SQ the author of the article in the OP says she hates her fellow atheists and writes an article about how sexist these fellow atheists are. Of course it is not off topic to dismiss any link between atheist and sexism. It's the title of the thread fgs. And people have been speculating as to why atheists in particular might be sexist. Stop trying to shout down my right to reply.
I didn't say anywhere that she was asking for it, what did she expect, so please fuck off putting words into my mouth. I have said many times now that there is no justifying the comments that she received, that reddit can be horribly misogynistic.
When I said she wasn't encouraging serious replies with her reference to her anus, I didn't say that she was encouraging rape threats. Merely that if she was seeking a serious debate about atheism, she would have done better to have avoided flippant comments of that sort, and not merely because she is female.
What particularly annoys me about the article in the OP is that the author claims to be a regular user of reddit yet appears to be ignorant of the fact that the atheism subreddit posts to the main page. That people who post on atheism submissions are probably more likely to have come from the great Internet unwashed than a select band of atheists. Thus her blaming atheists in particular for this undoubtably horrible reaction is stupid, it hasn't come from an atheist community, but from Reddit, which is huge. If she wanted to write an article about misogyny on Reddit, on the sexism behind karma whoring through using photos of pretty girls, on the /gonewild section or jailbait or any other number of things which spring to mind I'd be right behind her. But she seems to have a chip on her shoulder about sexist atheists in particular and seems to be trying to spinning this incident to suit her own ends.