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Feminism and Women Atheist Activists Part I
My last post, “The Homogenization of the Atheist Movement,” received a response on twitter from Patrick (@SpringaldJack), expressing his concern about the ubiquity of white males in atheist...
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Feminism and Women Atheist Activists Part II
In my last post I provided an overview of some of the talk about sexism within the atheist and skeptic communities. I have since been reading the discussions that followed from Scented Nectar’s...
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Hyper-skepticism: The New Buzzword
Stephanie Zvan recently posted survey data from The American Secular Census related to the mistreatment of women at secular events. The highlights are as follows: Women are 26% more likely to feel...
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Paula Kirby and the Sisterhood
In Feminism and Women Atheist Activists, part I and II, I mentioned Paula Kirby‘s involvement in the Elevatorgate controversy. She has remained relatively silent on the issue with the exception of her...
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Heterophobia and Hugging in the Atheist Community
Over at Talking Philosophy, a blog attached to The Philosophers’ Magazine, Russell Blackford has written a post titled “No hugs please, we’re atheists.” Blackford is responding to Jean Kazez’s...
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Victim blaming or risk reduction?
I’ve encountered the concept of victim blaming in health literature, particularly from a sociological perspective. Some scholars think that health-promotion can be a form of victim blaming or at the...
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Choice feminism and the fear of politics
I am so boring that in my spare time I read articles about feminism, even though they have little to do with my research. Recently, I came across an article written by Michaele Ferguson at the...
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Privilege: A tired old argument?
You should go read Jeremy Stangroom’s post, The Antinomies of Privilege, over at Talking Philosophy. Stangroom wrote his article way back in 2011, but it’s worth revisiting. Some people in the secular...
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Labels and the rejection of feminist identity
I thought Ronald A. Lindsay’s talk at Women in Secularism 2 was pretty reasonable, but a controversy erupted over his comments (or perhaps a continuation of a seemingly endless series of...
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Female misogynists and false consciousness
A while ago I wrote about my misgivings about choice feminism, but I have since been coming around to choice feminist arguments. Today, while making my way through a backlog of blog reading, I came...
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