Atheists are people, too

[james_davis_nicoll]

Unfortunately that means some of them are terrible people.

I’ve been writing about atheism for about 10 years now. What has driven me is a combination of awe at the amazing insights produced by science, so much deeper and more substantial than any collection of myths, and a furious rage at the lies and injustice and corruption of humanity by religion. For a while there, in the middle, there was also an ebullience at the growing success of atheism, and hope that someday we would be able to cast aside the follies of faith. The awe is still here, the rage is still burning, but the optimism is fading and is being consumed by a new anger at the incompetence and betrayal of the self-appointed atheist leadership.

Comments

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

The gender-issues fight, though, is really just a small piece of the gender-issues fight happening within the larger world of everything identified as "geek" (science and engineering, the computer and software industries, and science-fiction, comics and videogame fandom). And that definitely is getting some press.

PZ Myers works in an area of science in which degree programs are rapidly becoming majority female, which might be one of the things driving him to take relatively enlightened positions there.

[lostwanderfound.livejournal.com]

PZ Myers works in an area of science in which degree programs are rapidly becoming majority female, which might be one of the things driving him to take relatively enlightened positions there.

Unlikely.

1) PZ does not appear to be the sort of dickhead who requires a personal stake before he'll do the right thing.

2) I come from a female-dominated academic background (psych, although on the relatively Y-chromosome heavy neuro side of the field). No shortage of misogynistic douchebags there (put it this way: the mother of my professor's child was one of his ex grad students), despite it having been a majority female profession for quite a long time.