Feminism
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Speaking Out Against Hate Directed at Women: Ronald A Lindsay
Here is part three in my ongoing series where I ask the men who are leaders in our community to speak out against the hate that has been directed at many of the vocal women in atheism, secularism and skepticism. I am thrilled to present a comment from the President and Chief Executive Officer of CFI, Ronald A. Lindsay. Ron…
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The State of Harassment and Feminism in Computational Chemistry
This week I am in Vermont attending a conference in computational chemistry. The nature of the meeting is to discuss cutting edge, unpublished research in an intimate environment. While I can’t reveal any of the fascinating progress in the field, I thought it would be interesting to discuss the harassment policy in place and the overall breadth of feminism present.…
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Speaking Out Against Hate Directed at Women: Dale McGowan
In my continuing series where I reach out to men in leadership roles in the secular, skeptic, humanist and atheist communities, I bring you a lovely essay from Dale McGowan. Dale is the Executive Director of Foundation Beyond Belief. This story may restore a tiny bit of your ‘faith’ in humanity and it gives some darn good advice on how…
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Speaking Out Against Hate Directed at Women: David Silverman
I recently wrote about dealing with hate and harassment and a good point was brought up. How do the leaders in the secular, humanist, skeptic and atheist communities feel about what has been happening to women online and at events? Why haven’t they spoke up about it? Maybe no one has asked them to. Until now. Over the next few…
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Ask Surly Amy: How to Deal with Hate
I was wondering how you guys manage to deal with all the hate? I became an atheist/skeptic a little less than a year ago, and since then it’s just been wave after wave of violent pushback against feminism. It’s not even just the atheist movement anymore (i.e. Anita Sarkeesian & the gaming community) – everyday, I see some explosion over feminism/women, and every time I…
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Ask Surly Amy: Non Gendered Toys For Those Noisy Neighborhood Kids
Hey Amy, My wife and I live in kind of a poor neighborhood, and we’re sort of well-off by comparison. While we’re not friends with our neighbors, we’re fond of the local kids, who are loud but kind of sweet and open and friendly. We don’t and can’t have any kids of our own. Last year we had an excuse…
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Comment of the Week!
I’m at San Diego Comic Con, so this week’s COTW is fashionably late, but no less made of win. It’s really a slam dunk this week — check it out after the jump: Our out-of-context gem from the archives this week is from Leika: How about a flying cockroach that bites like a mosquito? The Sucking Cockhopper. Hopping Suckcocker.…
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ICYMI: July 1-July 7 on the Skepchick Network
Hey y’all! Since Mindy is now a physics expert, she’s been called away to CERN to consult on the Higgs Boson data, so I’m filling in for her on this week’s recap. Let’s get to it! Here’s what you might have missed last week on the Skepchick network. Teen Skepchick Therapy Woo Nenfea critiques a book recommended by her therapist.…
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