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The Richard Dawkins Foundation is not gender critical... **Title Edited by MNHQ**

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SPOFS · 08/07/2018 21:38

I saw this yesterday, but I don't think anyone's posted about it yet.

Basically, the Richard Dawkins Foundation has tweeted several "trans women are women" type statements on their Twitter account. They claim to have lots of science, but they do not provide any...

From the Tweets, I'm guessing it's not Dawkins himself tweeting this... Dawkins is famously science-based in his arguments and doesn't accept anything that's "in your head" from what I've seen.

Amy way, this should be interesting....

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2rebecca · 08/07/2018 21:52

I was really disappointed when I saw the anti woman nonsense his foundation were peddling.

SophoclesTheFox · 08/07/2018 21:52

He wouldn’t be the first prominent atheist who can’t see the parallels between believing in souls and believing in gender identities. Wouldn’t surprise me in the least that he would happily accept an idelaogical position that favours males- why wouldn’t he? He loves those!

Pratchet · 08/07/2018 21:51

I mean, I'm not an atheist but total respect to atheists. Feminists are the only people who have made me come anywhere near to questioning faith. They have a clearer view of human motivation than any male philosopher I've read.

Pratchet · 08/07/2018 21:48

His atheism is silly. Most philosophy undergrads (a level students too?) can prove that God doesn't exist. It's the point of faith. No person of faith is interested in gotcha, it's just not news to them. Dawkins was just so arrogant.

stillathing · 08/07/2018 21:45

I hate this. I hate that we have to sit here and nervously wait to see if we are acceptable to high status males and their powerful institutions.

SlothSlothSloth · 08/07/2018 21:45

And yeah, as mentioned above, he’s a fool anyway so I don’t much care what his view is, on this matter or any other. The only bigger fools are his slavishly devoted fanboys...

SlothSlothSloth · 08/07/2018 21:43

As Pratchet says, he’s famously sexist, so I doubt he’ll bother himself too much about this

FissionChips · 08/07/2018 21:42

Dawkins has always been an idiot, I’ve never understood why people love him so much, he argues like a 4 year old.

TammyWincyette · 08/07/2018 21:40

I thought Dawkins was anti belief-ideology thinking.

It's a heresy!

Pratchet · 08/07/2018 21:39

He's quite patronising and sexist though. Wonder if he'll just jump on the bandwagon anyway.