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Skepchick founder Rebecca Watson has been awarded the Blag Hag Most Influential Female Atheist of 2011 Award! The awarding blogpost is here. The acceptance speech is here. I’m very happy Rebecca won this award, and I’m also glad Greta Christina came in a strong second. The other women on the list were all deserving of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Rebecca Watson’
Females Are Not welcome in the Atheist Community
January 5th, 2012 
Greg Laden Females, especially younger women and girls, are not as welcome in the Atheist Community as are men. There are indeed many women who are atheists, and many of those are quite active. But to be a woman active in the atheist community, two things are almost always, I think, true: 1) You are not allowed [...]
The Damage Richard Dawkins Did
December 19th, 2011 Greg Laden And now, the final installment in this series of posts (the previous installment is here). Richard Dawkins didn’t do any damage to himself. Most of the people who were going to buy his books will still buy his books, he’ll continue to pack lecture halls as he travels around giving talks, and he’ll continue to [...]
Posted in Feminism, Sexism, Skeptical Skepticism, Skepticism, Uncategorized 
Tags: Feminism, Rebecca Watson, Rebeccapocalypse, Richard Dawkins, Tim Tebow 
109 Comments »Calibrating and Recalibrating Sex Positiveness
December 18th, 2011 Greg Laden Continuing our discussion (see Making sense of our fights on the Internet, Power and Presence on the Internet and Elsewhere, and A Spectrum as a Slippery Slope and OMG Hitler is a Nazi!!!!) … I was at a local event recently where a group of sex-positive third-wave feminist women had traditionally used a certain amount [...]
Posted in Feminism, Sexism, Sexuality, Skeptical Skepticism, Skepticism Tags: Elevatorgate, Feminism, Rebecca Watson, Rebeccapocalypse 9 Comments »Power and Presence on the Internet and Elsewhere
December 16th, 2011 Greg Laden … continuing …. When Rebecca commented about Stef McGraw’s commentary in her talk at a the CFI Student Leadership Conference, at which Stef was in attendance as a student leader, there were those who complained that this was unfair; Rebecca has a big presence and a resounding voice on the Internet and in the Skeptics [...]
Posted in Feminism, Sexism, Sexuality, Skeptical Skepticism Tags: Rebecca Watson, Rebeccapocalypse, Skepticism 10 Comments »Making sense of our fights on the Internet
December 15th, 2011 Greg Laden After the Big Bang, more or less evenly distributed stuff and energy somehow became slightly unevenly distributed, which caused a kind of Universal Angular Momentum to set in which gave early heterogeneity and structure to everything that existed. The lightest elements formed more or less spontaneously, but in order for heavier elements to form matter [...]
Posted in Feminism, Sexism, Sexuality, Skeptical Skepticism Tags: Elevatorgate, Feminism, Rebecca Watson, Rebeccapocalypse, Richard Dawkins, Sexism 13 Comments »Question: When is Rebecca Watson going to learn to shut up?
November 12th, 2011 Greg Laden Answer: When her burka comes back from the dry cleaners! De-dum dum….. Now THAT was funny. Unlike Kurt Metzger. Kurt has suggested that women can avoid feeling sexualized by sticking to purdah. That’s when a woman covers herself from head to toe, inclusively, with cloth. It is a practice of patrarchical, misogynist societies in which [...]
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