PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: RICHARD DAWKINS

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63. And were they naked and airbrushed or there for what they had to say.

Lovely list, now just how many of those were naked, waxed, surgically enhanced, young and airbrushed to look even younger? RD certainly wasn't. And it isn't a moral issue either so don't muddy the waters with that, its a general attitude to the role of women problem. If you'd read the post I was agreeing with cbayers position that it is the rest of the magazine and its quaintly Victorian attitude to womens roles.

It's religion that is supposed to have the old fashioned traditional view of women as objects for the use of men - not atheism! Yet at this very moment the moderately religious are holding vigils for a young girl - also religious - that has been shot by the taleban for demanding that girls have a right to an education and to have aspirations to become anything they want - doctors, politicians, engineers, writers, hairdressers. To have roles where they are defined by what they do, say and think as people not by the sorts of sexual objects that some men want them to be!

And whilst the religious are doing that RD is being interviewed for playboy where the highest, most complex aspiration a women is expected to have is undoing a bra! With no other purpose in life than to look submissive for men. What the hell is that saying to women about atheism? That it is firmly stuck in the 1950s when women knew their places? Something has gone seriously wrong when RD is actively managing to make religion look more enlightened about the rights of women than atheism!! Cos it really shouldn't be.

Those womens only currency is their willingness to take their clothes off and look readily submissive. A very simple aspiration, but ultimately pointless given that their are hundreds of equally pretty women coming up behind them equally capable of undressing and looking willing. They aren't exploited but they are brainwashed into being as sexist as the men looking at them. Sad!