Atheism’s shocking woman problem: What’s behind the misogyny of Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris?

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101. Clearly these articles are attempting to generalize Dawkin's example; to condemn all atheists

These articles speak over and over of this problem as a problem not just for Dawkins, but for all of atheism. Yet another example: "atheism is having a sexist" tantrum. Not "Dawkins" is having a tantrum. But "Atheism" in effect, in general:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1218154352

Another article entitled roughly "Will Misogyny Bring Down the Atheist Movement?" makes it clear that many are now characterizing all of atheism as sexist: "Thanks to the internet, and to popular authors like Dawkins, Hitchens, and Sam Harris, atheism has greater visibility than at any time since the 18th-century Enlightenment. Yet it is now cannibalizing itself. For the past several years, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and online forums have become hostile places for women who identify as feminists or express concern about widely circulated tales of sexism in the movement."

"The movement" as a whole, "atheism" in general, is said to be more visible than ever; but to be "cannibalizing itself" due to widespread misogyny.

Clearly these articles, that are repeatedly advanced here by Rug, are tarring much of the movement. With a very broad brush.