Atheists turning to cult behaviour?

[Jenny A]

Errrr what? Am I dreaming? Are you winding me up....? What in the holy fuck's going on!?

Dawkins really wrote that?

Wrote what? I find no Dawkins quotes in this thread.

Rebecca Watson spoke about sexist comments made by atheists on-line at an skeptics event at which Dawkins was also on the panel. After the event a man got on the elevator in the wee hours with Watkins and asked if she'd like to discuss sexism over coffee in his room. Watkins blogged about this "affront." She got much negative comment from men:

Even Dawkins weighed in. He hadn’t said anything while sitting next to me in Dublin as I described the treatment I got, but a month later he left this sarcastic comment on a friend’s blog:

Dear Muslima

Stop whining, will you. Yes, yes, I know you had your genitals mutilated with a razor blade, and … yawn … don't tell me yet again, I know you aren't allowed to drive a car, and you can't leave the house without a male relative, and your husband is allowed to beat you, and you'll be stoned to death if you commit adultery. But stop whining, will you. Think of the suffering your poor American sisters have to put up with.

Only this week I heard of one, she calls herself Skep"chick", and do you know what happened to her? A man in a hotel elevator invited her back to his room for coffee. I am not exaggerating. He really did. He invited her back to his room for coffee. Of course she said no, and of course he didn't lay a finger on her, but even so …

And you, Muslima, think you have misogyny to complain about! For goodness sake grow up, or at least grow a thicker skin.

Richard

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/d...reats.html

Watkins then went on an anti-Dawkins mini rampage.

Make of it what you will. I make of it a tempest in a teapot and a sure sign that Dawkins is a male over 70 who doesn't suffer fools and expects other to share his thick skin; and Watkins is both over sensitive and has real grievances which she should emphasize instead of propositions in elevators from men who neither grope nor repeat the proposition.