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Atheism and misogyny

188 replies

Dworkin · 29/12/2011 14:30

Some men sink to a new low when it comes to sexually objectifying a 15 year old girl on reddit. Sick and nasty stuff.

skepchick.org/2011/12/reddit-makes-me-hate-atheists/

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thunderboltsandlightning · 29/12/2011 15:40

Are you really unable to tell the difference between a feminist analysis of some hideous misogyny and pornography lollygag?

If you're struggling that much with differentiating then maybe reading and thinking a bit more in this section would be a good idea for you rather than just reflexively posting stupidity.

Ecclesvet, could you give an example of one of these "bad taste jokes" that was upvoted?

lollygag · 29/12/2011 15:39

Moderators.Please remove this offensive link.

ecclesvet · 29/12/2011 15:37

Dworkin, the upvoting was for the bad-taste jokes and pun-runs, no-one meant it seriously. Which isn't to say that bad-taste jokes are fine, but it would be wrong to suggest that that sort of content would still be upvoted without the humour.

Going to the post now, most of the offending comments are hidden, and ones complimenting the gift are higher up the page.

lollygag · 29/12/2011 15:37

Well lets all just post links to pornography sites then.I'll start with youporn.

thunderboltsandlightning · 29/12/2011 15:33

It's an analysis of some vicious misogyny, it would be odd not to post something like that here.

lollygag · 29/12/2011 15:27

It's not the sort of link that should be posted on a site like this.

ouryve · 29/12/2011 15:24

Not going to look because I don't want to see it or even give it clicks, but it has nothing to do with atheism and everything to do with certain men. Not all men, not all atheist men, but those particular men.

Dworkin · 29/12/2011 15:24

@ecclesvet, one of Rebecca's points was the upvoting to the comments under the girls posting. The girl had been given a 'cool book' on atheism by her religious mother and posted a picture of herself holding the book. This was enough for grown men to make sexist remarks.

It may well be the case that r/atheism section has been infiltrated by MRA's but the upvoting was the test for me.

@lollygag - this is my first OP on this thread, though have been a long time lurker - with a couple of posts to other threads. Why would Kat Banyard write an explicit chapter 'The Booty Myth' in her book "The Equality Illusion" regarding porn content? Is she propagating porn by doing that?

The whole point of posting this was that a woman/girl cannot out themselves on internet forums without being subject to sexist and degrading comments btl. This is a feminist issue.

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thunderboltsandlightning · 29/12/2011 15:21

It doesn't seem to be about atheism. I don't see any female atheists there fantasising about raping and sexually hurting a 15 year old girl.

ecclesvet · 29/12/2011 15:12

To be fair, saying one hates atheism based on posters in Reddit's atheism section is like saying one hates feminism based on posters in MN's Feminism section.

In other news: anonymous internet commenters turn out to be misogynistic and creepy. More at eleven.

SardineQueen · 29/12/2011 15:03

I clicked. That poor girl. Only read the first bit, will have another look later.

SardineQueen · 29/12/2011 14:59

I don't even want to click on it. What is it.

lollygag · 29/12/2011 14:53

Why propagate this?