Atheists & Agnostics
In reply to the discussion: 9 Famous Women With the Perfect Response on Why They've Ditched Religion [View all]Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)What I'm trying to say is that while some sexist things have been said, they aren't significantly more sexist than society in general, and probably, if examined, do what they can to make up for that. But the way they are talked about you'd think they have said that women should be slaves to men.
The attention to their sexism is far inflated and is doing more to drag down the movement and is forcing other atheists to either splinter the whole group into "good" and "bad' or to defend something indefensible, instead of being able to work on internal problems while putting on a united front. Meanwhile the Patriarchy gets to keep trucking with' it's anti-women rules, because DAWKINS!!1!
I do see where you are coming from, and I think that Hitchens did have that problem, he was a little too far to the right, but in his later years he did start to realize his errors. But the rest don't especially deviate more than an average person on the street.
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