (私も)..
I wasn’t influenced in 2011 by any atheist females, but I became aware of a few that I had not heard of or read before. So hopefully I can vote with confidence next year.
You haven’t by any chance started treatment for high cholesterol, now have you?
I appreciated the process, since I now have the names of several women I wasn’t previously familiar with.
Also VERY impressed by the awesome power of PZ’s ‘absolutely forbid’ which only three contrarians managed to resist! So far.
^^ Same. Thanks!
Given that this post seems to reduce to “Here’s a poll, go vote for whoever you believe is the best choice,” I’m not sure that really qualifies as pharyngulating it. I mean, by most standards, that’s just plain old voting in a poll.
Of course, it’s possible that I’m just unclear on the exact definition of the verb, “to pharyngulate.” I understood it to be a method by which the futility of internet polling is highlighted by a concerted effort to swing poll results towards a particular, otherwise improbable, result.