RE: Why so many "anti-feminists" in the atheist community?
January 6, 2015 at 9:49 am
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2015 at 9:53 am by Regina.)
The way I see it, feminism gets a lot of bad press. I'm not going to deny there are man-hating old cat ladies (who get offended by ANYTHING) out there, but they are not really feminists at all and their views don't represent what is, by very definition, feminism. I think it's because we call those types of women feminists that we end up throwing "feminism" around like it's a dirty word, when really it isn't.
I see no reason for any rational-thinking atheists to oppose equality rights for women. We know abortion is not "killing" a child, it's is terminating an unconscious bundle of cells, biology and studies of animals (to me at least) completely refute the idea of females being the weaker sex. Also pre-Christian societies weren't complaining about un-chaste or "slutty" women before the obsession with the pure Virgin Mary came along.
I see no reason for any rational-thinking atheists to oppose equality rights for women. We know abortion is not "killing" a child, it's is terminating an unconscious bundle of cells, biology and studies of animals (to me at least) completely refute the idea of females being the weaker sex. Also pre-Christian societies weren't complaining about un-chaste or "slutty" women before the obsession with the pure Virgin Mary came along.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
