I've read the attacks on atheist/skeptic Rebecca Watson on various blogs. I had no idea that "skeptics" and atheists were such assholes.
Watson is under attack after writing about sexual harassment, rape threats and obscene email she's gotten from her fellow atheists/skeptics.
I just read one blog by an English guy who has his knickers in a twist. Rebecca blocked him from posting a comment on her blog. He wrote to her and demanded an explanation. She said he called her a "cunt". He's outraged. He's been libeled! He didn't call her a "cunt". He called her a Nazi. The dumb Brit can't fathom why she would block him.
Rebecca Watson appeared in a You Tube video. She discussed her trip to an atheists convention in Dublin. She appeared in a panel and sat next to Richard Dawkins, and discussed, among other things, sexism in the movement including obscene emails she got from fellow skeptics. That evening, she hung around in the hotel bar till four a.m. talking atheism and feminism with her fellow convention-goers, then she told them she was going to go to bed and rest up for the next day. A guy followed her into the elevator. When the doors closed, he asked her to come to his room for coffee.
"Guys. Don't do that," she told You Tube viewers.
That's what all this outrage is over. This bit of sensible advice. Don't hit on chicks in elevators. I would add, don't follow women into parking garages or freeway rest stops to hit on them, either. Unless you just want to creep them out, it will never go the way you want it to.
The men who've flown into a rage over this are protesting way too much. Makes me wonder if maybe they really are a bunch a of rapos.
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It sounds like this wasn't the case, but it would have been funny if the guy who originally hit on Watson in Dublin did it sarcastically -- either because he was irritated by her talk about being treated that way, or just to be a smartass -- and she didn't get it.
ReplyDeleteIf he was trying to get a reaction out of her, he didn't get it.
ReplyDeleteShe politely turned him down at the time, then laughed and shrugged slightly as she mentioned it on YouTube. The people attacking her are the ones who've flown off the handle.
Even if they don't see what the problem is, as some of these guys say, it doesn't make sense for them to fly into a hysterical rage over it.
I've always found the skeptic stuff far more interesting than anything from people making claims of the paranormal. But I'm shocked at how many obviously screwed up people are involved in it.