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21 Post author: Apprentice 06 January 2014 12:16AM

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Comment author: V_V 06 January 2014 06:42:28PM *  18 points [-]

As far as Atheism+ goes, it's an organized group spearheaded by people like Rebecca Watson who are outraged -- outraged -- at the behavior of atheists being insufficiently pro-woman and pro-social justice. Rebecca Watson in particular has a laser-like focus on sexism within the atheist and skeptic community, at the expense of the larger groups' nominal goals. She's responsible for the whole "elevatorgate" debacle, and responded to Richard Dawkins' claim that she was overreacting by going after Dawkins personally with this piece of loveliness.

It got worse.

Jen McCreight and PZ Myers have been circulating unverifiable accusations of rape, allegedly relied from anonymous sources, against big-name activists in the Skeptics movement, including Lawrence Krauss and Michael Shermer, who didn't happen to have jumped on the Atheism+ bandwagon.

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Comment author: jkaufman 15 January 2014 01:18:25PM -1 points [-]

Knowing nothing about this, "who didn't happen to have" looks unfair. Membership in Atheism+ wasn't distributed randomly, so it's possible people who chose not to join have different views on women.