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Curmudgeoness

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13. I don't know what this bullshit is all about.....

Reply to mr blur (Original post)

Thu Sep 18, 2014, 08:39 PM

Sep 2014

and that’s before you get to the vitriolic and dangerous sexual harassment, online and off, that’s designed to intimidate women into silence.

I have never had another atheist try to silence me, online or off. No atheist has tried to intimidate me. Where do people dream this up?

The only intimidation I have ever gotten was from believers. And that is a fact.

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"Richard Dawkins has lost it: ignorant sexism gives atheists a bad name" [View all] mr blur Sep 2014 OP

compared to the pope he's a paragon of virtue Lordquinton Sep 2014 #1

Yeah, but the pope always gets a free pass - even from some "atheists"! mr blur Sep 2014 #2

Count me among those who until recently bvf Sep 2014 #7

Besides the wealthy cult, Curmudgeoness Sep 2014 #12

Yeah, dumb article. Hissyspit Sep 2014 #3

I think he has been a pioneer in bringing the idea of disbelief LiberalAndProud Sep 2014 #4

Adam Lee does this a lot. onager Sep 2014 #5

It's a formula that works. trotsky Sep 2014 #6

It works with some believers, too DavidDvorkin Sep 2014 #8

You are right Gelliebeans Sep 2014 #9

If I want a movement, I'll have a bran muffin (n/t) Rainforestgoddess Sep 2014 #10

And to that, all I can say is... onager Sep 2014 #11

I don't know what this bullshit is all about..... Curmudgeoness Sep 2014 #13

I don't know what this bullshit is all about..... AlbertCat Sep 2014 #27

I get it... Curmudgeoness Sep 2014 #31

I don't agree with Dawkins on everything NastyRiffraff Sep 2014 #14

I may not agree with Dawkins on everything Brainstormy Sep 2014 #15

This looks like an unpopular position, but Lee is right. Act_of_Reparation Sep 2014 #16

Is being wrong the same thing as losing it? LiberalAndProud Sep 2014 #17

Not necessarily. But he keeps doubling down on his inane opinions of women and feminism. Act_of_Reparation Sep 2014 #19

I'm not disagreeing. LiberalAndProud Sep 2014 #20

Have to disagree with you there. mr blur Sep 2014 #21

Oh, no doubt. Act_of_Reparation Sep 2014 #23

It has plenty to do with us as atheists enki23 Sep 2014 #24

the topic of women AlbertCat Sep 2014 #28

Carolyn Porco, Sam Harris dragged in along with The Dawk onager Sep 2014 #18

I wouldn't say Sam Harris got "dragged" into anything Act_of_Reparation Sep 2014 #22

Nugent again: Adam Lee's Misleading Guardian Article... onager Sep 2014 #25

Nicely done. trotsky Sep 2014 #30

Sometimes, I wonder about the Asantaist Movement. You know, people valerief Sep 2014 #26

We'll get back to you when people hurt other people because of fucking Santa. enki23 Sep 2014 #29