laklak wrote:Dickie's got the FTBers all aflutter. Go Dickie, Go!
http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaes ... the-dregs/
I know it’s hard to accept. It took me a long time to accept the fact that the man I admired, whom I’d braved crowds for and hung on to the every word of, is actually a tremendous jerk. I didn’t want to think that my hero was harmful. But he is. And the sooner the movement accepts that, the stronger we can make it by leaving him and his dawkbros on the sidelines.
Really, though, it’s okay if you don’t want to do that. We’re making our own secular movement right over here. I’m just saying that if you want to stay relevant, you will peruse the information herein, and decide accordingly.
They're just a small, extreme outlier bit of feminism. Not in any way representative of real feminists, like Richard Dawkins.
laklak wrote:
Dawkbros. Lol. BUT - if you want to stay
relevant (to, you know, like, all the really really cool kids) then you'll listen the Fuck Up, Bub, and do what you're goddamn told.
The blogger is one Dana Hunter, here's her self-penned bio:
You want to know about Dana Hunter, then, do you? I'm a science blogger, SF writer, compleat geology addict, Gnu Atheist, and owner of a - excuse me, owned by a homicidal felid.
A Gnu Atheist. Ha ha. How droll.
Compleat. Ha ha. How charmingly archaic, and therefore, like, droll.
Dawkins retweeted a funny (to some people) video which compares Islamist ideology to extreme feminist ideology, while specifying that it is not representative of all or the majority of feminists, of which he counts himself. But, the video poked fun at Chanty Binks, an extreme activist who likes to disrupt meetings, pull fire alarms, and shout at people to "shut the fuck up" over and over again. That, of course, is going too far, because someone, somewhere might take the retweet of the funny video as some sort of license to harass women. What does Dawkins do? The bastard took down the retweeted video, saying that he wasn't aware that someone was claiming to have received death threats prior to the video being made, and so he thought he would delete it because he did not support death threats.
Obviously, Dawkins is a rape apologist who makes rape jokes and supports rape and wants women to be harassed. Clearly.
And, so he is no-platformed by skeptic organizations as a result, and droves of avowed feminists are up his ass about this issue, telling him how he is not fit to be a leader in the atheist movement, that he should be jettisoned from all groups and engagements, and that he is pro-harassment, rape and threats.
And, there is nothing wrong within the feminist movement these days. It's just people supporting equal opportunity for women. That's all.
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar
