Why so many "anti-feminists" in the atheist community?

[DespondentFishdeathMasochismo]

"waaaa he's saying stuff I don't like" again? not doing that today. you can either go follow what I said, and reply with something other than whiny crybaby crap that you don't like what I said, or you can just keep posting stuff like this. Either way, this is the last time I'm responding to comments like that.

[Dystopia]

I usually don't like to say "I wouldn't date X" because dating culture doesn't exist where I live - I just go out with people, fall in love and then we become engaged. For some odd reason, brunette short thin women where the ones I had the best relationships with, and I always had bad luck with blonde or otherwise fat women, but I think that was just a random fact. I actually enjoy petite brunettes, but it's just my preference.

I think it is ok to have dating standards (if not "dating", whatever the word is to become engaged with someone) as long as you're not an asshole about it.

[Lemonvariable72]

Nothing.  Just like there's no problem with game developers catering to their market as it stands.  They follow the money, this is expected - it's called a "successful business model", not sexism, not patriarchy.

No argument there. However neglecting half of the population of the planet, when creating products - especially if it's motivated by the need to placate sexists - that's not necessarily a good business model. And death-threats and harassment are definitely not legitimate ways of influencing the market. Surely - if games, that don't cater exclusively to adolescent males are financial disasters - the industry will come off the idea soon enough. And if it turns out that they can push out few more units, when selling to women and men at the same time - then that will become the "successful business model" and #gamergaters will be asked to suck a d*ck, regardless of how much they cry about it.

You have to understand something here. For reasons that are beyond me, games have been more popular among boys since their inception. I don't know why, but why at this point doesn't matter. I'm going to focus on the game I'm most familiar with, eve online. Now eve is made out of Iceland, a country with a better track record for tolerance then the us. Also the game developer commonly hires women and one the games executive producer is a woman. Add to that the fact that the games marketing material doesn't pander to anything gender specific, but rather empathizes the open world game play. Also the lore and backstory to the game commonly features well written female protagonists. But despite all of that the overwhelming majority of players are male. Why is this? I have only suspicions but I think a bit of it had to do with the fact that it is SciFi, which despite many early SciFi writers trying to treat women as equals has a very male audience. I think another larger part is how many player alliances in eve develop toxic cultures. However these toxic cultures, while they will be openly sexist, they will also be openly toxic to nearly everyone in it except those that make it toxic. However the alliance I recruit for, while we have lots of good natured ribbing, has only had one instance that could be considered sexist, and it was dealt quickly and easily, and we the perp was understanding of his error and we haven't had issues since. Despite all of this we only have 2 women in an alliance of several hundred people. So that makes me think that the reasons why women don't game as much are not as simply as people like Anita sarkeeisian would have us believe

[Losty]

It's funny to me, to see the pattern of snobby replies from feminists. It's as though they care more about telling you you're a misogynist than making a point. It's almost as if I were trying to talk to someone about their faith. When questioned they throw up their arms and get sanctimonious. It's a strange pattern. 

Hey go back to calling me a filthy little feminist. That was hot.

[Losty]

Sorry, but I'm not sure I get the message. These pictures seem really random.

[LastPoet]

I usually don't like to say "I wouldn't date X"....

There are many parts of the female body undiscovered by men. And every female has her landscape, ripe for deep scouting. If you know what I mean...

[Dystopia]

It's funny to me, to see the pattern of snobby replies from feminists. It's as though they care more about telling you you're a misogynist than making a point. It's almost as if I were trying to talk to someone about their faith. When questioned they throw up their arms and get sanctimonious. It's a strange pattern. 

Hey go back to calling me a filthy little feminist. That was hot.

There's actually a fetish some men have of having sex with a feminist as punishment for being naughty and promiscuous, and insulting her feminist beliefs while he fucks her. There's a reddit subgroup just for that fetish, mostly animated pictures, but I can't find it right now.

[The Grand Nudger]

Fuckin weirdoes.  You don't punish a feminist for being a feminist.  You punish her for being born a woman, because you can.....and because she loves it, no matter what she says.  Now shut up and take my privilege!  

Ladies.......

[DespondentFishdeathMasochismo]

I think it's time for me to start blocking people. I realize that I've gained nothing from talking to people who have no respect for me. I knew that, but I wasn't sure about what kind of people were on this forum. It's a shame, but yeah I really deserve respect and I don't need to be treated like shit. I fed into the bait, I'm the idiot for that, but you're in the wrong. You know who you are.

[rexbeccarox]